mehrdada

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by mehrdada 9y ago
As a long-time iPhone user who had been using Pixel more frequently recently, the unlock phone-on-your-desk use-case is hugely problematic when you have fingerprint on the back and it is a huge pain point. I have a long passphrase for secur
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by mehrdada 9y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiyfwZVAzGw
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by mehrdada 9y ago
My pencil has lower power consumption than all of them. It also processes zero instructions per second. The ability to ramp up your speed at the cost of higher power consumption is a feature, not a bug. You finish the workload faster and th
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by mehrdada 9y ago
Nah, sorry to break it for you, but the Qualcomm chip is nowhere close to A11.
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by mehrdada 9y ago
> You know, Dr. Edwin Land was a troublemaker. He dropped out of Harvard and founded Polaroid. Not only was he one of the great inventors of our time but, more important, he saw the intersection of art and science and business and built
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by mehrdada 9y ago
I wonder why you were downvoted. A 64 core machine would have 128 vCPUs
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by mehrdada 9y ago
Sorry I totally misread your comment the first time. Apologies.
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by mehrdada 9y ago
Unless you visually connect the fields like the NeXT Interface Builder does.
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by mehrdada 9y ago
You lost me at "Musk is the only one who really seems to be "walking the walk"", which is inconsistent with the rest of your theory, but luckily for you that was the last sentence. :) It's clear Musk is also interes
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by mehrdada 9y ago
Valid points. We could debate this, but I am already sick of this subthread; the point is I never said sales does not add value or that the value it adds is small, which the GP accused me of, in a rather passive-aggressive tone.
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by mehrdada 9y ago
> If you can’t think of a single case of a great salesperson adding multiples to a product’s performance more than a linear multiplier Read more carefully.
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by mehrdada 9y ago
There is definitely a lot of truth to this, but when talking about exponential growth in particular, the growth is often so huge that it eclipses any conceivable linear function in practice pretty quickly. Also, given sufficiently large num
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by mehrdada 9y ago
Note that I am not focusing on "value" per se. I was focusing on leverage, i.e. where you can find a "multiplier", and arguing engineering is where you can find superlinear amplications of value. It's really hard fo
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by mehrdada 9y ago
I knew something like that would come up, hence my use of "almost". But I actually disagree with your example. I was expecting something like Dollar Shave Club to be used as a counterexample, where the entire value is arguably pro
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by mehrdada 9y ago
> sales and marketing can act as multipliers in a way that engineering seldom does (I cannot distinguish product development from engineering as cleanly as you do, but on sales and marketing...) Can't disagree more. At least with
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by mehrdada 9y ago
You can’t outsource the CEO role of your life. You need to figure out who you want to be yourself and execute accordingly. And there is compounding impacts for seemingly trivial decisions you make at 17. They are more important, not less, t
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by mehrdada 9y ago
Wish I could downvote this twice. This post builds on the Hollywood portrayal that’s widespread and assumes what’s fun and fulfilling is basically beer, weed, and recklessly driving, etc. I assume if a 17 year old finds doing these all the
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by mehrdada 9y ago
The point is much more abstract. The point is it’s not an obviously non-controversial point of view that being 12 magically solves, as the post pertains it to be. While we are at it, yes, disenfranchisement of young voters who are mostly si
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by mehrdada 9y ago
Interestingly not all places with high tax rates actually have good schools, safe roads, etc. Rather, there are countries to invade, bankers to bail out, old-school industries to sustain.
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by mehrdada 9y ago
> The really insane part is that the DRM is pointless anyway DRM may be pointless if you think its main goal is a way to prevent people from watching content they did not directly pay for. But that is missing the point. It does not matte
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by mehrdada 9y ago
IANAL, so take it with a grain of salt. This is a super conservative interpretation though. Anecdotally, I myself have received an F-1 visa despite having applied for diversity lottery (unsuccessfully). If I recall correctly, I may have at
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by mehrdada 9y ago
Yes. All iOS devices with the exception of the original iPhone are like this: they have a cellular baseband iff they have GPS.
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by mehrdada 9y ago
Yes, watch works standalone; you need an iPhone to fill up the music though.
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by mehrdada 9y ago
Apple Watch + Bluetooth headphones is the replacement.
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by mehrdada 9y ago
PhDs are people too. They can have very different backgrounds. If the biggest, boldest, thing you see in the candidates with PhDs is always them having PhDs, you are painting everyone with a PhD with the same brush, you are having incorrect
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by mehrdada 9y ago
(2014)
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by mehrdada 9y ago
Hi Peter, What is the estimated timeline for each of I-140 and I-485 in an average EB2-NIW case these days?
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by mehrdada 9y ago
To me, Mozilla jumped the shark when they did not take a principled stance against web DRM. At that point, to me, their raison d'être of advocating the open web was meaningless, since today, in contrast of when they started, the most
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by mehrdada 9y ago
Probably the same purpose Singularity served for Microsoft. Researchers gotta research.
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by mehrdada 9y ago
> After all, as nerds, we should have an idea what it's like to be bullied. Nerds being bullied seems to be a predominantly US phenomenon that is generalized far too often.

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