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by hinathan 16y ago
This feels like a business model where the lean/MVP approach isn't quite appropriate. A lot of things fall out of that decision, not the least of which is that the exposure surface area you get from an environment that allows user-sourced c
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by hinathan 16y ago
Tim wins for delightful (and insightful) quote of the day: "There have been many reports about the people fleeing Tokyo. None of these narratives have paused to consider whether the exodus constitutes chickenshit stupidity. I suggest it may
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by hinathan 16y ago
Things like this make me wish I had more spare time.
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by hinathan 16y ago
Instead of fetishizing REST for its own sake, how about appreciating an HTTP API that can be used (read/written) with a browser via form elements and hrefs?
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by hinathan 16y ago
From the article: "unlike Southeast Asians, many of whom died in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami because they lingered near the coast despite clear warnings to flee" Interesting way to put it (implying that the issue was behavioral/cultural r
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by hinathan 16y ago
The zero-G to high-G simulator (diagram at the bottom) is wonderful. Drop a sled down cliff for zero-G, then bottom out with a tight radius circle like a centrifuge. Wow.
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by hinathan 16y ago
Or there's a lot of pirated Windows XP running in China.
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by hinathan 16y ago
Yeah, Cal's fish book (hah, scaling...) is better - http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596102357
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by hinathan 16y ago
Spot on. We run SaaS and it's been a fascinating learning experience. This excerpt captures a lot of the tension perfectly: "As a simple analogy, if you sell a user a diesel generator, they will expect it to need maintenance, needs refuelin
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Painting with light to show WiFi networks(flowingdata.com)
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by hinathan 16y ago
There's a really effective way of dealing with your discomfort about Apple's policies - don't buy AAPL. Pretty simple. I personally am long on it because I trust what the board's done over the long haul. Might change.
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by hinathan 16y ago
Say it yourself a few times: "I love software"
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by hinathan 16y ago
A decade ago (sigh) I did a mix of EE and CS. The CS program was a mix of interesting subject matter, fun and helpful TAs, and brutally long and/or theoretically complex projects. If you get in you're probably smart enough but you may not h
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by hinathan 16y ago
Interesting - I'm on a Late 2010 MBA (11 inch) and mine says TRIM Support: No
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by hinathan 16y ago
Good media, David — glad to see things still going strong at OpenDNS.
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by hinathan 16y ago
Noticed on 101 last night. Presuming the idea is to give the folks on the GoogleBus something to see?
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by hinathan 16y ago
Good for the OkCupid team — this gives them a cushion to play again in this otherwise-desolate space before too long. Brings back somewhat rueful memories of spending too much time browsing around sites like Match.com (meh) and eHarmony (ze
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by hinathan 16y ago
"Profile information is used by WooMe primarily to be..." — that 'primarily' is plausible grounds for secondary uses, such as making up 'new' (new to you) 'real' (there is a user who has this profile image) profiles to be shown in different
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by hinathan 16y ago
The problem I have with government using tax incentives as a way to spur entrepreneurial growth is that by their nature these incentives reward current activity with future benefits. But the payoff horizon — next year's tax filing – isn't a
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by hinathan 16y ago
Number one thing the federal government could do to spur entrepreneurship and innovation: Simple, single-payer (sure, self-paid in cash until my company can foot the bill) health coverage that I don't have to think about. Without this, it's
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by hinathan 16y ago
Here ya go: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=google+tos+robots&l=1
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by hinathan 16y ago
This is really slick. It's tempting to think of this as a potential route towards headless functional testing — probably no substitute for something as heavy as selenium but for light tasks and DOM-based inspection of returned payloads (and
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by hinathan 16y ago
Well, that and incredibly beneficial union rules. Lots of work printing cargo manifests, handing them to another person who types it into another system, and so on. But it's ok, that process only adds a marginal amount of delay, error, and
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by hinathan 16y ago
Will Wattvision someday be able to tap into the (GE) SmartMeter data that already exists? I'm in a multi-unit condo and my wifi closet is a few hundred feet from our meter stack. Is there any way to interrogate the meter via the onboard mes
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by hinathan 16y ago
Speaking of NYTimes, Safari user stylesheet has a line to disable the annoying word definition popup when selecting text. .nytd_selection_button { display:none; }
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by hinathan 16y ago
So you're saying this interview question is a probabilistic (with the potential for false positives) tool for detecting membership in the set of people who are equipped to understand the concept? Sounds like a Bloom Filter to me.
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by hinathan 16y ago
Note that the subjectAltName method GitHub is using doesn't seem to work with stock version of curl and wget on Debian (throws a cert error)
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by hinathan 16y ago
This isn't rocket science. My Audi (and BMW before that) have nice clean digital displays of predicted miles remaining based on driving history, tank capacity, and measured fuel consumption. Turns out 'How far can I go?' is a better metric