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by mdasen 8y ago
https://www.strakertranslations.com/translation-pricing/ - $0.13 - $0.16 per word which comes to $32.50 - $40 per 250-word page. https://gengo.com/pricing-languages/ - $0.06 - $0.12 per word or $1
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by mdasen 8y ago
Your point is definitely valid. If housing costs double and salary doubles, you will have more income for things that don't change price like shirts and laptops in the high-cost area. However, one of the things you lose in high-cost a
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by mdasen 8y ago
I like the JetBrains IDEs, but the Rust support will likely become a paid feature in the future. Go support was free while it was being developed, but the Go plugin is now only for the Ultimate Edition.
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NameSilo is a couple dollars cheaper than Namecheap and include free privacy as well ( https://www.namesilo.com/pricing.php ).
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I would look at something like Echo. It’s minimal, but it offers some niceties over just using the standard library. Ultimately, creating a web endpoint is just about parsing the request and writing out a response. That’s not to say the in-
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by mdasen 9y ago
It's great to see another mapping alternative. One thing I'm wondering is where the pricing is. I can't find a pricing page. Is that only available upon login?
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I hope they do become profitable, but I'm skeptical they will. 1) Their losses are growing, not shrinking. From March 2017 to now, they lost $330M, $336M, $619M, $675M, and $785M. Maybe they hit a tipping point and there is an abrupt
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by mdasen 9y ago
I agree that MailChimp or other hosted email platforms offer value add over Mailtrain. They're SaaS, they work on deliverability, etc. However, Mailtrain is nice as an alternative. Even if you don't want to use it, its existence
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by mdasen 9y ago
Apple certainly puts taxes in, but Apple never agreed to FRAND terms. Qualcomm did. That's a huge difference. When an industry group sets a standard, everyone must disclose their patents and agree to FRAND terms. If they don't,
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by mdasen 9y ago
All the phones contain Qualcomm IP so it's a variant of what Microsoft did. With FRAND licensing, you can challenge the royalty rates in arbitration or court. Let's say that a court would set the royalty rate at $5 and we somehow
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by mdasen 9y ago
I think looking at it through a couple lenses might help. For the sake of simplicity, let's say that the average royalty Qualcomm gets is $15/phone and they're charging 5% of the MSRP (manufacturer's suggested retail pr
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That's an argument that Qualcomm would push. If Qualcomm charged a flat $25/phone, that would hugely drive up the price of low-cost phones. However, why should Qualcomm get more money if a manufacturer includes a better display
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by mdasen 9y ago
Qualcomm keeps making new IP that has contributed to newer standards like CDMA2000, UMTS & HSPA, and LTE. The article makes it seem like it's Qualcomm's "CDMA Technologies division" that's driving revenue. Tha
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by mdasen 9y ago
It seems unlikely. 5G NR has huge Qualcomm support. I believe specs aren't generally published by companies, but they use a lot of the IP from companies. That IP is supposed to be licensed under FRAND terms to anyone (fair, reasonabl
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by mdasen 9y ago
Aaron Cheung, co-founder of HomeJoy, launched Homeaglow which seem like the same business model as HomeJoy. Xiao Wei Chen, COO at HomeJoy, is also a co-founder of Homeaglow. I'm not saying it'll succeed this time, but two execs a
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by mdasen 9y ago
> which reduced spending on “our third-party datacenter service provider” by $92.5 million offset by increased expenses of $53 million for its own data centers. They reduced spending on AWS by $92.5M, but still store 10% of data there so
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Those are definitely two good reasons, but I think there's another: you are starting up and your core competency isn't object storage. I'd argue that the core competency of Dropbox is its easy syncing. Dropbox wanted to get
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3G technologies used CDMA while LTE uses OFDM so it is a different way of encoding. However, wireless carriers in the US have often increased their number of cell sites substantially - possibly doubling. The amount of spectrum that carrie
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by mdasen 9y ago
Without more details on the test setup, it's hard to evaluate it. 5G can be deployed with much more spectrum than 4G can be. Deployed with 60-80MHz of spectrum, US carriers have shown off LTE north of 700Mbps. The article said that t
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by mdasen 9y ago
In Safari in macOS, Netflix uses about 10% CPU showing 1080p. With Chrome, it uses 40% playing 720p. With Firefox, it uses about 75% CPU and my fan turns on. I'm guessing it's higher on 1080p. I don't think Netflix has any
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by mdasen 9y ago
There's nothing illegal about creating exclusive deals or trying to compete in ways that might not be the best for customers, but doesn't rise to the level of anti-trust. That doesn't mean it doesn't seem bad, but there
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Apple and others would require a license for Qualcomm's IP, but the allegations are that Qualcomm forced others to agree to Qualcomm's preferred license terms or lose access to Qualcomm chips. If you tried to license Qualcomm&#x2
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It's not a bribe. A bribe would be if Qualcomm offered a personal reward to Apple execs for using their chips. This was a price reduction meant to keep a key buyer of chips from choosing competitors. It's a key difference. For
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I think there are ways Amazon could approach this. 1) They can have people review recordings for items that the system is less than sure of and charge the customer accordingly. 2) They could ban customers from the store if they determine th
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by mdasen 9y ago
It's really hard to compare database performance, but it looks like Spanner probably is at a pretty competitive price-performance point. Google advertises that a $0.90/hour node can do 10,000 reads per second and 2,000 writes per
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by mdasen 9y ago
Non-availability is what makes them expensive. It's kind of two sides of the same coin. If the slots were widely available, they wouldn't be a valuable asset. They are a valuable asset only because they aren't available. T
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by mdasen 9y ago
Boeing made a bet on the 787. However, as you note, that's an easier bet to make when you already have the 747. Boeing already had a jumbo. It's easy to make a bet on twin-engines getting certified for longer ocean crossings wh
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by mdasen 9y ago
Isn't that mostly the situation we're in with the places that are getting hacked? BitcoinBank holds your bitcoin. Keeping the bitcoin safe is their responsibility. They get hacked and someone takes the bitcoin from them. They&#
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by mdasen 9y ago
I've started using Echo[1] and it seems to provide most of what I'm looking for (routing, context, sessions, CSRF protection, form/json binding, etc). For templating, I'm using QuickTemplate[2] which creates statically
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If done right, I think those ads could feel more like previews at the movies. I think the problem that Amazon gets into is that they show the same one over and over and it feels like an ad. How would I fix it? 1) create a setting that all

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