farmerbuzz

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by farmerbuzz 16y ago
The original author appears to be using an iPhone for prototyping, and clearly states that it is the "tablet form factor" that is making things so interesting. Even if they were using an iPhone there would be no point to putting the softwar
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by farmerbuzz 16y ago
There is a difference between competing in a business environment and limiting what your customers can do with your product. Although competition may indirectly determine what customers can do (by destroying businesses that may have created
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by farmerbuzz 16y ago
Another idea is to make things so confusing that the customer is no longer sure what they're getting. Just name a managed fund something confusing that makes it seem like an index fund (but still include all the fees like a managed fund).
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by farmerbuzz 16y ago
The technology behind it seems to have made it into Google Docs (real time collaborative editing). There are plenty of people using Google Docs.
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by farmerbuzz 16y ago
If its anything like the Archos 7 it will have a resistive touchscreen and a less powerful CPU, which probably explains the price difference. Android is painful to use with a resistive touchscreen because of all the swiping gestures and the
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by farmerbuzz 16y ago
Not to mention speech to text on Google Voice (usually laughable results) and translation (works a bit better, but breaks down hilariously e.g. http://groups.google.com/group/shibboleth-users/browse_threa... ).
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by farmerbuzz 16y ago
In the US, medical devices are regulated by the FDA. When it comes to using 3rd party software, the company manufacturing the device has the responsibility to ensure any 3rd party components function correctly. Its unrealistic to impose reg
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by farmerbuzz 16y ago
Averages can be skewed by outliers. I imagine there are quite a few outliers in San Francisco using Mint.
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by farmerbuzz 16y ago
Differential equations are great for modeling these sorts of problems. http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/education/calc-init/population/
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by farmerbuzz 16y ago
Apple's "There's an App for that" marketing is certainly demonstrating the features and capability of the iPhone, but if you think back to the iPod it had far fewer features than a lot of other players (no fm radio, no recording, fewer butt
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by farmerbuzz 16y ago
I would love to see a video demonstration of the answer (my intuition was apparently wrong which would make a video that much more entertaining).
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by farmerbuzz 16y ago
Although it looks like that is a Google ad, so maybe they didn't intend to accept it?
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by farmerbuzz 16y ago
Wow. Nevermind then!
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by farmerbuzz 16y ago
Btw, this is awesome: http://ww.com/dilliecam
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by farmerbuzz 16y ago
Perhaps its not that they're threatened by marijuana but disinclined to accept controversial and divisive advertising?
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by farmerbuzz 16y ago
Do you have some evidence to support this?
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by farmerbuzz 16y ago
Check out this other story about Jobs: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s... I understand you probably did not have this story in mind when you made your comment, but he sounds like a jerk to me.
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by farmerbuzz 16y ago
What software did you use for this? I have tried a few cookie blocking extensions for Firefox but haven't found a good one. Also I notice you say "Back when I experimented.." -- was there a reason it didn't work out in the end?
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by farmerbuzz 16y ago
Google Docs already has the most important feature from Google Wave (allow multiple people to edit the same document simultaneously). Wave's mission statement was a bit grandiose -- it should never have been about replacing email completely
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by farmerbuzz 16y ago
Herd effects, and company policies. Americans != programmers at startups.
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by farmerbuzz 16y ago
I wonder if the outrage over this is part of the same trend described in the 20-somethings article ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1614280 ). If kids are more sheltered, then it would make sense that it takes longer for them to "gro
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by farmerbuzz 16y ago
Why is this comment not welcome here? I would like not to repeat my mistake in the future but I'm not sure what I did wrong.
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by farmerbuzz 16y ago
Anything that can be learned via talking to people can be learned via Stack Overflow assuming you can communicate well using text (although it may get tagged with the feared Subjective tag).
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by farmerbuzz 16y ago
I haven't used paypal via phone, but paypay via the web is free for person-to-person transfers as long as you mark the transfer as such. There is only a charge when transferring to a merchant.
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by farmerbuzz 16y ago
Flux didn't change the appearance enough for me -- what I really want is to have light text on a dark background at night. One ugly hack is to use the Windows 7 magnifier tool to invert video. The colors are atrocious but you can pretend th
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by farmerbuzz 16y ago
Check out hacker news daily: http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/ (top 10 stories per day)
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by farmerbuzz 16y ago
The end goal is probably to get into google results. There may be an advantage against something like Yahoo Answers by having a committed community for a particular topic and drawing experts to that community (haven't seen much expertise on
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by farmerbuzz 16y ago
They're at least trying to address this issue by requiring substantial commitment up front before building out a site: http://area51.stackexchange.com/ . Whether the thresholds they've chosen will work remains to be seen but they at least
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by farmerbuzz 16y ago
Are you using the site for reputation or to spread knowledge? If its the former then you're welcome to leave, if its the latter then why do you care about reputation?
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by farmerbuzz 16y ago
Contrarian? Its humor, not philosophy. Lighten up.

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