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"When a company called PayScale recently surveyed the country’s 32 most successful tech companies, it found that just six of them had a median age over 35. (The median age at Facebook, Google, Zynga, AOL, and Zynga was 30 years or youn
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Amazon's basic business model is not focused on surveillance or putting all your data in the cloud or vendor lock in. While we could debate what "basic business models" means, Amazon more than anyone wants to understand you
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How many servers does it go through? Mail in the real world, today, is virtually always source server -> destination MX server. There was once a fanciful era when occasionally offline servers passed off to various smarthosts, and this wa
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A good example of how bad it has become is that modern processors have a rather good understanding of the 'string' concept, and offer instructions to process them. C offers a char. The x86 string functionality that I'm awar
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>The world could really use a good competitor to Adsense, couldn't it? Adsense is a lot like PayPal -- conceptually it seems easy to compete, but your biggest challenge has nothing to do with the legitimate product, but instead is p
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It sounds like Rust, right now, can build a library that you can use in an NDK app. Go, right now, can build a service or utility that you can use in any Android app. http://goo.gl/mkCaJd It isn't integrated, and as th
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It is an ahead-of-time-compiling run-time for Dalvik. ART and Dalvik fill the same role, and are redundant with each other. They both take DEX (which I suppose you could call Dalvik bytecode, but now that it's runtime independent it
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>Google excessively downplays Only Google Now is entirely and absolutely built upon a pervasive trawling of everything you do, and users love them for it. It knows every location you regularly visit (categorizing them into locations like
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Google has acquired Nest... so now Google has also acquired Dropcam Nest wasn't an acquihire or an assimilation, but was always stated as a separately operating organization. As such, it makes total sense that Nest acquisitions are h
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Language design has to balance expressiveness with maintainability, and there is absolutely no question that some additions lean far more to the former than the latter. Operator overloading, as mentioned, is something that seems fantastic w
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reverberate in certain acoustic configurations This is a very important point. Low frequency noises can have a wavelength exactly the size of common rooms, yielding an unbearable amplification as the waves gang up with common peaks and tr
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This caused issues in locating the Windsor hum, as mentioned in the article. It seems like it should be extremely easy to put up a couple of mics and narrow it down, but it ended up being a significant technical challenge involving a number
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My take away from the article is "environmental pollution is no fun": Noise pollution, particularly low frequencies that travel huge distances and through most materials, can be infuriating, especially if other people aren't
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I passed zero judgment on CouchDB, but was responding specifically to the notion that doing something "wrong" if it saves you a small amount of development time at the outset is fine. When these are foundational things like your d
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A Go map is of the defintion map[KeyType]ValueType. A Go slice and dynamic array is similar typed. That isn't heterogeneous, it isn't of type object, and is 99% of the common use of generics. Yeah, the native fundamental collectio
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The discussion is what Google's "core business" is. Google makes less than 1/5th of their revenue from their ad network in third party products and sites. The overwhelming majority of their money comes from monetization
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In terms of time, which is by far the biggest cost in most development, CouchDB is the better option. For a single, one-off utility, sure. For anything that you ever planned for production, that would be crazy . Just to be clear, the men
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So yes, objectively. No, it isn't objectively. You are subjectively choosing the criteria that makes one purportedly better than the other, yet they have zero applicability to the use or operation of a smartphone. Grip matters very
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I wonder, have we really pushed relational databases to their breaking point? The primary limitation of relational databases were traditionally that without expert level optimizations (which, realistically, data-focused organizations shou
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Go "lists" are type dynamic -- "generics" in the most important place for generics to be.
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Other android phones: Moto phones are <= $300, Nexus 5 is at $350. You claimed that it was targeted at the iPhone based upon price, when many of the top selling Android devices are the same price as the iPhone. So you would say this c
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Their core business is that monetization, by definition. The NFL is primarily sponsored through network agreements, which themselves are primarily sponsored through advertisers. Is the "core business" of the NFL, then, advertisi
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Google's core business is making services that people like to use. That they monetize some of those services via advertisements is a function of the industry that they operate in: There was no market for a pay search engine, or even
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I would say the price differential between this and good android phones The Galaxy S5 is a $600 device. The HTC One is a $600 device. The LG G3 is a $600 device. The iPhone is a $600 device. I'm not seeing the price differential. How
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iPhone has the build quality though. This is rubber and glass, not metal. "Build quality" is such a meaningless term in common usage of smartphones, and speaks to personal subjective aesthetics, not some utility of purpose. And
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Google sells the technology so that they can sell advertising for third party products. I see this a lot of HN, and I wonder if people are just assuming? To put it into context, I see far more ads on my iPad and iPad Touch than I ever h
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The Liberals are actually the ones who got us into the JSF program. Every opposition government ever opposes whatever large military procurement is proposed: It's easy to find negatives, and there is no real downside to be negative. Oc
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What's the point of a fallible solution? The only people who actually need cryptography need infallible solutions. There is no such thing as an infallible solution. Start with that. When you're talking about actors who are explo
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EDIT: I remain convinced that it is impossible to have any credible security discussion on HN. Everyone just clucks and spouts rhetoric, the Ptacek fan club in full effect. No security solution is absolute, but instead every security appr
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PGP being "too hard" doesn't mean that browser crypto "has its place". While I've always enormously respected your opinion, you seem to have a very black/white perspective, aggressively attacking and&#x2

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