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Vint Cerf: 'Privacy's an accident of the urban revolution'(managementtoday.co.uk)
2 points by ximeng 13y ago|11 comments
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by ximeng 13y ago
Not exactly sure what you mean, Windows apps work fine on the tablet. You either plug in the keyboard and a mouse, or you use an on-screen keyboard or the stylus. I looked at a lot of the hybrid machines before buying a Surface Pro and was
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by ximeng 13y ago
https://www.google.com/search?q=flights+to+new+york https://www.google.com/search?q=flights+to+new+york+from+la https://www.google.com/search?q=calories+in+a+pint
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by ximeng 13y ago
Agreed. It might be easier to charge the customer rather than the merchant. If as customer I could choose from a list of payment providers and get a different fee from each one then the competition would be very transparent. Plenty of barri
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by ximeng 13y ago
There could be ways round the big-data-required problem. You could charge different transaction fees depending on how good your data is on somebody and allow them to provide data to improve your confidence in them. Or require deposits from
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by ximeng 13y ago
A lot of Windows is UTF-16 or UCS-2, including Office, which forces their use for working with APIs or transferring data.
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Software patents suck [2010](blogs.msdn.com)
1 points by ximeng 13y ago|0 comments
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Silver trumps gold in nano advance(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by ximeng 13y ago|0 comments
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by ximeng 13y ago
You might like this movie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limitless The people in it fight to the death for their smartness drugs.
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by ximeng 13y ago
Annual cost synergies of 600MM within 18 months - sounds like they plan to kill 3000 jobs. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/download/press/2013/Stra... (page 21)
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On "bullshit jobs"(economist.com)
3 points by ximeng 13y ago|0 comments
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by ximeng 13y ago
Offer three days ago for people to improve their accent: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6304783 (I'm not affiliated.)
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by ximeng 13y ago
Wow this story dropped to 596 from the front page in less than an hour. Nice.
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by ximeng 13y ago
You don't really acknowledge that there might be a problem here. Since the 19th century technology has matched and exceeded many of the skills of humans. The repetition of these arguments is based on the fact that people need to find n
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by ximeng 13y ago
I think you mean that human society will always need services from other humans. Your argument doesn't convince me though. How will people know about new, better items they could be printing out - presumably like now through well desig
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Microsoft attacks Google in YouTube app row(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by ximeng 13y ago|0 comments
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by ximeng 13y ago
Any link? Couldn't find this study.
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Hacker 'shouts abuse' via Foscam baby monitoring camera(bbc.co.uk)
9 points by ximeng 13y ago|0 comments
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A bridge across the Irish Sea and four other amazing plans(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by ximeng 13y ago|0 comments
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Malaria vaccine shows early promise in clinical trials(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by ximeng 13y ago|0 comments
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by ximeng 13y ago
Try us.yahoo.com
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by ximeng 13y ago
Interesting section on illegal Chinese copies. http://solowheel.com/about-illegal-solowheel-copies/
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by ximeng 13y ago
"Microsoft is hopeless at managing screen real estate" - not sure where this blanket statement is coming from, but the desktop option on Windows 8 works perfectly well for me on the Pro. Keyboard could be better, but works well en
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by ximeng 13y ago
Windows 8 is a bit weird in the split between metro and desktop, and I feel these need to merge in the future. I hardly use metro apps because they don't work nicely with other apps, e.g. can't shift from one screen to another, re
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by ximeng 13y ago
I have a surface pro and am pretty happy with it. I compared to a lot of rival tablets and products and it was basically the only one with the combination of features I want: supports extra screen, keyboard, runs Windows / Office apps
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by ximeng 13y ago
"I must admit to feeling some hesitation before writing this post, as I fear it may come across as self-indulgent. My motivation in writing it was to communicate how useful self quantification can be. It is a lifestyle change that I be
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New Internet addresses: .patience(economist.com)
2 points by ximeng 13y ago|0 comments
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by ximeng 13y ago
Didn't downvote but from the article sounds like she knows what Google is. "That problem really shows in search, where you will end up with duplicate results competing for attention. You are fighting with your own content. That ca
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by ximeng 13y ago
625 is sold out already. Any idea what the likely BOM cost to Ubuntu would be for this? http://www.isuppli.com/Teardowns/News/Pages/Samsung-Galaxy-S... Suggests 400$ is achievable, which should leave them ple
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by ximeng 13y ago
They sold something like 5044 at 600 and then removed it from the page. Also 3 at 10000.

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