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by mdda 14y ago
It doesn't demonstrate that VP8 wasn't patent-free - just that Google felt signing a license with MPEG-LA was the best route to clearing up the issue. IMHO, MPEG-LA probably just scored some free cash. However, by avoiding a legal battle,
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by mdda 14y ago
This is what is done in the documentation of many financial 'over the counter' derivatives trades. There's a big book of definitions, which everyone signs up to (part of the process of creating an 'ISDA Master' with each dealer). And the
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by mdda 14y ago
Hmmm. The video pitch seems to put them in an investment banking/advisory role, whereas their Ts&Cs disclaim everything : "For investors, you can rest assured that the deals you're seeing on our platform are highly vetted, and they're
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by mdda 14y ago
Very cool technology! Honest question : Is this area a patent minefield? Or are the Myo guys busily sewing it all up? (I'm glancing nervously at the may-be-more-tricky-than-anticipated 3d printing field, for instance).
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by mdda 14y ago
IMHO, this isn't really what the Lean Startup mantra is all about. Lean-wise, one is really trying to see where there is customer/product fit. When there is, it's like finding a filter's resonance point : Suddenly you've found people's ho
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by mdda 14y ago
I was puzzled by your comment. Is this Brooks paper[1] the thinking that you're referring to? [1] http://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/papers/representation.pdf
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by mdda 14y ago
Isn't the standard metric $150,000 per infringement? AFAIR, that's the statutory rate they apply for MP3 pirating.
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by mdda 14y ago
Another viewpoint : The investors that had previously wanted to invest are used to being the ones with the upper hand. Now he has a lot more negotiating power, and that doesn't suit them at all . And that should be a lesson for people th
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by mdda 14y ago
Perhaps you should modify the way you're accounting for your cashflow : Show that all the P&L gets dividended out, and that you then put it all back in the business. That way will show far more than $5,000 commitment on your parts. (T
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by mdda 14y ago
Your investors are unresponsive to your questions? Then they've probably already mentally moved on : They're not hanging on your every word; They're not dependent on you; and you're not letting them down as badly as you feel you are. If it
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by mdda 14y ago
In addition : The end-date of a PhD is indeterminate (at least in the UK), since one doesn't know for sure whether the thesis defense will require any re-writing, etc. So it's difficult to have a job fixed up completely on the day the magi
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by mdda 14y ago
"... I’m often frustrated not to have a shiny web app that will automagically show the data in stunning tables and graphs (e.g. d3.js bliss). " : Are you looking for a web interface for manipulating OLAP data? (something like http://www.
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by mdda 14y ago
Suppose the formula in A1 is =A1+1. What should be the displayed value in A1? How long should it take to display that number? This is a simple case, which clearly diverges. There is no simple way to determine from a general formula whet
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by mdda 14y ago
LibreOffice has Python 3+ now baked-in (i.e. part of the default install).
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by mdda 14y ago
Maybe our definitions of "not particularly hard" differ, having looked through some of your source embedded in the page...
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by mdda 14y ago
Perhaps in the pop-up editor, the names of the parameters could also show their current values on hover (where possible), so that one could debug the function live, in a similar way to the sheet showing live numbers most of the rest of the
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by mdda 14y ago
Understood - but it's one thing having good intentions, and another having been stewards of genuinely community-based projects. I was just doing a quick check for where the code was sitting. Willow Garage obviously contributed a lot to the
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by mdda 14y ago
I guess Windows 2000 was the high point then...
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by mdda 14y ago
Love to discover the full story (what with hardware startups being in the ascendancy and all). Also did a quick check : ROS is at https://github.com/ros , OpenCV at https://github.com/itseez/opencv (a mirror of the code at code.opencv.or
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by mdda 14y ago
But this is really the nub of the problem. By default (and most of the time), Excel hides the formulae and comments - requiring clicking into cells to figure out what's going on. By only exposing a glimpse of the whole model at a time, it
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by mdda 14y ago
{not sure if sarcasm detected} Since LibreOffice embeds macro writing in Python, the environment is pretty rich - even compared to the mighty Excel VBA...
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by mdda 14y ago
Suppose a doctor is paid by the visit - his incentive is to keep you alive for as long as the insurance will allow him to (which could have minus points as well as plus points). Watson's recommendations could be aligned more directly to th
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by mdda 14y ago
Many banking and insurance regulation are based on the ratings of the securities held : So being a Nationally Recognized Rating Agency is a pretty critical role, and a ratings agency deserves to be held to a higher standard, IMHO. OTOH, pe
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by mdda 14y ago
Or, for a 'U' rating : Enthusiastically, or Efficiently, or EXTREME!
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There's also the aspect that in arranged marriage societies, the purpose and expectations of marriage are different. There, marriage may be an institution for the creation of a stable family for children. If Western love happens between t
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by mdda 14y ago
Plus the fact that at a school-level, the 555 is a completely black box. Whereas the TinyAVR makes it easy for the more advanced students to 'go explore'.
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by mdda 14y ago
Upvoted because it makes for an interesting discussion, which is what HN is for. An upvote doesn't mean agreement, it means (AFAICR) 'worth having on the site'.
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by mdda 14y ago
Suppose JPM/Chase had failed. The day after, there would be no cash in the ATMs (unless the government stepped in). The USA would be in a Lord of the Flies situation very rapidly. And we wouldn't be interested in the bank bosses, we'd be
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by mdda 14y ago
An educational App writer has much better operational leverage than a single teacher of 30 kids. The App also has to compete on a global stage, so the rewards to the winner are likely to be higher too.
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by mdda 14y ago
A few things : (i) Goldman did not rate any bonds, the rating agencies did. (ii) For every buyer of a security there is a seller. Goldman's trading desk (likely) had a conflict of interest with their bankers. However, just selling someth

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