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by tpurves 13y ago
I read the hypothesis as relating the appearance of the cookie. That is the proportionate ratio of visible chocolate to dough on the surface of the cookie as it relates to the maximizing the visual appeal of the cookie on product packaging.
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Such an API already exists, you can get it directly from Visa: https://developer.visa.com/vpp/ Note that, pushing money to anybody as a service also involves a lot of regulatory compliance issues in almost any country
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by tpurves 13y ago
Imagine how many they could have sold if it wasn't so fugly.
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by tpurves 13y ago
See this announcement earlier this year from the major card networks: http://cardnotpresent.com/news/cnp-news-oct13/Amex,__MasterC...
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by tpurves 13y ago
In other news, lian-li announces this nifty little aluminum m-itx pc case for $149 for http://anandtech.com/show/7595/lian-li-release-pcv358-chassi... And you can even chose from and upgrade to many different CPUs
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by tpurves 13y ago
You are essentially correct. Even today, all chips fresh off the fab (of the same family) cost essentially the same to make for the same die area. However, do to natural variance in the process they don't all perform the same. So chip
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by tpurves 13y ago
Do they never learn? I am suddenly remebering distant flashbacks to 2001 when microsoft wiped out hotmail for 24hrs with a massive DNS screw-up: CNET: Microsoft blames technicians for massive outage (2001) http://news.cnet.com&#
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by tpurves 13y ago
Shocker, this just in, successful companies use: - value-based pricing instead of cost-based pricing for products and upgrades - set lower gross margin prices on a base model product in order to attract customers and upsell and cross sell t
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by tpurves 13y ago
My understanding is that this is still generally true of all war games. Deemed bad for morale otherwise.
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This is an extremely awkwardly constructed first sentence. Top Bloomberg editors were killing Chinese workers??: "A reporter for Bloomberg News who worked on an unpublished article about China, which employees for the company said had
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by tpurves 13y ago
The US is shifting to EMV at merchants by 2015, see: http://corporate.visa.com/newsroom/press-releases/press1142....
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by tpurves 13y ago
Wow. These ATM operators to read up on anti-money laundering and anti terrorist financing laws. There are laws against what they are doing, and at that volume, Federal regulators are likely to notice and come down hard on these guys.
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by tpurves 13y ago
Same here, I was the only one at my MBA school 2003-2005 with a pure slate tablet PC. Pen computing is awesome not just for note taking but also for business apps like excel and powerpoint. Anything that requires a lot of precise clicking
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by tpurves 13y ago
Yes it's indeed visual. Is the visualization insightful? no.
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by tpurves 13y ago
This would be an interesting substitute for both basic personal income tax deductions, welfare, EI and disability programs. Think of how much government complexity could be streamlined.
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by tpurves 13y ago
If you have find my phone turned on: 0. Go to iCloud and disable find my phone for your device 1. Download the GM final OS7 build 2. Restart in recovery mode: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1808#sthash.qByAjn0z.dpuf 3.
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by tpurves 13y ago
I wrote this blog piece back in in 2006 when the social media trend was just starting to emerge about what to with the social profiles of the deceased. As well with my own experiences as a software designer. What happens when your user is d
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by tpurves 13y ago
I would have thought concave meant in the Z dimension. Find the state with the highest elevations on any two sides with the lowest relative elevations in between.
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by tpurves 13y ago
Not all Canadian Islands are so cheap. Here's a single family island for 14.4 Million in Muskoka - http://www.realtor.ca/propertyDetails.aspx?propertyId=133556...
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by tpurves 13y ago
For reference, the 1988 Cray Super computer at "333 MegaFlops" put's it's performance somewhere in the range of last year's iPhone5 (depending on which sort of flop operation you are crunching). I actually think tha
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by tpurves 13y ago
That study has been very influential to my own thinking about how things get popular. Another thing I found fascinating about the study was that 'quality' of the content did matter, but that it accounted for roughly half the corre
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by tpurves 13y ago
How about Player Piano? In my mind this book really speaks to the root cause of what's causing divides and imbalances in the modern world, in a way hackernewsians might relate to: "The story takes place in a near-future society th
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by tpurves 13y ago
And you were wondering how the spooks that targeted the Iranian nuclear facilities were somehow able to get their hands on no less than 4 different zero-day exploits.
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by tpurves 13y ago
As with all money transfer products, the technology to transfer funds to an individual is generally the fun/easy part. Wait until you find out about America's (and most other countries) wonderful anti-money laundering and anti-terrorist fin
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by tpurves 13y ago
I had so much trouble reading this article just trying to interpret if every sentence was serious or some kind of dry Swiftian satire.
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Packages are great when you can take a whole package then walk across the street and get a new job the day after. The main problem with this strategy is when the year is 2001 and every company in the tech-industry is going bust at the sam
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by tpurves 13y ago
Weather can be a problem for airships. Their max airspeed can be much less than what's needed to maintain station in a strong wind. The US navy also gave up on (manned) airships in the 20s after big storms would bring them down with loss of
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by tpurves 14y ago
what's interesting is that, by desktop x86 standards, cpu power is power in these consoles is going to be rather anemic. AMD "jaguar" cores, are optimized for power not performance at only 1.6GHz, meant that max single threaded performance
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by tpurves 14y ago
ah, actually you can find all the stats here: http://www.anandtech.com/show/6016/microsoft-surface-we-go-h...
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by tpurves 15y ago
Why is there no public announcement of this? Why does the actual Canadian Mint website have no links or mentions of this project? Why are there goats and wheat on your webpage? What is this for, some digitally enabled 19th century version o

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