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by glimcat 15y ago
Their methodology is rubbish. The fact that they can't possibly be blind invalidates the approach to begin with. But they also didn't remain within one class of device when the physical coupling method does a lot to affect the result. They
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by glimcat 15y ago
Related: "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names" http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-b...
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by glimcat 15y ago
Money and results are not linearly correlated. This sort of thing gets posted occasionally. It's a coin toss whether they're trolling for hits or just don't get that you can't buy $12000 worth of amplifier and have it be 60x as amplifiery a
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by glimcat 15y ago
I'd still recommend spending a few weekends banging out a minimally-functional prototype in Rails. It's more engaging and it forces you to think through the concept in more detail. It's also good coding practice.
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by glimcat 15y ago
"These trends may help explain why private school students are disproportionately represented in Ph.D. study in science and engineering and why they tend to dominate admission into the most prestigious professional schools." This part here
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by glimcat 15y ago
Misspelled word as name is a turn-off. Also, the tag line being all the info available, it makes me think that it's a photo sharing site, or a blogging site, or a photo blogging site, or something like that. There are plenty of those alread
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by glimcat 15y ago
Nice, but how scalable is the fabrication process?
608.
by glimcat 15y ago
Instead of random penises, you get Prince Albert in a can? Not that I wouldn't have fun mining the transcripts.
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by glimcat 15y ago
Also, the renders are poor quality, they show a device which is not likely to be able to fit an adequate battery, and which is not likely to be comfortable to hold.
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by glimcat 15y ago
I'd be more impressed with S&P if their attitude towards accounting errors on the order of 10^12 wasn't "so what, we're still right."
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by glimcat 15y ago
The major issues are avoiding confusion and SEO. They don't need to be identical, but there needs to be a strong mapping. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-choose-the-right-domain-na...
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by glimcat 15y ago
These guys: http://www.ubermind.com/
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Ubermind's mobile designers holding open house (Seattle, Aug 18)(ubermind.eventbrite.com)
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by glimcat 15y ago
EEV Blog
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by glimcat 15y ago
They're not shutting down App Inventor, they're shutting down development of App Inventor. Also, they're releasing the source.
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by glimcat 15y ago
Abusing contract law is a very old business model for the movie and music industries. There just wasn't the opportunity to scale like this before the internet.
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by glimcat 15y ago
The fact that it's a recurring charge alters the economics. You could probably reduce costs considerably by sending fewer international shipments and distributing locally from there.
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by glimcat 15y ago
Knowing how to program is easy. Knowing what to program is hard. The algorithms stuff is ostensibly about starting you on the path to learn what to program. Also, you're not enrolled in a trade school. The curriculum is NOT primarily design
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by glimcat 15y ago
Not likely. But it can correlate with other changes which matter, e.g. moving away from some of the issues of traditional grade-oriented methods. On the other hand, it can also introduce a bunch of trite off-topic nonsense which wastes time
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by glimcat 15y ago
It is almost always the case that "too high for measurement" means "the guy with the meter is telling you a fish story" or "the guy with the meter doesn't know which end to hold."
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by glimcat 15y ago
But then they couldn't go fearmongering to get more ad impressions!
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by glimcat 15y ago
Actually, neither matters. The entire point of this tactic is that paying up costs less than mounting a legal defense. This is just a symptom of the socioeconomic bias in our legal system. Fix that, and such tactics won't be possible. Don't
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by glimcat 15y ago
"How often do people doing startups get scared or strongly discouraged." There are ups an downs. It's easy to get discouraged - and sometimes, you should be. The success ratio for startups is not very high. But the startup environment has a
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by glimcat 15y ago
Statistically, competent engineers have very little trouble finding a position compared to the general population. Finding an ideal position is harder, but I don't doubt that you can find something to solve your visa issue.
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by glimcat 15y ago
I know what you mean. There are a lot of other good points to it as well - like conversation, exposure to interesting things you wouldn't normally encounter, and Nash equilibria which leave you doing less of the stuff you don't like in exch
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by glimcat 15y ago
A few companies exploded, but there were still a lot of job openings. Hiring standards got a bit more sane, if anything. The world runs on computers. People who can make them sit up and beg are not going to stop being in demand any time soo
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by glimcat 15y ago
You have a deadline. Start now unless you want the error bars to wreck your plans. Worst case, pimp yourself out as a generic Python programmer or something like that. Companies have been having a tough time finding competent employees. But
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by glimcat 15y ago
Had to check - it's not Amazon, despite their rather obsessive focus with tweaking and testing things all over the site. First purchase at Amazon is still somewhat involved, possibly due to "we're Amazon, where else are you going to go" men
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by glimcat 15y ago
Not even wrong. Bad grasp of history and geopolitics, bad grasp of technological development, deceptive graph.
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by glimcat 15y ago
Why would it? It doesn't address any of the systematic or usability issues with Bitcoin. Or are you looking at it as an analogue for hiding money under the mattress?

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