rottyguy

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by rottyguy 13y ago
"Growing up in Van Phuc, a village outside Hanoi famous for silk-making, Nguyen (pronounced nwin) never imagined being a world-famous game designer." As Nguyen is a very popular Vietnamese name, I'd thought to bring this up..
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by rottyguy 13y ago
With all these companies reporting, anyone have the cheat sheet on the rankings of the size of the owned clusters by company? I suspect NSA is tops but we'll never know (just like claims that Putin is the richest man in the world :-)
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by rottyguy 13y ago
Is there a good definition of processed food anywhere? All the ones I've seen have been made by examples (eg. Processed foods like hotdogs, bologne, etc.). Is it any food that have anything added to them for preservation or enhancem
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by rottyguy 13y ago
Jokingly, I was thinking the same. From my comic book days/boys life magazines.. http://livingbetweenwednesdays.com/wp-content/uploads/image/...
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by rottyguy 13y ago
A bit surprised by how much attention this article is getting here. Someone nailed it by saying it has much breadth but little depth. A speed dating synopsis of competing programming language to speak. Obviously the author likes brunette
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by rottyguy 13y ago
I get your point but I do empathize with the OP in the msoft bigotry here gets really old. Those of us that use it feel ostracized and bucketted to second class citizen status. For those lost in the .net world, I'll say the feeling i
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by rottyguy 13y ago
Young people are one segment. Those hitting a wall in their late 30's/40's are another. Just need folks with an itch to scratch young or old(er)
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by rottyguy 13y ago
A few thoughts.. I'm sure like many, I'm blown away at that price tag consider Motorola went for 12B and the recent TWC/Comcast is valued at 45B with both having hard assets. But after some reflections, I can see some positi
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by rottyguy 13y ago
With Amazon and Google finding some success in diversifying their offerings, one must posit if this is what companies need to do to remain competitive and sustain. Leaders lead!
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by rottyguy 13y ago
but realize how long it takes for humans to learn to speak/comprehend complete sentences.. heck to be potty trained even.
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by rottyguy 13y ago
Seems like Google and Amazon are building similar companies baselined on revenues from disparate sources (AMZN: Merchandise/GOOG:Search -- realize this is not the complete picture but certainly the starting point). Interesting to see
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by rottyguy 13y ago
Any comments on the build system being used for a monolithic hive of this size?
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Didn't Yelp do something like this before switching business models?
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by rottyguy 13y ago
How is the sp2 on the lap? I like laying on the couch and surf and concerned with the stability of the sp2 in this position.
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by rottyguy 13y ago
odd, tried to post the link to archive.org/... to my fb page (via iphone) and it rejected it saying it was flagged as spammy.
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by rottyguy 13y ago
the problem is not coming up with hard passwords. the problem is trying to remember all of them across the litany of places that require them (many with varying policies for creating "safe" passwords). if we can solve the "
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anything similar for higher level languages (c# or the likes)?
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by rottyguy 13y ago
They're trying to solve a very real problem for their industry. I would also point out that others may want to get involved. To wit: Google mainstreamed the idea of automating cars yet mercedez, bmw, etc. will probably beat them to t
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by rottyguy 13y ago
Wouldn't it be something if the drones could wait around for a few mins to allow you to inspect the items for return? :-)
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by rottyguy 13y ago
In the 60min piece, Bezos mentioned 85% of their sold products are 5lbs or less... (wonder if that includes the digital stuff?)
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by rottyguy 13y ago
Landing on roofs? Balconies? Amazon mini-helipad mounted outside your window? :-). buildings built to accommodate drone delivery (usable by usps/fedex/ups/drugstores/pizza, food delivery?)
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by rottyguy 13y ago
Bezos, in the interview, intimated 2015 was the targeted year to get the regulations approved.
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by rottyguy 13y ago
electric. youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98BIu9dpwHU
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by rottyguy 13y ago
Yep, I get that. But they IPO'd in 1997. Again, not to detract, and in fact I'm amazed by how they've been able to compete both on the Brick & Mortar stage and Digital Services stage. I've just never seen a compan
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by rottyguy 13y ago
Not really meant to be a slam, but startling to me that even after all these years, Amazon still has a PE of 1330+.
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by rottyguy 13y ago
Funny this came up today. Had a flashback moment with a colleague yesterday when he mentioned BASIC (Beginner All Purpose Symbolic Instructional Code?). My earliest memory of "programming" was copying cheat editors for Ultima an
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Swine-dled!
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by rottyguy 13y ago
Had mine done in the late 90's and it's the best money I've ever spent. Period. I find in conversations with folks on the fence that it's mostly psychological (fear). To that I say, spend the extra money on the doctor
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by rottyguy 13y ago
A potential side-effect to this company would be googles technology expertise married to the biotech/pharma? world. We often hear that this drug cost billions to manufacture and therefore we need to recoup our costs through it's
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by rottyguy 13y ago
A few thoughts: 1) We don't have to hit the ball out of the park on our first time out. I'd be happy to see a hyperloop prototype from, say, Manhattan to JFK built. 2) Which countries might "race" to get something like t

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