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by namank 15y ago
Well, technically speaking, the BBM SDK is also open to external developers. That said, BBM is BB only and I'm not sure how well do they do real time content sharing
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by namank 15y ago
Very cool! Maybe this is obvious to everyone else but just to confirm with the OP: does the SDK allow me to add chat functionality to my app or is it mainly for content right now?
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by namank 15y ago
This reminds me of me and calculus. I used to read the book and then get super frustrated on assignment questions. I read the book, so was I not able to solve the problems? It was because I didn't do examples thoroughly. Soon I realized tha
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by namank 15y ago
Do something new...keep learning. I got far too comfortable in my everyday life. So I joined academia and WOW! These days I'm actually working hard to keep my supervisor impressed - this hasn't happened in a while. I'm outside my comfort zo
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by namank 15y ago
Well...maybe not FB Groups, but G+ Circles are exactly like Facebook lists without the crazy granular privacy settings.
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by namank 15y ago
Twitter could be called under140.com My point you don't have to restrict yourself to money as the scale. -site for videos under 10 minutes. -site for pitches under 10 seconds (this has HUGE potential). -site exclusively for shoes under siz
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by namank 15y ago
Used for engineering at leading university's: S. Ross, A first course in probability, 8th Edition, Pearson Prentice Hall 2010. Suggested by prof as being good for learning: Introduction to probability, D. P. Bertsekas and J. N. Tsitsikli
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by namank 15y ago
I'm pretty sure that's not a valid solution. Its the same as using Math.sum(). While it evaluates your resourcefulness, the point of the question, I think, is to figure out your knowledge and creative thinking
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Calculate n + 1 without using + or - or * or /
18 points by namank 15y ago|17 comments
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by namank 15y ago
RIM's action to the open Letter: http://www.bgr.com/2011/06/30/rim-agrees-to-consider-splitti... RIM and NEI Investments Announce Withdrawal of Shareholder Proposal; RIM Committee to Review Matter Raised by Proposal Waterloo, ON - Resea
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by namank 15y ago
C'mon! Mistakes happen, sure. But a correctly written robots.txt would prevent this
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by namank 15y ago
I worry about this a fair bit. This is why I am in the process of cloaking my gmail with a throwaway address (ping@namank.com) And I just suggested gmail this: ----- Gmail runs my life, as it does yours! Yes, I have an alternate email but w
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by namank 15y ago
This is interesting. Just my opinion but you might be ahead of your time. NFC needs to be more mature before a user's location can be exploited. But by then, the concept of a 'check in' will be redundant to this process. Your window of op
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by namank 15y ago
Not the same thing since history is not Amazon's value proposition.
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by namank 15y ago
I honestly don't get why 4sq is worth 600M. As far as I know, their biggest asset is their user's location data; which is all in the past!! At least Facebook has 'friendships' that can be leveraged as value creating entities for which users
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Changing face of Computer Science (PDF from Carnegie Mellon)(link.cs.cmu.edu)
3 points by namank 15y ago|0 comments
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by namank 15y ago
It doesn't matter if all the kids do is play Tetris on it all day. Most of them will. Thats how they learn, thats how they will pick up the technology. Then the curious ones will try to download more games for it and in the process figure o
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India's $35 tablet ready to ship(penn-olson.com)
111 points by namank 15y ago|55 comments
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by namank 15y ago
Depending on how you are going about it, Google App Engine may suit you the best..uses java, python, or go One huge advantage - its free till 5,000,000 hits or some given # of cpu cycles That said, you would need to carefully evaluate your
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Libyan rebels hack a truck into a tank(gizmodo.com)
1 points by namank 15y ago|0 comments
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by namank 15y ago
Cool! What's the link to the tutorial?
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by namank 15y ago
Its essentially an interpreter built into the browser. Browers hands the JS to the engine. Engine parses it, checks for syntax errors, checks for semantic errors, optimizes, generates machine code (assembly), runs it! Of course this is only
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by namank 15y ago
You said you want to go to 2, so go to 2.
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by namank 15y ago
Hahaha, today morning I was thinking about why startups manage to leech millions of $$s selling services that Google actually offers for free. And I reached the same conclusion - Google doesn't focus on users and thus completely misses the
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Managing Your Own Psychology - the most difficult CEO skill(techcrunch.com)
1 points by namank 15y ago|0 comments
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by namank 15y ago
the sessions: http://www.google.com/events/io/2011/sessions.html
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by namank 15y ago
As a kid, I was always paranoid about the kind of things Google can do. They can effectively build an accurate psychological profile on absolutely anyone on the internet. They track your search history, email, contacts, even your telephone
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by namank 15y ago
I think this is appropriate here: http://blog.ted.com/2007/08/03/100_websites_yo/
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by namank 15y ago
You must be a developer yourself. Me too! But I`ve found that nothing targeted at the general public should contain stuff they can`t understand or don`t care about. Just like when companies hire designers for front end stuff and a developer
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by namank 15y ago
Wow that is actually kind of cool. Are the sans searchable by text?

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