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by tjmc 17y ago
I thought Eestor was the most secretive startup in the world or don't elaborate cleantech frauds count?
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by tjmc 17y ago
Adaptive cruise control has been on high end cars for over a decade - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_cruise_control_syste... . It would be good to see it standardized as it can significantly reduce traffic congestion that's caused
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by tjmc 17y ago
Not much detail in the article, but it's right about GA engines not changing much in the last 40 years. It's a classic example of regulation stifling innovation - aircraft engines must by law be completely disassembled, inspected and then r
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by tjmc 17y ago
My own little data point fwiw - I'm using an iPhone 3GS in Perth, Australia on the Vodafone network. The reception is definitely worse than my old Nokia on the same network. I've heard similar things from friends using iPhones on Optus whic
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by tjmc 17y ago
I suspect most of these users just use the browser that shipped with their OS. So Windows 7 may be the unlikely saviour - particularly after the next corporate refresh cycle.
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World's oldest intact computer is turning 60(abc.net.au)
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by tjmc 17y ago
I'm not so sure about that. From an interview with Steve Jobs in the NY Times 1 Nov 2007: “I don’t want people to think of this as a computer,” he said. “I think of it as reinventing the phone.” "We define everything that is on the phone,”
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by tjmc 17y ago
My apartment gets absolutely no signal of any kind, so why would I be able to get a solid GPS satellite lock? Ridiculous. I don't understand this complaint. Lack of cell phone signal has nothing to do with GPS signal availability. You jus
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by tjmc 17y ago
A math professor once complained to me that all the cars in line should just go when the light turns green. That happens in Sydney
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by tjmc 17y ago
Not always. In Australia, it's available on all the major carriers - Telstra, Optus, Vodafone and 3 plus some virtual carriers who resell service from the majors.
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by tjmc 17y ago
Burt Rutan - the Ruth/Gretzky/Bradman of aviation engineering
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by tjmc 17y ago
To paraphrase: you'll be happier working for The Man than working for The Boys. I think the point here is he's talking about being an employee, not a founder or a partner. The great benefit of running a startup is doing things your way. U
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by tjmc 17y ago
You're right that MS won the browser wars because IE4 was simply better, but MS made a critical error by preventing OEMs from bundling Netscape. They would have won anyway, but instead they needlessly created an underdog and got pinned (rig
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by tjmc 17y ago
Tell that to Elon Musk. There'd likely be no Tesla and certainly no SpaceX if he hadn't sold PayPal to eBay. Anything customers 'lost' in PayPal's acquisition was vastly surpassed by the innovation of his subsequent companies.
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by tjmc 17y ago
They might also like to know about his personal fighter jet: http://www.airportjournals.com/Display.cfm?varID=0511014&#38...
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by tjmc 17y ago
This is great news. If you can teach the great unwashed blogging masses the difference between "there", "their" and "they're" you'll be doing the English language a great service too! ;-)
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by tjmc 17y ago
No - the Hacker News/PG convention of referring to 'startups' meaning only web software startups is misleading. The general use of the term is broader. Seeing the breakdown by category would be interesting though.
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by tjmc 17y ago
I get the sense they underestimate how hard it will be to get the optics right for that in a contact lens. It might be worthwhile to forget all the electronics to begin with and just focus (no pun intended) on making a static figure viewabl
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by tjmc 17y ago
Made me smile, but I don't agree that "dignity is merely a sort of plaque". That may be right if you're just talking about presentation/grooming, but "dignity" (to me) includes self assurance, courage and perhaps a bit of defiance. All good
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by tjmc 17y ago
Your comment reminds me of something I saw once. I worked a night shift in a video factory in London years ago when I was backpacking around Europe and running low on funds. At one point I was working next to a guy whos job it was to preven
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by tjmc 17y ago
Alpha still has an annoying bug where it processes input perfectly but and then doesn't compute anything. I tried this 3 months ago: "4.7L/100km to mpg" and the result is still the same - Alpha elegantly rephrases what I've asked for but th
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by tjmc 17y ago
Not relevant to the OP as he lives in Melbourne, Australia. The ATO (our IRS) already requires that this income is declared.
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by tjmc 17y ago
Outlook with Xobni at work. I've now become the guy that can find "that email".
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by tjmc 17y ago
Not a big fan of Rio either, but does simply working for a bad company justify imprisonment of the local management without charge? The facts should come out before arrests are made, not after.
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by tjmc 17y ago
No need to tell the head of Rio Tinto in China about dark gulags. He's been under arrest without charge for several weeks now for allegedly stealing "state secrets" that allowed Rio Tinto to negotiate good prices for iron ore from China's s
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by tjmc 17y ago
True, but who's to say you can't use another language in the JVM - eg. JRuby, Jython or Clojure
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by tjmc 17y ago
I love the insight that lacking critical thinking "originates in both lazy thinking and egocentric thinking". The latter is very true. I have never met a great programmer who thinks they are at the top of their game. Being aware of the trad
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by tjmc 17y ago
Agreed for the top end, but the market for low-mid range phones is really quite staggering. The UN estimates that over half the world's population now has a mobile phone ( http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/4933263/Half-of-w... ) Sy
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by tjmc 17y ago
I think that's a little defeatist. Apple caved when it came to developing full blown apps for the iPhone due to the outcry from developers. Remember, they originally only wanted to allow Safari based development. I'd love to see some creati
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by tjmc 17y ago
It is, but it's a bargain compared to a Verisign SSL certificate. If you stick to ASCII and take the generally accepted average of 5 letters per English word, the AP are charging $12.50 for 200 bits. VeriSign's "Secure Site Pro with EV" cos

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