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by troymc 15y ago
I guess the thinking is that if you have enough patents, the other guy is surely infringing one (or more) of them.
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by troymc 15y ago
I get the feeling that many of the ideas in Wave have diffused out into products/services like Google Docs and Google+ Hangouts. (Think of the live editing and internal chat features within Google Docs.)
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by troymc 15y ago
The Google App Engine team has been working on a full-text-search service for GAE projects. They gave a demo at Google I/O back in May. Here's a video of their presentation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B7FyU9wW8Y
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by troymc 15y ago
On the other hand, this "leak" is very good news for Amazon, right before a major day for Apple. The tech journalists will have to cover the Amazon story, thereby eating into their Apple coverage.
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by troymc 15y ago
Tap dancers probably also hate the word "tap" being so blatantly misused ;)
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by troymc 15y ago
Amazon probably did market research to determine what people would really want. When I read your list of things the Fire doesn't have, I realized I wouldn't miss any of them.
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by troymc 15y ago
Flash may well die for its current uses, but I think Flash 11+ will be the best cross-browser solution for GPU-accelerated 3D graphics for a while (unless IE adopts WebGL, which I don't think will happen, but I hope I'm wrong). Unity, one o
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by troymc 15y ago
Don't forget Canada. Blame Canada.
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by troymc 15y ago
It's great to get such a glowing review from Andy on one of the TWiT Network's most popular shows. Longer term, I'd watch out for Tonara: they say their app can listen to what's actually being played and follow along, even if there are doze
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by troymc 15y ago
What does "dress better" mean, anyway? Once you start unpacking that phrase, you realize it has very little to do with optimizing functionality. It's not the same as "eat better" or "sleep better". Imagine if someone showed up for a swim ra
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by troymc 15y ago
Some fiction exploring this idea (and more): * Manna, by Marshall Brain, http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm * Accelerando, by Charles Stross (goes way farther than Slate.com will ever go), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerando_%28nov
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by troymc 15y ago
URL of their paper in PLoS ONE: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna...
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by troymc 15y ago
It's always possible to avoid having a preposition be the thing that a sentence ends with. If the version with the preposition at the end sounds more natural, I agree that's what you should go for.
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by troymc 15y ago
I get a navy blue screen, with white graphics in the middle: [Icon of a browser with two tabs open, and a :( rotated 90 degrees clockwise in the middle] Aw, Snap! Something went wrong while displaying this web page. To continue, reload or g
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by troymc 15y ago
It's probably an integer :D
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by troymc 15y ago
Oh good, I can finally build a simulation of a Turing Machine (with an infinite tape).
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by troymc 15y ago
I think MG is right that "The travel aspect is potentially even bigger. While there are a lot of people going after this problem, no one has nailed the mobile travel guide so far. When someone does, it’s going to be massive." Partnering wit
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by troymc 15y ago
Error: Buffer overflow
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by troymc 15y ago
It might just be that people who think they'll like the movie tend to go see it sooner and post reviews sooner.
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by troymc 15y ago
Ah, thanks for the correction.
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by troymc 15y ago
I guess they'll use open web standards whenever they can, and propose new ones where none currently exist.
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by troymc 15y ago
I am happy to see innovation happening in how people get 'an education'. As usual, some of the most interesting stuff is being done by people outside the established providers (cf. The Innovator's Dilemma ).
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by troymc 15y ago
Historically, the Star Trek copyrights haven't been enforced very strongly. It's why they allowed so many fan projects to go ahead (and Star Trek has a great fan base). Maybe CBS got new lawyers who aren't familiar with 40 years of de facto
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by troymc 15y ago
"... [Mike would] like to go start another blog that does nothing but write about startups, like the true startups, really every one, again for the core audience." Jason Calacanis started the LAUNCH blog to do something similar: http://www
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by troymc 15y ago
Bingo. Accreditation-on-demand is the second half of the puzzle. One interesting solution is that offered by Western Governors University (created by 19 governors of western US states). It's non-profit, online, low-cost, and... "nationally,
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by troymc 15y ago
The idea of using social graph data, somehow, in calculating search relevance is a nice idea, but you have to avoid incorrect assumptions like "You will like the things your social connections like." StumbleUpon has used social graph data f
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by troymc 15y ago
Here's a good BBC article that covers much of the same ground (but which probably had more people look it over before publication): http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13022524
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TV Tropes: The Hacker Cave(tvtropes.org)
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by troymc 15y ago
Does this mean that the "Flatline" (See http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Flatline ) will have to be relegated to TV and movie history?
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by troymc 15y ago
You, as "yanw", have accumulated a karma of 7218 on HN, which is quite impressive, even though I have no idea what your "real life" name is. Do I need to know? Of couse not. But you're not welcome on Google+ (as yanw).

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