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Auto-rotating buttons on HTC Incredible S(engadget.com)
2 points by zhyder 16y ago|1 comments
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by zhyder 16y ago
This is much better than the $15k Anybot. I can't figure why they put such a tiny screen on the Anybot. The face on the screen needs to be visible from a distance after all. Ideally the screen should be big enough to fit a face at 1:1 scale
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StageVideo in Flash 10.2 dramatically reduces CPU usage with video(adobe.com)
1 points by zhyder 16y ago|0 comments
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by zhyder 16y ago
A friend of mine got rejected from the current YC batch, but raised $1M from prominent investors less than a month after the YC interview.
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by zhyder 16y ago
"Virtually all of the companies that go through the program receive seed funding after participating in the popular incubator program... The average Y Combinator company raises $700,000 after the program." Had a hunch about the funding succ
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by zhyder 16y ago
I don't know why they say that: it's not impressive at all. Harvard has an application fee, Google doesn't. Anybody and everybody just submits a resume coz "it doesn't hurt". GP: if they get 1,000,000 applications and 4500 people join: that
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by zhyder 16y ago
Blog post from Nvidia: http://blogs.nvidia.com/2011/01/project-denver-processor-to-...
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Nvidia announces Project Denver ARM CPU for the desktop(engadget.com)
185 points by zhyder 16y ago|112 comments
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by zhyder 16y ago
That's a much more expensive system. If we configure them as: Macbook Pro 15: $1800 + $250 for 128GB SSD Macbook Air 13: $1300 + $100 for 4GB RAM Both machines will have the same size SSD, RAM, and same number of pixels, but the MBP will be
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by zhyder 16y ago
Even 2-3 years ago, Ruby+Rails were better than Python+Django/etc in terms of an ecosystem for webapps. Python had a better ecosystem than Ruby outside of webapps. I suspect this is still true though the gaps have narrowed a lot.
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by zhyder 16y ago
No health benefits, really? That should be really easy to verify objectively. Can someone here corroborate that?
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What does it feel like to be stupid? An anonymous Quora user explains.(garrysub.posterous.com)
521 points by zhyder 16y ago|149 comments
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by zhyder 16y ago
You're talking about DMCA safe harbor provisions, which would only apply if Grooveshark promptly took down content when requested by copyright owners. Further, Grooveshark isn't even claiming the service is for "user generated music". (YouT
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by zhyder 16y ago
How come the RIAA is okay with Grooveshark streaming any music at any time? Pandora has many more restrictions in their free version to qualify for "internet radio" licensing rates.
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by zhyder 16y ago
GOOG itself has a P/E of 23x [1]. 40x for a fast growing company is not crazy. [1] http://www.google.com/finance?q=goog
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by zhyder 16y ago
Like others have said, life is too short to work on bad ideas. This list isn't saying that these ideas are necessarily bad, but that they're too common. So you should think about what makes your idea sub-variant different enough; if you can
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by zhyder 16y ago
I don't get it. Why can't content owners just raise their prices for streaming? "Netflix pays about 15 cents a month for each subscriber, much less than the $4 to $5 a month that cable and satellite owners pay for access to Starz." Why give
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by zhyder 16y ago
Wow NV is exactly what I was planning to build as a webapp to scratch my itch. Single text box for both search-as-you-type and for creating a new note. Registered boxuno.com for it. But I never expected to be able to monetize it; it'd alway
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by zhyder 16y ago
Absolutely agreed that higher head count should not be a goal; less is more. But it's still a good second question to ask because: 1. It gives a sense of what stage the company is at. E.g. a 50-person company should be well past finding pro
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by zhyder 16y ago
I'm quite happy with them never releasing the drivers as long as they don't do extra work to prevent hackability. 1. It may take as many man-hours for MS to clean up their drivers for open source consumption as it takes the community to hac
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by zhyder 16y ago
Feature request: show book cover art.
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by zhyder 16y ago
I know this has been asked before, but now some of you would have been using your MBAs for a week. 1. How is the 13" (which is 1440x900) as a primary dev machine? 2. If you moved from a 15" MBP, do you miss the screen real estate? Was the M
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Engadget's Macbook Air review(engadget.com)
1 points by zhyder 16y ago|0 comments
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by zhyder 16y ago
We'll soon be cursing HTML5 for powering too much unnecessary animation on the web: ads, restaurant websites, etc. Adobe's tools will make it so easy, that people are bound to abuse their power. That abuse of power has been the main problem
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by zhyder 16y ago
Are you serious? Any product involves borrowing hundreds if not thousands of ideas from others. And that's how progress is made; you build upon others' ideas. There's no such thing as idea infringement, unless the idea is turned into a pate
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by zhyder 16y ago
General point about P/E and P/(E * G) ratios: - P is at a snapshot in time, but - E is over a period of time (can be short/long, past/predicted-future) - G (growth) is over a period of time (can be short/long, past/predicted-future) G is
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by zhyder 16y ago
"has falling profits (and) is trading at a generous 23.5 P/E today" 23.5 is not generous at all if the denominator is tiny (coz of the falling profits). P/E is actually pretty meaningless when E is small coz of low margins [1], since small
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by zhyder 16y ago
Beautiful review, though I think Anand should consider using videos to describe some things. This is telling of how strict Microsoft is being with the hardware: "At the top left of any Windows Phone there must be a volume rocker. The top ri
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by zhyder 16y ago
Apparently standby lasts 30 days for the 13.3" model. Currently my MBP burns through the battery in standby within 1-2 days. With a 30-day standby time, I'd worry a lot less about having it plugged in all the time. http://www.engadget.com/
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by zhyder 16y ago
That's really difficult for applicants. How can they possibly resist the urge to prepare for it, and to do retakes till it's 'perfect'?

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