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by jpdoctor 14y ago
The maps fiasco makes it clear that Apple is at a crossroads: They can 1. Open up the platform, or 2. Go down the same road that they went down in the 80s/90s, handing the bulk of the business over to an open platform. I know which way
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> Ever try and figure out how to display the headers of an e-mail in Outlook? ld;o 1. You just open the email, 2. look for the area on the ribbon that says "Tags", which is under the message tab, 3, don't click on any of those large i
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
I have to ask: Are there voting blocks on HN? As usual, the information inside of the extremetech article is a POS when compared to the linkbait headline. So looking at the submitter, I see exactly one comment: http://news.ycombinator.co
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> No, it's that Business Insider writes trolly headlines. BI was the child of Henry Blodget, barred from the securities industry for the famous POS memo. That should tell you everything you need to know.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> if during the war Hitler was person of the year It was before the war, but whatever... your point is still good.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> and can't really imagine MBE being used to produce millions of chips Cell phones are example application for millions of chips. There's really nothing that magic about it. What is difficult is the large-scale integration of trans
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> As usual, the numbers in the pop media news article are nonsense. Currently 2 headlines on HN from extremetech, neither one of them worth a damn. Anyone have an extension to block their crap?
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Linked in the PR: http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-21-101-...
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> for more than 15 years. Much longer than that. It was old news when I started grad school (1989). As for what's new: The link to extreme tech is (as usual) useless. If you hit the linked original article: http://web.mit.edu/news
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> molecular beam epitaxy is certainly not an industrial technique! Of course MBE is an industrial technique: A fair fraction of the semiconductor lasers on the planet are made this way, and probably a decent fraction of the microwave
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Yes, holding an CEO-author of a letter accountable is incredibly sexist. I'm very sorry, and it won't happen again.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> FWIW, it does say: "Over the next few days Fair enough. I've got a trigger finger, probably because Yahoo has such a proven record of disappointing. (Yes I did not read her letter in detail.)
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Went to mail.yahoo.com to check my mail there (for the first time in months.) The landing page had nothing to do with mail and everything to do with piles of crap that Yahoo wants me to look at. Congratulations Marissa, that's the last time
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> Ultimately it's the investor that evaluates and takes a risk on the model, not the founder. Apparently your time is worth zero. It turns out that there are other valuations for people's time.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> The old saw in Silicon Valley is that venture capitalists won’t touch hardware investments. TIL that the old saw is written by someone who's been around SV less than ten years.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Perhaps this is a little bit of inside baseball, but LOL at the breakdown by Course number for "Academically, I would consider myself above average at MIT". Course 18 in the lead followed by 8 5 and 6. The only thing that's changed in the
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
So you do prefer non-authoritative information?
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Who will peer-review the peer reviewers?
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> but this conspicuous appeal to authority makes me much less inclined to watch the talks. You prefer non-authoritative information?
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> For instance, if the physics-related speaker has a degree in engineering, not physics; Yeah, that set off my WTF alarm too. I don't think it's news to TED admins that the line between physics and engineering is messy (I worked on q
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
That was also my reaction. Google thinks emulating the Yahoo finance board format is a good idea? Srsly?
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> I don't like these kinds of posts, because they suggest that happiness is something just within our grasp, if only we did the exact right thing to grasp it. Also, it is written by somebody who purports to understand happiness for a
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
To add to smanek's reply: Meeker was part of Morgan Stanley during a period of heavy conflict of interest. MS did not separate the function of investment banking from research, so you can imagine why her investment ratings on no-profit inte
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Mary Meeker? Srsly? Wasn't her 15 mins up long ago? Just how wrong do your predictions have to be before the media will stop calling you for quotes? (Dick "Lehman won't go down" Bove indicates pretty much forever. Journalists must reall
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Take it from the point of view of Earnings Per Share (EPS). The company thinks that reducing the number of shares can be accomplished at a price that is low, and that the interest on the loan to reduce the shares won't lower EPS. The share
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> Want more equity? Take less money. ... > Want more money? Take less equity. ... > The Cash and Equity are actually inversely proportional to each other. Nice rules, but be prepared: Not everyone plays by the rules, and your
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> I think you missed the whole point of the article. > The point isn't with the fact that there is an issue, its that Apple is seemingly trying to sweep it under the rug. I think you missed the whole point of OP post: That is exact
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> Thorium energy seems to be a very promising candidate for safe, clean Only for some definitions of clean. Forget the radiation, Thorium's toxicity profile is not pretty. Hell, the damn thing is pyrophoric. Hats off to the engineer
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> Google is basically telling Amazon: "You do not want to play this price-cutting game with us". I hope both players go ahead and play. Let's see who wins.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
I know what goes around, comes around, but sometimes I wish that karma would just hurry it up a bit.

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