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Ack. Ack. Thank you, HN. Nearly 13 years enjoying HN - certainly more times a day than I care to admit. Always nervous to tell people what a great forum it is, for fear of reducing the SNR. Remarkable that, even more than a decade on, it continues to be my homepage. Thank you PG and those that have fostered HN to be the great place that it is.
Would be a great feature to add to Google One? Or a reason to switch search engines, I guess.
Any idea of the power source for this beastie ? It's not very 'wearable' if I have to plug it into a computer (via) USB to power it....
9AM PT is 17:00GMT. So London showing starts 5PM
StreetPong - play a game of pong with the person across the street, while waiting for the Green Man. I think this floated by on HN a few years ago.
From Urban-Invention (came out of a german university I think).
His last question: "How do I prevent my engineers from performing at 1/10x?"
Did he mean 1/10x, or (1/10)x, or (as I suspect based on the substance of the discussion) did he mean (1/10)(10x) = x ?
You would have thought that a _real_ 10x programmer would not make an operator precedence error like that!
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All very wise observations, folks. I feel better now. And thanks.
I'm a little surprised by the striking similarities between Octocat and the "Octonauts" (www.octonauts.com) - a cartoon in the UK that my two kids are mad about.
I'm trusting that these copyright/design right concerns have been contemplated at least - not least because of the similarity in name as well as in design.
(See the google images link for a collection of octonauts: http://goo.gl/Xek21)
How to shrink a basestation into a Raspberry Pi. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCcKgrzbix4 It's not the handset, but rather the basestation. But the concept is similar. I saw this working. It works. And there are open-source versions of the handset software too, although not as mature as OpenBTS.
People don't leave jobs, they leave bosses.
You've got to wonder how much Apple are paying Google to support maps on iOS....or what other kick-back (more valuable to Google than cash) there might be.
I struggle here with Google's business model, and the impact their efforts have on other Android tablet vendors. At this price point the profit (if there is any to speak of) must be wafer-thin.
But Google can handle such wafer-thin margins because the secondary markets that this tablet secures for them. No other Android tablet vendor can enjoy the same control over the underlying OS, the same footprint in terms of Apps ecosystem (and importantly the revenue derived from this), the same intimacy between online applications/services and hardware. All these things mean Google can 'get away' with pricing this tablet as cheaply as they do.
But where does that leave Samsung, LG, and the others ? The big risk for us as consumers here is that Google will in fact reduce, not increase, the amount of credible competition against Apple by jeopardizing the competitors' capacity to derive profit from tablets.
I just struggle to understand how IEEE's publication policy contributes to "advancing technological innovation [..] for the benefit of humanity".
IEEE publication policy is nothing but a barrier to innovation.
Shame WikiLeaks / anonymous / whoever couldn't help us all out here.
I used NEO from Caelo (nelsons email organiser) for five years+ [[ employer INSISTED on using freakin' Msft and Outlook ]]. NEO is an overlay (non-invasive) on top of Outlook that does all this and more - free text search etc. NEO saved me an hour a week at least. [[ No personal relationship with Caelo I just think NEO is awesome. ]]
I spend most of my day talking with customers and reviewing contracts etc.. As much as I would love to, I think if my boss caught me looking at code like this he would fire me !
There will doubtless be lots of peripheral benefits from this piece of research. But private vehicles being automatically driven on the road ? Is Ford/Audi/Chrysler going to swallow the liability implications ? Look how much they get burnt by questionable brake cables....
And John Doerr (Kleiner Perkins) in front of the flowers on the LHS
Is that Eric Schmidt front left ?
Number of starred items might be more useful.
Also, seems to be an issue - this number does not increase (from 0 to 1 in the test I did) when you 'mark as unread'. Tried to give feedback about this to gmail labs but couldn't.
I like. I'm sure you are at least three times as good as this alternative, but I have enjoyed using a few different (similar) $5 services from fiverr: http://www.fiverr.com/
As a self confessed HN addict, I want to share a new technique I found that massively improved my productivity in an instant.
Too good to be true ? Read on....
The technique is slightly different, depending in which operating system you have, but in general the instructions are:
(i) switch to your browser (ii) select "Exit" from the "File" menu.
Voila! Productivity improves. [[ assuming your not using the browser for work, of course ]]
Try it.
Read Hitchhikers Guide. Again. Priceless.
"The Timetraveller's Wife" will make you think.
You will love Nicholson Baker's book "The Mezzanine", and Ian McEwan's book "The Child in Time". Both capture this phenomenon of the relativity of perceived time wonderfully.
McEwan's book will just eat at your heart. If you haven't read it I implore you to at least read the first chapter.
Of Baker's book, Wikipedia says: "On the surface it deals with a man's trip up an escalator in the mezzanine of his office building during a lunch-time sojourn from his building. In reality, it deals with all the thoughts that run through our minds in any given few moments – if we were given the time to think them through to their conclusions"
As a teenager I would spend hours talking to my girlfriend using the payphone that was across the street from my house. Why ? Just to avoid the hyper-sensitive ears of my parents. Those things were an essential part of my life!
That girl became my wife, and now we have a seven-year-old son. Unlike me, he will probably never use one of these. Ever. He'll never have the joy of standing in the rain/cold/wind chatting to his girlfriend from a payphone.
And to that point, I conjecture that he will never have a POTS wired phoneline in his own home, he will never buy a newspaper, and perhaps he will never buy a CD, DVD or petrol-only vehicle.
What do you think ?
Love it. Also worth trying Southampton to Swansea :)
I would love to see a bigger 'twist' than this. I would love to see the <i>investors</i> pitching to the start-ups.
I would love to see investors put more effort into demonstrating the value that they bring to young companies - over-and-above capital. Quite often it's hard to get anything more than some pretty intangible statements on the topic.
I spent 9 months of my precious life schlopping round VCs in London (well, it was 2001...). Sitting behind expensive oak tables in ostentatious board rooms pitching for investment. Listening to what was in too many cases downright arrogance on the part of the investors whose understanding of the market was at best surfacial.
I think much of this world is gone (thankfully) but wouldn't it be nice to hear the <i>investors' elevator pitch</i> for a change ?
I like this because he is demonstrating his technical ingenuity by designing and building the thing - from scratch - by himself. A great lead into getting an interview or being called in to quote for some work.
But does this show commercial ingenuity ? Perhaps less so. People will be terrified of plugging a random USB device into their machine. And anyway it's pretty easy to buy things just like this - you see them quite a lot at trade shows these days. (eg: http://www.flashbay.com/wafer_usb_card.html)
This is an interesting departure from Metcalfe's Law [ the value of the network is proportionate to the square of the number of nodes in the network ].
Perhaps Metcalfe's Law applies up to a certain size, and then tails off thereafter.
There is a limit on the number of people that us humans can reasonably be expected to have friendships with. I have a feeling that it is substantially smaller than the number of 'friends' that facebook attracts.
Article doesn't give the company valuations - just the share price - at IPO. Share price doesn't tell you much.