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by nairteashop 13y ago
> The tricky part is striking a balance between usability and power. Yeap, this is indeed the big issue. One thing that helps is to tune the UI for your specific domain so that it has just enough power to be usable in that domain, but
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by nairteashop 13y ago
> An optimal diet includes a mixture of foods that provide dozens of different nutrients in appropriate amounts and in the right proportions. I wonder if we're any close to understanding what these "right" proportions are,
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by nairteashop 13y ago
For context, this entry just won Google's DevArt competition: http://googledevelopers.blogspot.com/2014/04/devart-winner-a...
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Les métamorphoses de Mr. Kalia(devart.withgoogle.com)
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by nairteashop 13y ago
I have "product guy" in my profile :) so just a counter-point: > Working on "Product" could mean you’re a PM, a designer, an engineer, or a bunch of other things I’m probably forgetting right now. All of this is exact
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by nairteashop 13y ago
He actually posted this link yesterday as a comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7581868
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by nairteashop 13y ago
I really like "Reading Tip #1" in the "Links 2013" page, reproduced below: It's tempting to judge what you read: I agree with these statements, and I disagree with those. However, a great thinker who has spent dec
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by nairteashop 13y ago
I believe this is the news release from Cochrane that the BBC article is based on. There is more detail there on why they believe Tamiflu is ineffective: http://www.cochrane.org/features/tamiflu-relenza-how-effecti...
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Tamiflu: Millions wasted on flu drug, claims major report(bbc.com)
71 points by nairteashop 13y ago|81 comments
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by nairteashop 13y ago
Those are numbers for filed LCAs (a necessary step prior to filing for an H1), and not the actual numbers for approved H1s.
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by nairteashop 13y ago
Does anyone know why the number of visas isn't capped on a per-company basis? Last year, apparently 40,000 of the 85,000 available visas went to outsourcing companies, and one outsourcing company, Cognizant, got 9,000 visas! http:&#x2
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Mi.Mu Glove for Music(kickstarter.com)
4 points by nairteashop 13y ago|0 comments
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Google pays $1.4 million fine in Italy over StreetView concerns(reuters.com)
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Windows Store app development is coming to Kinect for Windows(blogs.msdn.com)
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by nairteashop 13y ago
It's a nicer javascript object based API for interacting with WebRTC. WebRTC by default uses an SDP offer/answer based approach. Here is a more detailed rationale for this API: http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-r
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by nairteashop 13y ago
Serial entrepreneurship is not for everyone. Once you've put in nearly every waking hour of 5-10 years of your life into building a company, it is easy to see why doing that all over again may not be all that appealing. Especially once
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by nairteashop 13y ago
I'm sure that this has been brought up before, but I've always wondered whether it makes sense to split karma into comment karma and submission karma, reddit-style, and grant this new endorsement power only to folks who cross a ce
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Cosmos: debuts tonight 9/8c on Fox(cosmosontv.com)
28 points by nairteashop 13y ago|26 comments
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by nairteashop 13y ago
More details from the linked FT article (which is behind a paywall): - Official announcement will be made at next week’s Geneva Motor Show - Integration includes Siri, phone calls, maps, music and video.
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Apple is reportedly launching iOS in the Car with Ferrari, Mercedes, Volvo(engadget.com)
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Acquisition offers are a great external validation of both your product and the market you're in. So my take is that it's a very positive thing to talk about any potential acquisition offers, as long as you stress that that'
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by nairteashop 13y ago
I think the point others are making is that unlike, say, your height, "vision" is actually a combination of raw input from the eyes, and the subsequent processing of that input by the brain. Therefore vision can be improved by mak
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by nairteashop 13y ago
It's a good question. I have an entire bookmark folder of "cool WebGL demos" collected over the years, but have seen very few full-fledged applications. One way you could hedge the WebGL vs. Canvas bet is to use something lik
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by nairteashop 13y ago
> HLS support on Android is incredibly spotty I assume you mean spotty in Android pre-4.0? I'd worked on HLS streaming for Android recently and didn't have issues with ICS and later. But then again with Android you can't p
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by nairteashop 13y ago
Here's what worked for me: I tried various BMR/TDEE calculators and they all told me to consume around 2200 cals a day to maintain my current weight. (IMO it honestly doesn't matter which calculator you use - they are all a
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by nairteashop 13y ago
Using OOP in JS is not necessary per se, but when writing complex apps it helps to keep things clean. Say you're working on a twitter clone for example. It'll make your life much easier if there's a "NewsFeed" class
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by nairteashop 13y ago
No, I'm very pro-choice. But a 1 lb baby is still a baby. If we were talking about an actual clump of cells, I'd have agreed with you.
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by nairteashop 13y ago
> one-and-a-half-pound globs This is a human being we are talking about. A child. I like to think of myself as someone who can usually empathize with folks who hold a different point of view, but I have never been able to understand so
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by nairteashop 13y ago
So what's the "new technology" here? Looks to me like hi-res videos stitched together? Not saying that that isn't useful to law enforcement, just curious if I am missing something interesting.
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by nairteashop 13y ago
We had hundreds of expensive Macs at my last gig. Guess how many of those we bought AppleCare for? Zero. This was also true of pretty much every piece of electronic equipment we owned. Note that this isn't very unusual either at most c

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