wanorris

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by wanorris 15y ago
It's like everyone involved with Windows Phone is looking for reasons to take potential customers and make them keep saying "Well, maybe I want one of these at some point, but clearly today isn't the day to go buy one." First, cut and paste
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by wanorris 15y ago
This seems similar to this classic quote: I made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it short. --Blaise Pascal
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by wanorris 15y ago
Implementing a tiny Lisp is an exercise in learning to be a better programmer by teaching yourself how language implementations work. Creating a patch for someone else's Lisp interpreter is not a reasonable substitute.
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by wanorris 15y ago
Are you sure they are really all two-bit patents? Microsoft has been making mobile devices since the era of "handheld PCs" back in the mid 90s, and smartphones -- starting with Pocket PC Phone Edition -- since 2002. It would be surprising i
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by wanorris 15y ago
Yes. Unless the information is actually inaccurate, there's not even any question. What an amazing pioneer. He will be missed.
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by wanorris 15y ago
Why? Companies go right on selling Android and Chrome products when it makes sense for them to do so, but pay Microsoft royalties in order to license their IP. It was reported recently that half of all Android devices now generate a royalty
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by wanorris 15y ago
> Another consequence, little noted, is that minimum wage laws in effect create a "mundane labor" based currency. Instead of fixing a dollar to a weight of gold, or floating the currency outright, the value of a dollar is fixed to ~8.3
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by wanorris 15y ago
Most insightful comment on the thread. This is exactly the same rationale for why the U.S. government doesn't want their secret diplomatic cables published.
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by wanorris 15y ago
There are still plenty of cheap LCDs in the world, they just don't show up in high quality products. I bought a cheap Android tablet (a Viewsonic gTablet) a while back to try out, and it had terrible viewing angles. The banking example on t
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by wanorris 15y ago
Your comment seems a bit trite and overly dismissive, which is why it has been downvoted into oblivion, but there is a possible grain of truth there to watch out for. It has been rumored for a while that Scott Forstall, head of iOS, is extr
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by wanorris 15y ago
Just remember: you don't get to pick what fascinates your children. He may love sitting by your side learning all about coding -- and he may get bored and restless and want you to go outside and throw a ball around with him.
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by wanorris 15y ago
Parenthood also makes founding a company 100 times harder, because you don't have the luxury of throwing yourself into the company 100% and never looking back. You have other responsibilities, and just letting them go to concentrate on your
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by wanorris 15y ago
capnrefsmmat covered the bursting of the bubble, but the positions were rolled over simply by converting the futures to their equivalent holdings in actual wheat, selling the rights to that wheat for the actual spot price, and using the pro
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by wanorris 15y ago
Did you read the article? It talks extensively about how the markets were set up for exactly this purpose, and that the balance of long and short positions for the futures kept the market relatively stable in exactly this way, until the rel
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by wanorris 15y ago
It absolutely isn't a great rule for everybody. But it's a pretty good baseline rule if you know that your goal is to found a successful startup. There are lots of other goals that someone might have, and working in China and playing in a
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by wanorris 15y ago
The either/or nature of your statement makes it inaccurate, as far as I'm concerned. If you pursue an engineering degree, you are learning things that you can put to practical use, and if you don't learn some of those things in college, you
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by wanorris 15y ago
The exception that proves the rule. I think that nearly anyone who sets out to follow Steve Jobs's career path is likely to end up pretty disappointed in the results. Steve was one of a kind.
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by wanorris 15y ago
This seems like a pretty clever promotion. Worst case, it's not that expensive and there's no real risk. (Well, unlikely worst case: influential people get these phones, hate them, and tell everyone not to buy them. But Microsoft's data sho
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by wanorris 15y ago
It's transparently obvious from looking at data that getting a college degree is correlated with success, assuming success means having more income. The gulf is significant and growing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_
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by wanorris 15y ago
I started off sick at my stomach at the same thing you were complaining about -- the sad story of this unfortunate woman losing her 90,000 square foot house. But it became pretty clear that while they weren't mocking her to her face (which
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by wanorris 15y ago
Isn't it inherently unlikely for a disease contracted from wild chimpanzees to be contracted by someone with access to first-world medical facilities?
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by wanorris 15y ago
The best part of this idea is that it's incremental. Past manned missions seem to have a long period when stuff gets studied, then when it comes time to spend the real money, it gets killed in favor of the study phase for some other mission
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by wanorris 15y ago
The simplest explanation for the volatility is that brutal tax rates prior to the Reagan tax cuts led the wealthy to keep their money safe and to try not to realize too much income in any given year -- and if possible, hide their income ent
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by wanorris 15y ago
So then organized crime could just set up its own courts and its own police force, confident that they're rich and powerful enough to outgun other forces. And after all, if mobsters paid you a visit and "suggested" that you use their court
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by wanorris 15y ago
Are these discrete products to their AdSense customers? I would think it would make more sense to break it down by display/text than by site.
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by wanorris 15y ago
My complaint about Bing for technical querying is that when I tell them I want an exact phrase by wrapping it with quotes, it doesn't always believe me that I really do want that phrase to appear in the result page. Some of those other oper
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by wanorris 15y ago
A product is something you sell to a customer. IMO, Emacs is one of the best pieces of code that the FSF makes, but there's an important sense in which it's not accurate to call it a "product" of theirs. Google sells advertising space to
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by wanorris 15y ago
It's the media-comprehensible proxy that people have come up with for the way the very rich and powerful have seemingly been able to skew the system so that their power and wealth are self-perpetuating, while the population at large gets po
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by wanorris 15y ago
I think your analysis is half right: it explains why the rich are doing better, but not why the poor are doing worse. The latter is occurring because the shift of manufacturing to lower-cost countries has increasingly eliminated the possibi
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by wanorris 15y ago
Why would it need to be in isolation? Machine vision, voice recognition, speech synthesis, robotics -- there's no obvious reason why if we could build such a brain we couldn't find a way for it to interact with people.

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