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by elblanco 16y ago
This my friends, is hacking.
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by elblanco 16y ago
Amazing, Oracle's strategy seems to be to purchase good technology (MySQL, JAVA,...) and then strangle off and alienate users of that entire business line by being douches. There must be some kind of business school thing I'm missing here.
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by elblanco 16y ago
> Are you comparing it to the iPhone here? Yes, the iPhone has some limitations but it's nowhere near your 100:1 ratio. Don't get too hung up on the ratio. > Actually, there isn't that many limitations honestly. Followed by a list
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by elblanco 16y ago
I read someplace that human speech recognition is around 90%, I think for speech recognition to be considered "useful" it has to be super-human. I agree something like 99+% is required before it really gets accepted. One problem lots of spe
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by elblanco 16y ago
The tl;dr version, "Burning man defeats PayPal by routing around it."
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by elblanco 16y ago
That's great! His .plan files were great reading back in the day.
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by elblanco 16y ago
I guess it all comes down to "what do you want to do?" Do you want to be able to do "stuff" with your phone -- anything? Or do you want to look/feel good while doing some smaller subset of "stuff"? Ultimately, when improving things, you hit
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by elblanco 16y ago
I wonder if you can modify the action commands. I'd make the note to self command a self referential 3rd person "note to elblanco".
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by elblanco 16y ago
I hope some day you make it to Barcelona, I'm pretty sure I never had a bad cup there, even from random street vendors. I missed the coffee I had there long after I left.
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by elblanco 16y ago
It probably doesn't hurt to look at one of Yahoo's contemporaries along the same metrics, AOL.
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by elblanco 16y ago
But for all that, I don't think Apple's ever found themselves with the reputation of the type of single-minded overarching elitist snobbery as the backbone of the hiring process in the same way Google has. "...but they didn't have the kind
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by elblanco 16y ago
Another core competency that Apple has, one that neither Yahoo or Google seem to be able to figure out, is the ability to create, penetrate and dominate new markets. For all the various products Google creates, it's still essentially an adv
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by elblanco 16y ago
I agree completely, Apple looks at technology as an enabler of design, not the driver of it.
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by elblanco 16y ago
The essay seems to draw the conclusion that the difference between Yahoo and Google was more or less a matter of historical happenstance. Google did well because at the time Google was being built, they simply weren't (and couldn't be) part
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by elblanco 16y ago
The app bit makes it clear this is set to be a direct competitor to Google's Android based TV solution. Also interesting to move it to iOS4, the first previously OSX device to move to iOS? A sign of things to come?
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by elblanco 16y ago
It's like reading one of those breathless self-promotional google or palantir blog posts.
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IEEE Vast Challenge 2010 - Winners Announced(hcil.cs.umd.edu)
1 points by elblanco 16y ago|0 comments
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by elblanco 16y ago
I don't think I've ever rebooted my Incredible.
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by elblanco 16y ago
I pretty happily use PDANet for some basic stuff.
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IEEE VAST 2010 Challenge - RESULTS(hcil.cs.umd.edu)
1 points by elblanco 16y ago|0 comments
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by elblanco 16y ago
"I'd like a salary increase please, how do I go about ensuring I get it next pay raise period?"
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by elblanco 16y ago
It's weird. I never found notebooks all that useful until a relative bought me a Moleskine as a gift. I can't put the stupid thing down now, there's definitely some kind of "there" there...a kind of delicious physical quality that makes me
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by elblanco 16y ago
I actually don't know a mac user that doesn't at least have boot camp installed.
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by elblanco 16y ago
Perhaps it might make a good ruggedization material? Apple appears to be highly interested in materials that would make a portable product have a very long life in your pocket (gorilla glass).
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by elblanco 16y ago
Raise your hands if you own a Mac and don't have a virtualization/dual-boot setup. crickets
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by elblanco 16y ago
The videos of all the compos are up now. Amazing stuff if you want to see what modern computers can really do in real-time.
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by elblanco 16y ago
Well there you go, I think we're all done here now.
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Assembly Summer 2010 Competition Entries(assembly.org)
24 points by elblanco 16y ago|6 comments
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Install Flash / Frash on iPhone 4 [video](rewritetech.com)
2 points by elblanco 16y ago|0 comments
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Javascript Graphics Effects Demos(mrdoob.com)
28 points by elblanco 16y ago|3 comments

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