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Microsoft invests in real-time maps for drones, and someday, flying cars(theverge.com)
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Microsoft, Qualcomm, and Airbus Just Got Drone Fever(fortune.com)
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by wgoodwin 10y ago
AirMap | Santa Monica | Onsite, full-time | BD, Technical Acct Mgr, Data Sorcerer and Engineer, Senior Software Engineers, Application and DevOps Security Engineers. Help make drones part of everyday life. https://boards.greenhou
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by wgoodwin 12y ago
I'm a lawyer, with a split practice between IP lit and tech trans, and tried some modest entrepreneurial ventures pre-law school that ended up failing, and I read HN for largely the same reasons.
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by wgoodwin 12y ago
Yeah, how has this not generated more comments? I felt like an absolute stalker as soon as that woman moved, and the subsequent images have made it only worse. Bizarre is an understatement.
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by wgoodwin 13y ago
" It's disorienting for the 1st click on a name to expand a comment, but then the second click (on the same-styled name) to open another webpage (rather than collapse)." Ditto.
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by wgoodwin 13y ago
In rare moments of digital altruism.
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by wgoodwin 13y ago
A-fscking-men.
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by wgoodwin 13y ago
Well done (I'd say better than the original). One of the things I find most surprising is the data on the bus lines. I'd assumed, as a recent LA transplant, that the bus lines would generally serve worse off neighborhoods (it is always thus
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by wgoodwin 14y ago
I was going to say that 20% seems exceptionally low, but I see how the pensions were being backed out. Fire and public safety, and their corresponding pensions, make up the bulk (like often >50%) of all municipal expenditures.
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by wgoodwin 14y ago
Yeah, this was an astonishingly valuable list of "shit not to do, if you're trying to grow up."
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by wgoodwin 14y ago
Seems utterly improbable. That was my first reaction to: Apple would never do this. Per my comment elsewhere, I'm not sure that's a terrible thing by itself.
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by wgoodwin 14y ago
I'm torn between enthusiasm for these awesome additions to to Google Maps, and the longterm effect on one's sense of wonder at the vastness of the world. Something of the wonder of hiking into the Grand Canyon is lost when you can walk it i
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by wgoodwin 14y ago
Agreed, entirely. I realized that I've been using FB as a surrogate for an email newsletter for side web projects. I also realized that many people I know use the feed as a surrogate for RSS to the feeds of their friends' lives. In both cas
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by wgoodwin 14y ago
A slight deviation of topic, but I think this point is too-often ignored: "VCs apply money to fix problems and risks in order to increase growth." VCs want you to increase your risk profile, while entrepreneurs focus on getting capital to d
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by wgoodwin 14y ago
This news is actually a brilliant illustration of the sloth of academic publishing. I used Color as an example in a book review of an academic text on the knowledge economy, written now almost 18 months ago. Hopefully, it will be published