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by protagonist_h 15y ago
Finding such non-invasive glucose meter has been a longstanding research goal but with very little success so far. Hope this guys have more luck. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noninvasive_glucose_monitor
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by protagonist_h 15y ago
One big thing the author overlooks is how first-world technologies tend to eventually "spill-over" into the third-world where they find their uses. Just look how Facebook and Twitter are bringing democracy to the Middle East. Yes, these thi
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by protagonist_h 15y ago
this is mostly because the best robotics labs are in that area (MIT and CMU) and guys like Rodney Brooks and Hans Moravec live in that area.
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by protagonist_h 15y ago
> guys who did gmail or Youtube and say yes, they got a good exit as far as I know gmail was built at Google internally, it wasn't an acquired startup.
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by protagonist_h 15y ago
Java? so uncool! I wonder why Google doesn't use one of those sexy functional languages. They could at least use Scala.
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by protagonist_h 15y ago
Building a time-keeping system for large city like NYC is many,many times more work than building web-framework like Django. It's not a technically complicated problem, but it has a different kind of complexity. That complexity comes comple
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by protagonist_h 15y ago
what? it took 400 man hours to replace a logo?
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by protagonist_h 15y ago
Flash has had peer-to-peer video support for 3 years now and it's available to 90%+ users on the web. Chatroulette was built in 2 days around this technology. Whenever "standards" catch up to Flash, it's being touted as "amazing".
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by protagonist_h 15y ago
Every startup has a technical and business component, but their relative importance varies greatly. On one end of the spectrum, you have companies like Google which is a purely technical achievement; on the other you have Groupon which is a
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by protagonist_h 15y ago
Judging from responses, the topic resonates well here. Therefore a more interesting question to ask is ― why so many hackers are introverts/shy/anti-social etc? Or more precisely, which one causes the other? Is it spending too much time in
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by protagonist_h 15y ago
the idea of storing code in DB isn't new. there are couple "exotic" system which do it, SAP R/3 being one of them.
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by protagonist_h 15y ago
No, in fact it's been available in FP10 since October 2008.
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by protagonist_h 15y ago
Flash supports peer-to-peer communication since Flash Player 10 using RTMFP (Real Time Media Flow Protocol).