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by pitchups 12y ago
Sometimes one can't help but wonder if the long term impact of everyone being connected, all the time, is not going to be one planet-scale hive mind!
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by pitchups 12y ago
>"Companies who still need high growth to justify their stock price (read: Apple) are distressed about the notion that everybody on the planet who can afford a smart phone already has one" Not true - India has ~800+ million mob
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by pitchups 12y ago
> "If we have optimism, but we don't have empathy – then it doesn't matter how much we master the secrets of science, we're not really solving problems; we're just working on puzzles." Brilliant and moving!
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India begins giant general election(bbc.com)
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Malaysia says missing plane crashed in Indian Ocean(reuters.com)
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by pitchups 13y ago
Remember though, that the best ideas initially sound like really bad ideas, as explained by PG in his essay (based on pretty good empirical evidence from funding hundreds of them ): http://paulgraham.com/swan.html So there
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by pitchups 13y ago
Of course, there is no denying that Newton built upon much of the work of his predecessors - notably Galileo's early experiments in motion, as well Kepler, Huygens, Barrow and others. But there were a significant number of original ide
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by pitchups 13y ago
This is truly fascinating - a peek into the earliest thinking of arguably one of the greatest scientific minds who ever lived. It never ceases to amaze me that Newton, almost single-handedly and working all by himself pretty much laid the f
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by pitchups 13y ago
Even more interesting is his old resume : http://infolab.stanford.edu/~sergey/resume.html Or rather what is hidden in a comment in the HTML - (view source to see it): <!--<H4>Objective:</H4> A
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by pitchups 13y ago
This may well be an example of our ability to find patterns based only on "thin slices," or narrow windows, of experience. [0] Called "thin-slicing", first read about it in "Blink" by Gladwell, which is based e
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Chris Dixon on Good Ideas That Looked Like Bad Ideas (video)(avc.com)
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Scaling to millions of simultaneous connections (2012) [pdf](erlang-factory.com)
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by pitchups 13y ago
True, the reasons are different. But the motivation is the same : to stay ahead of the competition. In my view, and based on my own experience, Whatsapp is being used as a light-weight social network built around messaging and optimized fo
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by pitchups 13y ago
Pretty amazing that this is precisely what Microsoft paid for Hotmail in 1998 : $400 million for 10 million users = $40 / User. [1] The parallels are striking : Whatsapp is to messaging today what Hotmail was to messaging in the late
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by pitchups 13y ago
Not to be a contrarian, but am I the only one who finds the entire concept of badges antiquated to begin with. With today's technology, why not use RFIDs or a smartphone that automatically signs you in, alerts security if your tag is i
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by pitchups 13y ago
House of Cards could not have got a better endorsement or a better ad : Obama has over 41 million Twitter followers, and that particular tweet had gotten over 10,000 retweets. Netflix probably gained a few thousand new subscribers already.
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by pitchups 13y ago
Great advice overall - but this sums it up best: -"When you can deliver more value for less money—and do it in a scalable way—you know you have a better product/market fit than companies that have come before you."-
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by pitchups 13y ago
Wait a minute, this is ridiculous - the top bid on a used iPhone 5 with a pre-installed -free- app is currently over $90,000? And there is a bidding war going on - with 65 bids on that item!
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Syntax across languages(rigaux.org)
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by pitchups 13y ago
Neat! Not familiar though with generating functions - can you pls explain how the generating function for the Fibonnaci sequence is x/(1 - x - x^2 ) ?
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by pitchups 13y ago
I agree most of these users would not worry about the security of their personal data. But privacy may be more relevant - for example if they are keeping a private journal . In any case, the software does encrypt and password protect the da
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by pitchups 13y ago
Also wondering how they plan to address the problem of users losing their USB sticks or mistakenly swapping them with others, and the security of the personal data. Assuming the sticks will use encryption to store personal data. In which ca
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by pitchups 13y ago
Great idea and mission - kudos to the founders to try to make it a reality. However, there are some challenges : a) Illiteracy and training the users. Although here the unexpected results of the "hole-in-the-wall" experiment of Su
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NSA spying through Angry Birds, Google Maps, leaked documents reportedly reveal(foxnews.com)
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Richest 85 boast same wealth as half the world(smh.com.au)
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by pitchups 13y ago
And also because that is the hallmark of a true hacker - roll your own - rather than rely on a ready made solution!
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by pitchups 13y ago
That is great - but just curious, how do you earn $1700 from a free ebook? Edit : Never mind - figured out by visiting the link to the book on Epub :)
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by pitchups 13y ago
From the article : > "The Pentagon alone has never been audited, leaving roughly $8.5 trillion in taxpayer dollars unaccounted for since 1996, the first year it was supposed to be audited." Wow - that means an average of $500
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3-D Tissue Printing: Cells from the Eye Inkjet-Printed for the First Time(sciencedaily.com)
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China’s Economy, in Six Charts(blogs.hbr.org)
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