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by mlinsey 17y ago
According to the official JooJoo website (thejoojoo.com), the JooJoo is priced at...$499. Uh-oh.
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by mlinsey 17y ago
Apple made a major investment in Adobe back in the '80s, if I'm remembering Triumph of the Nerds correctly. That's how Mac really became the platform for artists, etc. I don't think Apple "owes" Adobe anything.
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by mlinsey 17y ago
An unlocked, unsubsidized version of the device would make sense. A $200 subsidy would be a much smaller fraction of this device's price than the iPhone's. I'd be very reluctant to sign up for another monthly data plan for this device, and
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by mlinsey 17y ago
In addition, the NAT issues discussed elsewhere in this thread would also be a much bigger deal with P2P.
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by mlinsey 17y ago
Appreciate the response and it sucks that folks on both sides are jumping to a lot of conclusions, but if litgation is pending I would definitely stop commenting in public about anything related to work you did on CrunchPad.
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by mlinsey 17y ago
Folks who search for the term "yahoo" at google.com to get to yahoo probably don't use Chrome.
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by mlinsey 17y ago
It's left me feeling a bit better about Google. My reaction isn't that strong because the route they have chosen obviously makes the most sense for them, especially given that Wave itself is open-source so it's not like they would gain a l
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by mlinsey 17y ago
It was Obama and Dick Cheney.
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by mlinsey 17y ago
I'm pretty sure they use Yahoo BOSS, plus some in-house stuff that merges info from trusted sites like Wikipedia. Yahoo's results are pretty good, though I hope that BOSS-based sites survive whatever the fallout of the Yahoo-MS search deal
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by mlinsey 17y ago
All the hullabaloo the past couple days has inspired me to try EtherPad for the first time. Death has long been a great career move for artists, but I never thought it would be that way for web applications.
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by mlinsey 17y ago
Going even further off-topic, the sheer speed of Google's updates is one reason why I have felt that the pain-point of "real-time search" is overrated.
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by mlinsey 17y ago
We can cut down even further from your list. Why carry around a cell phone when your laptop already has a 3G wireless card? When you want to make a phone call, you can just open up your laptop and fire up Skype! If that sounds like a really
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by mlinsey 17y ago
That rumored-for-years, never-confirmed-to-exist Apple tablet is just such a colossus that people are already predicting that the Kindle will be the next Betamax! Other than that bold prediction at the end, a solid article. The succinct tak
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by mlinsey 17y ago
A key point here is that players were mad at themselves , not the game, which is why Mario's tight, nearly perfect controls are so important.
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by mlinsey 17y ago
The evidence you cite for low-obese BMI's being healthier than normal BMI's is a blogger's critique of published research which had the opposite finding. Incidentally, the first commenter on the blog did a pretty thorough job of refuting th
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by mlinsey 17y ago
I wasn't privy to any actual sales data when I worked at Amazon, but anecdotally it seemed that while there was a real, reasonable bump on "Cyber Monday", Black Friday itself was huge (it probably helped that we had Black Friday sales!) and
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by mlinsey 17y ago
I think you may be right, but I have a couple misgivings. The year that iPhone existed without the App Store, no smartphone competitors came close to replicating it's core functionality and user experience. I don't think that's quite true
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by mlinsey 17y ago
The Amazon identify-by-photo feature uses Mechanical Turk (ie, real people). Try taking a photo of a handwritten note with something like "show me a book with an author whose name starts with K" (Nothing too complicated or tough to solve-th
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by mlinsey 17y ago
Yes, and? In this post and your next one you present an argument for why discriminating on the basis of sex is more rational than discriminating on the basis of race in terms of who you are attracted to. You seem to think that I was argui
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by mlinsey 17y ago
Agreed. Are all non-bisexuals "sexist"? Maybe by some strict definition they are, but not in the ordinary sense we use the term, and to expand its definition to include those sorts of preferences might dilute the moral case against racism
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by mlinsey 17y ago
This employee-ranking system is common at big companies, including Microsoft and Amazon. There are two key difficulties with such a system, and it would be interesting to learn how Facebook grapples with them: 1 - It's imperative that the
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by mlinsey 17y ago
Looks like Larry and Sergey were rated as worth $1B each by Forbes in 2004. (List was published in February, Google IPO happened in August) http://bit.ly/549cO
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by mlinsey 17y ago
Wealth is stuff people want, not what people need. True, if there's shortages of something people really need people will focus on spending their wealth on those things first as there are painful price hikes in basic necessities. But if i
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by mlinsey 17y ago
Sprinkles? The current bubble is fresh frozen yogurt with fruit (Pinkberry, Red Mango, Utoptia, Fraiche, etc etc)
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by mlinsey 17y ago
The statstics I'd really be intersted in (and these would be impossible to measure precisely, buT well-thought-out estimates woul be helpful.) would be the total estimated energy usage of new vehicles purchased under the program, compared t
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by mlinsey 17y ago
To answer you last question, because we are starting with the premise that the free market does not properly price certain externalities (for example, the costs from environmental damage associated with climate change). You may not agree wi
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Charlie Rose interviews Palantir CEO Alex Karp(media.palantirtech.com)
1 points by mlinsey 17y ago|0 comments
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by mlinsey 17y ago
OK, I'll be "that guy". What exactly has changed? Perhaps I'm merely trying the wrong types of queries or have a spotty memory or am just plain unobservant, but I don't notice any difference. I don't doubt that Google has minor improvemen
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by mlinsey 17y ago
"More than ever, the world needs good engineers. However, the pool of talent is shrinking not growing." That's not all. According to Kamen: "Today's children are the first generation in which it is highly probable that their average qual
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Robozzle, a programming-inspired puzzle game [Silverlight](robozzle.com)
23 points by mlinsey 17y ago|7 comments

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