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by notauser 17y ago
There's a limited supply of people in the world - about 6bn at the moment. Roughly 1bn currently live in western-style economies at the moment. Once China and India are finished industrializing (in 30 years or so?) that'll be 3bn people in
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In the UK average rental yields are under 5%, which means that on average over time renting is cheaper than servicing mortgage debt. There are a lot of other factors that make a difference though, especially related to personal financial di
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With software it's really hard to say what below cost actually is. Amortized fixed cost, or just the variable cost? If you are talking about the latter then no, it's probably not dumping. If you are looking at the former I bet it's not so c
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Because in my opinion it looks awfully close to dumping that is being cross-subsidized by their profitable laptop and desktop monopoly. "Microsoft charges local OEMs $32 for XP Home on netbooks, compared to around $65 for XP Home on desktop
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FTA> "As form factors shrink power efficiency and battery life will increasingly drive market success." I hope it does work out like that, because cheap Linux-only hardware will only help Linux adoption! However I still think this is in
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I like the social auth login features. Is there a good/clean way to integrate social auth with an existing django authentication db? E.g. providing generic views to let current users link their accounts against their google/twitter ID, and
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There's already cheap technology to do this using a Wii remote camera attached to the screen and a pair of IR LEDS mounted on your glasses. Those low resolution IR cameras must have been produced in such huge quantities I bet they are prett
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For the general market I don't believe ARM will get far until there's a Windows ARM port available. I'm a 100% Linux user and my Atom netbook is a pain-free experience. All software (including Flash and Skype) works out of the box as intend
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FTA> Heating up the LEDs would help defeat the purpose of saving energy. This will only be true if it snows every day! Or are they really proposing switching bulbs twice a year? (There are plenty of people in MA who keep their incandesc
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Which is an attempt to modify the implied obligations that have arisen from: - Previous announcements that there would be a text mate 2. - General expectations about what normal software companies do. The point I was hoping to make is that
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If you start thinking like that, then you don't deserve your customer's money. This isn't an open source project where obligations are low - and even in open source projects there are _some_ obligations - this is a business that has obligat
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You can also use Unicode in comments, which may or ʎɐɯ ʇou be a bug but did surprise me.
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That's sort of similar to what I would build if I were in charge of the Apple iTablet project. A light-weight ~13 inch screen with a built in stand that you could use as a wireless second screen for your macbook (/pro). When the laptop was
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by notauser 17y ago
Expanding my startup, http://theplanis.com , out to another hundred users - although I'm facing a difficult decision between that and one which already has a well-paying customer and angel funding on the table.
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This is the same in every profession though. Once you know the rules, and the reasons behind the rules, and the consequences of breaking the rules, you can consider the trade-offs of not sticking to the rules in this specific case because i
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Compiler discussion to one side for a minute... Intel does more than just make noises about open source. Their wifi and graphics chip set support has been excellent over the years. Prior to the recent changes at ATI they were pretty much th
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Thanks for taking the time to answer :-)
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My only question at this point is - why bingo cards? You have a marketing and SEO platform that's clearly optimized to heck at this point, yet it's returning $30k/yr on $45k. There are content businesses I have personal contact with turning
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by notauser 17y ago
Indeed, which is why a small step (such as introducing a large number of cheap computers) is the only practical step. You can't wait for perfection - you have to get started with what's practical now and iterate. Equal opportunity for all i
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by notauser 17y ago
To illustrate the scale of the tragedy there are around 1.1bn people living in poverty. If those people had been afforded opportunities similar to those available in the US their total salaries would be somewhere between $20 and $40 trillio
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It seems more efficient to try and raise economic activity to the point where foreign aid is no longer required; the OLPC was an attempt to do this through jump starting technology education. The areas for which it was intended did not need
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I'd sort of expected it to be around the 2-3% level as it would be for a merchant account. At 14% I might give it a go on a prototype, then rip it out and build my own the moment I saw the potential for high traffic volumes. Edit: A slidin
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'If I have seen further than others, it's because I am surrounded by dwarfs.' -- attributed to Murray Gell-Mann (I generally prefer Newton's version, and I'll aspire to be so humble until my achievements better his.)
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You should hope that your students surpass you, because that way there's someone who owes you a favor and knows something you should learn.
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Here's a very good example of sharing-while-teaching. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/774316/python-difflib-hig... The answer points the way but requires comprehension of the already-illustrated points to successfully complete the solu
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It's true of a lot of commercial code as well. How often do junior devs and contract coders deliver something perfect on the first try, especially if they are coding for their problem and you are trying to keep the needs of the whole commun
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The point from the article is that the NSA doesn't permit 'password of the day' style encryption - it's all or nothing. For the operational requirements of the predator, nothing was better than all. They'd prefer an intermediate option, but
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In many ways it's more irritating when it happens with Apple software because they have set expectations about usability higher. I _know_ I'm going to need to zap a new PC, so it doesn't bother me so much. Compare to OS X where I was promis
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"I’m not releasing JSC compiler today because I’m not satisfied with the code in the current version." No one is ever satisfied with the code in the current version. If it works, open it up with suitable disclaimers. That'll put pressure on

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