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by jnks 11y ago
For those struggling to beat the AI, Connect Four is a solved game [1] and whoever goes first can force a win by starting in the middle column. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connect_Four
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by jnks 11y ago
What's happening here is not a shift to net 90, and it's also not an attempt by Apple to rip any rightsholders off. Instead, it appears Apple and the major labels believe that three free months of Apple Music threatens to hurt Spo
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by jnks 11y ago
There's nothing in the contract between Sony and Spotify that's all that surprising. Even the large looking advance of $45M is only a small fraction of what Spotify would have paid Sony each year. If anything, the "unfairness
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by jnks 11y ago
21 will surely dole out some of their 75% cut to hardware integration partners as a distribution fee. The ripoff here is for anyone ignorant enough to run one of these devices.
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by jnks 11y ago
RIAA.
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by jnks 11y ago
If you've ever wondered what the real value of going to Harvard is, it's all in this sentence from the article: > On a hike up Camelback Mountain in Arizona, he pitched the idea to executives from Williams-Sonoma, who agreed to
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by jnks 11y ago
This may underrate the real difficulty of Spotify: convincing record labels to let them give away music for free on the assumption freemium would have a reasonable conversion rate to paid.
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by jnks 11y ago
Ironically, if developers like yourself had adopted the API, they wouldn't be deprecating it now.
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by jnks 12y ago
Roughly, "hearsay" means that the person testifying to a fact was not a witness to it themselves or does not have direct knowledge over it. So it's entirely possible that some parts of the affidavit are hearsay while others a
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by jnks 12y ago
More likely: a push to become the next PayPal, but using the Bitcoin network rather than the standard ACH banking network. Here's one step towards that: http://avc.com/2015/01/feature-friday-us-dollar-wallet&#
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by jnks 12y ago
My reading: Bell Labs folks would have ordered it Programming > Math >> Computer Science. RTM was good at programming, was being taught CS at college, and took too long to learn that neither that nor math were for him and that Bell
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by jnks 12y ago
For a certain definition of "success", yes definitely. Uber's sky-high valuation (and the accompanying deluge of investment dollars) hinges on their ability to address a market larger than US taxicabs. So press about them doi
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by jnks 12y ago
At the $13/share pricing, Box will be paying its previous investors back penalty shares. Apparently they promised a share price of $20. [1] 1. http://pando.com/2014/07/08/boxs-updated-s-1-contains-onerou.
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by jnks 12y ago
The fault for Hollywood's endless sequels, remakes, and remakes of the remake should probably be laid primarily at the feet of the American viewing public. We won't make the hike to the movies for artsy stuff like Birdman, but Spi
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by jnks 12y ago
Way more fun, at least.
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by jnks 12y ago
> I don't think it's as simple as "if someone dies there needs to be a trial". But there almost always is in reality, if there's a reasonable suspect. The only exception seems to be with law enforcement officers.
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by jnks 12y ago
Perhaps because there's a lot of breathless press [1] about Bitcoin solving this "impossible" problem that was in actually solved decades ago? [1] http://nonchalantrepreneur.com/post/70130104170/bitc
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by jnks 12y ago
Square loses something like 25 cents per Square Cash transaction [1], and now they want more transactions? I wonder if Snapchat is paying those fees, and if so how they think they're going to make that money back from their users. [1]
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by jnks 12y ago
The solution to number 2 (if it really needs one) is simple to use `if !ok` instead to push the exceptional case to the right.
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by jnks 12y ago
I'm sure if hospital threw off hundreds of millions in entertainment and tourism revenue municipalities might be more amenable to funding them...
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by jnks 12y ago
It appears there's only room for 11 or 12 big IPOs per year. If the current trend holds and late-stage investors are creating more private unicorns than the public can bear, we have a problem. The fallout from this mismatch wouldn&#x27
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by jnks 12y ago
If you think about it for a second, it's only really possible to do this for one direction of traffic at a time on a given multi-block street segment.
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by jnks 12y ago
I'm partial to "We've got company!" http://www.quodb.com/#search/we've%20got%20company Incoming is the moral equivalent (and is much more popular), but is less impressive since it's only o
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by jnks 12y ago
The software equivalent to doing your own plumbing has been here since the mid-90s: build your homepage with Geocities.
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by jnks 12y ago
Gotta love those cumulative graphs. Linear growth? Now it looks quadratic!
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by jnks 12y ago
The idea is it's `for k := range object` to iterate over the keys, and `for k, v := range object` to iterate over the keys and values, whether the object is a slice, array, map or string. The only exceptional case is a channel, which h
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by jnks 12y ago
You're arguing strawman points the article doesn't make. The primary claims I see are 1. Uber drivers don't make as much as Uber PR claims (based on data Uber provided). 2. Uber the business doesn't seem to be wildly pro
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by jnks 12y ago
How many dates are you parsing at a time that optimizing this would make a noticeable difference to users?
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by jnks 12y ago
The author of this blog post is a little confused about embedded structs. His examples of has-a and is-a are both has-a 's, and the syntax change involved (leaving off a name for the embedded type) doesn't actually do anythin
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by jnks 12y ago
Technically they're raising at $18.2B or $18.4B in the typical sense of the word "valuation" since the 17 is pre-money. Also, as an investor in such a late round, there are likely multiple provisions for getting your money ba

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