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by vparikh 4y ago
Yea - I watched them as a kid every week. It was so inspiring. I'll never forget the day they compared the Commodore Amiga, Atari ST. That was they day I knew computers will change not only business but music industry, movies and en
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by vparikh 4y ago
I second Wiha screwdrivers. I have been using them for years. In fact I am still using the set I purchased (Wiha #30299) that has every type of screw driver I you could come across in normal US products Slotted/Phillips/Torx&#x2F
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by vparikh 4y ago
Leo Fender and the Fender company gets the credit for making the first successful solid body guitar - the Telecaster. The common wisdom is the Stratocaster was the successor to the Telecaster - but in my opinion, I think the Telecaster is t
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by vparikh 4y ago
True the DLSR has the advantage in power consumption, however, most users will accept the trade of and carry extra batteries / charge more often to take advantage of the advantages that mirrorless provides. The battery consumption is i
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by vparikh 4y ago
The mirror box / pentaprism combo is not required. DSLR cameras were built as the technology did not exist to eliminate them. Now that processor, LCD and AF systems have caught up, the SLR is redundant. The primary advantage of the S
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by vparikh 5y ago
In the end - I don't blame the developers. They are a business and in it for the profits. The game is just a byproduct. The public votes with their dollars - and judging by the popularity of these "features" - people are mor
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by vparikh 5y ago
All it takes is two things: 1. The investor bubble to bust - and I think this will happen due to the soon to be rising interest rates making capital much more difficult too secure. 2. One of the big employers dumps devs into the market - sa
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by vparikh 5y ago
Not really surprising to anyone really is it? I mean what other profession asks you to: 1. Manage a 25+ children 2. Be responsible for their learning/growth 3. Expected to be part-time law enforcement 4. Expected to be part-time psych
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by vparikh 5y ago
Why is this even a surprise? Didn't thinks like Conway's Game of Life demonstrate this decades ago?
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by vparikh 6y ago
So let's get me get this straight - you have to deliver hydrogen to all existing gas stations. Which is expensive and requires an entire new distribution infrastructure. So as an owner of a hydrogen car, I will have to bare the brunt o
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Top% of U.S. Households Hold 15 Times More Wealth Than Bottom 50% Combined(forbes.com)
30 points by vparikh 6y ago|37 comments
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by vparikh 6y ago
Apple released one of the very first digital cameras back in the day - The Apple Quick Take ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Qu ). Somewhere deep in their R&D facility I wouldn't be surprised if they are qu
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by vparikh 6y ago
I think you missed what I was saying - Olympus could no longer afford or had the willingness invest the R&D required to compete with what Nikon and Canon are going to release over the next 5 years. Nikon has the best mount/technol
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by vparikh 6y ago
I have been a long time M43 user since they released the very first OMD-EM5. And the OMD line has been the best camera for the everyday user - highly capable, small with amazing small lens that really are great. The Olympus 45, Panaso
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by vparikh 6y ago
Great looking board - for your use case (playing at home/practicing) it should be great. That is a nice basic set of pedals too! But a tip as you get started on your guitar gear journey: 1. DO NOT go on the gear board - it will just g
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by vparikh 7y ago
Software as a wide spread phenomenon has been around since what late 1970s (I am talking about business and individuals using it). Compare it to building industry, accounting, law and any of the hard sciences. They have been around for
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by vparikh 7y ago
I should have clarified - I was 4 and my sister was 2 when my parents immigrated.
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by vparikh 7y ago
Being a first generation immigrant myself (parents immigrated to America in 1975) I can give a few cultural reasons: 1. Stable two parent home - my parents lived together and shielded us from any arguments/disagreements they had and pr
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by vparikh 7y ago
A really good example of this is the implementation of Objective-C. I believe even the original C++ implementation by Bjarne Stroustrup were also C macros.
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by vparikh 7y ago
Well most of us older devs had what could be called "Tee-Ball" for software developers. Back in the day it was generally referred to as the home computer. You had multiple kinds, that stressed different priorities - like the Commo
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by vparikh 7y ago
There are two main reasons for this: 1. 95% of the people use their cameras for output to the web (i.e., instagram, pintrest, etc.) And email links to them, or actually email the picture itself when they share them. In this case, you don&#x
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by vparikh 7y ago
Do we really need a printer in there? What if it just connects to one of those Fuji Instax printers or something like a Canon Selphi printer.
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by vparikh 8y ago
Sure there was crazy evaluations, greed, and ridiculous business ideas that would never succeed getting real coverage. But what I remember was the excitement that was around at the the time - that anything was possible. There were entire
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by vparikh 8y ago
Well housing is a good investment once you pay it off and stay in that home for an extended period of time. The problem is people just want buy ever larger homes. I mean look at the average square footage of homes in the 1970s which was 15
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by vparikh 8y ago
I fear history will repeat itself. During the Vietnam war, the US was heavily dependent on technology to solve the problems of air combat. They designed the F4 Phantom with a cannon, why you ask? Because they felt it won't be needed.
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by vparikh 8y ago
I think people just need to learn that the journey is the reward, not the mastery. We in the US are in many ways, over concerned with the perception of success and the outcome of an activity. Starts very early on -- "Winning isn&#x27
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by vparikh 8y ago
Hardware is the easy part. The software is where the "soul" lies. Microsoft for the most part, has always had descent hardware - its the software that causes them to be unpleasent and unreliable to use.
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by vparikh 8y ago
Sure the ad-tech industry sucks. But they do use a lot of very interesting technology. If you are working for some of the better ones or more innovative ones, they will be using massively parallel computing, geo-based location services, ma
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by vparikh 9y ago
I didn't mind COBOL as a language (but it was overly verbose), it was the JCL to set it up and kick it off that drove me nuts.
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by vparikh 9y ago
And how could you not include Uridium, Way of the Exploding Fist, Summer Games and Paradroid?

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