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541.
by illumen 14y ago
Other things like cache coherency, number and type of cores, other things running on the system, compression or reduction based on properties of the data all have an effect on what is possible. Not to mention weird things like some special
542.
by illumen 14y ago
Check out co-up, a bunch of startups and community meetups happening there. The people there are quite well connected to berlin startups too. http://co-up.de/events.html
543.
by illumen 14y ago
ramen noodle, aqui-hire, ..., facebook
544.
by illumen 15y ago
Water desalinization plants run over $4 billion easily. They do about 200 gigalitres per year. Of course these things will get cheaper, and you don't need to pay $4 billion, you can set up smaller numbers of them.
545.
by illumen 15y ago
This company has been making pro digital video hardware for years. So I'd expect it's a high quality product. http://www.blackmagic-design.com/ Go Melbourne! It has quite a scene of small high tech video companies.
546.
by illumen 15y ago
The OLPC has a battery, case, power supply, storage, keyboard, track pad, screen. It also releases source code to the OS binaries they ship. The raspberrypi needs a £150 TV, plus lots of other accessories to do anything. It's nice to see
547.
by illumen 15y ago
The Kickstarter corporation is big enough and bad enough to stand up for itself without anyone having to attack the victim.
548.
by illumen 15y ago
Yeah, but Ubuntu is professional, well designed, and well made - by people who truly care about their users. You can't hold Apple up to the same high standards... they're just not in the same league.
549.
by illumen 15y ago
Strangely Cambridge is the start up place in the UK. They get the most venture funding (even over London). Then tend to be in fairly hardcore technology though. I would call it Europes silicon valley, and not choke too much laughing, wit
550.
by illumen 15y ago
This is a YC interview question. They lock you in a room with a pick, and if you can pick the lock you move onto the next stage. Otherwise the floor opens, and they feed you to the sharks (with lasers on their noses naturally).
551.
by illumen 15y ago
Touché. Pyramid will: * get you laid. * help you take over the world. * bring about world peace. * 100% compatible with emacs, vim, textmate, and even eclipse. * enterprise mumble mumble certified. * tool of choice for the coolest startup
552.
by illumen 15y ago
I like cherrypy too! :) It's like my secret python weapon.
553.
by illumen 15y ago
Pyramid. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_%28web_framework%29 * faster. * better quality (100% statement coverage via unit tests) * supports latest python. * great documentation (including free up to date book). There's also a separa
554.
by illumen 15y ago
I'm saying clients who would use the tool use IE8 and IE7. Basecamp is a project management, and collaboration tool - so unfortunately those clients have to be supported (unless you can fire the clients or upgrade them to a newer browser :
555.
by illumen 15y ago
Well, it did have a whole IE support paragraph... so it is about IE8 somewhat. I have been looking at basecamp over the last few days too. So for me, this was the most relevant part of the article. Unfortunately some customers still use
556.
by illumen 15y ago
"New basecamp requires IE9 or higher." They just lost a sale with that. Finally made the decision to use redmine( http://www.redmine.org/ ) instead.
557.
by illumen 15y ago
Another word: why?
558.
by illumen 15y ago
They buy it.
559.
by illumen 15y ago
Bullshit. Show me where you get this 70% figure from? Are you talking about spending or results? I think you pulled it out of your arse, but would love to know. What I found was, European r&d spending is close to what the USA spends
560.
by illumen 15y ago
Always sell your house to the first bidder. Always accuse the seller of having bad ethics, and turn it into a moral dilemma for them so you can take advantage. Always threaten their reputation. Always avoid using sexist analogies.
561.
by illumen 15y ago
"In the past 30 years have you heard of any medical innovation or drugs coming from anywhere other than the US?" Of course there is plenty of good medical stuff coming from many countries other than the USA. The market for medical care wor
562.
by illumen 15y ago
Competition in the computer education space is nice. OLPC comes with: screen, case, power supply, battery, cam, Source Code, wifi, training, & doesn't require £400 TV that can run code already.
563.
by illumen 15y ago
The three main points in the argument are wrong. I present as evidence this flower and a pack of cards. Dynamic languages DO have refactoring tools. It's just that not many people use them. That typo error WOULD have been caught with a st
564.
by illumen 15y ago
Doesn't ycombinator still store passwords in plain text? Or has that been fixed now?
565.
by illumen 15y ago
US Movies are often released outside of the US to see how well they go, so that an appropriate marketing spend can be done. Various small countries, and small towns will go first. Like New Zealand. If the movie does ok, then that is more
566.
by illumen 15y ago
I make development software for companies like Google. Currently their biggest demand is to be able to use their white board instead of the keyboard+IDE for input. We call it an IDW, Integrated Development Whiteboard. Also, they need tool
567.
by illumen 15y ago
They had had microsoft people helping them, including helping to code. Who knows what sort of other help they got from MS? An average developer may not get that help, which might make the difference between doing well or not.
568.
by illumen 15y ago
They also announced that the first boards are not $35, but will be sold at auction to the highest bidder. Unfortunately, you won't be able to buy some before xmas.
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by illumen 15y ago
I'm not concerned with Mozilla being non profit. Here are some advantages of non profits: http://grantspace.org/Tools/Knowledge-Base/Nonprofit-Managem... In exchange for being a non profit, the government gives non profits these advantag
570.
by illumen 15y ago
yup, thanks. I removed that bit from the post. If I type "blabla" into the url bar and press enter it still goes to google, even if you change the default search engine to say duck duck go/wikipedia etc. Also doesn't Firefox send google th

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