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by golfer 10y ago
One of my favorite games when I was a kid was Captain Goodnight by Broderbund. Apple II game. I loved the musical score to the intro so much that I wrote a (snail mail) letter to their HQ asking for the musical score to the intro music.
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by golfer 10y ago
Somewhat like Tableau, but in the cloud. (Tableau may have a cloud version too, I'm actually not sure)
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by golfer 10y ago
Maybe after the ridiculous Scroogled campaign that Microsoft did against Google, and stealing Google's search results, and extorting money from Android OEMs for lame patents, Google has earned the right to bully Microsoft a little. I&
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by golfer 10y ago
"Microsoft is assuredly fixing this into overtime" Citation needed.
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by golfer 10y ago
I'm not sure I feel the same way, and I will probably be downvoted for it. Microsoft's entire existence is largely based on incredibly aggressive, (perhaps) unethical behavior against its perceived rivals. FUD, threats of litigat
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by golfer 10y ago
Why is it highly dubious?
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by golfer 10y ago
Google has 7 different products with over 1 billion users [1]. This "brand problem" you speak of, if it exists at all, doesn't seem to have slowed them down much. [1] http://www.popsci.com/google-has-7-produc
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by golfer 10y ago
Twitter is not as big as Facebook, but it is not a niche service in the sense that Reader was. Twitter has 300M worldwide users and can count as users most global celebrities, politicians, artists, and journalists. People that make news.
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by golfer 10y ago
The "Scroogled" era wasn't that long ago either. Unbelievably embarrassing. Nor the stealing of Google's search results. I'm not ready to bless Microsoft yet.
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by golfer 10y ago
Reference the AI effect: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect
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by golfer 10y ago
Does playing Go and beating world champions count? That seemed a creative endeavor to me.
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National Radio Quiet Zone [US](en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by golfer 10y ago|1 comments
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by golfer 10y ago
LinkedIn is not profitable. They lose money every quarter. Revenue is around $800-900MM a quarter though.
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by golfer 10y ago
Maybe arrows would help with the designated order of the frames.
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This Is Sega Test (1996)(vimeo.com)
2 points by golfer 10y ago|0 comments
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by golfer 10y ago
This article is from 2014. A few things have changed since then. For example, Google now does offer ads in the Play Store: http://adwords.blogspot.com/2015/07/launching-search-ads-on-...
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by golfer 10y ago
dura lex, sed lex. "The law is harsh but it is the law."
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by golfer 10y ago
A video service hosted in Russia or China would have it's own problems. No freedom of the press in either country, and lots of issues with free speech. Any video critical of Putin or Xi Jinping would likely be taken down. Hard to op
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by golfer 10y ago
As soon as I saw GQ was one of the media he personally revealed his story to, my skepticism went through the roof. GQ (Gentlemen's Quarterly) is a magazine for image/fashion/style purposes, not tech breakthroughs. Craig Wrig
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by golfer 10y ago
Many people use browsers for the vast majority of their computing tasks (email, facebook, word processing, etc). Chrome handles this easily without the burden of general OS maintenance.
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by golfer 11y ago
I've never heard the regional "apetite" broken down like that before. But it feels right. I'd love to see some numbers/more data on this regional mindset.
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by golfer 11y ago
Secrecy is great for Microsoft when it's in the form of extorting Android OEMs with bogus patents for billions of dollars a year. Or copying Google's search results. But not when complying with government data requests. Got it.
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Operation Pluto (WWII)(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by golfer 11y ago|0 comments
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by golfer 11y ago
Perhaps, but it is naive of the Microsoft researchers to think this wasn't a possibility. They should have seen this coming and prepared accordingly.
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by golfer 11y ago
Google's AI beats go champions. Microsoft's AI turns into a racist genocidal maniac.