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by hsshah 15y ago
This reminds me of their Vista PR stunt where they tricked unsuspecting users to give favorable feedback about Vista on camera.
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by hsshah 15y ago
Indeed. Couple of optimistic talks at TED that shows that on an 'average' it IS getting better. http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_on_the_myth_of_violen... http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_reveals_new_insights_o... However, th
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by hsshah 15y ago
With Amazon's resources, Kiva's warehouse automation will be widely used. Amazon can take it down the route of AWS. I am very happy for my advisor, who's the CTO at Kiva Systems. Congratulations!
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by hsshah 15y ago
It's great to see that the MOOC (Massive open online courses) phenomenon is picking momentum. Between Udacity, MITx and others, I expect that in 1-2 years, college education for Engineering Major (at the least) will be freely/cheaply availa
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by hsshah 15y ago
Interesting indeed. Get the users to slowly get familiarized with their own maps solution before ditching Google Maps.
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by hsshah 15y ago
So I have been teaching Computer technology to kids in schools and also to non-techies as a hobby for a while. I urge you to NOT start with technology. From her interests, identify something that can be augmented with programming first. [fo
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by hsshah 15y ago
I want to check it out but don't intend to go through the whole course. Is there a way to take it for a test drive without formally registering for the course? I know I can just stop participating and that would "drop" me from the course; b
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by hsshah 15y ago
They must be using KBA (knowledge based authentication) service for identity checks. There are data aggregator companies (big ones are the credit bureaus but there are others as well) who compile all sorts of orthogonal data points about y
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by hsshah 15y ago
I believe (and teach) programming the way I learn a new language ('Human' language not a computer language). It should be segmented in a way that at the end of each segment there is a 'reward' (an application of the learning that is conside
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by hsshah 15y ago
Thanks for the response. I indeed label them Spam. The problem is Gmail does not then automatically block or filter out new such messages in future (I guess they have some threshold for number of reports or something). Also looked at writi
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Gmail- Quick(on iphone/ipad) way to block a sender?
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OpenLabel: Tag all bar codes with Social Metadata(techcrunch.com)
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by hsshah 15y ago
Just yesterday, I was browsing the exercise generation framework - Khan exercises on github yesterday and had a question. Can the framework be used independent of KA (ie for other exercises and youtube videos) ? Thanks for the great job you
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by hsshah 15y ago
Interesting. Just last week I got my first Arduino board. Will love to watch the story behind it.
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by hsshah 15y ago
Yes indeed. I got both my cars checked. The courteous thing to do is take it to a reputable mechanic (I took them to dealership service) coz if I am the seller; I would not like to take my car to a shady place even though I don't mind it be
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by hsshah 15y ago
It's interesting that you bring you MagicJack. I have always wondered how they made money. Now it is starting to make some sense. Can you share the link to that article?
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by hsshah 15y ago
Anyone tried the 'Rejection Therapy' experiment? Seems useful for folks like me who think a lot (and act less) partly due to fear of rejection or failure.
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by hsshah 15y ago
Great News indeed! Wishing Amit the best for the procedure. Let's make sure to keep up with the momentum to register donors from minority groups.
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by hsshah 15y ago
I experienced similar behavior when I moved from a smaller city in US to Bay area. The small city at a macro level was far more homogenous when compared to Bay area. However, I made friends with folks from a diverse group. I found them to b
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by hsshah 15y ago
I highly recommend Scratch. I teach 8 - 12 year olds using scratch. It teaches computational concepts in a fun (certainly not intimidating way). I am now planning to experiment using Scratch for adults as well as a starting point before int
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by hsshah 15y ago
Even then it is frustrating. I know basic to medium level Java and Python. I wanted to learn Javascript and decided to take codeacademy for a spin. The experience was so frustrating, I gave up after the first few exercises (after shouting a
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by hsshah 15y ago
Site is down. Probably DDOS'd from the announcement. Here's a link to a cached copy: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
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by hsshah 15y ago
Seems like Apple is planning to implement multi-user mode in iOS with face recognition based login ie a user just enter his PIN, however, the camera detects which account to load. (IMHO, more secure than the current Android implementation)
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by hsshah 15y ago
In addition to these: Check this out as well. Interesting talk about how computing from one of the Wolfram brothers. http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/stephen_wolfram_computing_a...
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by hsshah 15y ago
Freemium is certainly not applicable for all products and services. Phil Libin (CEO, Evernote) has a good framework to think about this. Simply put, if the value of your product to your customer increases over time and usage, freemium could
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by hsshah 15y ago
Congrats on hitting the milestone! The UI is really wicked. Props to the designers. Mind sharing the technology behind it? All in HTML5?!
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by hsshah 15y ago
I got intrigued by the video clip as well. FYI. Used "Into_Now" iphone App to find out the movie [Didn't see this comment then] Alas, its not available for streaming on Netflix as of now.
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by hsshah 15y ago
It's not a proper comparison. Using your analogy, Logitech should be held more liable if the video streams from the webcams were uploaded to Logitech's server. Would you agree?
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by hsshah 15y ago
Arduino geeks, Not sure if this will be considered off topic here; but I will ask anyways. I am looking for recommendation on how to start with Arduino. As a hobby, I teach kids 10-14 yrs (started with my nephews) about Computing technologi
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by hsshah 15y ago
Yeah. My first thought was exactly the same. Why do I find this interesting (I always have my phone with me)? My hypothesis is that with everything getting displayed through LCD screens these days, after a while people will crave for the ol

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