mojuba

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by mojuba 12y ago
If she doesn't work for the govt. anymore why would she do that?
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by mojuba 12y ago
Adobe Photoshop and Logic Pro X are the "pro" apps I use often and I can tell you it's relatively to them that Audacity feels like a poorly designed 1990-ish piece of software. Again we can't blame anyone for this, excep
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by mojuba 12y ago
I guess I should say something positive about Audacity, but... in terms of overall user experience it is so typical for open/free applications to look and feel just horrible, especially on the Mac. (Inkscape also comes to mind.) Every
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by mojuba 12y ago
dev_type: 'Web/Mobile/Data/Design/Hardware' at least.
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by mojuba 12y ago
Universal binaries, or otherwise VM-based approach with JIT. I think Swift is moving in that direction. Just imagine you have pure Swift with no ObjC or C code allowed: the compiler will be able to easily build a VM binary that will be JIT&
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by mojuba 12y ago
That's a 2013 announcement, and still no news. Another reason to dump Intel.
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by mojuba 12y ago
Or, Apple might manufacture both Intel and ARM based macs. You want virtualization? Or maybe x86-based games, Audio Units and other binaries that are slow to catch up? Here is your Intel iMac. You don't care? Fine, get a cheaper ARM Ma
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by mojuba 12y ago
Absolutely, and it just strikes me how come nobody notices how bad the other trackpads are. I have Dell laptops and a Lenovo, all of them are equally unusable compared to MBPs and just separate Apple trackpads. One obvious thing is the trac
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by mojuba 12y ago
I wonder why software startup related conferences are usually not as productive as consumer trade shows. From my own experience the former is likely to be a total waste of time with no outcome for your startup, whereas in electronics-relate
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by mojuba 12y ago
Interesting article and some interesting insights into how marxism-leninism actually played well with the scientific method. There was another pathology, as the author calls it, in the Soviet scientific system: pretty much like what it did
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by mojuba 12y ago
As well as "revolutionary". Technically "revolutionary" is when something is overthrown. So your product is revolutionary if, and only if you have already put Sony, Samsung, Apple, or whoever else out of business.
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by mojuba 12y ago
I believe running a startup is like playing jazz. It's all about improvization. You are given a rhythm (company laws) and you are given the main theme (industry, markets). The rest is up to you. Think at least a few notes ahead and see
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by mojuba 12y ago
I am serious about one thing: there is no such thing as bad idea. Any of the Google's discontinued products weren't a failure. It's Google's product management who failed, not the products.
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by mojuba 12y ago
Thanks, it's a nice summary of a very ADHD-unfriendly article :)
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by mojuba 12y ago
Let me then rephrase my hypothesis (of course technically it can't be a theory): any sufficiently novel initial idea, whether good or bad in our perception at first glance, can be brought to success by amending and developing it.
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by mojuba 12y ago
I am looking, and many of them seem like good ideas. Others are bad. So what?
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by mojuba 12y ago
> The Helpouts community includes some engaged and loyal contributors, but unfortunately, it hasn't grown at the pace we had expected. (from helpouts.google.com) Google feels more and more like a company that suffers from gigantoman
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by mojuba 12y ago
A.German is one of my favorite directors, but something keeps me from watching Hard to Be a God . Probably out of fear of being disappointed after reading so many negative reviews. But he does have a unique, inimitable style. His cinematog
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by mojuba 12y ago
The name you give is a statement of a kind. Like it or not it's your attitude towards your own products and your customers too. Schiit was meant to be cheap but great quality, so I could interpret it as "somewhat sophisticated shi
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by mojuba 12y ago
Of course it would be just as problematic as blacklisting IPs, if not worse. But at least it is something. First of all, you don't block the order if billing and shipping addresses are the same, even if blacklisted. Another important t
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by mojuba 12y ago
So what? Dynamic mailing addresses?
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by mojuba 12y ago
Just finished the book, and yes it's probably one of the most inspirational books on startups out there. Getting too technical at times, then too businessy... Got me thinking that this is a kind of an open-source business. Apart from f
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by mojuba 12y ago
Why isn't there a centralized black list of addresses that are known to have received fraudulent orders? Just like with IP addresses that are known to have spammed.
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by mojuba 12y ago
I wonder if they use Bayesian logic, because they should. I also suspect that even though the article does not disclose a lot, the major factor at play in their model is the market sizes. I'm pretty sure their online version would heav
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by mojuba 12y ago
There is a factor at play here, I think, and it's the age. Many investors are simply older and are more experienced individuals. I'm not even sure if their VC status matters here any more than their age. (In a rather comical examp
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by mojuba 12y ago
Not really. What the article says is, the model would predict 50% of time whether a company will fail or not, which doesn't make sense, because 50% for a binary prediction (i.e. fail or not) is exactly nothing. So maybe it's just
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by mojuba 12y ago
Google Chrome comes packaged with a Flash player (at least on OS X), so here is what I do, very simple: no Flash, use Safari most of the time, use Chrome as a fall back.
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by mojuba 12y ago
But there will always be scarcity of something: materials, energy, land. Things will always have a price, because they at least require energy and space for production. It will be unbelievably cheap, but never absolute zero. And then someon
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by mojuba 12y ago
I don't think a future with AI is as easy as "robots will produce everything". There are two important factors usually being ignored in these discussions: - Human labour is not only about producing stuff or advancing scienc
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by mojuba 12y ago
So, more generalized: economics is more focused on how the system moves towards equilibrium, but mostly ignores how the point of equilibrium itself fluctuates in time?

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