tomkarlo

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by tomkarlo 14y ago
In what way is this a move "towards the dark side"? I understand it's disappointing, but whenever someone doesn't do what you want, do you assume they're evil? There's an underlying sense of entitlement in the tech community that really rub
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
If the web had been as unpopular as RSS readers, things might have been different. In a health market, if the leader fails to innovate, competitors come in and steal share. In an unhealthy market that's not growing any more (like RSS), thin
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
For most non-techies, RSS (and Cloud Reader) never existed - they never even heard of it, much less used it. It's not "now" history.
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
You can't just let products sit around and fester. Even if you're not building new features, you have to support browser updates and patch security holes, and the latter in particular means you have to keep around folks familiar with the de
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
That would make more sense if there was a competitor that had arisen with better features and taken away users. Looking at the rest of this page, there doesn't seem to be any competitor at remotely the same scale as Google Reader. If usage
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
Even if you don't have replaceable RAM, you're still replacing your computer at some regular interval. It just means you have to buy the computer with more RAM than you would if it wasn't upgradeable (which was true anyway.) That's part of
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
It's hard to both target the leading edge of the market and also serve minimal-spec hardware targets. Seems like it would make more sense to have a different branch for those targets, being done by someone with a strong business interest in
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
It's possible, but there are always competing goals - speed, security, reliability, features, memory usage. When capacity on one is growing quickly (and cheaply), it's not surprising it doesn't get the same priority as some of the others. I
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
You don't open 100 apps on your computer and then complain about memory usage. Running 100 tabs at the same time, all of which may be running live JS processes, is about the same. It's a perfectly valid usage pattern but it's also going to
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
8GB of RAM is about $50 right now. If you have to replace that every $2 years, are you really complaining about the cost of $25 per year on your $1,000 computer system? It's a rounding error. Chrome, in particular, is generally be used for
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
Definitely possible. I was just replying to the suggestion that he had "no motive" to smuggle drugs. $400K (and tax-free) is a lot of motive, even if you have substantial savings. Martha Stewart was worth millions and ended up in jail over
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
There's some aspect of his personal finances that's been glossed over here... it's pretty clear that despite decades of income he didn't have much in the way of assets to use to pay for his defense. (One would think you'd sell anything you
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
I'm not sure that's comparable; that's rewarding ads for being more relevant to the original search (or penalizing ads for being less relevant.) CPC services get paid for clicks but have views for inventory, so it makes sense they'd favor s
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
As a general rule, if you don't know the answer to this question, you shouldn't invest. Unless you can come up with a solid reason for why a particular asset should provide a long-term return (net income, interest, or the correction of a cu
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
Is there a single named source in this article saying something that supports the main topic (the analyst is just stating the obvious)? I feel like this reporter does a lot of articles that sound like Silicon Valley bar chat. What happened
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
When someone does that, everyone on the subway car sees it. When someone gets pick-pocketed, nobody sees it. So there's a major sampling bias. That said, I've also seen some NYT articles saying the true "pick pocket artists" are a dying bre
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
It's fairly obvious you have to have the announcement first, then the rollout on major sites (that aren't run by Google.) If the reverse happened, it would be seen as a foul-up. Facebook did the same when they announced "Likes" on external
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
I don't think there's many Google services any more where you can't use your apps for domains account. I stopped using my @gmail account years ago - in fact, I gave it to my father - and I can't remember having a problem using my Apps accou
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
Pickpockets depend on the fact that you won't realize what they've done until they're long gone. What you're talking about is more like the old 1980's-era-New York-type chain / purse grab, and that doesn't seem to happen as often any more b
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
At least for English users, Google voice commands are pretty damn amazing these days - it's pretty rare that Google Now on my Nexus 4 misses, aside from heavy background noise and folks who decide to start talking in the car when you're try
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
Sooo... pretty much anyone who buys a luxury car over $40K.
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
Perhaps, but there's a pretty huge difference between "burn and coast" and "burn and brake". Plus that's for ICE vehicles, not all-electric. ICE uses gas to keep idling even when your foot is off the gas, so that strategy might work, but el
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
Given that "conservation" in this case is driven by the rate of usage, minus the rate of recovery - the recharge - from the regen brakes, is it really materially different?
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
> "I was given battery-conservation advice at that time (turn off the cruise control; alternately slow down and speed up to take advantage of regenerative braking) that was later contradicted by other Tesla personnel." This is one of th
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
It's true they could guess that, but the issue was the interval between usage, not the mileage. As I understand it, pretty much every car built in the last 10 years does some degree of logging, if only to provide a record of what the car wa
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
If you're a car reporter driving a loaner vehicle of one of the most sophisticated production cars in the world, you shouldn't really be surprised that the vehicle has data logging. I'd be surprised if most modern luxury cars don't have som
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
It's this. If you look at the stats on the % of visitors to most web sites, 1280x1024 or 1024x768 (and the non-retina Macbook equivalent) remain the dominant approximate screen sizes, so developers optimize for them on the assumption that t
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
The analysis ignores that as a company, you spend budget on buying Facebook ads. That's in addition to the money you spend directly maintaining your FB and blog. The fact that a larger percentage of budgets are going to FB just tells you th
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
"Real estate holding companies?" The broad majority of SF housing is one or two family dwellings. (I'd guess as much as 90% of the city.) They're mostly occupied by owners, not rented, so the folks who benefit are the existing residents of
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
You're assuming that a large share of those riders would take public transport, but most of them would probably drive, since that's what the large majority of people in SF who don't have access to a corporate bus do. The bus provides an app

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