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by nickm12 12y ago
Amazon Fresh ( https://fresh.amazon.com ) is in Northern CA, but I don't think they service the south bay yet.
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by nickm12 12y ago
I don't think anecdotal evidence or non-controlled studies are useless, but they do have their limitations. In this case, though, the original article is laughably bad. To quote: "As a scientist, I had already been gathering data
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by nickm12 12y ago
Why are we even discussing this? I remember reading Chand's blog post when it was first written and found it unbelievable. First of all, it doesn't even _try_ to find evidence of a so-called "PhD-Industry Gap" beyond hi
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by nickm12 12y ago
+1 In the modern Apple era their applications, particularly the consumer or pro-sumer oriented ones, have tended to (1) not live up to their demos (2) and get constantly redesigned and yanked around. What made using a Mac a joy was the cul
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by nickm12 12y ago
There are absolutely responses beyond "it will be fixed as soon as we can". For clients of network services, it can be useful to know details about the scope of the outage (when did it start? who is affected? are there workarounds
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by nickm12 12y ago
It's very easy to be friends with someone on Facebook but not follow them. In the upper right of every post is a menu that lets you unfollow them. At least today, the concept of "friend" is more about access permissions tha
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by nickm12 13y ago
A minor difference between Dash and Cuecat: when the CueCat launched, approximately none percent of magazine ads had CueCat codes. When Dash launched approximately 98% of household consumable items had bar codes. Yes, if you throw away you
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by nickm12 13y ago
Alexander Stepanov and Paramjit Oberoi have started teaching an weekly course on programming for software engineers at A9. From their internal announcement "We plan to cover a wide variety of topics, starting with the nature of progra
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Programming Conversations with Alexander Stepanov(youtube.com)
2 points by nickm12 13y ago|1 comments
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by nickm12 13y ago
Yes, Google Voice as a separate product is definitely going away. Its functionality will be subsumed by Hangouts, but nothing about that transition is clear to users.
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A Postmortem of Failed Products(losingfight.com)
40 points by nickm12 13y ago|7 comments
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AWS opening Beijing Region (for select customers)(aws.amazon.com)
11 points by nickm12 13y ago|6 comments
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by nickm12 13y ago
The rewrite wasn't Firefox. The rewrite was Netscape 6. Firefox was streamlined version of Netscape 6 which hit 1.0 four years after Netscape 7. So from Netscape 4.0 to Firefox 1.0 was 7 years. I think Joel's argument was that
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by nickm12 13y ago
There is certainly negative pressure on likes. For well meaning users, likes reflect what you like, which means they reflect you. In the case of Facebook, the platform also advertises what you like to others. People are strongly motivated
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by nickm12 13y ago
'After Random House finally agreed to a contract on Jan. 18, 2011, Eddy Cue, the Apple executive in charge of its e-books deals, sent an e-mail to Mr. Jobs attributing the publisher’s capitulation, in part, to “the fact that I prevented an
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by nickm12 13y ago
The writing is on the wall. As a user since it was GrandCentral in 2008, I have to say that the writing is on the wall. I can't think of one substantial new feature that has been added since the initial launch (I guess Android integration w
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by nickm12 14y ago
Agreed, CSV sucks if you data contains punctuation. UTF-8 encoded tab-delimited tables are preferred. These are kind of a pain to import into Excel (on Mac at least) because you have to specify exactly what format they are in, but it can b
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by nickm12 14y ago
"They do not control what you build and run on your device through Xcode" Late response: There is some software I want to run that I do not have the source to. There is some software I want to run which is not being written because the pers
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by nickm12 14y ago
How do the newsletter curators find interesting long-tail links?
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by nickm12 14y ago
This is why I'm (slowly) weaning myself off of Apple platforms after being an Apple user and enthusiast since 1984. A computing platform where the vendor is the ultimate arbiter of what software the user can and cannot run is fundamentally
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by nickm12 14y ago
For those wanting smartphone functionality without smartphone prices, I suggest using T-Mobile prepaid. I have a Nexus 4 that I use without a data plan. 90% of my life is spent within the comforting rays of wifi and I use my phone for emai
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by nickm12 14y ago
Building and staffing data centers is a non-trivial fixed cost required to run a streaming video service.
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by nickm12 14y ago
I think Apple's clear use of Dieter Rams' design language is more of an "homage" than a "ripoff". The fact that the Apple products and Braun products are separated by decades and in different product categories makes a difference.
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by nickm12 14y ago
I don't know how the things work on the Fire, but in the ad supported e-ink kindles the ads are fairly unobtrusive. They appear on the rotating "screensaver" images (so you see them when you first pick up and start to use the device) and al
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by nickm12 14y ago
If they said "successfully funded" that would be accurate. My pet peeve is that everywhere on the site they say "successful" they mean "funded".
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by nickm12 14y ago
One of my pet peeves about Kickstarter is that they considered funded projects successful projects and it's difficult to know what percentage of projects are actually successful in the sense that they delivered the goods (or even see a list
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by nickm12 14y ago
Sure, critical systems have round-the-clock coverage, but pushing big changes before the weekend is still not optimal. If there is an emergency, you'd rather have most of your workforce available, awake, and at work.
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by nickm12 14y ago
I worked for a number of years in the MIT Stata Center, an office building designed by Gehry. It was a trainwreck on so many levels. This article ( http://www.fastcompany.com/641146/lost-funhouse ) details the some of the construction iss
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by nickm12 14y ago
Back in 2007 there wasn't even an App Store. There would have been no way to watch YouTube videos on the iPhone at all without it.
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by nickm12 14y ago
Such a strange post. Jeff spend the first half arguing that the qualify of the second half somehow decrease the quality of Stack Overflow. I liked the second half better. I've never understood why Jeff and Joel felt these kinds of questio

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