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by guyzero 13y ago
Oddly once upon a time (back in '94) we were a feeder for Canadian high-tech and Microsoft, but very few students ended up in the Valley, at least not fresh out of school. In the intervening 20 years Canadian high-tech has stayed flat
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by guyzero 13y ago
Doing 80 in a 65 is the entirety of the 101 and 280, outside of rush hour, when it's 20 in a 65.
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by guyzero 13y ago
it came with an embedded windows runtime - I think it was Microsoft not sure quite yet how they'd license it.
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by guyzero 13y ago
The thesis of the article is that Cover makes Android so compelling that other app developers go for Android first because they'll get more usage via Cover surfacing their app better post-installation.
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by guyzero 13y ago
Late 2010 MBA using the old Mavericks GM - 13A598 - is fine. No different than 10.8 at all. 4 GB RAM on a C2D. I really don't think I would have even noticed the difference had I not had to run the installer.
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by guyzero 13y ago
Yes, it's there to extract money from institutions that are stuck with 30-pin charging/management configurations.
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by guyzero 13y ago
This should really be "US now produces more oil and gas than Russia OR Saudi Arabia" as the US does not produce more than Russia and Saudi Arabia combined.
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by guyzero 13y ago
It's not so much entitlement as that there is a real and active marketplace for security vulnerabilities. If Yahoo isn't going to pay, someone else is going to pay for vulnerabilities and that would be a lot worse.
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by guyzero 13y ago
So while I will be the first to admit that I certainly didn't predict the iPhone, some of the iPhone's success was based on Apple leveraging their success with the iPod. The existence of iTunes and an ecosystem of third-party acce
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by guyzero 13y ago
Personally I'd consider a fairly major book written by a harvard professor to be a bit more than a "hipster-startup-hack-bias re-definition." In the study of technology management, the term "disruptive innovation" h
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by guyzero 13y ago
If you stick to a very literal reading of Christensen, the iPhone was disruptive to the PC market, but was simply a much better smartphone that its competitors. A product can be both better and worse depending on what you compare it to.
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by guyzero 13y ago
It's really a pretty specific idea initially coined in Clayton Christensen's book "The Innovator's Dilemma." From the book, via Wikipedia: "Generally, disruptive innovations were technologically straightforward
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by guyzero 13y ago
My sarcasm was actually intended to indicate that opinions can never be "wrong" in some objective sense as they represent subjective experience. The notion that your opinion can't be valid because you worked for "only&qu
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by guyzero 13y ago
Yes, you certainly can't form an opinion in three months. Sorry OP, your opinion is almost certainly wrong.
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by guyzero 13y ago
"TV sitcoms are littered with such comic stereotypes of juvenile adults, such as Smithy from Gavin and Stacey or Private Pike in Dad's Army." As a non-Brit, I enjoy the completely opaque cultural references in BBC news articl
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by guyzero 13y ago
Dismissive comment.
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by guyzero 13y ago
No, one tiny office has a completely different set of HR policies.
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by guyzero 13y ago
This is entirely to lower the cost. There's one PCB. The two screens are actually one display with the bezel providing the separation. It's quite possible this model is more profitable at a lower price point than the standard clam
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by guyzero 13y ago
Transit compiles schedule data from hundreds of worldwide transit agencies, does custom pathfinding and is a pretty sophisticated project all on its own. It's not gmail, sure, but there are entire companies that do the same thing as th
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by guyzero 13y ago
Transit directions on Maps started as a 20% project.
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by guyzero 13y ago
You can opt out of it... why are you phrasing it like you can't?
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by guyzero 13y ago
SCROOGLED!
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by guyzero 13y ago
I have seriously never encountered this problem. They fog up when you go from outdoor cold to a warm building, but I've never had my glasses ice up.
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by guyzero 13y ago
I went to school in Waterloo, ON, Canada. I have walked multiple kilometers to class in weather that was -20 C or below. I'm not going to say it was like being on a warm beach, but geez, long underwear, a scarf, a hat, some thick mitts
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by guyzero 13y ago
There is no bad weather, only bad clothing.
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by guyzero 13y ago
COWORKERS OVER 35?? I'm shocked they hadn't been "renewed" by "Carrousel". Or were they runners?
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by guyzero 13y ago
Kremlinology.
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by guyzero 13y ago
I'm honestly surprised that Excel can handle that many drawing elements without bogging down. The paintings look very complex.
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by guyzero 13y ago
Your Lebanese grandmother did not pour a few million gallons down the drain.
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by guyzero 13y ago
The article describes that it already gets converted by non-engineered bacteria into a biofuel - called methane. it's just that building processing tanks and methane capture equipment is expensive. Not like nuclear power plan expensive, but

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