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by whopa 12y ago
Python does the right thing under the hood for you. The signal handler you register in Python isn't run in the dangerous context. There's an internal signal handler which just tells the interpreter a signal happened and when contr
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by whopa 12y ago
I try Hipmunk every so often, the last time being about a month ago. Every time, Kayak shows more flight options for the same query than Hipmunk, and often cheaper ones. I don't get it, they both use ITA on the backend. I'd use Hi
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by whopa 12y ago
Where'd you get a "new" one? I'm in the market for a new laptop, but I'm highly disappointed with the changes made to the current Thinkpad line.
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by whopa 13y ago
Rdio also uses The Echo Nest for their radio feature, and it's great. I always chalked up Spotify's radio sucking vs. Rdio's radio being so good due to Spotify having shitty integration with The Echo Nest... maybe that will c
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by whopa 13y ago
"original inventor and heirs" seems reasonable. I don't follow the chemist example. The patent is still valuable to companies who do want to productize it, or even companies that don't. Companies can still buy and hold
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by whopa 13y ago
What if the law was that NPEs are barred from litigating patents, unless the NPE was the original inventor. Wouldn't that solve this?
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by whopa 13y ago
I agree with everything you said, except that there is one thing missing from Peninsula/South Bay that SF has: lots of choice of bars and nightclubs. That appeals to the single twentysomething demographic that startups are trying to hi
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by whopa 13y ago
You're right to be skeptical. It made the rounds last month, but it turned out to be a hoax: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/07/01/quake-3-arena-wor...
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by whopa 13y ago
So I heard a bit differently about the FB Chat thing. Facebook likes to move its engineers around to different teams from time to time (if only temporarily) to spread institutional knowledge around and prevent bus factors from being too low
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by whopa 14y ago
Yeah, zCloud only came into fruition late last year. Before that they were using AWS, and handling the same scale they do now. Private cloud is saving them money, but some other company could use AWS just as Zynga did before and handle mill
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by whopa 15y ago
Rdio has Arcade Fire. Strange that Spotify doesn't.... But yeah, I agree, subscription music services are the future. The holdouts (Beatles, Metallica, AC/DC, etc.) will eventually license their stuff, otherwise their fan base will erode. I
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by whopa 15y ago
Most of Zynga's games differ only very superficially though. It's weird that they can't launch games fast enough to stave off attrition.
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by whopa 15y ago
Rhapsody doesn't have a free version, other than the trial period when you sign up. Spotify does, but has to pay the labels for their usage too. So Rhapsody in all likelihood paid out the the labels a lot less than Spotify.
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by whopa 15y ago
Google advertising for non-Chrome/Android isn't common, but it does happen. For example, I was in Vegas a few months ago and the airport had a bunch of ads for Hotpot.
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by whopa 15y ago
Judging from this sentence from the article > The Cupertino, Calif., tech giant has agreed to pay the labels between $25 million to $50 million each, as an incentive to get on board, depending on how many tracks consumers are storing .
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by whopa 16y ago
Despite the facetious nature of the comment, there's a kernel of truth there: Twitter actually did hire 3 people just to work on Cassandra.
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by whopa 16y ago
Don't forget about head and tailwinds. Tokyo to SFO is 9 hours, but SFO to Tokyo is 11 hours. NYC to SFO is 6.5 hours, but SFO to NYC is 5.5 hours. More importantly though, you can get to a lot of Asia from SFO without changing a plane, tha
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by whopa 16y ago
From a cursory look, it appears they wrote all the new functionality in C++ (and ObjC for UI on the Mac). That's a lot of work. Why they didn't do the bulk of it in JS/HTML/CSS is anybody's guess.
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by whopa 16y ago
Facebook got an exemption from the SEC from that rule (it's 500 stockholders and $10 million in assets): http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/nov2008/tc200...
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by whopa 16y ago
To nitpick, the surface area of the Moon is roughly the same as the area of Africa plus the area of the contiguous US. Much less than the total land area of Earth. It's even less than the area of Asia.
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by whopa 16y ago
AFAIK, Pandora is classed as radio, and doesn't have to do direct deals with the labels. They pay royalties to SoundExchange, which in theory distributes the royalties to the content owners. The rates they pay are a lot lower than the rates
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by whopa 16y ago
Yeah, non-interactive is radio style listening whereas interactive the user gets to pick and choose what they want to hear on demand. Interactive/non-interactive in this context are actually widely used terms in the digital music space.
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by whopa 16y ago
To further the original analogy, you can think of FB users or non-paying dating site users as "inventory". It sounds a bit dehumanizing, but it doesn't have to be: in traditional business you have to manage and maintain your inventory prope
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by whopa 16y ago
No, it doesn't do bidirectional sync, at least not yet.
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by whopa 16y ago
FWIW, Mozilla has an app for syncing your bookmarks to your iPhone: https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/mobile/home/
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by whopa 16y ago
I've heard this expressed many times from various people: law schools love engineers because they already know how to think analytically and don't have to be taught that. This is independent of whether they learned any form of engineering i
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by whopa 16y ago
The linked article plainly explains it: "The main problem with the RSS title element is how to deal with the characters & and <. They have to be encoded at least once as a requirement of XML, but for those aggregators that treat tit
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by whopa 16y ago
Out of the 3 pursuits you mentioned explicitly, I think only one of them actually truly benefits from the education system: medicine. With finance, the fundamentals are easily learned by self study, and to excel really depends more on perso
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by whopa 16y ago
Oops. I seem to remember reading comments from the original Ping announcement story that it was. I stand corrected. My point is still valid though. To do proper comparison for Band of Horses, you have to take # of users in native English sp
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by whopa 16y ago
Couple things: 1) Ping is only available in the US, so a straight comparison of user numbers to FB isn't necessarily valid. You have take the number of US users of both iTunes and FB, and I don't think that breakdown is readily available. 2

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