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by frazerb 6y ago
Ack. Ack. Thank you, HN. Nearly 13 years enjoying HN - certainly more times a day than I care to admit. Always nervous to tell people what a great forum it is, for fear of reducing the SNR. Remarkable that, even more than a decade on, i
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by frazerb 7y ago
Would be a great feature to add to Google One? Or a reason to switch search engines, I guess.
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by frazerb 12y ago
Any idea of the power source for this beastie ? It's not very 'wearable' if I have to plug it into a computer (via) USB to power it....
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by frazerb 12y ago
9AM PT is 17:00GMT. So London showing starts 5PM
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by frazerb 12y ago
StreetPong - play a game of pong with the person across the street, while waiting for the Green Man. I think this floated by on HN a few years ago. From Urban-Invention (came out of a german university I think). http://vimeo.com
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by frazerb 13y ago
His last question: "How do I prevent my engineers from performing at 1/10x?" Did he mean 1/10x, or (1/10)x, or (as I suspect based on the substance of the discussion) did he mean (1/10)(10x) = x ? You would ha
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by frazerb 13y ago
chicken
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by frazerb 13y ago
All very wise observations, folks. I feel better now. And thanks.
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by frazerb 13y ago
I'm a little surprised by the striking similarities between Octocat and the "Octonauts" (www.octonauts.com) - a cartoon in the UK that my two kids are mad about. I'm trusting that these copyright/design right concerns have been contemplated
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by frazerb 13y ago
How to shrink a basestation into a Raspberry Pi. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCcKgrzbix4 It's not the handset, but rather the basestation. But the concept is similar. I saw this working. It works. And there are open-source versio
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by frazerb 14y ago
People don't leave jobs, they leave bosses.
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by frazerb 14y ago
You've got to wonder how much Apple are paying Google to support maps on iOS....or what other kick-back (more valuable to Google than cash) there might be.
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by frazerb 14y ago
I struggle here with Google's business model, and the impact their efforts have on other Android tablet vendors. At this price point the profit (if there is any to speak of) must be wafer-thin. But Google can handle such wafer-thin margins
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by frazerb 15y ago
I just struggle to understand how IEEE's publication policy contributes to "advancing technological innovation [..] for the benefit of humanity". IEEE publication policy is nothing but a barrier to innovation. Shame WikiLeaks / anonymous /
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by frazerb 15y ago
I used NEO from Caelo (nelsons email organiser) for five years+ [[ employer INSISTED on using freakin' Msft and Outlook ]]. NEO is an overlay (non-invasive) on top of Outlook that does all this and more - free text search etc. NEO saved m
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by frazerb 15y ago
I spend most of my day talking with customers and reviewing contracts etc.. As much as I would love to, I think if my boss caught me looking at code like this he would fire me !
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by frazerb 16y ago
There will doubtless be lots of peripheral benefits from this piece of research. But private vehicles being automatically driven on the road ? Is Ford/Audi/Chrysler going to swallow the liability implications ? Look how much they get b
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by frazerb 16y ago
And John Doerr (Kleiner Perkins) in front of the flowers on the LHS
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by frazerb 16y ago
Is that Eric Schmidt front left ?
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by frazerb 16y ago
Number of starred items might be more useful. Also, seems to be an issue - this number does not increase (from 0 to 1 in the test I did) when you 'mark as unread'. Tried to give feedback about this to gmail labs but couldn't.
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by frazerb 16y ago
I like. I'm sure you are at least three times as good as this alternative, but I have enjoyed using a few different (similar) $5 services from fiverr: http://www.fiverr.com/
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by frazerb 16y ago
As a self confessed HN addict, I want to share a new technique I found that massively improved my productivity in an instant. Too good to be true ? Read on.... The technique is slightly different, depending in which operating system you ha
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by frazerb 16y ago
Read Hitchhikers Guide. Again. Priceless. "The Timetraveller's Wife" will make you think.
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by frazerb 16y ago
You will love Nicholson Baker's book "The Mezzanine", and Ian McEwan's book "The Child in Time". Both capture this phenomenon of the relativity of perceived time wonderfully. McEwan's book will just eat at your heart. If you haven't read
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by frazerb 16y ago
As a teenager I would spend hours talking to my girlfriend using the payphone that was across the street from my house. Why ? Just to avoid the hyper-sensitive ears of my parents. Those things were an essential part of my life! That gir
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by frazerb 16y ago
Love it. Also worth trying Southampton to Swansea :)
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by frazerb 16y ago
I would love to see a bigger 'twist' than this. I would love to see the <i>investors</i> pitching to the start-ups. I would love to see investors put more effort into demonstrating the value that they bring to young compani
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by frazerb 16y ago
I like this because he is demonstrating his technical ingenuity by designing and building the thing - from scratch - by himself. A great lead into getting an interview or being called in to quote for some work. But does this show commercia
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by frazerb 16y ago
This is an interesting departure from Metcalfe's Law [ the value of the network is proportionate to the square of the number of nodes in the network ]. Perhaps Metcalfe's Law applies up to a certain size, and then tails off thereafter. Ther
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by frazerb 17y ago
Article doesn't give the company valuations - just the share price - at IPO. Share price doesn't tell you much.

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