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by gamble 15y ago
There's probably a grain of truth to both positions. Dealing with RF interference is something of a black art, so given that LightSquared hasn't actually deployed their network yet, it's not surprising that existing GPS devices don't filter
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by gamble 15y ago
My university spent $10 million updating their student information system. It's not hard to hit eight figures when you're paying an army of extremely unproductive consultants $500-$1000/hour. $600 million is extortionate, of course - hence
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by gamble 15y ago
I could tell that Android's growth had stalled when people stopped posting nigh-weekly updates of Android's market share on HN.
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by gamble 15y ago
The problem is that law school is an absurdly expensive exercise that, incredibly, doesn't actually teach graduates how to practice law. How else can you explain the fact that there are tons of unemployed JDs out there, and yet the averag
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by gamble 15y ago
It's essentially impossible to charge a battery in the same time as filling a gas tank. The currents involved would be immense, and besides requiring heavy-duty conductors and power electronics, such high currents would incinerate any lithi
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by gamble 15y ago
It's all marketing. One day we'll look back and be amazed that people felt they needed to own two-ton 4WD land tanks with 500-mile gas tanks to buy groceries. ZENN, however, won't be the ones to bring it about. Years back they abandoned pro
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by gamble 15y ago
It may surprise people, but the calories in most sugary cereals aimed at children are almost identical to most adult-oriented cereals. For example, "Captain Crunch's Peanut Butter Crunch" has 112 kcal for a 27g serving, [1] while Corn Flake
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by gamble 15y ago
You might want to ask a Panamanian that question.
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by gamble 15y ago
I'm not really a fan of RIM, but the Playbook gave me a very good impression when I first played with it at Best Buy. It isn't an iPad, but it was far more pleasant to use than any of the Android tablets currently on the market. The decisio
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by gamble 15y ago
Here's a tip: use the most obvious, phonetic (mis)spelling or you'll spend the next X years spelling it out to every yahoo who needs your address. Eg. 'segway' not 'segue'
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A Laptop, Its Head In the Cloud(nytimes.com)
2 points by gamble 15y ago|0 comments
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by gamble 15y ago
There's no question that game reviewers can be cruel, but it tends to be limited to games that aren't produced by major publishers, because they can strike back by withholding review copies. Blackballing isn't about cost; (which is trivial)
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by gamble 15y ago
I've always wondered what the US would do if China started flying sigint surveillance planes along the edge of US territorial airspace. Or if Americans discovered that the Chinese had interception equipment in critical telecom switching sta
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by gamble 15y ago
How about this? http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/reviews/3541-Top... The game has a 50% on Metacritic, so I'm personally reluctant to give it the benefit of the doubt.
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by gamble 15y ago
I doubt this is going to be an issue in the long run, because I don't expect this next iteration of Microsoft's "tablets that are really notebooks running a mix of tablet apps and standard Windows applications" is going to be any more succe
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Lethal Chemistry at Harvard (1998)(nytimes.com)
2 points by gamble 15y ago|0 comments
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by gamble 15y ago
Desktop Linux doesn't have a learning curve; it has a learning cliff. Linux cribs so much from other operating systems that it's reasonably familiar and easy to use when you first sit down, but the problems start when you need to go beyond
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Until Cryonics Do Us Part(nytimes.com)
1 points by gamble 15y ago|0 comments
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by gamble 15y ago
Why would a criminal want to use Bitcoin? I'm not convinced Silk Road is more than an elaborate troll. Even if it's not a hoax, Bitcoin is irrelevant and in fact less convenient than cash transactions, since they still have to get the drugs
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by gamble 15y ago
And may not actually exist.
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by gamble 15y ago
I'm not talking about subcontractors. Most consultancies, including Accenture in my limited personal experience with them, staff up with new hires (preferably cheap new grads) whenever they get a new contract. When business slows down enoug
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by gamble 15y ago
This is what I love about consulting companies. They get the contract by talking up their experience with the client's business, but once the deal is signed they just scoop a bunch of warm bodies off the street to do the actual work.
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by gamble 15y ago
There are a large number of laws that create a paper trail when substantial amounts of cash are used. If you withdraw more than $10,000 in cash, your bank has to report it to the government. If the bank thinks you're 'suspicious', they have
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by gamble 15y ago
I've never done any development for the non-8-bit Atmel/Microchip products, so I can't really compare. The NXP Cortex-M3 I'm currently using for a project has one SPI and two SSP peripherals. My impression from talking to other engineers is
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by gamble 15y ago
NXP sells CM0 and CM3 development boards for $30 on Digikey. For example: http://ics.nxp.com/lpcxpresso/ http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?Detail&... They come with a free license for code_red's customized version of
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by gamble 15y ago
ARM. Seriously, Cortex-M3 microcontrollers are much more powerful than any AVR or PIC at the same price, with roughly the same level of complexity as a high-end PIC/AVR. ARM already dominates high-end embedded systems, and is quickly pene
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by gamble 15y ago
The Smart Fortwo wasn't designed for efficiency or cheapness; it was intended to be a tiny car for dense European cities where the ability to park in very tight spaces would allow you to find a space quickly. Parking on curbs and in odd spa
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by gamble 15y ago
How much credibility does this have? BlueVia is sells a product for developers that targets Android and not iOS, while VisionMobile is a market analysis company they presumably paid to produce this study. I'd never heard of either before, a
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.NET Devs Revolt Over HTML5/JS in Windows 8(forums.silverlight.net)
1 points by gamble 15y ago|0 comments
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by gamble 15y ago
Dropbox is designed to make your filesystem available on any device. iCloud is designed to make the filesystem invisible. iCloud might win in the long term, but for now they address fundamentally different problems.

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