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by jarek 14y ago
Does anyone else have a realistic more aggressive timeline?
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by jarek 14y ago
I think the issue would be more that bitcoin is philosophically incompatible with services like that. Bitcoin is anonymous, so I could transfer my money to my account at another bank, report fraud, and the bank could never know unless the o
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by jarek 14y ago
For purposes of this argument no one gives a damn about Toronto. It's another of the edge cases where attractiveness of downtown of a major city outweighs "normal" North American real estate factors. Take a look where the most expensive hou
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by jarek 14y ago
car2go, particularly the all-electric networks, is the closest thing we have right now to the electric self-driving roaming taxis that is HN's future of transportation wet dream. There's tons of interesting data in their API about where peo
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by jarek 14y ago
I may have gotten a little ahead of myself with the spark plugs. They're necessarily very high voltage (north of 10k volts), so they come to mind easily, but I'm sure the current and spark duration are quite low. Still, just the lights will
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by jarek 14y ago
> There must be a lot of genuinely cutting edge research into machine learning,classification,NLP etc going on in there. Does the research get published or otherwise make it outside of the Googleplex? Serious question.
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by jarek 14y ago
Unlikely. Cellular modems might be notorious when it comes to mobile devices, but the power use is tiny compared to car electrics (headlights, spark plugs, various fans). A cell phone might have a 5 Wh battery (5.45 Wh in iPhone 5); car bat
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by jarek 14y ago
> edit : after doing some further reading, I realize I was judging it based on a completely incorrect set of criteria. It's intended purpose was for non typists, single-hand typing or "environments where conventional two-handed keyboard
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by jarek 14y ago
Twitter's been horrible for this recently. They've had the bright idea to map F5 to retweet. (Because no one uses F5 otherwise, right?) "-" also gets repurposed, as apparently it's more intuitive as a direct message shortcut rather than let
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by jarek 14y ago
So, a disclaimer: I don't do groupons, restaurant or otherwise. But... > Because when you get the bill, it's reduced from the retail price. So? When you get the cheapest meal, it's 'reduced' from the average meal price too. If hypotheti
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by jarek 14y ago
> It's a deal on the meal, not a deal on the tip. The tip is obviously dependent on the price of the meal: most people will tip more for a more expensive meal, usually following a ratio. (20% or what have you.) People ordering the more
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by jarek 14y ago
What makes you think that? I would think that those motivated primarily by money are overrepresented among early retirees, if only because people motivated primarily by something else (helping people, changing societies, becoming the best b
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by jarek 14y ago
Out of curiosity, where will you be moving the blog hosted at http://sachin.posterous.com/ ?
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by jarek 14y ago
HN can afford to go ahead and foster a community, but then again it hasn't taken $61 million that investors are expecting a return on.
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by jarek 14y ago
You could also say it's a nice story of how a lack of documentation caused pain for both consultant and engineers.
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by jarek 14y ago
Sure, but my laptop's graphics driver isn't preventing me from sharing a torrent while trolling^Wbrowsing HN.
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by jarek 14y ago
I'm not being purposefully obtuse. I was not aware of this particular limitation of iOS (and probably numerous others). Permission-controlled background downloading would seem like a reasonable solution to this particular problem to me.
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by jarek 14y ago
So, modern infrastructure Sahara then :)
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by jarek 14y ago
> Neither will having an app that you didn't launch and sync before getting on the subway. Seems like the same amount of effort to me. And here I thought in 2013 apps could download their content in background when phone is idle. Maybe
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by jarek 14y ago
Not to downplay the pain you got put through, but an important lesson for those who haven't tried it is that immigration is difficult in general. > there are only two seasons, winter and construction Come to Vancouver instead - here it'
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by jarek 14y ago
If you're looking to go to SLC frequently, perhaps living so far away is part of the problem thoughtcriminal is speaking of. Nothing on you personally, this is a society-wide problem.
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by jarek 14y ago
Not to worry, counter-flag brigade has checked in and this item is now not on first five pages of top stories.
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by jarek 14y ago
You weren't expecting him to say "yeah, we're just going to do an iPhone refresh and a retina iPad mini, and maybe refresh the Macbooks, if it's ready we'll do One More Thing wink wink ", were you?
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by jarek 14y ago
Apple was priced in part for being able to maintain consistent growth. Their latest results put this into some question, hence their value to investors drops. If you think people haven't noticed that a quarter was shorter when pricing one o
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by jarek 14y ago
> This according to Wall St means they are failures. No, it doesn't. (edit: they are failures when it comes to keeping up their growth rate, yes.) But if previous stock price was arrived at by assuming rate of growth would stay constant
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by jarek 14y ago
I read OP's question as intending to use the cash pile to fully buy the company, rather than leveraging the pile and paying partially.
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by jarek 14y ago
For selling "just apps", subscription can definitely be not worth it. But a smartphone-app-centered business model is not the only thing that results in smartphone apps being made. My issue is with the general wording in the grandparent pos
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by jarek 14y ago
An important category is apps which are not sold in the app store, and whose provider makes money in other ways, for example account subscriptions. 500px's is an example of such an app. I'm more than willing to believe Android users on aver
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by jarek 14y ago
> > which I have timed to usually clock in at 8-9 seconds, but which can take as long as 20 seconds > This is definitely not normal. Big consolation to users experiencing this! That's a Linux-level response to user concerns.
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by jarek 14y ago
Do you find yourself frequently pressing j and k simultaneously?

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