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by minthd 11y ago
Another issue: currently the biggest bottleneck , cost wise, is in lithography - the process we use to draw the transistors into chips. Because of this issue, the two latest generations of chips are more expensive(per transistor) than an ol
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by minthd 11y ago
This is a temporary problem, probably.Youtube has a much bigger problem on their hands - once facebook starts to sell ads on videos and share profits, with them behind the main distribution channel for video, most content authors will post
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Why My MOOC Is Not Built on Video(class-central.com)
2 points by minthd 11y ago|1 comments
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by minthd 11y ago
On the same note, jinni.com before it closed was excellent at recommending movies.
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by minthd 11y ago
Not only android. Waze is very popular in israel, even on IOS.
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by minthd 11y ago
I don't know. Carpooling could significantly hurt tax revenues in Israel. But of course they can tax through the app.
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by minthd 11y ago
We already have rental car status competition. It's called a limo service.Not very popular.
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by minthd 11y ago
amelius's answer is what the law sees as "unfair competition", altough often it's hard to sue i think(IANAL).
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by minthd 11y ago
I'm sure UBER injects noise into their map requests, and since many drivers use an iPhone , It's hard for Google to filter that noise.
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It has access to all the location data of each of it's users.
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by minthd 11y ago
Maybe we'll see an Apple car. But i suspect in general ,that self-driving cars and especially taxis would push the car market to derive much less value from branding and marketing and much more value from hardcore technology with desig
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by minthd 11y ago
Apple(and Google) has unique advantages as the owners of the major platforms, and and major mapping apps, with access to all travel data. Those are major building blocks of such a travel service.
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by minthd 11y ago
It's not so simple. There are network effects at play(if we're talking about shared trips) - and those are hard to fight against , even for large companies like Google and Apple. This is why i think, Google is entering now - becau
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by minthd 11y ago
But why doesn't Apple doesn't try to create an UBER ?
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UBER plans to attack the "drive to work" segment of the transportation market, and it's potentially a huge opportunity for UBER.This Google service, if successful, might fill that role very well. And the fact that it's c
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by minthd 11y ago
Let say you run some application over a large set of data , a process that takes hours. After a few hours of runtime , some data in the set is malformed , so you have to start from scratch. With this ,you'll get you're partial res
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by minthd 11y ago
The author has another few interesting tools: IncPy: Automatic memoization for Python: http://www.pgbovine.net/incpy.html CDE: Automatically create portable Linux applications : http://www.pgbovine.net/cde.
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SlopPy: An error-tolerant Python interpreter that facilitates sloppy programming(pgbovine.net)
54 points by minthd 11y ago|31 comments
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by minthd 11y ago
I know IBM recently announced about cloud FPGA system called supervessel. Maybe it would be useful for your project.
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by minthd 11y ago
Maybe ask some girl gamers of something they think would appeal to your mom ? https://www.reddit.com/r/GirlGamers/ ?
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by minthd 11y ago
Assuming the windows store becomes popular, it does support various business models, like advertising, in-app payments and subscriptions. Those once were a large advantage of the web. Also maybe deployment would become easy and secure. Ano
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by minthd 11y ago
I think it's more than commodification. My guess is that price in the west would be much higher than in africa(where products will be sold at cost) - but still relatively low, mainly because investors want profits. And whole in whole i
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by minthd 11y ago
One guess I have about theranos , is that they are going to radically change healthcare in Africa. Why ? Well let's start with the fact that the main thing preventing labs-on-chip devices transforming Africa today is business reasons -
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by minthd 11y ago
Microfluidic device open lots of possibilities in health care(and might bring some of the dynamics of moore's law and the computer industry to health care). Although not new, they are rarely used for routine blood tests. So anybody who
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by minthd 11y ago
All this raises an interesting question: what tools does Google offer it's developers ,to search for help and code ? is it better than what we've got ? Also ,the same goes for tools for patents and engineering knowledge search.
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by minthd 11y ago
Well, he also said that imagination is more important than knowledge...
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by minthd 11y ago
But academia is also way ahead of commercial products. Do you really think that the defense industry is work than the commercial sector ?
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by minthd 11y ago
Maybe in the end we'll all be curating high quality blog posts, from people who aren't paid by views ?
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by minthd 11y ago
Isn't that what happens in the arduino, where users use top-c++ ? and it works pretty well for them, in a very harsh, constrained environment.
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see: https://www-304.ibm.com/partnerworld/wps/servlet/download/Do...

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