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by mdasen 10y ago
Apple is different because it has scale and margin. Apple releases very few models and sells a lot of them. That means that they have buying power that component sellers can't ignore. They aren't ordering 100k or 500k of a displ
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> Adopting Android early would've absolutely helped. Yes, if they had adopted Android when Samsung or HTC did, it certainly would have helped. But they didn't. I'm not arguing that Nokia shouldn't have come out with
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by mdasen 10y ago
It is sad, but I don't think it was the Microsoft deal that did Nokia in. Nokia had already been left behind when they finally realized that Symbian wasn't going to cut it against iOS and Android. I think they made a calculated d
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by mdasen 10y ago
Honestly, more than tooling, curiosity, grit, and reading code are the most important. On curiosity: I was a graduate student in CS and TA'd a lot of courses and now I do a bunch of interviewing at my current job. One of the things th
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by mdasen 10y ago
As someone who works on a SaaS project that has vastly different utilization by different customers, sometimes limits are more a way of ensuring that customers understand the expected usage of a product and don't get you into the situa
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by mdasen 10y ago
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~vivek/pubs/pai_flash_99.pdf That's a reasonably good paper on the trade-offs between event-driven, multi-threaded, and hybrid approaches to file serving. I don't know that mu
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by mdasen 10y ago
jimmywanger wrote a good comment, but I kinda wanted to expand on it. In a certain way, it is illogical. There are drawbacks to adopting a foreign currency. You have to have enough trade with the other country to bring in the (in this cas
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In my city, rents have skyrocketed near transit stops since it's so essential. When you're a 20-25min walk from a transit stop, prices are a lot cheaper, but you become hard to get to and hard to get to work. New transit isn&#x2
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by mdasen 10y ago
One of the features listed is "Mapping with nested structs", but there's no example of this. Given that this would be a feature setting your project apart from many of the Go "ORMs" out there, it would be nice to h
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by mdasen 10y ago
I have the Asus RT-AC68U/TM-AC1900. I bought it from T-Mobile for $60 and flashed it to stock and then put Asuswrt-Merlin on it (but you can use Tomato or DD-WRT). It does take a little work to flash it to stock (like Telnet'ing
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The problem with self-driving cars is that, while they help Uber's cost situation, they eliminate Uber's barrier to entry. Right now, I can't create Newber because it would be hard to convince drivers and users to switch. Yo
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Ultimately, the issue is whether 18F is more effective than other means and accurate accounting is important to that end. Let's say that the VA gets bids to create a new system for something. 18F says they can do it for $900k and Cont
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by mdasen 10y ago
Cloudflare's terms of service specifically deal with this: "Using an account primarily as an online storage space, including the storage or caching of a disproportionate percentage of pictures, movies, audio files, or other non-HT
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by mdasen 10y ago
As an add-on question: how can one figure out if a laptop supports Precision Touchpad rather than trying to emulate a mouse with the trackpad? Does Precision Touchpad actually make Windows trackpad usable and enjoyable like the Mac ones?
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by mdasen 10y ago
They are not contractually obligated to grow at a certain rate. However, if the majority of your shareholders are members of the public looking to earn a return, they're your boss. You might be CEO, but if your priorities aren't
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by mdasen 10y ago
The MacBook Air on Apple's site includes taxes/VAT. The Xiaomi Mi Air's price of €867 doesn't include that (or even shipping). Given that a MacBook Air has nearly €200 in VAT alone, the MacBook Air is "about €800&
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by mdasen 10y ago
Part of the problem is that concrete doesn't age well. The building might start as looking ok, but quickly becomes discolored. It's worsened by the fact that many of the buildings made no accommodation for how they wouldn't
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by mdasen 10y ago
It looks like a good device, but is it that special? At $649, it's in iPhone 7 and Galaxy S7 territory. It doesn't have an impressive curved display like the Galaxy S7 Edge so the 5.5" Pixel is likely to be larger than a 5.5&
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It does have some interesting bits. 1. It doesn't have a GC. While the JVM's GC is decent, it can definitely cause latency spikes. 2. It has value types. Go has this, but Scala and Kotlin mean running on the JVM which means leav
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by mdasen 10y ago
You have to think about it in terms of what you get out. Let's say that you deposit $4,000. You've paid $2,000 in tax or 1/3rd of your money. That grows to $20,000 (5 * 4,000) which you can put into your pocket. Let's
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Uber has to work on self-driving technology, but in a certain way doesn't self-driving technology seem like something that will eliminate Uber's market advantage? Right now, Uber is the go-to choice in most areas because of networ
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It depends on how it is implemented. Those articles are about invading the privacy of the user by detecting what software is on the machine. However, you don't need to detect that someone has an ad-blocker to circumvent it. First, yo
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Loads of people re-sell mobile phone service. The question is whether Amazon, Google, or Apple would sell it to you for cheaper. Right now, you can get Google Fi will give you 4GB for $60 rather than $70 from Verizon. Not a huge savings t
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by mdasen 10y ago
The article strikes an odd tone when talking about the number of employees that Dollar Shave Club employs directly. Yes, DSC doesn't directly employ Dorco employees, but increasing demand for Dorco razors means more production. If Do
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Going off this, let's say I'm paid in Bitcoin and think the US Dollar is dumb. I still owe taxes in US Dollars and if taxes are 20-50% of what I spend money on in the world, then I'm going to have to use the US Dollar whethe
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https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/n-14-21.pdf The IRS has said that it is currently treating Bitcoin as property for tax purposes. The document has some interesting bits to it. If you mine bitcoin, you're lik
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The judge seems to have used a very narrow view of money. They argued that money must be universally accepted and have a steady value. I don't know the law in this case, but does this mean that money laundering is ok as long as it&#x2
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by mdasen 10y ago
In the US, they are saving 25% on payroll taxes. With paid time off, if they give you 15 days off of 6 hours a day vs 15 days off of 8 hours a day, it's 25% less paid time off (even though it's the same number of days).
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There are a few issues with this idea. First, you say that it wouldn't be that expensive at £185/year, but that's the price when you're also offering rights to others in the Union to live and work in your country and giv
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Google doesn't charge for IOPS either, but they do explain how things are limited. For example, speed in MB/s is limited by the instance size so that you don't use the entire network link for your connection to the disk. IO

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