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HP acquires 3PAR for $2 billion(pcmag.com)
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by narkee 16y ago
It seems like schools are focused more on expanding their brands, and growth than educating. I think there are certain industries, like health care and education that shouldn't be treated like for-profit ventures. It probably won't sit well
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by narkee 16y ago
Nobody seems to care that you have to be logged in to Blekko in order to benefit from all the personalization features. I would think that would be a dealbreaker for a lot of people.
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by narkee 16y ago
So the only thing that differentiates this from Google is the ability to save some preset search booleans? What happens once Google adds that functionality? It already has the same types of options (inurl:, +/-, etc.), adding the ability to
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by narkee 16y ago
In South Africa, pigeons are "faster than broadband": http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8248056.stm
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by narkee 16y ago
I wonder if there's a similar effect in populations of men where metric heights are commonly used. 6 ft ~ 183 cm, which isn't a particularly round number. Maybe that psychological benchmark occurs at 180 cm, which suggests Europeans and Asi
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by narkee 16y ago
Right, so it's entirely appropriate to benchmark arbitrary computational metrics, but benchmarking UI metrics is inconceivable? I don't understand your argument - true shitty engineers can ruin a UI, as well as they can ruin a JS interprete
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by narkee 16y ago
Personally, I'd rather see a aggregate subjective ratings of "responsiveness" and "speed", rather than raw horsepower, as it were. If the end goal is enhancing user experience, why not benchmark against those metrics?
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by narkee 16y ago
A self contained, 3rd party twitter appliance for basic communication? What happens if twitter is down? Or if twitter changes its API?
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by narkee 16y ago
Well I was being a little tongue-in-cheek, but Kaczynski was also a smart, talented mathematician who also expressed desire to secede from "normal" society.
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Is this guy going to go Kaczynski on us?
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I think everyone should stop prefacing personal assessments of people by quoting their credentials first (MSc/PhD from a top X university), as I feel it should have absolutely no bearing on how intelligent one perceives them to be. I've met
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by narkee 16y ago
Right on. MRIs need liquid helium to cool their superconducting magnet, and they need to be topped up every so often, to accommodate boil-off. It's getting pricier to do so, increasing the cost of an already expensive apparatus.
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by narkee 16y ago
This could very appropriately generalized to all PhD students, and most undergraduate students as well. Anecdotally, many post-secondary students view diplomas and degrees as simply documents certifying that they've put in their time, and p