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by paul_f 12y ago
This is not simple issue at all. Who's at fault if anti-lock brakes don't work as expected? What about cruise control? The new cruise control that auto-follows? What about lane-following technology? We are not going to jump direct
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by paul_f 12y ago
Just think of how little time your car is actually driving versus being parked.
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by paul_f 12y ago
I see another player that Skype is going after - WebEx. Most uses for WebEx are simple video chatting. Most times no one need the dozens of other features that WebEx offers in their bloated product. In true innovators dilemma fashion, I can
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by paul_f 12y ago
The article clearly makes the case that tracking churn is critical to analyzing the overall health of a business. And the reason why churn is so critical for cash-strapped startups is that new customers are so expensive. In many cases it is
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by paul_f 13y ago
In the early 80s, even though I had access to a terminal, I always wrote my code out with pencil and paper before typing it in. Don't remember why exactly. I wonder if that was just a holdover from an earlier time and how we were taugh
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by paul_f 13y ago
The title of the article really annoys me. Not all fat is unhealthy. What is especially bothersome is that food companies are creating "low fat" foods by replacing fat with sugar, making them much less healthy than the original yo
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by paul_f 13y ago
This may be a dumb question, but why are they test landing in the ocean instead of on land? Flight paths preclude it?
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by paul_f 13y ago
Essentially "social" is a feature, not a product.
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by paul_f 13y ago
"Aereo has absolutely no right to distribute OTA broadcast signals" In the US, ones does not need an explicit "right" to do something that is legal. I don't even understand that way of thinking. We delegate powers t
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by paul_f 13y ago
There is no legal basis for this, which you are presenting as fact: Because the company is doing the performance to the public
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by paul_f 13y ago
This is why I would never use Google for anything mission critical. You can't trust them to keep anything going.
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by paul_f 13y ago
Who is funding this project? Hard to believe anyone would run a free 7-week course because they like to teach. This is similar to a course taught by General Assembly here in the US, but that course costs $11,500.
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by paul_f 13y ago
Agree! Seems this is the most important thing and I'm surprised it's not available. Without it, this api doesn't seem to add much value.
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by paul_f 13y ago
What's the point of being a great artist if you don't produce? Only one movie in the last 12 years of his life is sad for him, and for us.
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by paul_f 13y ago
Step back for a minute and realize how astonishing these devices are. As someone who was in the semiconductor industry in the late 80s and 90s I am just blown away. We are putting magic on chips
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by paul_f 13y ago
I'm assuming the original pronounciation was lost in the war.
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by paul_f 13y ago
What if instead, Uber offered a $2 discount for unsafe, uninsured rides? Is this logical? Of course not. Therefore, what Uber is doing seems absurd, IMO.
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by paul_f 13y ago
You know what really annoys me? People are now so used to gas starters or starter logs, that they don't split their wood at all. Just pile up the whole pieces and try to start a fire. Then fight it for three hours and end up with smoke
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by paul_f 13y ago
Lawyers are expensive. And they will be needed for engagements with cities, getting laws changed and even defending themselves in lawsuits.
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by paul_f 13y ago
They tore down the old church and built a new, modern one on the site. This is what makes this whole story so absurd to me.
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by paul_f 13y ago
Maybe this is a dumb question, but why couldn't they have found another location for the new church? Why did it have to be on the same plot as the Citicorp building?
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by paul_f 13y ago
This is interesting, but I have no idea if it is true or not. Would love to seem some data on this.
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by paul_f 13y ago
Can someone provide a quick summary of what was it that made Marquez so prominent? I had not know much about him at all. FYI, if like me, you have trouble accessing the article, and using Chrome, right-click and open in an incognito window.
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by paul_f 13y ago
This is the money quote; "They have a lot of investment guys, who are like bankers, and they don’t use their engineering talent to do due diligence."
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by paul_f 13y ago
It would seem that word length is important too. Between 5 and 8 characters. Wouldn't that drop in half the size of the vocabulary?
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by paul_f 13y ago
This isn't all bad news. The money to pay support and new machines will come from their "enforcement" budget. That's a win for taxpayers.
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by paul_f 13y ago
Nah, it will be a competition between GoogBucks and iMoney. With Google eventually winning. They always do.
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by paul_f 13y ago
Maybe you are solving an annoyance and not a real problem. All problems are being solved somehow. It is important problems being solved poorly that lead to successful products. This likely fails that test.
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by paul_f 13y ago
This lesson shows the difficulty in testing of any game or pop song or any other product that is really "fashion." They do not follow the same rules as a typical business model would. You're not solving a problem or getting a
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by paul_f 13y ago
Maybe it was inevitable for many, but for those of us born well before the mass adoption of the Internet, this feels historic.

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