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by ikono 15y ago
I don't really think it's about expectations or initiative. It's about accountability. He's simply saying that there are times when the guy on the bottom of the ladder has his hands tied and can say there is nothing he could have done(break
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by ikono 15y ago
I just had the same though except substitue OpenDNS with Google. OpenDNS would be better for users but this feels like a Google-y thing to do especially after the whole China debacle.
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by ikono 15y ago
PPA aside, what's interesting is that PokerStars just announced a partnership with the Wynn recently. I don't know that it's the US brick and mortar casinos that are behind this.
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by ikono 15y ago
I think technically gambling online is illegal in the US but it's covered by the wire act and not UIGEA. I'm not 100% sure as it's been a while since I've kept up with this but I believe that Poker has always been in a sort of gray area. I
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by ikono 15y ago
It's kinda cool to see a link to 2+2 at the top of HN, sucks that it has to be for this though...
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by ikono 16y ago
Let me start off by saying I clearly added an extra 0 pre-edit. Tiger hasn't been alive for a million hours. Second, I said closer to 100,000 than 10,000. So I'm taking the over on 55k hours. Although I do think 100k is possible, even if un
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by ikono 16y ago
But the title is can he become a golf pro. There wouldn't be over a 100 comments here if it simply said "How good of a golfer can you be with 10,000 hours of practice?"
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by ikono 16y ago
Not all hours are equal, it's pretty close to impossible to be as productive while you're tired as when you're well rested. Not to mention that the person you're quoting is not a professional golfer. Tiger is probably closer to 100,000 hour
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by ikono 16y ago
It's far more reasonable to change this to a challenge to become a scratch golfer or something similar. I don't think Gladwell meant that anyone could become one of the best in the world at anything with 10,000 hours of work. Such a stateme
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by ikono 16y ago
The running motif of Apple = Joker, Google = Batman is hardly a good way to get an intelligent conversation going...
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by ikono 16y ago
I think more specifically, the battery is cheap. It's the size of a refrigerator and provides very little power (a few AA batteries?) but it uses water instead of lithium. All that said, if they can find a comercial use for it in it's curre
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by ikono 16y ago
"With a single gallon of water, Nocera says, the chip could produce enough electricity to power a house in a developing country for an entire day." I think a house in a developing country is key. They say the chip is 10x more efficient th
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by ikono 16y ago
It's not just about having apps, it's about having good apps. Good mobile apps, in most cases, would not make good desktop apps and vice versa.
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by ikono 16y ago
If nothing else, playing poker has taught me this: The correct answer is always "it depends".
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by ikono 16y ago
In my opinion, RIM's problem is that they feel like they defined what it was to be a smartphone. Now that they are no longer king of the hill, they are trying to replicate the current definition of a smart phone. Like the author alluded to,