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by wooster 16y ago
Difference between Google and Apple: Steve Jobs would commit seppuku before spending $5 billion on something he could remake, better, in a couple of months with a handful of dedicated engineers and a barn full of even more dedicated markete
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by wooster 16y ago
Yeah, they have some aerial data. For example: zoom in on downtown San Jose in satellite view. The perspective view is aerial photography, and is copyrighted by Google. Although, now that I've done more digging, it looks like they're using
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by wooster 16y ago
I don't see any reason they couldn't do the same from the air. You can tell foliage with LIDAR, and I'd imagine you could get a pretty good approximation of trunk location pretty easily by looking at the foliage height.
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by wooster 16y ago
That's assuming they're doing the tree counting with imagery. The newer Google Street View cars I've seen have LIDAR rigs on top, so they could be mapping trees that way.
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by wooster 16y ago
They are about business model discovery. So if you are fundamentally a technologist at heart, whose heart sings when you’re making a better file system, or fixing a kernel bug, you’re not going to be happy at a startup.
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by wooster 16y ago
* House parties - at peak, I was throwing a house party once a month. * Hacker Dojo - almost always something interesting going on. Highly recommended. * Bars - Rose & Crown or the Nut House. * Watch a limited release film at Aquarius o
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by wooster 16y ago
You might want to read the history of Wired magazine on Wikipedia. Early Wired was a much different beast than the Wired magazine of today.
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by wooster 16y ago
This may be a long shot, but have you tried Vitamin D supplements?
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by wooster 16y ago
Much of that area is game preserves, forest land, county parks, open space trusts, under conservation easements, in Williamson Act contracts, etc, such that it can't be developed for housing.
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by wooster 16y ago
Yes. You'd be surprised at how many people can tell you the number of options they have, but not the percent of the company/equity/employee pool those options represent.
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by wooster 16y ago
I could literally hear them typing as I presented them with questions that they weren’t familiar with. I've had this happen to me while conducting phone interviews more times than I'd ever expected. It's amazing that people think
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by wooster 16y ago
The only thing that might be able to touch that is some alcohol sales Or coffee. Drip coffee margins can be greater than 70%. Espresso drinks can be greater than 80%.
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by wooster 16y ago
... and then FSF changed the license. GCC is under GPLv3 now, no?
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by wooster 16y ago
Herpetic gingivostomatitis is often the initial presentation during the first herpes infection. It is of greater severity than herpes labialis which is often the subsequent presentations. Around 90% of the U.S. population i
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by wooster 16y ago
It would have been obvious general knowledge to any post Great War (World War I) reader in England. See: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-481882/Condemned-v...
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by wooster 16y ago
I'd say a little of both. It would be hard not to get better at being an entrepreneur through the practice of starting a company and failing. There's no shame in failing at something that's really hard to begin with, so long as you learn a
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by wooster 16y ago
I read somewhere once that while 90% of startups fail, 80% of second time startup founders succeed. While I think it's a totally made up statistic (there was no citation, IIRC, and there are all sorts of problems with measurement and bias),
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by wooster 16y ago
Cryptome has being doing this for years: http://cryptome.org/
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by wooster 16y ago
The talks are interesting, with some fun (sometimes conflicting) variation between approaches, advice, and strategies. The people, as usual, really make it worthwhile. I met a lot of really interesting people last year and had a lot of wond
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by wooster 16y ago
For those who were confused (as I was), Prabhakar Raghavan wasn't the one who recently died, it was his co-author in Randomized Algorithms, Rajeev Motwani. BTW, I highly recommend their book. In it is all the evidence of the genesis of Goog
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by wooster 16y ago
you're just being naive. Yeah, I didn't say that, and I'm not. I just think this ham-fisted mess of a blog post is a shining example of why Google got its ass handed to it by a superior lobbying effort.
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by wooster 16y ago
The Myth/Fact format was probably the wrong choice when many of the "Fact" sections contain information supportive of the "Myth", along with a few weasel words like "But given political realities", "However, in the spirit of compromise", et
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by wooster 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_toxicity
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by wooster 16y ago
I work outside in 40C heat, in the sun for 8-10 hours a day; The record high temperature in Hamilton is 38.8C, and the average high during the summer is 27.3C. I'm sorry, I'm not comfortable with the idea of drinking or even
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by wooster 16y ago
California cannot declare bankruptcy: http://www.slate.com/id/2246915
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by wooster 16y ago
I'm not a big fan of the potshots he takes at New Urbanism and Smart Growth. He seems to not have much of a grasp on the changing demographics of urban versus suburban populations, or the impetus behind higher density construction in urban
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by wooster 16y ago
Neat. I might start up my office hours again. For anyone thinking of starting their own, it's totally worthwhile. I wrote about mine a couple of years ago: http://www.nextthing.org/archives/2008/10/30/office-hours
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by wooster 16y ago
It makes for extremely tedious conversation. These aren't investors or customers I'm talking to.
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by wooster 16y ago
Sure, but I and most of my friends and colleagues spend all day every day thinking about and working on things which could be described as "the future". The things I think are important are often things I think are going to be important 3 o
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by wooster 16y ago
Yes. It's a generalization, so there are always exceptions, but in general east coasters are much less accepting of things and ideas outside the norm than are west coasters.

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