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by jerrya 15y ago
The MBA is a bullshit degree for an entrepreneur. A more interesting choice is between Ph.D or J.D.
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The Problem With Landing Heavy Things (like Humans) on Mars (and How to Fix It)(wired.com)
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by jerrya 15y ago
Does anyone notice that the image with the rover and its chem cam is straight out of H. G. Wells? Compare and contrast: http://i.space.com/images/i/13468/i02/nasa-curiosity-rover-m... with http://i.imgur.com/kYofe.jpg This leads me to b
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by jerrya 15y ago
The earth is an even closer place to land on.
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by jerrya 15y ago
Yes, I think this is what happens when you take the mean of a one tailed distribution.
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by jerrya 15y ago
m-x find-function butterfly (defun butterfly () "Use butterflies to flip the desired bit on the drive platter. Open hands and let the delicate wings flap once. The disturbance ripples outward, changing the flow of the eddy curr
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by jerrya 15y ago
The article states we already pay per mile, via gas taxes. This means drivers pay different rate per mile, depending on how efficient their car burns gas, which is presumably itself a function of engine as well as chosen tires and weight of
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by jerrya 15y ago
This scenario is the background of an amusing John Grisham novel from 2005, The Broker, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Broker As a novel it was okay, it would probably make a terrific movie, perhaps as comedy.
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by jerrya 15y ago
If I understand the purpose of qacker, I think it would be more useful if it participated in "trackbacks" and other blogospheric/social network like protocols. There are some blogs that disallow comments, but that do allow trackbacks. This
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by jerrya 15y ago
Can you confirm or discuss more about what this does to the "filter bubble?" In two windows of the same browser, I typed gyros, one immediately offered me an instant search result of gyros Phoenix (where I currrently am), the other window,
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by jerrya 15y ago
This is especially true on Android and other low bandwidth/hard to type devices, where I have time and again searched for the specific exact thing I am looking for only to have instant search and spelling correction help me find something I
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by jerrya 15y ago
I would like to know what percentage of people that set up the standard vacation message ("on vacation, getting back on this day, for emergency contact Jane") DO delete messages they get on vacation, and what percentage read them but perhap
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by jerrya 15y ago
I am really saddened to read of this purchase. Apture breaks the web in many ways. As you note it screws up and steals/hijacks mouse behavior. It also round trips to their servers any selection you make, making it a privacy leak. They make
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by jerrya 15y ago
This is absolutely true: the key demographic for Rum & Monkey is 14-year-old Indonesian teenage girls. Thank you, you are key to making our days in the call center go by quickly. -- Aditya
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by jerrya 15y ago
I find it interesting that at this moment, your comment seems to be the most highly rated one, whereas my post,( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3201862 ) which makes much the same point using a famous literary metaphor, is currently at
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by jerrya 15y ago
Google Chairman tells US senators Apple's Siri could pose 'competitive threat' Br'er Rabbit pleads, "but do please, Brer Fox, don't fling me in dat brier-patch
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by jerrya 15y ago
So I logged in using my name/passwd from hawk. The various pages you have, files, settings, ... don't give much indication I am logged in, they do offer me the logout, but they don't identify the account name, ja2038, so it's hard to know i
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by jerrya 15y ago
I signed up last week, and I am looking forward to seeing it work. It's kind of what I've been looking for, the ability to directly edit simple web pages in emacs and push them out with very little cognitive overhead.
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by jerrya 15y ago
And it's a technique of price discrimination as well as it allows customers to select higher price or lower price differentiating on packaging or other perceptions they might hold. Here is more on how/why it is done in consumer markets: ht
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by jerrya 15y ago
Reminds me of a Daily Mail reports from February that an assistant port director in San Diego made a statement interpreted to mean that dirty bombs have been found shipped to, and within, the United States. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/
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by jerrya 15y ago
Especially juxtaposed with this: "If I wanted to go about it the right way I would get a group of people together, break off from Occupy Wall Street, call it something else, rebrand it and start the right way, with people who maybe have som
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by jerrya 15y ago
If Apple makes FoxConn the most money, then Apple can take the lead that no other company can. That you are not aware of criticism of other companies does not mean it does not exist. Just as Nike took point with criticism of its sweatshops
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by jerrya 15y ago
"Apple makes them most money though -- I am not sure how Foxconn conditions are caused by Apple." Nike was very heavily criticized for the working/living conditions of workers at the factories that made Nike shoes. For quite sometime, Nike
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by jerrya 15y ago
You might be right. What a horrible website -- I have no idea who the audience they are targeting is that appreciates autoplay audio.
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by jerrya 15y ago
Ugh! This page has auto-playing audio, and the audio controls are way down at the bottom of the page. @asto, I think you should have remarked on this in the title to this link. And I wish people would not post links with auto-playing audio
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by jerrya 15y ago
It's my perception a thin chassis will subject the screen to more flexing. Maybe that's a good thing. Maybe I'd prefer the modern screens flex than be subject to a rigid shock. But the point is, I don't know, and the manufacturers neither m
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by jerrya 15y ago
I've seen too many dropped and broken screens on phones to desire a really thin smartphone, that is, until the standard warranty covers screen damage for a minimal (if any) charge. I've been very pleased with my Nexus One. Haven't dropped
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by jerrya 15y ago
Domo arigato
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by jerrya 15y ago
That was a terrific link and response, thank you. OTOH, the surface area of the lens he damaged is enormous compared to the tiny little lens on my phone....
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by jerrya 15y ago
But really, there is no lens cover, and these things are shoved into a pocket with keys and coins and lint. How is it any phone can take good pictures (as to win contests, and our imaginations.) Why do so many (most) high end smartphones ha

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