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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Just wait until you encounter vaporware, and it's upcoming block chain variant: plasmaware But then please introduce also the relevant variants of realtime (in analogy of hard, firm and soft realtime): vapor realtime and plasma re
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Scientists Hunt for a Seeming Paradox: A Magnet with Only One Pole(discovermagazine.com)
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> I was so mad that I hadn't downloaded the sources before it was too late. So was everybody developing for QNX. All open source development for QNX stopped on that date. > On that date, RIM stock was worth $69.97 per share. Toda
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Netflix's Worst Nightmare Is Coming True(forbes.com)
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A Death in Silicon Valley 'With Chinese Characteristics'(forbes.com)
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Changing demographics of scientific careers: The rise of the temporary workforce(pnas.org)
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by wolfgke 8y ago
Windows CE was ported to a lot of processor architectures at that time. Its architecture is quite different from the Windows NT line. To quote Wikipedia on this > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Windows_Em
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> The fact this was broken by stealing a developer's SDK is disappointing. Real hackers would have disassembled the machine to reverse engineer it, rather than using black market/social engineering tricks. You cannot assume th
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> That said, I've always seen the original Xbox as the spiritual successor to the Dreamcast. In what sense? The architecture between these two consoles is IMHO quite different.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Photoshop detects currency based on a Digimarc watermark, which you can't generate without paying a licensing fee. Sounds like a challenge for hackers. :-)
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> It’s amusing to still hear “Apple tax” in 2018, as if there is no additional value in better hardware, software and support for many people’s use cases. Being a golden cage, I would not argue that it is better software.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Overall it's also more of a problem in physical retail, Germans who do a lot of shopping online usually have no issue at all with paying by CC/PayPal, often getting a prepaid CC just for that. I am living in Germany and I sta
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> The PDF is $10 on Google Play, DRM-free. Also watermark-free?
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> I think you're overestimating the amount of "hassle" that would bring. There are payment processors that simplify that end, and the difference in profit would be so massive that I think it would be worth it. But do they
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Compatibility layers are great, when they're actually compatible. Almost-compatible layers are a nightmare. That's why you should not use them. You decided to use them.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
But I want faster trials. If it fails, it should fail fast. If it succeeds, it should succeed fast.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> and chase satisfaction via materialist comsumption. Sounds like porn to me. ;-)
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Ah, does China go through the courts for every segment, taking months or years (including determining fair value for compensation)? Which sounds like a very inefficient court system to me.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
Any opinion on the books in this bundle?
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Humble Book Bundle: Leadership Now by Berrett-Koehler(humblebundle.com)
2 points by wolfgke 8y ago|1 comments
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Oath is desperate to put more ads on Tumblr, because they massively overpaid for it ($1 billion) and have been throwing money at it ever since (100s of millions). OK, but where is the problem with NSFW content (which is quite different
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Millennials are killing countless industries – but mostly because they're poor(thisisinsider.com)
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Eric Schmidt listed the '3 big failures' he sees in tech startups today(thisisinsider.com)
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> It's very likely that you just think they're "featureless and quite hard for marketers to target." At least of the second part, I am pretty convinced. When I see ads, I always think how wrong and clueless the ad net
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Exactly, which was 2 updates in 2017 and 2 updates in 2018; Microsoft isn't even attempting to play in the same ballpark as their competitors.. I actually like this kind of stability that Edge offers.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> What other options do they have? Even on HN you hear "I use Egde to download Chrome". Many of you here don't test your own work in Edge. At the same time Microsoft is getting the heat that Windows 10 is unstable and the
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The Socialist Memelords Radicalizing Instagram(motherboard.vice.com)
2 points by wolfgke 8y ago|0 comments
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by wolfgke 8y ago
I just ask myself how I, a person who satisfies quite some nerd stereotypes would be classified by these algorithm (in particular for political advertising). So for example the small number of categories that Google Ads assigns to me ( http
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by wolfgke 8y ago
I often say: "If Neo had simply read Linear Algebra textbooks instead of hacking around all night long, we would have known that the matrix is a representation of a linear map (morphism of vector spaces) with respect to given bases in
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Peter Thiel: What Happened to Innovation?(bigthink.com)
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