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by matheweis 12y ago
Ridiculous, maybe, but it shows he knows exactly what he is doing, and it should be totally expected. Peter Thiel talked about this in Sam's startup class: "...anyone who has a monopoly will pretend that they are in incredible com
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by matheweis 12y ago
I'll bite. It's because the HN community is by and large composed of highly skilled individuals that often work way up the food chain in these tech companies. Even if they don't directly, they very likely know someone who doe
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by matheweis 12y ago
... and nothing of value was lost. Seriously, I went down to Radio Shack about 6 months ago looking for a decent soldering iron, and came up empty handed at both of the local stores.
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by matheweis 12y ago
This. Clever way to opt-in a bunch of people interested in react type technologies, I guess.
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by matheweis 12y ago
For the one way trip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfxdeRx2fLA (Not me or anyone I know, that is a pretty stupid flight). About the thinner air... I regularly fly a hexacopter at 7500' (MSL here in the mountains).
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by matheweis 12y ago
It's too bad groklaw isn't still around, it would have been fun to try and get thier take on this.
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by matheweis 12y ago
Yea, I also wasn't impressed: "a few guys are drinking water at the mall" -> "stuff" : 4.22 lol
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by matheweis 12y ago
Because, simply, it works... (from the business standpoint). Craiglist has long been the envy of tech companies for having the highest revenue per employee by several orders of magnitude: http://www.businessinsider.com/chart
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by matheweis 12y ago
Probably B&W. Even color images (aka like you see from the MER mission) are just a B&W imager multiple exposures - each with a different color filter.
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Mathematical Proof the Universe Could Have Formed Spontaneously from Nothing(medium.com)
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by matheweis 12y ago
Not mobile, so I'm not sure if it's the comparison you're looking for, but I sell an app that has a nearly identical version for Windows and Mac. My conversion rate for Mac users is nearly 10x that of Windows users.
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by matheweis 12y ago
Here's the pilot from the op flying a pulsejet ... sounds like a lawnmower: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJLWMZHlD90
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by matheweis 12y ago
> This is getting into the speeds seen for muzzel velocities of handguns, and that engine weight a hell of a lot more than a bullet. No, actually; the average bullet travels at 2,500 feet per second (around 1,700 mph) [1]. Also, the pilo
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by matheweis 12y ago
This. You can see what appears to be a dedicated dirt runway at 1:27.
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by matheweis 12y ago
This is an old video; the original is from over five years ago: http://youtu.be/dTHWBSluUjU http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/rc-jets-120/9133201-fast-rc-... Either it's a rip off or somehow &q
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by matheweis 12y ago
Full transcript of the quote OP was referencing (at 1:07:44 as indicated by visionscaper) "I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I were to guess at what our biggest existential thread is, it's probabl
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by matheweis 12y ago
The Apple cut might be "officially" 30%, but less well known is that developers who are doing their own marketing can recover an additional 7% through the Apple sanctioned affiliate program, bringing that closer to 23%.
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by matheweis 12y ago
Hyperbole. "Slow" is only relative to the blistering pace of the rest of the tech world. Battery tech has gone from NiCad to NiMH to LiIon in a fairly short ~50 years. Li-S (Lithium–Sulfur) tech is ramping up commercially right no
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by matheweis 12y ago
The ability to use all of the allocated resources. Some of my sites run some fairly CPU intensive image processing on the backend, and after being booted off 3 or 4 VPS providers for "using too many resources", I finally just brok
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by matheweis 12y ago
This, although let me add a slightly different reason... You also don't want your $3,000 piece of equipment to irrevocably fly off.
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by matheweis 13y ago
"I don't feel I have the freedom to take a vacation." This is a sure sign that you need to.
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by matheweis 13y ago
It sounds to me like you just need to take a break. Try for a week long vacation in the mountains or on the beach. If you have the money, somewhere even better like Hawaii. Most importantly, during that week, TURN OFF YOUR PHONE. Don't