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by mertd 14y ago
There is a segway-esque secrecy around it. However if there is one person I would give the benefit of the doubt, that person would be Elon Musk, and he said they'll open source the project.
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by mertd 14y ago
If that were true, that would mean first and second class completely survived. But the visualization shows this is not the case.
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by mertd 14y ago
There is a mistake in the tables. Top two are copies of each other but they are supposed to show different things.
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by mertd 14y ago
The original article does not mention closing price, and it was written on Friday. Either they mean the sharp drop during the day on Friday or the closing price on Thursday.
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by mertd 14y ago
It sounds silly but is one of the least ambiguous options. Compatible with iPad2 and above (but not mini). Compatible with iPad2, 3 and 4 (except 3 and 4 are not official names). Compatible with iPad2, the new iPad and the newest iPad???
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by mertd 14y ago
SMS is great and should not go away. Charging a non trivial amount per message is ridiculous. US carriers are the worst offenders on this. They charge up to 20c to the sender AND the recipient.
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by mertd 14y ago
I find hipmunk better for optimizing schedule, kayak for optimizing price.
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by mertd 14y ago
That's about 50% gain. Unless he put in $1m that doesn't completely explain his ROI.
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by mertd 14y ago
For notepad and calculator, you can do Win+r then "notepad" or "calc". For applications not the path, I find the metro experience is essentially the same as having a start menu. Hit Windows, type application name, find it from the search r
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by mertd 14y ago
If the value of the idea is trivially obvious, then so is the idea itself. There are ideas and there are ideas. If it is the paradigm shifting kind, it is probably controversial, non intuitive and may not even make sense within the context
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by mertd 14y ago
What kind of R&D is happening at Apple? I did a search with the keyword "research" on their job board and not much interesting turned up except for a few "Data scientist" positions.
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by mertd 14y ago
Don't make critical purchases from random people on the Internet? We should never blame the victim, nevertheless everyone should be thaught a basic level of "Internet street smarts".
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by mertd 14y ago
The difference is how the signal is sent. When you change the resolution in XP for instance, a low res picture gets sent to the display which then has to up sample it, and it looks sucky. On the new MBP the picture sent is always the nativ
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by mertd 14y ago
Mind you they are in lower Manhattan, not some random suburban office park.
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by mertd 14y ago
> Pasta? it's so carby, I've got to have milk to get some protein to level out the glucose release. How does that work? You get twice as much sugar (lactose) than protein from milk. http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=milk
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by mertd 14y ago
Same goes for diagnosis, which is basically finding the maximum likelihood culprit, given the evidence (symptoms, patient history, age, gender).
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by mertd 14y ago
Here is my reasoning. You can do the activities you mentioned in places that are a lot more comfortable (sofa), more social (cafe) or more beneficial (gym) than the driver's seat. More importantly, I don't trust my brain's thread scheduler
618.
by mertd 14y ago
CDs and DVDs aren't dead? Surely there may be some residual activity going on, but physical distribution of data altogether is mostly done for. Dropbox and cdn's pretty much solved the problem of sharing data efficiently.
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by mertd 14y ago
I'll buy one. I hate wasting time driving.
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by mertd 14y ago
What is the utility of multiple timers? Isn't the point of pomodoro method to stay focused on one thing for a bite sized period of time?
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by mertd 14y ago
What is the deal with boot time as an OS metric? Is it really important to boot 5 seconds faster than the previous iteration?
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by mertd 14y ago
I'm not sure I follow. There is nothing preventing the desktop software from using a system-wide notification system. FWIW, metro apps are not fully featured but rather feature crippled. Take Chrome's metro version for example. It is jus
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by mertd 14y ago
Sme shareware would stop working after the trial period, and if you played it by the book or didn't know the workarounds, you would have to make the purchase.
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by mertd 14y ago
Here is some basic test: http://i.imgur.com/TqRcx.png View the image in 100% zoom. One line is dotted with dots one pixel apart. The other line is a straight with no gaps. If you can tell which one is which, your retina is able to pick
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by mertd 14y ago
I like how "traveling to the planet and back will take you a lifetime, if you could travel as fast as light" translates to "nearby" when dealing with the scales of the universe.
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by mertd 14y ago
Quite difficult. For instance, you can't buy SpaceX. You'd have to find highly correlated stuff.
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by mertd 14y ago
It is actually pretty interesting that so many commenters here short circuited into thinking she was complaining about the bathroom situation.
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by mertd 14y ago
WC2 was pretty good.
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by mertd 14y ago
Rolling release is favorable in that sense. I prefer dealing with a single problem every other month or so as opposed to many things breaking all at once.
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by mertd 14y ago
> Microsoft eras seem to run about 20 years, so the technology underlying Windows 8 will last a long, long time.” Isn't Win8 still NT kernel? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT#Releases

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