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by elblanco 16y ago
I think that's actually fair. Until I got 6 or 7 people using it regularly with me it was kind of a head scratcher.
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by elblanco 16y ago
My favorite bit is the useless wave notification extension that asks me to login every 2 days because it looses my account information. If I have to login all the time to keep the notification tool alive, I may as well not have the notifica
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by elblanco 16y ago
I haven't run it, but by the description installing this software will get not you a whole heck of a lot closer to having your own Wave implementation in terms of server-protocol-web client that I think everybody is envisioning.
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by elblanco 16y ago
They were too busy botching the Buzz rollout.
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by elblanco 16y ago
I could really care less if google killed their own hosting of Wave servers. That's never what I was interested in anyway. A ubiquitous messaging federated service as an alternative to email? Now that's what I was looking forward too and si
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by elblanco 16y ago
It's a nice case study of too much engineering and too much technology, with far too many unnecessary features to start with, with too much of a roll-out (the basic feature demo took over 45 minutes) to too few people without nearly enough
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by elblanco 16y ago
Considering how many people here seem to be using it for simple browsing and book reading, perhaps a better question is, is it a $500-900 value or would a lower price point make more sense considering the typical use-case?
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by elblanco 16y ago
The analogy of iPhone:Android::Mac:PC really holds on this front. Everytime I use my MBP I can't help but feel I get nickle and dimed for little necessary utility apps just to get things done (want to change the acceleration curve on your m
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by elblanco 16y ago
"Breaking news! Android Becomes Top Mobile OS in the US!" Apple Fan's Hasty Rebuttal, "caveat caveat caveat only if you don't consider caveat caveat caveat and you have to consider caveat caveat caveat in which case I don't even know why ne
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by elblanco 16y ago
Sounds like any other big corporate organ grind -- self promotion and working on high profile, corp important tasks gets you up the ladder, keeping the engine running just keeps you on the ladder. The sexy just wore off for me. Meh.
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by elblanco 16y ago
They don't have to do the encryption on their computers, they can do it on the devices.
552.
by elblanco 16y ago
When I was just out of High School, I worked at a computer repair shop. We probably tossed out 50-60 pounds of fried motherboards and expansion cards a week until the owner worked a deal with somebody to haul away the stuff to get the gold
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by elblanco 16y ago
My first year of college education was probably about $2000. I'm not sure I could have done much more than pay a couple months rent with that.
554.
by elblanco 16y ago
As I've said elsewhere, I'm not disputing your central claim that NYC tech scene is a pale shadow of the Bay Area scene. But your arguments for why that is are bizarre and nonsensical. 1) I was just picking someplace random. It's not a two
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by elblanco 16y ago
Thanks for the reply. That's definitely true. I'd imagine a gene sequencing system using two bit encoding would allow for the gene data to be more compact and more performant in many cases.
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by elblanco 16y ago
It's also full of crap. Which goes to show that Apple's method provides very little in the way of ensuring quality.
557.
by elblanco 16y ago
It's worse than that. The four square blocks the author spent his time in != New York City.
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by elblanco 16y ago
I don't disagree that that would be a haul. But complaining about high rent in a high rent neighborhood is like complaining that your Ferrari is too fast. It's not like there aren't other places to live in the city not really that far fro
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by elblanco 16y ago
I actually don't disagree with his central thesis that the NYC startup scene doesn't rival the Bay Area scene. What I disagree with is his bizarre characterization of NYC. It's like if I were to write a blog about D.C. and all I could talk
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by elblanco 16y ago
New York Times Real Estate Section. Both for sale and to let.
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by elblanco 16y ago
I've never lived in NYC, but I go there once or twice a year since the mid-90s and I have to say, the city he's describing, and the city I visit are apparently in different, alternate realities. I don't go there for the startup scene, so I
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by elblanco 16y ago
The southern part of Manhattan Island (below all the streets with numbers, like Wall Street) still has a very "old-world" street layout, and if you imagine shorter buildings down there, it's definitely laid-out pre-car. I'm smitten by how t
563.
by elblanco 16y ago
Can you elaborate a bit on "genes are not ascii sequences"? My understanding is that genes are regularly computer stored as ascii sequences e.g. GATTACA.
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by elblanco 16y ago
It's also performant enough that it wasn't worth the time to learn a faster performing language.
565.
by elblanco 16y ago
In most environments I think there's definitely a bias against PhDs as impractical eggheads. In terms of business, I think most investors will look at PhDs as somebody looking for a large personal research grant rather than somebody looking
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by elblanco 16y ago
> join a well-run open source project (not-so-commercial). This sounds like the best advice here that answers the question.
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by elblanco 16y ago
It sounds like the OP is asking "is a PhD a good way for me to actually accomplish something in my hobby area?" In which case the answer is no. A PhD is a way to obsess about a highly particular part of some field to the point that you can
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by elblanco 16y ago
Jobs has a wonderful concept of the user experience that he tries to enforce on all of Apple's products. If you notice, the underlying technology is really 2nd or 3rd on the list. How the user interacts with it, what their workflow is, how
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by elblanco 16y ago
In this case, the safety of a few Afghan informants could be considered collateral damage: you can't expect WikiLeaks to keep their hands completely clean, when they are trying to out pools of blood on the hands of others. I wonder if wik
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by elblanco 16y ago
I hope not. The surliness is part of the charm. It's sort of the "just get it done, ya meathead!" construction foreman method to learning on the job.

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