petercoolz

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by petercoolz 9y ago
Wow that's a really impressive and well put together demo and overview. Really easy to follow and I'm glad I went through the whole tour. Question - you mentioned optimizations but I didn't see that in the tour. How would t
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by petercoolz 12y ago
Thanks for sharing. Link: http://www.nasdaq.com/markets/ipos/filing.ashx?filingid=9443...
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by petercoolz 12y ago
This reminds me of the all-too-true joke. Question: How do you know somebody has an MBA? Answer: They tell you. Full disclosure... I have an MBA!
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by petercoolz 12y ago
Loved the history. Don't imagine that traders will ever stop trying to get an advantage. I find it fascinating that even the postmaster thought an informational edge was unfair. Important to remember that those with a speed edge, ev
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by petercoolz 12y ago
To be clear, the price of energy goes negative because of government subsidies. For example, a wind plant with a $30/MWH subsidy can afford to run at a price of -$30. Similarly, if you're in California and you ever wondered why y
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by petercoolz 12y ago
Can someone please explain how this works? Is the younger Mrs. B is paying them to remove everything? Why? Do they just throw it all away?
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by petercoolz 12y ago
This is one of the the few cases where Clayton Christenson's insights on disruption apply. Insieme was founded on the premise of trying to disrupt Cisco's existing business because Cisco cannot effectively do so from within.
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by petercoolz 12y ago
Same here... west LA too. UberX usually has more cars available and the Lyft ones are usually older models.
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by petercoolz 12y ago
By the same logic the author shouldn't tweet for free either.
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by petercoolz 12y ago
While I was reading about the daily emails, I couldn't help but think that the slow web was just marketing speak for their chosen technical infrastructure. Ie. they run a midnight CRON job that parses all the emails because that'
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by petercoolz 12y ago
While I agree with the recommendations of the article, I wish it would cover some of the history of US geo-engineering too. I wonder what concerns were raised when they filled in Back Bay in Boston, or created artificial islands like Balboa
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by petercoolz 12y ago
This warmed my heart. And thinking about it from a business perspective, not everybody needs to own their own self-driving car. Ie. it can self-drive itself home for use by the next person. Which means economically, the car price can be
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by petercoolz 12y ago
I've seen this argument in many forms. It generally goes: Robots will never be able to do [insert activity here] as well as humans for [insert reason here]. I rather think that this robot is a fantastic v0.01 in what could be the beg
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by petercoolz 13y ago
This confused me, but I think it's because annual subscription revenue was recognized in the month of the payment.
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by petercoolz 13y ago
what exactly happened to ICQ? i haven't used it in years and years
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by petercoolz 13y ago
Agreed, same story near UCLA
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by petercoolz 13y ago
i remember back in college my friends would call them shitobas because they broke so often
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by petercoolz 13y ago
I hate hate hate D&B. so scammy and spammy and worthless. I think their corporate structure reflects the scam... One company issues the DUNS # but another is the telemarketing spammy one that calls you for years afterward.
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by petercoolz 14y ago
Tried to install this in Firefox and got confused by the Chrome site I was brought to... I guess this is Chrome only?