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by ippisl 15y ago
Will something like Microsoft lightswitch, which might enable business experts to write application with relatively little help solve this problem ?
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by ippisl 15y ago
One thing is to deeply understand the business domain and how to work with business domain people. That always helps.and those skills seems much less prone to outsourcing and automation.
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by ippisl 15y ago
It's true that new companies create less jobs than they used to. Previously they used to create 7.5 jobs/company, today only 4.5[1]. that means 2.3 million jobs instead of 3 million. [1] http://www.kauffman.org/research-and-policy/starting-
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by ippisl 15y ago
I did a quick job search in monster.co.uk and got: ruby -160 jobs. python - 356 jobs.
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by ippisl 15y ago
I think only ~50% of google's revenue comes from adwords. That's leave's 50% as a target for facebook. Also there can be other ways to measure intent. For example analysing content of chats or status updates in real-time. And given large am
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by ippisl 15y ago
Tilera does a 64-bit CPU with 64/100cores.If they would offer access to it using a pay-per-hour model, that would be interesting.
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by ippisl 15y ago
Had a rough look on it's instruction set and didn't see anything resembling DSP instructions. So i'm not sure it would be great for all those uses. On the other hand, picochip sells a 200-300 core DSP , that is being used for the wireless i
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by ippisl 15y ago
Maybe google didn't have a choice. Since MS is talking about an app store, it just might be that the windows platform could become a closed platform(for the sake of security). If google wants to do something about this , it basically have t
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by ippisl 15y ago
debka.com is a very unreliable news source. i wouldn't give any value to its "military and Iranian sources".
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Amazon Prime Made Me A Shopping Machine (smartmoney.com)
2 points by ippisl 15y ago|0 comments
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by ippisl 15y ago
Home ownership rate in the u.s. is 65%[1]. Considering the relative large homes people live in today, it seems a pretty decent number. Of course there's probably a large class of poor people who haven't got an option to buy decent housing(e
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by ippisl 15y ago
There are varying answers regarding whether amazon subsidizes the kindle.[1] And amazon while seeming nice to consumers , plays hardball with suppliers and some of it's moves[2] are not all that good for consumers. [1] http://news.cnet.com/
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by ippisl 15y ago
The bookeen odyssey[2] looks more interesting as an e-ink tablet. While it isn't out yet(it'll be out in 22/11), they made an impressive demo of the technology[1], showing a really fast display. They also have strong processor(cortex-a8, 80
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by ippisl 15y ago
> Who wants to browse the web on their TV? There's a lot of tv content , available on the web for free. It's good for viewers(short term) , and it also helps pressure the studios. Long term (since this platform is controlled by google)
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by ippisl 15y ago
I would be interesting to do this survery at the start of december , after some 5 million(or more) people would get their pre-ordered kindle fire and use it, talk about it and show it to their friends.
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by ippisl 15y ago
There's an indian company selling biopsy helper robots. it robots simplify the process and enable technicians to take the biopsy instead of doctors, and the whole process is faster. see : http://www.perfinthealthcare.com/Procedure_Videos.h
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CloudSigma adds SSDs to its public cloud(gigaom.com)
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You're link implies that had the study done in a better way, it would have also shown the khan students imrpovement in pre-algebra , while not so for the control group , and were much more efficient in learning algebra: """ It is also inter
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by ippisl 15y ago
One rice university study says that 70% of health spa's , yoga studios and similar businesses see repeat customers. Since it doesn't cost a yoga studio to add a person to a lesson(up to a point), customer cheapness is less an issue and mayb
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by ippisl 15y ago
Using a comment from the site one can calculate that the cluster gets a coremark score of 34K vs the xeon's 23K(leaving aside the SD card issue). comment: """ I went to Coremark website and compared the Coremark 1.0 scores of OMAP4430 runn
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by ippisl 15y ago
Apple do a nice combination of controlling operation, with open(relatively) ecosystem. They use the rapid response of a huge open ecosystem of software developers, while still having a lot of control.They do it this way because in software
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by ippisl 15y ago
Also , by doing logistics for manufacturers and not the other way around, they make logistics for other retailers cost more(because of less scale), which increase the price of the competition.
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by ippisl 15y ago
What will amazon do in the next 5-10 years? Options: 1. wait to see if cloud based gaming catches on, and move on that market, maybe together with trying to control the TV. 2. online banking/insurance services(maybe?). uses cloud + trust +
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So what is it: do startups create jobs or not?(gigaom.com)
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Google does do stuff that makes it harder for other companies to compete. bundling many search services and information gathering services(which by their nature help search and the ad ecosystem) might be better for the consumer(and sometime
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by ippisl 15y ago
>> There's a lack of people wanting to scale businesses. Isn't this the role of experienced managers: join the business at a point it has shown possibility to scale(and big profits) and make the scaling happen ? And if you've got a
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by ippisl 15y ago
>> Why don't we invent technologies that let us spend more time with friends and family and less time worrying about the production of good and services ? Those things aren't achieved by technology. In the 18/19 century , peasants i
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by ippisl 15y ago
The main thing preventing appliances from becoming future proofed is crappy parts(mostly the mechanical parts). For example, in the past a washing machine had lasted 20 years. today it's 3-4 years. There are high end brands who have a guar
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by ippisl 15y ago
Defintely the tablet by itself means nothing. it needs content. And it can be said that even 20 years ago the indian government could have put a tv + VCR + great recorded content in every classroom for what is relatively a small sum. Just d
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When you buy a kindle fire , you get prime free for 30 days. after that, you need to subscribe. Yes, the 50% is high, but people who tried prime are really , really happy with it, so maybe 50% makes sense. And yes, it's definitely cars vs h

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