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by mdda 14y ago
Google is registering 1,000,000 Linux machines a day. Small desktops, granted. But (IMHO) the Year of the Desktop was really about the year of Consumer Linux, which snuck up on everyone upwards, rather than flowing down in machine size.
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by mdda 14y ago
Or perhaps the company could have a superb MVP up, addressing a huge market, while behind the scenes (double stealth) they're building a lame idea for real.
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by mdda 14y ago
IMHO, though, Penrose's argument is a have-your-cake-and-eat-it kind of thing. His claimed scientific basis for non-algorithmic computation in the mind relies on science which is tantalizingly out of reach (yet somehow has definable end-po
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by mdda 14y ago
Moreover, going off the discussion on the KytePhone app yesterday, Android offers the chance of hardening your device more thoroughly against curious little fingers. That, and the lower price-point (particularly if you by an off-contract ph
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by mdda 14y ago
The problem with the standard "the truthful opinion of people that matter" is that if you don't like what you hear, you might just reclassify the speaker into the "people that don't matter" group. Even the statement of your enthusiasm for
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by mdda 14y ago
But isn't the poster explicitly demanding raw feedback? And isn't the article just pointing out that people get defensive when faced with raw feedback? Your comment (although you're not the poster in question) kind of demonstrates the prob
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FWIW LibreOffice does Python natively.
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by mdda 14y ago
Yes - that has been the problem that's prevented the adoption of sequences of 10 numbers in the telephone system </sarcasm>
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by mdda 14y ago
The airlines actually save money by preventing smoking : The air in the cabins needs to be recycled less often. The flip side, though, is that air-bourne diseases are more prevalent on flights now, since the air is rebreathed more often be
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by mdda 14y ago
But if they're having fun with friends, and see display ads for Coke (or GM), then the brand gets associated with their lives. This points to Facebook as a marketing platform, whereas Google is a sales platform.
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by mdda 14y ago
The majority of hedge funds offer quarterly or monthly liquidity (partly because this is what the fund-of-funds industry demanded). However, many hedgefunds have the concept of 'gating' - where if everyone rushes for the door at the same ti
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by mdda 14y ago
Why is it a smear to be compared to a socialist?
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Except that being an ex-con means that at some point his standard NDA must have been insufficient/unenforceable... Or he made a bad hire, or trusted the wrong people. Just sayin'.
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by mdda 14y ago
Direct link : http://arxiv.org/pdf/math.ST/0606441.pdf
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by mdda 14y ago
Pretty soon it'll be a public company, and there will be all sorts of institutional forces at work : If they mess up the entrepreneurial vision, no-one will be able to blame him (and make it stick).
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by mdda 14y ago
The company that produced this is an Investment Bank. Clients would not be charged explicitly for the research - it would be part of their 'news feed' from the bank (but to receive that feed, you'd have to give the appearance of being a cl
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by mdda 14y ago
The real potential for this is funding for non-tech startups. Tech can get funded (right now) but trying to get funding for a corner deli is next-to-impossible.
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The other point about being profitable is that one's runway extends from being counted in months, to being infinite.
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by mdda 14y ago
This would make a nice heuristic for autocompletion too. Related would be an SQLalchemy database structure crawler that would suggest appropriate mongodb collection aggregation, based on the frequency of columns, keys, etc.
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by mdda 14y ago
Damn - just what I had in mind for the upcoming NYC Mongo hackathon... http://www.10gen.com/events/NYC-MongoDB-Hackathon Nicely done. It would be cool to come up with some way to gather collection characteristics, so that some fieldname
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by mdda 14y ago
I'm not sure whether belief in NLP is a matter of taste : The techniques are basically a distillation of what therapists (notably Erickson) have uncovered during hypnosis. To further amplify your point, the unconscious mind doesn't seem to
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by mdda 14y ago
Grammar trivia : "the Hoi polloi" contains redundancy, since "Hoi" duplicates the "the".
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... which is part of the point of this simplistic method : You're quickly able to pick the brains of all your (future, potential) competitors, without even knowing who they are, or researching what they're selling. Maybe you can envision a
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Known in the US (at least by me) as Buy.com
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Or get the people who need their places cleaned to include a non-circumvention clause as part of their initial signing up.
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by mdda 14y ago
If you built the idea for yourself, you'd have a hard time launching it on the web without disclosing the idea to someone (i.e. any prospective customer).
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by mdda 14y ago
Frankly, it's better to own the drafting process yourself : We're happy to show all the black-lined versions, but (due to 'technical difficulties') get our counterparties to send over manual changes which we implement...
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by mdda 15y ago
LibreOffice track changes seems to work perfectly adequately, IMHO.
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It's not insider trading, since the stock is not traded on a public market : There's no presumption that all the facts are out in the open. As long as there's no misrepresentation, it's all 'just business'. How about : "Let me invest right
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by mdda 15y ago
The local $/ is the trick : It reset the line-end character to 'undef', which makes the <> line-slurp the whole file at once.

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