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by wimagguc 11y ago
That's the same Axel Springer CEO who compared Zuckerberg to a dictator not two years ago. Mathias Dopfner in his open letter: "With the exception of biological viruses, there is nothing with such speed, efficiency and aggressiven
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by wimagguc 11y ago
I think Facebook's trick doesn't help much on making the app look faster, but, it makes it look like the slowness is the device's fault rather then the app's. And Instagram is actually making the app faster! The user can
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by wimagguc 11y ago
Highly entertaining, I wish someone did a screenplay with this. On another note: I do maintain one or two a-tiny-bit-popular repos on Github myself, and every time I receive a comment or pull request I'm always surprised how much that
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by wimagguc 11y ago
Awesome collection! One thing that strikes me is that there are quite a few CEOs who try to blame others for the failure. You read things like: * "my competitor ... is infamous for its anti-competitive behaviour", * "every ti
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by wimagguc 11y ago
Why did the IMF predict in each and every year that the downturn is over and the economy is going to grow in the next year? Is this perhaps a positive psychology thing? Or is it only IMF? I've tried to find other predictions, and for e
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by wimagguc 11y ago
"the reason there haven’t been any large-scale terror attacks by ISIS in the U.S. is not because they were averted by the intelligence community, but because — with the possible exception of one that was foiled by local police — none w
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by wimagguc 11y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10547972
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One of those rare startup-success-stories, where there isn't even a mention of "valuation" or "investment rounds". I very much enjoy that.
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On my flight: a prisoner trying to break out(wimagguc.com)
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by wimagguc 11y ago
Jogging in the 50-60s was what's meditation today: it was gaining popularity, but if you told someone you'll go for a run, they looked at your weird, asking "who's chasing you?" This is something my mom told me befo
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by wimagguc 11y ago
I'm surprised that privacy wasn't even mentioned here. (As in: most people switch to DuckDuckGo not to be tracked at all times. And if a browser wants you to sign in, that implies quite some volume of data being collected.)
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by wimagguc 11y ago
Depends. This discussion is from a year ago, but most of the statements still hold up: The Fallacy of Android-First, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7543642 http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/06&#
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by wimagguc 11y ago
It helps to determine how future-proof your hire might be. If a candidate wants to learn, say, Android development, they will be very unhappy writing PHP tests in a year's time. (But then, it’s nothing new. Rule of the thumb is always,
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by wimagguc 11y ago
> But the cars, three owned by Google and one by Delphi, were in collisions caused by human error. Also, these are rather amazing stats actually. I reckon if we randomly select 50 human drivers, each doing 10,000 miles a week on city str
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by wimagguc 11y ago
Quite some research in rodents supports the statement. That would suggest that coffee works without the typical lifestyle choices, at least unless coffee-high rats are programming till the sun comes up. (A Scientific American article about
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by wimagguc 11y ago
The other conclusion is, always be hireable. I guess it’s hard to be 50 and pride yourself to work for senior-senior level salary when a 30 year old can easily do your job. Hierarchies worked very well in the uni prof’s favour, but engineer
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by wimagguc 11y ago
There's quite some open source graphic design work out there already. You can also use the open source Font Awesome to generate nice app icons. There even is an open source python script to do that: https://github.com/o
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by wimagguc 11y ago
+1 for the Stanford course. Great intro to AI and super easy to follow - I've done it after my uni class elsewhere, and it helped to internalise what I've learned there.
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by wimagguc 11y ago
I wonder what all the AI is going to be used for. Is everyone working on their own Siri and recommendation engine now? (Is anyone building an AI that can come up with its own agenda?)
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Wow, all small businesses that turned their online presence into Facebook pages can now have the webpage back. (The rule with the evolution never going backwards seemingly doesn’t apply here.)
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...and Unity announced support for HoloLens just two days ago: http://blogs.unity3d.com/2015/04/29/announcing-support-for-m... Such a wonderful world we live in.
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by wimagguc 11y ago
Choosing between two good options with unpredictable outcomes, my favourite rule of thumb is: choose the one that leaves you with the more options afterwards. 1. With the startup you’ll learn a lot in a short period of time. You’ll meet ent
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by wimagguc 11y ago
I usually start with asking them to describe the technologies in their ideal stack. That gives a good platform to talk about frameworks, technologies, and challenge them with the bits and bogs. I'm looking for: * Technical skills (on a
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I second that simply based what I've seen on InterConnect and my experience with IBM devs or Watson so far. What they do might be agile, but then, what everyone else does isn't.
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Gotcha. I was curious if I missed a nice-and-clean unlock screen solution last year :) As for monetisation, I would perhaps AB test some of these: * In-app products: buy new instruments, better sound packages etc. * Native adverts: you migh
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by wimagguc 11y ago
How can you override the Home button? Did you manage to get this work using the latest APIs as well, or are you using the deprecated KeyguardManager? (When I've last checked, it looked like Android doesn't want developers to do su
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by wimagguc 11y ago
Try mindfulness or yoga. Headspace and Calm.com helped me a lot to get started, and there is a 30-day-yoga-challenge series on Youtube.
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You can actually juice out free Wordpress hosting from cloud platforms like Heroku, Cloud Control or perhaps even Bluemix. Definitely wouldn't suit beginners, but worth a look.