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by sdz 4y ago
The investors you refer to typically manage money on behalf of their investors and are actually under constant scrutiny. If they run mutual funds, their performance is measured every day, and if they underperform for a number of quarters
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by sdz 4y ago
You're probably looking for the Arrow IPC format [1], which writes the data in close to the same format as the memory layout. On some platforms, reading this back is just an mmap and can be done with zero copying. Parquet, on the other
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First impressions of RubyMotion(victor.sh)
2 points by sdz 14y ago|2 comments
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by sdz 15y ago
The difference, though, is that the money that Khan Academy has raised is donations. They're not investors who are seeking a (financial) return on their capital. Education is a tough space for startups trying to make money: http://avichal.
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by sdz 15y ago
Okay, I mean some automatic updating software is bad. Adobe's is very annoying, and Windows Update frequently requires rebooting. But some are great -- like Chrome! On a Mac, probably the best thing about the app store is that it consolid
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by sdz 15y ago
"One selling point the staff are pushing is that unlike traditional PC’s, Chromebooks get better over time with automatic software updates." That seems a bit disingenuous. PCs get better over time with software updates as well.
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The Evolution of the Normal Distribution(mathdl.maa.org)
1 points by sdz 15y ago|0 comments
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by sdz 15y ago
I've always loved the Chinese naming for Coke. The article translates it as "delicious happiness," but it's actually more clever. The first two characters (ke kou) mean thirsty. The third character is the same as the first but means "can be
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by sdz 15y ago
Fair enough, the real rights owner may have uploaded the books and videos themselves. I just think there's some irony here that Hotfile suddenly cares about copyright.
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by sdz 15y ago
For example, while claiming to remove files that are copies of the movie The Box, Warner removed several files related to the alternative cancer treatment book "Cancer: Out Of The Box," by Ty M. Bollinger. Another title deleted by Warner w
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by sdz 15y ago
This is why I think it was shortsighted for Instapaper to reject outside funding. As much as I like Instapaper, it is very much still a single-platform app with very limited scope (text-only), and the app hasn't been updated in several mont
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by sdz 15y ago
There is Simplenote ( http://simplenoteapp.com ), which is a pretty no-frills web app that also integrates with a number of native apps (including Notational Velocity if you're on OS X).
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by sdz 15y ago
Well, it is Android in the sense that it shares the same API and thus runs Android apps from the Amazon Appstore.
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Xcode 4.1 now free in Mac App Store(appleinsider.com)
1 points by sdz 15y ago|0 comments
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by sdz 15y ago
So... you can use brute force to break encryption? Is that news? It doesn't sound like there was any security hole in the implementation or a leaked cryptographic key, so in what sense is the encryption "cracked"?
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by sdz 15y ago
This is extremely interesting. One thing I didn't understand was how this location database is being built. Is Google collecting GPS signals and WIFI hotspots so that the two can be associated to pinpoint your location? If so, does that mea
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by sdz 15y ago
I'm sure some parts of Oracle's database are very good. The part I work with (OLAP), though, is ludicrously bad. New bugs are introduced with almost every database patch, and the behavior of existing functions have changed without notice. F
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What Do Don Draper and GitHub Have In Common?(gigaom.com)
7 points by sdz 15y ago|2 comments
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Honeycomb is a change in strategy, no matter what Andy Rubin says(damienzhang.com)
2 points by sdz 15y ago|0 comments
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Amazon Cloud Player and how bandwidth killed the copyright star(nilaypatel.co)
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Why Honeycomb Can't Be Open(damienzhang.com)
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by sdz 16y ago
I've always found the tags on Engadget to be completely useless, and I was wondering why they even waste their time with them. SEO makes a lot of sense.
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by sdz 16y ago
I'm going to miss the Engadget Podcast. After Paul Miller left, I thought it might still have a chance, but now all three are gone!
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by sdz 16y ago
Why would a cloud-based filesystem be useful beyond storing your home folder? It's not like you need group collaboration on your kernel binaries. You also can't really run different computers off of the same harddrive image (unless you are
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by sdz 16y ago
Most of the home pages for these writing tools are missing the most important thing: a full screenshot of the app! Why all the tiny crops, screencasts, and written descriptions?
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by sdz 16y ago
Another one: 5. Google’s services need to support every platform Google services need to support every platform eventually , but nothing stops them from releasing something working on a single platform first. As I recall, Google Chrome w
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by sdz 16y ago
I think a related part of Apple's pricing advantage comes from the fact that they are good at taking technologies developed for the iPhone and using it in other places instead of reinventing the wheel for every product. The iPod touch, Appl
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by sdz 16y ago
This reminds me of an old Joel Spolsky blog post [1] about exactly this for programmers. The gist is that for tasks that require a great deal of attention and focus (like programmaing and, here, legal analysis), task switching is extremely
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by sdz 16y ago
At a very general level, accumulating savings while carrying debt only makes sense if you can get a greater (risk-adjusted) return on your savings than the interest rate you need to pay on your debt. So if your return on your savings is low
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by sdz 16y ago
From an economics point of view, it's basically another way of saying that wealth maximization is different from utility maximization. While the two are frequently correlated, it's not necessarily so. The snowball strategy could be perfectl

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