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by mdasen 10y ago
Go definitely does not use "an order of magnitude less memory than Java". That would mean that a Go program that uses 1GB of memory would need 10GB in Java. Google wrote a paper comparing C++, Java, Scala, and Go and definitely d
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by mdasen 10y ago
I feel like the NYTimes missed that their data point is a school that simply isn't that good. They call it well-established to give you a sense that it's a mid-tier school. It isn't. The median student has scored at the 40
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by mdasen 10y ago
I don't see how this is really different from an annuity beyond getting a bonus payment when someone dies and not being funded in a way that you're sure the money won't run out prematurely. With an annuity, a company sells yo
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by mdasen 10y ago
In the article, Ichan noted, "if China was basically steady I would probably go back into [Apple]...I hope one day to get back into [Apple]." That's not a huge indictment of apple, but rather a concern. He did note that Apple
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by mdasen 11y ago
Basically all countries tax companies on income earned in that country. So, if you're a UK company and you earn $1B in the UK and $500M in France, you pay tax on $1B to the UK government and tax on $500M to the French government. The
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by mdasen 11y ago
I'm not sure there's an official code for it in the States, but it definitely happens. In this case, Apple is spending in excess of a hundred million - $66M on things like infrastructure and low-income housing, $35 incentivizing
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by mdasen 11y ago
Absolutely terrible article. In an article about property taxes paid or unpaid, it doesn't even mention property taxes. Is Apple's campus under-assessed? A little Googling shows Cupertino's tax rate as $7.96 on a thousand w
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by mdasen 11y ago
This basically already exists. Siri and similar TTS voices today are generated off of a lot of recorded speech from a person. There's a lot to get right for it to sound natural, not just hit the phonemes. You have to deal with the t
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by mdasen 11y ago
You might not care about fixing your own vehicle, but you probably care about the cost of those repairs. If Tesla is the only company that can repair your car, they can easily charge many times the cost of the repairs. If Tesla is the onl
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by mdasen 11y ago
In a certain way, isn't that like saying BestBuy spend $X billion on storefront real-estate and made $0 in people paying in "walk-out-the-storefront-with-your-item" charges? Shipping revenues will never cover shipping costs a
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by mdasen 11y ago
What you're saying could be taken two ways. 1. That the time (including start-up time) for something on the JVM would be longer because the JVM needs to start up. 2. That Go producing a native binary is automatically faster at things.
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by mdasen 11y ago
http://wvmetronews.com/2016/01/28/walmart-closes-its-doors-i... The county is looking into buying the property.
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by mdasen 11y ago
The article points out that in 95% of cases, there's another Walmart within 10 miles of the one they're closing. It seems like the Post is choosing the most extreme case it could find. The article also points out that the town ha
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by mdasen 11y ago
TTS has definitely evolved over the years. If you compare Google Maps voice to Stephen Hawking, it's night and day. However, I can definitely understand how TTS technology looks stagnant. Part of this is that going from nothing to so
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by mdasen 11y ago
One thing that they didn't quite touch on is the incredible increase in the performance of web browsers. They did talk about more and more people using a computer as a window to the internet, but didn't talk about how much more ef
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by mdasen 11y ago
If a company's tag line is "For Developers Who Care", I'd expect more than a blatant rip-off of DigitalOcean's home page. The first part of the page is dominated by the demo on the right on both and the tag-line and
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by mdasen 11y ago
According to the BLS (which is the data they cite), the unemployment rates are [1]: Women 25-54: 5.3% 50-54: 4.4% 55-59: 4.2% 60-64: 4.1% 65+ : 4.7% Men 25-54: 5.2% 50-54: 4.3% 55-59: 4.4% 60-64: 4.6% 65+ : 4.6%
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by mdasen 11y ago
From what I know, it's still possible to track Gmail opens and the change Google made in fact made it easier by making image loading default to on. When you open an email with images, Google will proxy the request for the tracking imag
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by mdasen 11y ago
For me, Groupon went from feeling like a cool outsider way to get a deal to a company squeezing small businesses for money. In your article, you say, "as a small local business owner, I can’t imagine a lower risk, more cost effective,
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by mdasen 11y ago
The article is light on the details, but it seems to refer to the opportunity presented by the auction of 600MHz spectrum in 2016. The FCC has set aside 30MHz of spectrum for smaller carriers that don't have so much sub-1GHz spectrum.
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by mdasen 11y ago
It would be nice if the mobile experience (or both) would use a simple javascript confirmation box when hitting "flag". Flagging seems like it should be an exceptional action and it simple to just hit "ok" as a confirma
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by mdasen 11y ago
I think the crux of it is that people don't expect Snapchats to become public. They expect them to be more like text messages where there's an expectation of privacy. When a user posts on Facebook, there's an expectation th
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by mdasen 11y ago
Consumers don't always choose based on price. There would be many consumers that would choose Android equipment even if Apple lowered their pricing. Then Apple would be competing, but without the war chest that allows them to, say, b
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by mdasen 11y ago
That article is completely different from the little I know of accounting. Operating profit/loss is in relation to operating expenses, not capital expenses. The article cites a lot of capital expenses as dragging down operating profi
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by mdasen 11y ago
The auto industry is a hard one to crack. Lots of ventures have failed even with state support from various countries. Tesla has done amazingly well as auto makers go. I think one of the key points is that "there's never been an
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by mdasen 11y ago
Kafka is really wonderful in its simplicity. You put messages into it and one or more consumers read those messages in partition sequence. My app only does around 1M messages/minute, but LinkedIn does 13M per second. Granted, Linked
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by mdasen 11y ago
For me, there's a combination of reasons. First, they weren't in North America until recently. Having a server in France means high ping times for me and latency for the vast majority of my visitors. OVH started operations in Qu
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by mdasen 11y ago
Immutables ( http://immutables.org/ ) is another option which creates nice, immutable value classes. It's a bit more succinct than AutoValue, but it does still require annotation processing in your IDE.
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by mdasen 11y ago
Being a one-trick pony can definitely be worrying. But are other companies so different? 92% of Google's revenues come from ads against 63% of Apple's revenues coming from the iPhone. I think saying that Apple is playing catchup
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by mdasen 11y ago
It would be possible for people to fork the community edition ( https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community ) and try and rebuild the most popular ultimate features.

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