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by troymc 13y ago
I've read that the same thing happened at TechTV. When the free food disappeared, it sent a signal, "Cash is tight. We're in trouble. Be worried."
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by troymc 13y ago
I find it odd that a freemium model was never considered by Tumblr. It has worked for WordPress.com, which is very similar. http://en.support.wordpress.com/upgrades/ http://vip.wordpress.com
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by troymc 13y ago
Germany also stores some energy by pumping water uphill for storage behind dams, but there's only so much capacity (only so many dams). That will change if other low-cost grid-level energy storage systems become available. https://en.wikip
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by troymc 13y ago
You don't have to use imaginary numbers to model AC circuits. The math is just easier if you do.
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by troymc 13y ago
"...a model based on approaches that that other countries have successfully deployed." I think they're referring, mainly, to the Fraunhofer Society for the advancement of applied research, which started in Germany, but now has centers in ot
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by troymc 13y ago
I went to the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) site and searched for the word "hackathon" in their (US) trademark database and it didn't find anything, so US-based hackathons should be fine (for now). In Germany, I'm sure the Germans
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by troymc 14y ago
A perfect ad is one I asked for, when I asked for it, like in Google or Amazon search results. I go to Facebook to check on friends. I don't want a fried-chicken billboard to appear beside the photo of my friend's new baby. It's the wrong c
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by troymc 14y ago
Another line of defense it to install an ad-blocker, so even if they somehow know the perfect ad to show you, you probably won't see it.
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by troymc 14y ago
These ideas are similar to the 'personal cloud' concepts being advanced, for example, by members of the Respect Network [1]. Are you associated with them or a similar organization? [1] http://respectnetwork.com
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by troymc 14y ago
I like where you're going with this. Adobe has shown that they can make great tools for designers and developers. They're already big proponents of modern web standards like HTML5 and CSS3, see: http://html.adobe.com/mission/ I would be v
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by troymc 14y ago
The post says nothing about HTML5 or WebGL (or asm.js). They're all gung-ho about their proprietary Unity Web Player (a plugin).
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by troymc 14y ago
Unity can target many platforms, including Native Client, but it's my understanding that Unity can not target asm.js. Of course, asm.js is quite new…
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by troymc 14y ago
There's something I'm not understanding here: If my spouse and I do the tests and find out there's a 25% chance our child will have a particular health problem, what are we supposed to do about it? Adopt? Roll the dice anyhow? In the articl
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by troymc 14y ago
VRML, the Virtual Reality Modeling Language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRML The Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) has a page listing all HTML elements. The non-standard, obsolete, or deprecated ones are dimmed: https://developer.mozill
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by troymc 14y ago
Who would you say are the main AWS competitors today (at least in part)? This isn't my specialty, but I suppose the list includes Microsoft's Windows Azure and the Google Cloud Platform. There are some open source efforts to watch as well,
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by troymc 14y ago
Another hint that Google was using the Star Trek computer as inspiration for Google Now: The project was originally known as "Majel," after Majel Barrett, the wife of Gene Roddenberry, who was the voice of the Star Trek computer. https://e
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by troymc 14y ago
The Second Life Marketplace (for the virtual world Second Life) is something like this Photoshop Extension, enabling any SL user to sell their creations to other SL users. https://marketplace.secondlife.com Unity (the game engine and game
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by troymc 14y ago
One nice property of the Wikidata database is that it is a "secondary database. Wikidata will record not just statements, but their sources, thus reflecting the diversity of knowledge available and supporting the notion of verifiability." [
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by troymc 14y ago
Please get the licensing clarified. It's important. CC-BY is maybe too much; imagine having to give attribution/credit for 23,967 sources... Check out the content license used by Wikidata and OpenStreetMap (Hint: not CC-BY.)
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by troymc 14y ago
I'm reminded of a similarly circular phenomenon, known as "fairy ring," where mushrooms grow in a circle. They appeared on our lawn in Saskatchewan from time to time; apparently it happens all over the world. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F
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by troymc 14y ago
The BitNami Cloud Hosting Features page [1] doesn't say anything about how easy (or how difficult) it is to update an application (or stack). Will I be notified if there's a new version available? Can updates be automated? Other "managed ho
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by troymc 14y ago
While that's often true, many (most?) users have no idea that they're making this deal (i.e. "I let you store your cookies on my computer and in return I get free stuff."). The European "cookie law" has caused many websites to give better n
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by troymc 14y ago
Speaking of Scott Aaronson, he's got a new book coming out, on this topic and more: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1277
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by troymc 14y ago
D-Wave does a nice dog-and-pony show, but I won't be cheering until they actually do one of the long-promised "holy grail" things that quantum computers are supposed to be able to do. Like what? Like running Shor's Algorithm (for integer fa
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by troymc 14y ago
My first thought was, "How is this different from all the other online power spreadsheets?" But then, buried in the footer of the homepage, I saw two very interesting links: Unit Testing - "Finally, automated unit testing for Spreadsheets
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by troymc 14y ago
Question: Does Collections expose any developer interfaces? I can imagine a whole ecosystem of apps/plugins that build on it: alternate visual presentations, data mining, sync, bulk transfer, backup, advanced search, etc.
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by troymc 14y ago
I checked it out to see if it's something that interests me. It took me a while to "get it" (i.e. understand what it does). The aha moment came with the sentence, "It doesn't display the page on a monitor." If you can, try to get to the exp
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by troymc 14y ago
That solves one problem but creates ten more.
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by troymc 14y ago
Indeed, but of course email typically has a limit on the size of the file you can attach (for good reason). In Outlook.com (was Hotmail), you can send a large file by sending a link to a file in SkyDrive. You don't have to upload the file t
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by troymc 14y ago
I think it was a reference to Qualcomm's bizarre keynote at CES 2013. The Verge produced an article about the highlights: http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/8/3850056/qualcomms-insane-ce...

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