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by justfor1comment 8y ago
Amazon has the best data on user purchase history. They are already building the tech for displaying mobile ads and ML based targeting behind the scenes. The choice to show them only in the Amazon app is a business decision and not a techni
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by justfor1comment 8y ago
Looks absolutely gorgeous. Just imagine another 30 or 40 years of advancement in gaming. I think at some point the real world will just start feeling mundane compared to the incredible journeys you can take in gaming environments. Most peop
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by justfor1comment 8y ago
Fascinating. I tested this on Windows 10 PC, though. So may not be the same issue.
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by justfor1comment 8y ago
I think you pretty much explained the solution. You need buffering plus real time VM suspend+resume. I was thinking the client could keep sending last shown frame data back to the server and if a hiccup is detected the server stops the cloc
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by justfor1comment 8y ago
Yes that seems about right. I would say lag occurs once every 5 mins and lasts for roughly a second. Not longer than that. But since gaming is such a visual medium that 1 second seems longer than it actually is. One thing I forgot to mentio
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by justfor1comment 8y ago
I participated in the beta and was pleasantly surprised to see how the entire experience came together. I only experienced one small technical issue. The game runs in real time on Google's servers. If you have some lag on your network,
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by justfor1comment 8y ago
As an engineer in the Bay Area I would recommend most startups to locate themselves outside the bay. Especially if they operate a low margins business. Rent is expensive and so are the employee salaries over here. I have many Bay Area start
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by justfor1comment 8y ago
First SV used unethical data mining and ad targeting techniques to earn millions of dollars and now they are spending those dollars unethically to get an advantage for their kids. This is definitely a behavioral pattern at this point.
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by justfor1comment 8y ago
When I unlock the ability to upvote posts on hacker news, I am coming back and upvoting this comment.
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by justfor1comment 8y ago
A recent law passed in India seems like the kind of regulation that is needed to prevent this kind of behaviour https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/05/amazon-how-india-ecommerce-l... Essentially what the law says is
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by justfor1comment 8y ago
Freedom comes with a price.
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by justfor1comment 8y ago
For me the saddest thing is that even if Lyft stock tanks after the IPO the founders Zimmer and Green will have very little impact to their personal finances. The founders along with the investors will be able to move most of their stock t
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by justfor1comment 8y ago
I think the author has confused himself into thinking that just like a computer has discrete physical components called RAM, CPU and Hard Disk, the human brain at some physical level has similar components. However when neuroscientists are
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by justfor1comment 8y ago
Windows: Updates are absolutely critical for the safety and security of your laptop. Me: Is this a security update? Windows: No, it's an UI update. Me: Please don't install this update. Windows: Restarting... Back in the Windows X
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by justfor1comment 8y ago
Fun fact: You can download the entire set of articles on Wikipedia. The English set is roughly 25GB in size. At 1TB you could probably store 40 different languages in your tablet. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_du
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by justfor1comment 8y ago
I think the struggle to find meaning in jobs is correlated with just how abstract the jobs have become nowadays. Most people don't directly interact with their customers or they don't see any tangible effect of their work. Their w
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by justfor1comment 8y ago
When I was in grad school, I applied to a lot of companies but didn't here back from any of them. Getting desperate a friend suggested I should try signing up for Dice.com. From my perspective it seemed like just another LinkedIn. So I
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by justfor1comment 8y ago
Really impressed that Samsung has matured the display manufacturing process so much that they can launch a mass market foldable screen. Also, surprised to hear the speaker say 7nm processor in the Fold. I didn't know the technology to
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by justfor1comment 8y ago
I have the same reaction when companies say we only hire the best. Why should the best people in the world be working on this problem? There are profound problems we need to solve as a species like tackling global warming and building a sus
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by justfor1comment 8y ago
Haha. Just to offer some more insight, I started taking Uber everyday because it was cheaper than car ownership and I am happy with that decision so far. However, now the math has changed and therefore I am considering other options. My job
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by justfor1comment 8y ago
I have had pick up points on ramps of highways which I am describing as dangerous. As you can see this is not a danger I would face on public transit.
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by justfor1comment 8y ago
Uber is getting more expensive with time as they try to consolidate losses. For my commute to work nowadays Express Pool costs the same as UberX did a year ago. And of course express pool includes overtly long sight seeing detours and dange
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by justfor1comment 8y ago
Google and Facebook are ubiquitous outside the US, as well. Uber faces a lot more competition such as Lyft, Grab, Ola, Didi, GoJek. Also each one of these competitors has acquired a piece of the market. Google and Facebook were also easier
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by justfor1comment 8y ago
I think there are two kinds of entrepreneurs. One is those trying to replace their current job with a hobby they are passionate about and makes them roughly the same amount of money as their current job. Two is those that want to replace th
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by justfor1comment 8y ago
Thanks for the good read. Very insightful book. I am not from a developed country but still had the same misconceptions that the author wanted to highlight. I think most people from developing countries also think the developed countries a
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by justfor1comment 8y ago
Hi Sahil, I don't know why but I see you a lot in my LinkedIn feed. Hope you succeed even more in building Gumroad. Just visited Gumroad for the first time. Here is some of my feedback based on initial impressions. 1) The homepage see
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by justfor1comment 8y ago
One additional problem for Netflix is that although they have spent over $13 Billion on original content most of their subscriber prefer to watch 3rd party licensed content (eg Friends). This further reduces the moat that Netflix is trying
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by justfor1comment 8y ago
For me it was this free book available on https://www.core-econ.org/ It is an easy to approach economics book. It helped me understand how a few simple ideas like free markets, firms and technological innovation led to the
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by justfor1comment 8y ago
The barriers to switch jobs (tech interviews) are so high that people who are willing to switch may not be able to. This reduces their negotiating power in asking for raises.
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by justfor1comment 8y ago
I also agree with these observations. The AI essentially uncovered a bug is Starcraft. Mass rushing Stalkers with carefully calculated blinks can beat any opponent strategy up to a certain time in the game. I think a patch that removes Stal

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