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Academic Orthodoxy: Official Lies(daviddfriedman.blogspot.com)
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by vtail 14y ago
Not sure if the acquisition makes strategic sense for Dropbox, but at least I have some confidence that Mailbox wouldn't simply disappear: Dropbox core product has a freemium model, and they are very successful company.
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by vtail 14y ago
What about bypassing an electric meter to connect to the grid directly?
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by vtail 14y ago
Re: 6 - I should also say that to "give the TSA the boot", it is the US government who should stick up for its customers and end this security theater.
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by vtail 14y ago
Internet access on board of a flying plane is non trivial and certainly doesn't come free: you need to install and maintain equipment on board, maintain a network of ground stations, write and debug some software, pay money to other interne
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by vtail 14y ago
"This bakery's bread is OKish, but $10 is too much to pay for a loaf. But I found a cool trick: when you're offered to take a free sampler, you can actually take the whole lot while the owner is not watching. I sent him couple of postcards
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by vtail 14y ago
I'm amazed by some of the comments like "Wow great article. I knew there must be a way to avoid paying." and by author's apparent believe that contacting the support several times via twitter and not getting a response morally justifies sha
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by vtail 14y ago
I'm wondering (honest question) why do you believe that Gogo business model is clunky?
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by vtail 14y ago
Why this is even on the front page? Someone who doesn't have patience decides that selling apps for money is not for them. Fine. Entrepreneurship requires a lot of hard work and patience. You need to be resourceful.[1] Big news. 1: http://
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by vtail 14y ago
Stanford is an outlier as they are very entrepreneur focused. I believe the number is much smaller for other top schools.
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by vtail 14y ago
Here is how you can find this object with Mathematica: http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/11819/help-fi...
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by vtail 14y ago
When I just started, I quickly setup some filters to categorize all mail into three categories: those where I would be one of the few people in To, or those from my boss, or those that are High Priority would go into first category, most ot
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by vtail 14y ago
I currently work as a PM in a big company. Yesterday I've got slightly over 200 emails; it is a typical day. Granted, some of those were CC:, and people like to have one-line replies, but I still have to read each one nevertheless just to m
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by vtail 14y ago
You mean like those Follow Up flags in Outlook that are one right-click away?
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by vtail 14y ago
I don't think Evernote is a startup anymore, but it's a remarkable product development story nevertheless. Certainly thinking outside of the box.
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by vtail 14y ago
Now, for those of us interested in startups - what a perfect example of great product development: - Address existing need that few other products addresses - Helps generating new customers by removing some of the barriers - "I like to crea
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by vtail 14y ago
What would you recommend as a higher-quality notebooks?
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by vtail 14y ago
Nice work. Some piece of feedback: documentation is lacking any information on how to interact with VBA functionality/classes that you don't have your wrappers for. E.g. how do I work with creating/opening/interacting with other workbooks?
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by vtail 14y ago
What I don't understand is why these farmers wouldn't switch back to using old crops/seeds if Monsanto is so prohibitively expensive and using old plants is more economical in long term?
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by vtail 14y ago
I really don't understand this kind of aversion to proprietary programs. Mathematica is a high quality program with excellent documentation (I cannot comment on crashes - it never crashed on my but I'm not using it that extensively). Mainta
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by vtail 15y ago
You are right: 2.6B for CPU, 4.3B for GPU and 6.8B for FPGA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count
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by vtail 15y ago
I'm a bit surprised by a wafer pricing chart. Sure, the individual wafer cost goes up; but if you have a design with the same transistor count, the size of your chip is going _down_, which means that you'll have _more_ chips per wafer (assu
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by vtail 15y ago
Unfortunately, that's not going to happen unless we will see some x86 tablets. WOA will have Metro-style apps only. And I doubt we'll ever see x86 tablets
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by vtail 15y ago
Thanks so much for very informative reply!
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by vtail 15y ago
It's interesting to analyze what that decided to put on the front page as their key features: - 3 points (#2, #3 and #8) related to USB functionality - 3 essentially identical points (#5, #6 and #7) about what type of keys they have - Only
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by vtail 15y ago
You are doing yourself a great service by learning Scheme - that can fundamentally change how you think about programming. Reading the first chapter of SICP[0] will change you forever. Yet right now you're using Scheme as a Python/C/Ruby wi
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by vtail 15y ago
This is very, very, very bad scheme. set! and list-ref are no-no. This is better scheme: (define (pascal n) (if (= n 0) (list 1) (let ((L (pascal (- n 1)))) (append (list 1) (map + (cdr L) L) (list 1)))))
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by vtail 15y ago
Or on Amazon from the same publisher: http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0981855121/ref=dp_olp...
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by vtail 15y ago
I've being in your shoes. One of the _most_ effective thing for me was to talk to a mental health professional - it was by far the best investment I've made in myself in the last several years. After 5 sessions I was able to resolve many an
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by vtail 15y ago
Unfortunately, this is a market with a high barrier to entry, since IB's reputation for many investors is a proxy for the quality of due diligence. It's hard to disrupt this market unless companies will be willing to do their IPOs in other

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