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by ysapir 13y ago
Every company operating in every country is bound to that country's laws. So Google in China has to accept the Chinese government demands, and Google Maps in Israel already cooperates with security restrictions in Israel, just like Wa
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Interactive video startup Interlude raises $16 million(thenextweb.com)
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by ysapir 13y ago
These children are dead, there is nothing fake about that, and there is also nothing fake in that they are victims of a variety of factors, including Paul Hansen who manipulated their funeral images to cheat his way to an award. There were
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by ysapir 13y ago
Also, in this paradigm, only one thread calls refresh() at any give time (either the MonitorThread or before the thread is created, the initializer thread). This is contrary to some definitions of lock free, such as [1], "if any thread per
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by ysapir 13y ago
Even in natural sciences, there may be experiments that are not easily reproducible. Finding the Higgs can only be done in a long while (decade or more) with great financial investment. Or take the 4th grade test about dinosaurs[1]. Objec
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by ysapir 13y ago
That isn't clear to me, but in any case, they seem to be talking about a new type of peer review process, which is more immediate -- something akin to forking on github or editing a wiki maybe. I'm not sure. From the article - "They argue
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by ysapir 13y ago
Quality control is essential. I have an interest in linguistics. But on the internet, some of the linguistics arguments are ridiculous. There are websites that claim that English (and all world languages) are descendant from Turkish. It
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by ysapir 13y ago
In my view, Android does slightly better routing and search. Waze has a much better UI/UX experience. EDIT: And Waze does not do walking/public transportation directions.
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by ysapir 13y ago
There is also the endorsements, which LinkedIn can use to measure how well you know the person.
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by ysapir 13y ago
Waze won the best overall app award at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. This might have raised its valuation since the Apple talks were publicized - http://www.globalmobileawards.com/winners-2013/ If they are doing due diligence n
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by ysapir 13y ago
Maybe Abby is Abby Beck, Designer Extraordinaire who makes user friendly products - http://founderdating.com/about/who-we-are-2/ On various meetup pages, Abby also describes herself as a designer. I am sorry now I signed up to unlock my c
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by ysapir 13y ago
The point of an MVP is to control costs, to avoid spending millions of $ and precious time to develop something that no one wants. The first step in avoiding spending that much money, is to be able to quantify the costs of building an MVP.
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by ysapir 13y ago
The policy does not make that distinction. An app generally needs a backend and it is clear some of the policies are directed towards not the app itself but how it interacts with the backend. These same guidelines are meant to be used to s
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by ysapir 13y ago
This seems to be a direct violation of Google Play policy: "Do not send SMS, email, or other messages on behalf of the user without providing the user with the ability to confirm content and intended recipient." https://play.google.com/abo
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by ysapir 13y ago
How would this work out in a scenario where the customers are a subset of the users. Say, a restaurant menu service that provides restaurants with enhanced menus for their clients. The customers are the restaurants and restaurant owners.
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by ysapir 13y ago
A usage-based trial is really just the same thing as a time-based trial. There is a certain pace at which users are going to use up their usage quota, and that translates to a time period. Generally, though, you want the time period to en
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by ysapir 13y ago
New? The story was already reported a year and a half ago and published last year. [1] http://www.independent.co.uk/student/news/open-eye-you-never-know-what-you-might-unearth-2365369.html [2] http://www.academia.edu/2488263/Vespasia
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by ysapir 13y ago
The article does not describe the primary issue with using templates: that using templates leads to hard-to-manage non-modular code. Templates have their uses, but a big problem is that any change in template code means recompile of any co
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by ysapir 13y ago
I wouldn't buy it. I'm a C++ programmer with over 10 years, I buy software books, but I basically only go for well vetted books. I dislike a chapter heading reading "Exception throwing destructors" even if that is a one page chapter with on
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by ysapir 13y ago
Maybe it's not a typo. You can fill in the appropriate verb. ... plan to improve ... ... need to improve ... ... hope to improve ... ... forgot to improve ... ... don't intend to improve ... ... leave it to me to improve ...
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by ysapir 13y ago
"The company is much more likely to work with the open-source developers" This is an understatement. When you work with an open-source third-party library/module in a commercial company, it is much easier for the company to submit bugfix p
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by ysapir 13y ago
Is this at the seed stage or later? Wouldn't VCs prefer to put their money in one who has tried a startup before and failed than a first-timer for whom there are a lot more unknowns?
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by ysapir 13y ago
That wikipedia page quotes an article by John Barton that argues that the criteria for obviousness should be restricted. The particular quote you cite is from the section where Barton explains his proposed criteria, rather than the current
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by ysapir 13y ago
No I don't think that's exact. If you need to know that it's possible in order to make it, then it is non-obvious. Maybe the algorithm is obvious, ie, to do X you need to do steps 1, 2, and 3, but X itself, the basic functional creation tha
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by ysapir 13y ago
While the patent system seems broken as far as software patents go, some of EFF's corrections (in https://defendinnovation.org/ ) are problematic. This includes "Avoid liability if they arrive independently" (what happens if the general n
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by ysapir 13y ago
"We fire up that video the second we start reading an application, usually." As a new applicant, it makes me curious. Does that mean that (usually) if I haven't seen views on the video yet, the application hasn't been read yet?
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by ysapir 13y ago
Perhaps the crux of its failure can be found in the statement: "A pure CSS button that’s crafted to look like a vintage stereo knob is dishonest." If your application is a music player, then having anything but a stereo knob to control volu