grinich

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   The Stanford Startup and the MIT Startup(fpgacomputing.blogspot.com)

   193 points by grinich 13y ago|85 comments
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   by grinich 13y ago

   I wonder what would happen if a city's homeless population suddenly became ultra fit?
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   by grinich 13y ago

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message
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   by grinich 13y ago

   Here's a visualizer for the Ulam Spiral, Triangular, Pentagonal, Hilbert Curve, and many more. You can also visualize {2-5}-factor primes, superperfect numbers, smooth numbers... http://www.bigblueboo.com/prime/
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   by grinich 13y ago

   Are you sure? The Model S has a quarter-inch thick armor baseplate, which is way more than a similar combustion engine vechicle undercarriage.
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   by grinich 13y ago

   MySpace sold in 2005 for $580MM. In 2007 they had $550MM in revenue, and in 2008, $900MM. I know you were being snarky, but those numbers are pretty solid. Probably not the best counterexample. Snapchat has the same demographic, but it&#x27
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   by grinich 13y ago

   People said pretty much the exact same thing about Facebook. Look how that turned out.
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   by grinich 13y ago

   OkCupid?
9. 639.▲
   by grinich 13y ago

   Google wants you to use the web interface, or their own mobile apps.
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    by grinich 13y ago

    RIM has lots of patents. I imagine this is why they are strategically interested. It's obviously not for their product lineup.
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    by grinich 13y ago

    Yeah, but that's a shitty thing to do if you can avoid it.
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    by grinich 13y ago

    Checking MX records is super easy. dig gmail.com MX
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    by grinich 13y ago

    Haha so true, RIP. Thankfully his responses are saved for posterity in the imap-protocol discussion list archive. ;) https://mailman2.u.washington.edu/mailman/mmsearch/imap-prot...
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    by grinich 13y ago

    Everyone agrees that it's terrible, or at least outdated and poorly spec'd, but IMAP is so entrenched that designing a new protocol would have zero impact. Users don't care about protocols-- they care about products. In order
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    by grinich 13y ago

    This comment sums it up pretty well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6617692
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    by grinich 13y ago

    In terms of access to your mail data, there is no difference. The Oauth token you grant is operationally equivalent to an IMAP password.
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    by grinich 13y ago

    I highly recommend the book Code Name Ginger , which is the remarkable story behind the Segway. http://www.amazon.com/Code-Name-Ginger-Behind-Segway/dp/1578...
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    by grinich 13y ago

    They needed to change the name, and have been trying to get away from the numbering scheme. Remember how they tried to call the iPad 3 the "New iPad" but it failed to catch on?
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    by grinich 13y ago

    I think it's better as a mystery.
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    by grinich 13y ago

    Those sound like lousy friends.
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    by grinich 13y ago

    The famous violinist Joshua Bell once played in a DC metro station for nearly an hour. He played six Bach pieces (some of the hardest ever composed) on a $3.5MM violin. Over a thousand people rushed by, unperturbed. He made $32 and some cha
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    by grinich 13y ago

    The title of the article is literally the entire story.
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    by grinich 13y ago

    I laughed way too hard at that :D
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    by grinich 13y ago

    You should signup for our beta ;) https://www.inboxapp.com/
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    by grinich 13y ago

    Check this out: https://www.disconnect.me/kids
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    by grinich 13y ago

    Hard to argue against Elon's last sentence, though.
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    by grinich 13y ago

    This is just points right? Any plans to expand to other shapes? (ie: PostGIS) I wonder if anyone has substituted a Hilbert space representation for geohashes... ;)
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    by grinich 13y ago

    I wouldn't say it's the most appealing. It's just the most simple, universal, sans-serif font. (Times is probably the serif equivalent.) Medium Helvetica is super legible and has great proportions. It gets out of the way and
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    by grinich 13y ago

    You are missing an understanding of the complexities of the credit card payments industry.
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    by grinich 13y ago

    I think there's a pretty big misconception about Silicon Valley executives hating each other. (My guess is this comes from our media-driven obsession with the good vs. evil narrative.) In reality, a lot of these companies aren't t