mmanfrin

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by mmanfrin 10y ago
Because those services which TMobile has greenlit for free bandwidth now have a large competitive advantage over anyone else. Why would a user pay for, for instance, Seeso (a content streaming service) when they'd have to then pay even
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by mmanfrin 10y ago
Postpaid plans can be pretty easily upsold on other non-minutes/non-data expendables (like upgrading a phone), which then further help to 'lock in' customers. Although I think most of all is just the history of how the phone
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by mmanfrin 10y ago
Surprised me how much came from Canada -- has that been a thing, or is Canada a proxy for other countries?
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by mmanfrin 10y ago
1 woman can make 1 baby in 9 months, so 9 women can make 1 baby in 1 month.
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by mmanfrin 10y ago
CE. Umayyads were a muslim caliphate, which would have been pretty odd to exist 1300 years before Mohammed.
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by mmanfrin 10y ago
She sold a blog/news website named after her for nearly a billion dollars.
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by mmanfrin 10y ago
A few of the lessons on Udacity's Dada Science course cover finding/sifting through datasets and formatting them in a way to work with: https://classroom.udacity.com/courses/ud359
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by mmanfrin 10y ago
Because people buying homes tend to not live alone. And 150k is pretty middle of the road for established tech workers in SF, so in reality you're looking at two people making 200k each. 400k/yr can buy you a home in the Bay Area
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by mmanfrin 10y ago
Columbus wasn't looking for America. He had miscalculated the circumference of the earth and thought he could sail west to India. The Portuguese laughed him out of the country because of this. Note that the Caribbean was called the We
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by mmanfrin 10y ago
Studies have found that state run media in democratic nations are the least biased. NPR, BBC.
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by mmanfrin 10y ago
Oooh, this is nice. While learning ML, I was stumbling a bit with python, wishing that Ruby were a good language for working with datasets. For all the faults people find with ruby's performance, I don't think much can be found wr
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by mmanfrin 10y ago
And it's not meant to replace Hangouts. What do you want me to use, Google? Hangouts? Messenger? Allo? Duo? Wave-- er, Spaces?
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by mmanfrin 10y ago
We're less than 2 months away from the first real releases of VR equipment and already the ecosystem is fractured in to at least 4 different platforms/SDKs/styles: Oculus, SteamVR/OpenVR/Vive, Google Daydream, Plays
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by mmanfrin 10y ago
Coin was a company that stood by it's products I definitely had a different experience than you did. Preordered a coin, 2 years later still had not arrived and yet the world had moved on from magnetic stripes.
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by mmanfrin 10y ago
make people aware of a moral decision This response came out unexpectedly negative You make a moral decision to not engage, which means you have acted superiority to their decision to engage in something that you consider a mor
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by mmanfrin 10y ago
Yes, the notion that the bill is "transparency legislation" is in fact an opinion, as can be gleaned from the fact that the article title is different from that of the linked article -- the original poster has editorialized.
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by mmanfrin 10y ago
The point DHH is trying to make is not that 'Ruby is fast', but that 'Ruby is fast enough' for what people generally need. If you're building some whatsapp-esque messaging platform, then yeah: ruby is not fast enoug
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by mmanfrin 10y ago
Are you suggesting that Ruby has not improved its speed? Are you suggesting that Ruby is too slow for the web?
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by mmanfrin 10y ago
This has zero to do with the value proposition of the stock. AAPLs P/E is below 10 at this point. They have about 1/3rd their value in cash alone , which means their actual P/E is even lower. It doesn't matter if gran
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by mmanfrin 10y ago
My favorites are reviews on the manufacturers own site. Oh wow! 480 5-star ratings out of 487?!
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by mmanfrin 10y ago
For those of you misreading this comment: Aelinsaar is saying that if a system/target is vulnerable to social engineering, then hacking (code) that system/target is not clever.
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by mmanfrin 10y ago
The other major issue is in bait-and-switching products. A company can put out a great product that generates true 5-star ratings, and then swap out their product with a cheaper version but continue selling it at the 5-star-product-price.
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by mmanfrin 10y ago
If I had a dollar for every article about how [some locale] is [some vector approaching] the Bay Area for [tech attribute], I'd be able to afford a nice apartment in SF.
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by mmanfrin 10y ago
I also feel that the recruiting industry leeches off of developers -- if companies are paying recruiting firms $30k per developer (with some companies I've seen having about a 1year turnover rate), then that's 30k that is essentia
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by mmanfrin 10y ago
Even though it's technically a 'recruiter', Hired.com is pretty painless. The main point I appreciated is that it was not terribly pushy. They asked that you respond to offers, but that's about it. I havent gotten a job
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by mmanfrin 10y ago
intense indoctrination Where you seeing that? And if filtering a few news stories on a social networking site is 'intense', then what are those private companies writing specifically tilted views of history for school text
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by mmanfrin 10y ago
Why is this linked to someone's G+ page? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC5CX8drAtU
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by mmanfrin 10y ago
My after-default rate with LC for >1,000 loans is 6.7%. After default.
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by mmanfrin 10y ago
Why on earth would it be evolutionary beneficial -- if evolution is only after sex -- for a creature to forgo passing on her direct genes in favor of letting another creature pass on hers?
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by mmanfrin 10y ago
And survival, and the survival of offspring. Why does menopause exist if evolution is only after sex?

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