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by salem 15y ago
There was an interesting comment from the stack overflow guys that they guessed that using AWS could cost them 4x more. The evernote guys are another high profile team that went their own way. I wonder what that says about the margins for A
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by salem 15y ago
Both illegal immigration and skilled immigration problems will be gone eventually with no action if the opportunities are no longer better here. Do the majority of Americans really want that?
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by salem 15y ago
Because the algorithm takes a slightly different code path over time depending on the bits of the key.
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by salem 15y ago
Wasn't it poor use of Tor, and someone running a high-bandwidth exit-node that bootstrapped wikileaks? http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/06/wikileaks-documents...
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by salem 15y ago
Whatever happened to that startup that would pay you to go to job interviews?
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by salem 15y ago
ARM, especially ARM-thumb mode, is the gold standard for instructions/watt. That's why it's in phones since way back. I don't see MIPS challenging that.
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by salem 15y ago
And a huge amount of communications gear, e.g. routers, cable/dsl modems, wifi access points etc
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by salem 15y ago
From the description, it seemed like there is a mode to handle this transparently in hardware
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by salem 15y ago
Now you know. From Medallion holders.
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by salem 15y ago
For now. Uber won't break their business model alone. They will probably maintain a premium for quality. But with the precedent set, other 'brands' will eventually jump in and attempt to duplicate the technology and offer taxi-like service
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by salem 15y ago
The internet is great at killing business models where middlemen make the lion share of profit. Like Taxi medallion holders. Über and services like it will destroy their margins eventually, and thus push down the price of medallions.
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by salem 15y ago
One important thing that people forget is that if you move to outsource something, you still need some way to do quality control and oversight of contractors who have little incentive in your success. Accounting for this often blows away th
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by salem 15y ago
If it is actually true, if they don't open up the data, then it's a wasted opportunity to put a solid case forward and change the culture.
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by salem 15y ago
You're thinking from a engineer's perspective, and not average joe. Average joe cares about are downloads 'fast', not that is has to have LTE. LTE is overkill for a broadly marketed product right now considering all the other sacrifices you
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by salem 15y ago
Yes, and it seems that their algorithm needs hints for natural image verses text
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by salem 15y ago
It would be more interesting to see which execs got huge compensation while getting big government handouts that have _not_ been repaid, and/or did not make the government money.
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by salem 15y ago
I guess this philosophy is why so many "web 2.0" companies make terrible iPhone apps. If testing and QA is responding to users experiencing bugs, then you will fail at making good packaged software.
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by salem 15y ago
OK, how is this different to whatever version of Windows Mobile, iOS or whatever? If you somehow had access to some pre-release version of iOS or Windows ce/mobile/7/8/9/whatever, you would be under NDA. If Google is working on some super a
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by salem 15y ago
Sweet! I hope they don't get bulldozed by Intel's aggressive (some might say 'predatory', but not me, no, not at all) pricing. I've been in a project where management decided to ditch AMD, do a hardware respin and linux driver re-writes due
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by salem 15y ago
Two problems are the amount of boilerplate customization and wine&dining by high-cost sales guys to get deals. Both are not very startup-esque and leave a dirty feeling.
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When innovation has dried up, and revenue likewise, what other options are there?
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Also, if there is high churn on those outgoing connections, then the problem is a little worse. The connections per second will be much lower than 60k, because of the timeout before the port number is reused for a new connection. Although,
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by salem 15y ago
That math is not quite correct. There is a timeout before the TCP stack will release the port for use in a new connection. That timeout can also be tuned, but just saying, not that simple...
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by salem 15y ago
If the iPad predated youtube, I would say that this article explains the quality of the comments on youtube....
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by salem 15y ago
All the cells in one string (i.e. all the cells in series, connected positive to negative terminal) need uniform sunlight. Otherwise some cells can go into reverse bias and dissipate the power of the other cells in the string. This happens,
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by salem 15y ago
I was heavily involved in solar car racing in the past. All the best racing teams have rather flat, if only slight curved arrays on their cars. Our first fancy super computer modeled array was much more curved to attempt get more power over
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by salem 15y ago
I think one of the comments of the linked article made the best point, his science teacher should have caught the mistake. Education and journalism FAIL...
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by salem 15y ago
Well, there are also companies that use full on market based systems internally. For example Alcoa has an 'internal market structure' for sourcing materials, and shuttering inefficient subsidaries if they cannot compete on price internally.
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by salem 15y ago
I would not be surprised if carriers rented space from BART to deploy equipment and antennas. Which would make BART the landlord, and provider of electrical power.
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Try to do all those steps again, and look at them from the point of view of someone who does not work in tech...

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