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by thinkling 14y ago
Both in timing and in content this could be a good lead-in to the University of Washington's Intro to Data Science class that looks like it will have more of a focus on 'big data', NoSQL, Hadoop, data mining, etc. https://www.coursera.org/
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UW Introduction to Data Science (Online, Free)(coursera.org)
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by thinkling 14y ago
Interestingly, this is exactly compatible with what Andrea Dwork writes about in "Mindset" [1]: people whose identity evolves around being "smart" or "talented" are often less willing to take on risks or big projects than those who have gro
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by thinkling 14y ago
This was just discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4847468
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by thinkling 14y ago
Ah, the credit card number is part of the encryption/decryption key [1]. Since it seems unlikely that the Nook decrypts the book once and stores a decrypted copy, the Nook also must store the credit card number--or hopefully a hashed versio
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Jeff Bezos raised $1M from 22 people to get Amazon started(thenextweb.com)
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by thinkling 14y ago
I don't doubt that Adobe DRM may be awfl, but when the customer isn't allowed to download the book, how does the DRM implementation enter into it? The DRM (as embedded in the ebook files) isn't in play here.
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by thinkling 14y ago
Possibly Paul (Barton-)Davis [1]? [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Davis_(programmer)
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by thinkling 14y ago
Sure, iTunes sells DRM-free music now, but it didn't always so many long-time users will still have DRM'd content around. And you can pull the DRM-free music to another device, but then there's your playlists, your ratings, play counts, cur
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by thinkling 15y ago
Back in 1997, Microsoft invested $150m in Apple along with a release of Office for the Mac. That worked out pretty well. Now after a bit of inflation, it's $250m and a release of Windows Phone.
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by thinkling 15y ago
That's why I phrased it exactly like that. :) I would imagine (yes, I'm speculating) that the control panel uses a standard OS interface to enumerate audio devices, and when the internal microphone drops off the list in the dialog, that ref
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by thinkling 15y ago
When you plug a microphone device (e.g. a headphones/mic combo that comes with the iPhone) into the single audio port on a recent Macbook, it will be detected and the control panel will switch to giving you settings for "External microphone