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by mlinsey 17y ago
He mentions that as the only thing his mother would like about the device. The paragraph above the one you quote says this: I also work with people who are not very deeply skilled in computer technology, exactly the kind of people this pr
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by mlinsey 17y ago
One possible confounding variable that immediately lept to my mind was a study published sometime in the past couple years indicated that women's preferences change depending on whether they are currently taking hormonal birth control. I be
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by mlinsey 17y ago
Naive question: if as described in point (2) of the OP, the bill would "eliminate federal pre-emption of state regulations of accredited offerings", would this not allow some states to create less burdensome regulations than other states or
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by mlinsey 17y ago
Yes, exactly. I heard DHH speak and asked him about the importance of the 37s blog and their books and he said "If you can't out-market, out-teach."
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by mlinsey 17y ago
I don't know if they have anything specific planned. Google hired a lot of former Bell Labs people, several of whom are working on Go. They are probably letting those people working on new ideas as they wish, with the hope that people who
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Analyst says Apple will enter HDTV market in next 4 years (appleinsider.com)
3 points by mlinsey 17y ago|1 comments
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by mlinsey 17y ago
Undoubtedly this is a network-by-network thing. Cable vs. over-the-air and time of day matters a lot too.
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by mlinsey 17y ago
The most serious problem with previous versions of Windows Mobile isn't the myriad UI issues (which are collectively definitely a close second), it's the stability of the core OS. Every last person I know who has owned a WinMo phone (which
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by mlinsey 17y ago
If the thesis of this article is correct, the most important stride Microsoft has made has not been industrial design or touch-interfaces - it's that they have learned to have their products leverage advances from elsewhere in the company a
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by mlinsey 17y ago
Why not? The whole goal of Android is ostensibly to have more people accessing the internet on mobile devices that are closely integrated with Google services. It wants to be what Windows was for the PC. Windows also didn't really have it
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by mlinsey 17y ago
"3GS or better required" is much more understandable than "1Ghz Snapdragon or better required", since the package the customer buys says "3GS" prominently - it's even in the name of the device. In fact, customers already are faced with th
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by mlinsey 17y ago
Yeah. Assuming orderID's are sequential, you'd at least want a bunch of data bout how many orders per hour there are on a typical day.
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by mlinsey 17y ago
If drowsiness affects your productivity, then all of your wakeups over the lifetime of the device are probably worth $2400. Of course, it's best to leave judgement until we know whether WakeMate is better, and if so then by how much.
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by mlinsey 17y ago
I think it's a mistake to think of large corporations as singular entities in these sorts of cases. Given what I know about big-company politics, I am positive that there are people inside Google who support banning Mahalo and others who d
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by mlinsey 17y ago
Ah, now I understand the motivation of your comment better. But I think if you read through just the introduction of the paper and consider that it was written in a finance journal and not a CS journal, showing the efficient market hypothes
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by mlinsey 17y ago
You can do anything you want with decades long incumbency - be wise and reasonable, be corrupt, pursue eccentric but harmless pet projects, be lazy, be almost anything you want. I have no idea what Lugar's motives are here, only that gettin
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by mlinsey 17y ago
Lugar is an institution of his own. He's been in the Senate for 33 years. When you reach that level of incumbency, you stop having to worry about how each bill of yours affects your re-election chances.
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by mlinsey 17y ago
If you find a proof that a problem is NP-complete that's not reducing one unverifiable claim to another one, be sure to let us know!
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by mlinsey 17y ago
I still disagree. For example, Jaedong started playing a lot later than Boxer and Soso. I don't think missing out on the beta will be a singificant disadvantage for pro players for more than 8-12 months.
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by mlinsey 17y ago
To summarize what Jorge is saying, that's three programming classes which are part of the core , ie classes that all CS students must take, regardless of which track they choose. After the core, each track has its own requirements, and eve
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by mlinsey 17y ago
I don't see why. Plenty of current pro StarCraft players achieved that status by intense training long after the game was even released.
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by mlinsey 17y ago
Yes, frequently, especially attached to intelligent blog posts! For instance, good, well thought-out articles linked here have insightful comments that sometimes people even point out here.
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by mlinsey 17y ago
I think a big reason people are more focused on Facebook Apps (and consumer web apps in general) to the exclusion of more pressing world problems is because those problems are hard . I think it's well understood that one of the driving for
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by mlinsey 17y ago
"Famous remarks are seldom quoted correctly." -Simeon Strunsky
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by mlinsey 17y ago
We're both speaking in anecdotes, but this hasn't been my experience. I had my search box in Firefox set to Bing for several weeks, until it was just too annoying to re-do so many searches in Google and getting better results. For what it'
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by mlinsey 17y ago
The video in the post is actually a great ad, though I doubt that it will be the one aired tomorrow (if Google is even really airing an ad). It's super-cute (enough to be memorable among a sea of other ads), focuses exactly on what people
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by mlinsey 17y ago
Well, I think that's far and away the most obvious interpretation of your second paragraph, but it's ambiguous enough that I'll give you the benefit of the doubt if you're saying that's not what you meant. Your last sentence surprised me, t
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by mlinsey 17y ago
The OP is making a (toungue-in-cheek) argument against corporate free speech. You said that corporate free speech rests upon a century of precedent and that without it, we couldn't have corporate immunity. But "corporate immunity and corpor
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by mlinsey 17y ago
"..this is a legal premise that has existed for over a century. Otherwise, you couldn't sue a company for damages." The way our particular laws have been written and interpreted by the Supreme Court, then yes, these things are indeed tied t
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Tesla Is Going Public(wired.com)
45 points by mlinsey 17y ago|26 comments

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