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by wanorris 15y ago
Can you get at the Linux on devices like this? Could you, say, install a MythTV front end, or run Doom on it? Just curious.
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by wanorris 15y ago
One possibly relevant consideration: people who are elderly and/or infirm often have to sit around a lot more, because they are physically incapable of moving around as much. This may (or may not) account for some of the increased likelih
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by wanorris 15y ago
Both TechCrunch and VC can be pretty important to startups, and this story is about both.
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by wanorris 15y ago
The "Google Experience" has always been an optional part of Android that required additional licensing, but all the major Android manufacturers have licensed it. The lack of it means that this diverges from the typical Android device much m
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by wanorris 15y ago
If you want to reach a wide audience on Android, you already need to be prepared to support older Android releases, because most phones don't get upgraded after purchase.
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by wanorris 15y ago
Some interesting points, but I think robotic cars will/would be a bigger enabler for exurbs than for actual city dwelling. Get yourself some acreage at the edge of some teeming metropolis, have 60-90 minutes of uninterrupted time each way i
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by wanorris 15y ago
This strikes me as a perfectly reasonable course. If people want something that isn't for sale, for heaven's sake, find a way to sell it to them! Edit: anyone ever see the movie Robots ? "See a need... fill a need."
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by wanorris 15y ago
Self-funding is pretty much the default for consulting companies, because all you're doing initially is collecting an hourly that you theoretically could have collected working for some other consulting company or going to work for someone
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by wanorris 15y ago
When you say you "can express my ideas in code faster in Scala than [you] can in any other language", I'd love to see you expand on this. Why is it more productive for you than say, F#, or Haskell, or Python, or Clojure? I don't say this to
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by wanorris 15y ago
The point was that what's happening with FCP closely tracks the problem history of Vista, not that the problems are of the same scope. If you reread the parent comment, you will not find him calling this "a Vista moment".
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by wanorris 15y ago
Yes, there are compromises involved in iOS and the iPad, but I don't think they're the kind of compromises Sinovsky is talking about. Find me one place where the touch UI of the iPad was compromised in any way to provide affordances for peo
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by wanorris 15y ago
At the same time, unless you're lucky enough to start with the backing of Y-Combinator or somesuch, there can be value to learning about the process while the money involved is someone else's and not your own. Edit: I realize this is a some
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by wanorris 15y ago
That's... actually a really great pitch. Job as startup school. Nice!
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by wanorris 15y ago
I don't suppose they'd be willing to make one with a keyboard?
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by wanorris 15y ago
If it's redistributing iOS, this sounds like a simple, old-fashioned copyright violation. That sounds like the kind of thing Apple would be likely to shut down, and I can't really say that I blame them, even though this is a cool idea.
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by wanorris 15y ago
I used to work on an application that did all the typical insert/update/delete operations on the core data tables and retained a journaled event stream in a separate audit database sufficient to regenerate the entire database from scratch (
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by wanorris 15y ago
OK, but the only reason (as per the post I was responding to originally)? Those ~100M videos a day were about 99M (I'm guessing here) more than Google Video was doing at the time. I believe you that Google's technical prowess was a necess
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by wanorris 15y ago
Are you sure? YouTube was successful before they were purchased by Google, so I'm not sure how Google's infrastructure could be the only reason.
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by wanorris 15y ago
> A Verizon, AT&T dominated market is still going to drive innovation Why? Why wouldn't they just stop with "You take your half of the market, we'll take our half, and we'll push through a 5% price increase every year for more or le
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by wanorris 15y ago
There are obvious disanalogies, but if the options are between several competing companies with their own roads and cars, and having only one or two companies that collectively control all the roads and all the cars, the former is still b
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by wanorris 15y ago
As far as I can tell, the goal of Windows 8 is to have 2 kinds of UI: a traditional mouse/keyboard computer interface, and a touch-optimized Metro-derived interface. Since Lion and the iPad have different interfaces, this doesn't seem obvio
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by wanorris 15y ago
> They're also slowly cultivating a third party integrated apps ecosystem. I think this is a big part of why Dropbox could warrant a high valuation. If Dropbox is simply "the platform" for file sync, then more integrated apps will come
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by wanorris 15y ago
I don't have an MBA, but lots of other businesses follow a knowledge work model more closely than an assembly line model. Some obvious examples include an investment bank, an advertising agency, and a TV network. While I can't vouch for bus
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by wanorris 15y ago
Generally speaking, studying math, English, computer science, or other subjects is considered to contribute to one's knowledge of those subjects. Is there some reason to think that studying business will not contribute to your knowledge of
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by wanorris 15y ago
The current lowest Buy it Now price at Ebay is $230-240. That means that's the price at which people will buy them -- but not so much that people will snap them up instantly, or the price you could see them available at would by higher. Tha
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by wanorris 15y ago
I used to work with someone who insisted on Lotus 1-2-3 for Windows because he could never find anything in Excel. Lotus for Windows was better because it still supported the / menus he'd been using in Lotus for DOS. Help/Search does seem l
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by wanorris 15y ago
This is absolutely the Windows way of accomplishing it. With Libraries, you don't just "map" your Music folder to something, you can have as many folders as you want included in your music library. How to Include a Network Drive or Folder i
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by wanorris 15y ago
I think the same thing can be true of highly qualified professionals as well. If you are hiring good developers and designers, it may make sense to take the same approach: Did we not screen for the right technical fit? Did we make a mistake
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by wanorris 15y ago
It's a design patent, so yes. Previous use of an equivalent design on a TV show is a good as design anywhere else. On the other hand, if someone invents a working replicator, Star Trek will not count as prior art. :-)
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by wanorris 15y ago
If it's the same amount of work and readability is not sacrificed, consistently using O(n log n) is a good practice for that situation. If the result is more effort or less readable, then an understanding of what n is going to be like is pr

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