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by wanorris 15y ago
Blackberry gave away Playbooks to anyone who developed an app for it, which resulted in a lot of "developers" who produced low-quality, minimally useful apps. Is there some quality control that will limit who counts as a developer for the T
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by wanorris 15y ago
I don't know that I'd call IE6 "revolutionary", but it was indeed an excellent browser for its time. As terrible as its standards support was compared to later browsers, it was exemplary for its time. But it's impossible to ignore the way M
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by wanorris 15y ago
> There's nothing special about this - pull up any newspaper or online news site and you'll see the same thing. I'm pretty sure that this is not in disagreement with the author's point.
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by wanorris 15y ago
While I hope not to open the entire can of worms to which codyrobbins referred, I strongly suspect "I could care less" is a shorter form of the more obviously ironic "like I could care less". Treated as straight-up irony, the usage makes pe
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by wanorris 15y ago
It's also an hedge against someone deciding they want a 4G Android phone, a BlackBerry, a Kindle Fire, a Windows 8 tablet or whatever comes along next week in addition to their other Apple devices. This provides another incentive not to mix
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by wanorris 15y ago
I did this once on a personal project I was experimenting with. Then I started working on a change that turned out to be a lot bigger than I thought it was, and it ended up breaking everything. Trying to get it back to where it even worked
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by wanorris 15y ago
Ordering a saved pizza order that we order frequently at Papa John's is incredibly easy -- certainly way easier than telling the order to someone. I suppose it's possible that coffee is different in some non-obvious way, but I'm not sure ho
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by wanorris 15y ago
Can anyone familiar with both this and Google Goggles comment on whether there's any notable differences, or whether this is indeed pretty much Amazon's version of Google's Goggles or Bing Vision on WinPhone?
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by wanorris 15y ago
Making everyone get through 2 semesters of calculus and a real probability class frankly sounds like a great idea for reforming high school . Why they can't take kids through "high school" algebra in middle school and have them ready to ta
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by wanorris 15y ago
It's certainly a risk. I think of concept videos as being a close cousin to a technology demo -- stuff that conveys the idea about where you're trying to get to, even if you haven't gotten there. I don't think that technology demos and conc
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by wanorris 15y ago
One of the most important steps in Google's growth was when they cut a deal to be the technology provider for Yahoo's search back when Yahoo dominated the web, so perhaps finding a big company that will bend over at just the right moment is
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by wanorris 15y ago
You raise some good points here. I think ultimately it's clear that as cool as the Courier may have been, a "real" Windows tablet like the Win 8 Metro that's been previewed is the product Microsoft can really build around. In a perfect worl
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by wanorris 15y ago
Yes, but the Courier was leagues beyond anything you can do with an iPad in terms of content creation. Even now, there's nothing on the iPad that works as well as OneNote (yes, that includes EverNote), and Courier extended far past OneNote
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by wanorris 15y ago
If you own "shirts.com" then you definitely ought to make a website out of it. You have a huge advantage, and you should use it. But if you were making a website to sell shirts, you might reasonably ask whether it's worth it to spend the mo
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by wanorris 15y ago
Are you saying that the definition of an adequate test setup is one that will necessarily catch any possible race conditions? That sounds like a necessary idea if you're building real-time embedded systems for aircraft operation or somethin
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by wanorris 15y ago
A whole inch thick? The first edition of The C Programming Language couldn't have been half that!
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by wanorris 15y ago
Right, but unless I misunderstood something, the generator hooked up to it could have been an input , making it imminently possible to produce the verified output without actually performing cold fusion. I'm not saying that this is what ha
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by wanorris 15y ago
From the standpoint of operations and supply chain, Apple's work is absolute genius. People who keep up with successful businesses and study business strategies should marvel at this. HN is full of people who care about the running of busin
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by wanorris 15y ago
I very much think this is a question of personality and not a question of which one is better. Personally, I'm like you -- if there's something really interesting to work on, I like to dive in and really attack it until I'm done. Even if th
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by wanorris 15y ago
Of course, there are many worse things to spend your time on as a kid than a combination of physical exercise and teamwork. Do you see something wrong with playing soccer? Or was the key word in that sentence the "just"?
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by wanorris 15y ago
A lifestyle business is a particular type of business, and a startup is another distinct type. They each have different requirements and business models, just as either one is different from a large public corporation. Most of the Silicon V
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by wanorris 15y ago
No, your logic actually implies that we shouldn't paint people who say "I will come to your country and blow up your buildings" with the same brush as people who come to our country and blow up our buildings. I don't think I'm out of line t
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by wanorris 15y ago
The flipside in terms of selling in large volumes to amortize fixed costs is simple: the iPad. Monumental volume tied to one single SKU of CPU. If they needed to, Apple could afford to front someone the entire cost of building a leading-edg
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by wanorris 15y ago
Honestly, Amazon may have the best streaming solution right now. I have a Roku box that gets both, though I usually stick to Netflix. I got an episode that glitched the other day, so I flipped over to Amazon Prime, which turned out to have
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by wanorris 15y ago
Pardon my pedantry, but that's a terrible mixed metaphor in the title. Who goes hunting for dogs? No one; rather, dogs accompany hunters, perhaps while in pursuit of big game .
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by wanorris 15y ago
You're right, and overfitting cannot be an explanation for this phenomenon -- when there are many equally valid alternative outcomes to a problem, which is what's being described, the solution is underdetermined by definition . In the (ML)
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by wanorris 15y ago
Atari with the Pong game was pretty awesome too.
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by wanorris 15y ago
I think the main thing will be how their margins play out. Amazon is a big enough company that investors expect decent margins even while they're growing rapidly. Perhaps this is an unreasonable expectation, but if so, I think Amazon should
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by wanorris 15y ago
I have a Philosophy degree, and there was definitely an opportunity cost associated with getting it. If my goal were to optimize my life in terms of income generation, it would have been a mistake. Happily, that hasn't been my goal in life,
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by wanorris 15y ago
Amidst the various hagiographies and anti-hagiographies circulating, I can't help wishing someone could pull it all together into a cohesive whole and act as Speaker for the Dead. Does anyone know if the new biography attempts this?

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