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by tacos 11y ago
#4: "it is self-explanatory."
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by tacos 11y ago
Good luck testing it without developing it. And double good luck getting something without investing in it. Apply business process after you actually have the kernel of a product, which includes a product design.
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by tacos 11y ago
You can click two boxes on maybe 300 different financial websites and see this data. Which doesn't apply to the "unicorn" situation anyway. Volatility appears (and is fed back) as people re-evaluate risk vs reward. People who
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by tacos 11y ago
This article is a clumsy and self-centered retelling of "Dieter Rams: ten principles for good design" from 40 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieter_Rams#Dieter_Rams:_ten_p...
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by tacos 11y ago
That's the 32 bit integer subset, floating point is available. Plenty of stuff can get away with integer-only. Massive numbers of Xilinx DSP48 on a FPGA is pretty common.
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by tacos 11y ago
Yes, in the short term scheme of things. The bigger news is the long-term trend and the crossing of the psychological IPO threshold.
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by tacos 11y ago
You prefer less boilerplate in this situation, I prefer more. I consulted to law firms, perhaps you have not. Mythbusters say "don't try this at home" why can't he?
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by tacos 11y ago
> This is a blog post on the author's personal blog No, the context is now reframed as a post on a highly-influential site, this one. The author is now commenting here, which is great. But "Don't try something like this wi
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by tacos 11y ago
Do what you want privately but the value proposition changes when you publish your self-experimentation world-wide. More so when you promote it. And yet more still if and when you try to profit from it. There are clear and common ethical st
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by tacos 11y ago
Nonsense. A proper scientific experiment would have controls and independent results and medical oversight and calibrated measurement equipment and a clear definition of what's attempting to be proved. This is a guy fooling around and
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by tacos 11y ago
I'm not sure if this is pseudoscience or anecdata but I'm sure I could find six doctors saying that this is a horrible idea. From the post: "I couldn’t find any publication about ultra distances and significant amount of fast
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by tacos 11y ago
People in digital audio forums debate what's a better sounding backup medium: CD-R or hard drive or Dropbox. They swear they can hear a difference. Yet the sha-1 hashes match. And these are not dumb people; it just shows you what happe
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by tacos 11y ago
The article states "the enclosure has the dominant influence" and it's far greater than any measurable impact of the speakers. The worst-case change is an inaudible .09 dB difference.
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by tacos 11y ago
There's an entire sub-industry devoted to this sort of nonsense. Besides, everyone knows you have to break in your cables, too (sigh). I present the Cable Cooker: http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue47/cablecooke
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by tacos 11y ago
They're trying... "Headquartered in [BuzzFeed's] new San Francisco bureau, The Open Lab for Journalism Technology and the Arts will be dedicated to coming up with new tools and technology that will benefit reporting and journ
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by tacos 11y ago
Current top post quotes the most negative observation of the paper. Here's the most positive, and perhaps the most useful to HN readers or investors who are exploring the space: "Deep learning has produced amazing discriminative
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by tacos 11y ago
write one? it's simple algebra.
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by tacos 11y ago
GMP is arbitrary precision. __int128 on a 64 bit processor is optimized for one size.
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by tacos 11y ago
"So Yahoo paid $1.1 billion for a company that made $14 million in revenue last year. It took Tumblr five years to generate as much annual revenue as a moderately well-managed New York deli." http://www.forbes.com&#x2F
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by tacos 11y ago
I once spotted an Etsy card on Tumblr. 7,000+ reblogs. A month later the $3 card was still available. I contacted the artist asking about it. "If I had a nickel..." she said. Tumblr's just not a place you go when you're
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by tacos 11y ago
During the SOPA debacle, Tumblr informed their entire userbase via their dashboards that forthcoming legislation would destroy the service . They enabled one-click to contact your representative. It generated 87,000 calls. http:/&#x2
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by tacos 11y ago
Shipped on LCD TVs from multiple manufacturers in 2008, too: "new TVs automatically tweak their on-screen colors to complement say, the orange glow of incandescent lights in the evening or the bluish tint of midday sunshine." Six
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by tacos 11y ago
Tweaking color temperature has been done in Hollywood since... well, color. You won't see a window on a set that hasn't been treated to balance indoor and outdoor light. Tinting flashbulbs is common. Film editors select different
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by tacos 11y ago
I see this exact statement repeatedly and it concerns me. F.lux isn't designed to make things "easy on the eyes." If you're having that reaction, and you feel it as strongly as your post implies, it may indicate a differ
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by tacos 11y ago
Part of me was hoping they'd let it go. While awareness of this issue is greater now than it was six years ago, I'm not sure if they've been pushing this wave closer to shore or merely surfing it. If this is truly the world h
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by tacos 11y ago
Identical experience here. Installed Honeywell RedLINK and finally my problems went away. Ditto Honeywell wireless security, also works great. There's SO MUCH crap out there, and the wave hasn't even started yet.
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by tacos 11y ago
And the unforeseen consequences to the "quick, innocent fix" more important still. They did not handle this properly.
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by tacos 11y ago
> it really seems like the same things are happening again Indeed, Starbucks pulled almost the exact same thing in 2012 with Square: http://money.cnn.com/2015/10/15/technology/square-starbucks/
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by tacos 11y ago
I'd like to commend the author for the tone of this article. It's the right mix of "paper" and "blog post." It's an experiment that sort of flops and there will be a variety of "yay for tech!" an
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by tacos 11y ago
I liked this exact comment when I first read it back in 1985. At least now I can upvote it. That's progress.

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