jptman

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by jptman 8y ago
I have to admit I don't know this stuff first hand, but based on what I heard, it took quite a while for ITA to be fully "absorbed" into Google, during which time they didn't change much. I also heard that their first cu
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by jptman 8y ago
I'm not sure I'd call it "failed commercially at solving booking". Google stopped their work on creating a booking system after the acquisition since they were never interested in getting into booking.
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by jptman 9y ago
Those two have nothing to do with each other. Someone in that thread purely speculated and now there are 'rumors'.
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by jptman 9y ago
Often times, if the work is critical enough, you could argue paying the 3rd party with a track record, insurance or a strict contract for delivery, support is the logical choice. Sure someone in-house could do it, but if they screw up or cr
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by jptman 9y ago
I think you are underestimating the amount of video that gets uploaded to Youtube. Smaller sites may be better at stuff like this but that's solely because they don't have quite the amount of content. Hundreds of hours of videos a
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by jptman 9y ago
The CR reliability score I saw recently lumped together the power train reliability with the entertainment system jankiness. I think this makes it not as useful The JD powers rating still rates Honda highly.
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by jptman 9y ago
Can someone explain the computation the article talks about further? All it says is that the array will go into a chaotic state and produce seemingly random output.
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by jptman 10y ago
Google workers.. cheap?
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by jptman 10y ago
Unfortunately, it's the heart string-tugging anecdotes that make policies happen in the US, not data.
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by jptman 10y ago
But the app is required for configuration, not for actually using your wifi, right? Perhaps I'm wrong.. The overlap for needing to configure your network and the internet connection being down is probably very small, although not non-e
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by jptman 10y ago
Doesn't Google already have a web based, but internal only, IDE? I don't know if that'd be easy to make external, but my understanding is that they've got a lot of internal users on it.
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by jptman 10y ago
What's the alternative? Not announce new features that won't perform well on current hardware? If details emerge that they could have made the 6P perform well but chose not to, that's something to be disappointed about, but t
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by jptman 10y ago
I wonder if this has anything to do with the rumoured 4k Chromecast. I wouldn't be surprised if they have some interesting tech to support it they don't want to make public. Edit: Nevermind, it looks like Chrome lately has built-
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by jptman 10y ago
> And exactly what assurances do we have that Google is properly vetting access to this information, given their complete lack of customer service and their historical inability to properly run adsense, their core business? reply You cou
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by jptman 10y ago
It's an anti pattern when it's used in a way that wasn't originally intended and causes a net loss for society. E.g, class action lawsuit against small manufacturing companies. These can cost more to fight than to pay off, ev
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by jptman 10y ago
> Perhaps Nepal could improve child mortality first even if its not hipster enough for the west. Yes, the government should simply ban child mortality. Why didn't they think of something that simple? Also, until child mortality is s
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by jptman 11y ago
I've done 2 & 3. What's the best way to go about doing 1? Pointers to a good guide would be much appreciated.
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by jptman 11y ago
As you wish, here's some Coleslaw: Awesome job Microsoft! I'm very curious to see if the larger industry embraces .Net on Linux / FreeBSD as one of the core languages. At some of the big tech companies, Java and C++ are still
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by jptman 12y ago
I'm curious to know what kind of leverage he had over the distros where it wasn't just "ask". Any suggestions on where I can find some info?
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by jptman 12y ago
I'm a bit curious about your comment. Do you mean during development you run your code on a REPL and change portions of it , or do you mean you run code in Production in a REPL and change portions of it as it's running? I'm i
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by jptman 13y ago
I think the article is trying to say that ADHD is an umbrella term used for a range of symptoms, rather than 1 disorder. I can imagine this being true for at least some of the cases, but it didn't provide much in the way of evidence. A
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by jptman 13y ago
A couple of years ago, I was away from the U.S. for a few months and thought I'd try to get some contracts online. I hadn't heard of oDesk and only knew of some others like rentacoder. I did the exact same thing you suggested, whi
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by jptman 13y ago
What if the reason you get to have a nice vacation at a particular time of year is that you are able to join important meetings from wherever?
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by jptman 13y ago
I really hope you see this -> Please please create a 10 min screencast showing how to use light table. May be I'm being utterly dumb and can't find this anywhere, but I've looked for a simple tutorial for Light Table and have not found