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by sgk284 16y ago
In all fairness, Microsoft spent years buying up every major researcher in artificial vision and many other fields(to the point that Universities started complaining)and spent tens of millions developing this tech. It's something that Sony
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by sgk284 16y ago
My understanding is that this change in policy was directly in response to pressure from the EU and FTC probes.
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by sgk284 16y ago
But you get to put Columbia on your resume either way. That's all most companies care about.
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by sgk284 16y ago
Built in. You can walk the tree or just tell vim to put you back to how the document was at a certain time. (i.e. Put the document how it was 1 minute and 20 seconds ago) If you dont't know vim, I highly recommend learning it. (or emacs, bo
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by sgk284 16y ago
Google already licensed the patents from Microsoft that Microsoft is now suing Motorola over.
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by sgk284 16y ago
Apple was one of the first to sue Android, followed by Oracle, and now by Microsoft.
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by sgk284 16y ago
Courtesy is courtesy no matter what field you're in. I've always sent a thank you note no matter what. They took time out of their schedule for me, it's the least I could do. Here's two tips to help you: 1) You can never be too courte
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by sgk284 16y ago
Not sure about YCombinator, but TechStars is very open with their results. You can read up on them here: http://www.techstars.org/results/ I suspect YCombinator's are similar to those.
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by sgk284 16y ago
I was there for this celebration. It was all in good fun. The funeral was such a small portion of the day, it's being way overblown. It was like 15 minutes of an all day carnival. There was games, monster trucks to ride in, live music, and
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by sgk284 16y ago
I disagree. Overpopulation would effectively force humanity to create novel solutions. Perhaps we build up higher, or perhaps we move off of the planet, maybe we'll create giant artificial islands (or continents). We'd be forced to tackle
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by sgk284 16y ago
While Ajax has certainly caused headaches for me, it's probably the best thing that's ever happened to the web... and we can thank Microsoft for it.
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by sgk284 16y ago
Ah, just what I always wanted... living in constant fear that my government is watching me.
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by sgk284 16y ago
I don't think its a cycle or a spiral so much as a constant. People have always been greedy, wars have always been unnecessarily waged, companies have always abused their power. The only thing that changes are the names of those responsible
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by sgk284 16y ago
I understand the scoping issue here, but the recursive solution is just all around better: function countdown(num) { if(num < 0) { return; } setTimeout(function() { alert(num); countdo
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by sgk284 16y ago
Without getting into too much detail, I had previously worked at Google (which was a great experience, I recommend everyone does that at some point). I eventually found myself back in my hometown (Philadelphia) for a bit and my girlfriend a
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by sgk284 16y ago
While that's all true (one minor correction, 150 million Win7 licenses have been sold). If you haven't taken a look at Win7 mobile, you might want to. It's a pretty decent and novel approach to mobile UI. Microsoft has stepped up it's UI ef
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by sgk284 16y ago
I work on the Windows team and was front row at the big Win8 planning meeting. It was good fun with Steve Ballmer shouting right in front of me (I'd never experienced that before... he's amazing at getting a crowd going). I can't say much..
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by sgk284 16y ago
Xbox has been profitable for some time now (over two years), not sure where you're getting your info from.
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Very similar to the uncanny valley: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
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Engineering at Google is already 100% linux or OS X (at least when I was there in 2007), unless you were writing a client application targeting windows. This decision is about sales, marketing, HR, etc...
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by sgk284 16y ago
I also do simple email verification: 1) Send an email to the address. 2) If it succeeds, the address was valid.
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by sgk284 16y ago
Eh... humanity will always find a way. We've done pretty good so far. If nothing else, spending a few years flying to mars seems a lot more reasonable when you've got 1,000 to spare. Space colonization is one solution to overpopulation.
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by sgk284 16y ago
You'd be surprised how often this gets brought up internally (I'm a Microsoft employee), but unfortunately I can't say much more other than I've heard Ballmer directly speak about reasons for and against it. It's on everyone's mind from the
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by sgk284 16y ago
Hey, check out my reply here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1343564
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The software was actually an early warning system for students (software that detects anomalies in a student's progress). For instance, if a student suddenly started doing bad in three courses it signals different things than if a student s
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Our startup (based in Seattle) was looking at ways to help analyze the performance of teachers. It turns out that the unions lobbied for legislation in Washington that forbids such software from being installed in the schools. The unions do
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Where are you getting that quote from? They don't run Python on the JVM.
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The original buyer already covered the cost of online services provided. Reselling doesn't cost EA anything (it is no different than if the original buyer had just kept playing the game). It would be different if suddenly two players could
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I think he understands it just fine. Implement a tax that requires people to actually buy stock for reasons other than its price. Make it too expensive to trade millions of shares every second to make small fractions of a return. Make peopl
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by sgk284 16y ago
I think the argument is fairly sound and is great at concisely explaining why religion is a product of humanity's imagination and current culture. (With all due respect, don't take this as an affront on your beliefs.) I like the argument fo

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