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"Can I take a glance at your code?" - If applying for an programming position, this is one of the leading indicators of how well the team works regarding refactoring, communication, and their philosophy towards coding.
I would greatly appreciate an invite. Thanks!
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See: http://typophile.com/node/60577
YouTube and BBC icons with improved readability.
"We’ve attracted over 1.5 million users, found over $300 million in savings, managed $50 billion in assets, and helped people track nearly $200 billion in purchases."
I'm not sure I would sell - $170m seems rather low. Furthermore, they have so much room for expansion, which only will be crippled by working under a tax software company. They might be trying to automagically do your taxes for you, but they don't have enough relevant information without having it to be the same hassle as using the software.
I apologize, it is ODM and not OEM.
LG does manufactures portable hard drives and has a partnership with Hitachi to manufacture internal hds. ( http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/lg-reveals-xd1-family-of-... )
Here is a list of Dell displays with their respective manufacturers, including LG/Philips ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_monitors )
*I apologize for the previous grammatical mistake.
From my friend's point of view, your service will not be considered without cheat-protection so I don't think it should be appropriate as a premium feature. I may be wrong, but my take on freemium is to allow the user to recognize the value when under the free plan and the use of premium to make things faster, larger, or better. In that vein, I would suggest automated grading for absolute or relatively absolute answers as a premium feature (i.e. integral x = (x^2)/2 or a single US founding founder would be part of a set {Thomas Jefferson, James Adams, ... }). That way, grading is completely automated. I'm sure teachers will pay for such a feature.
I asked my friend, who is a teacher, about using the service. She had replied that it is too difficult to discourage cheating on Math-related assignments (she still has students hand-write).
A potential idea would be to have students do there assignment online, and have a "playback" button to show the student working. A crude cheating measurement (or genius measurement) would be the time between answer submission and the time to completion.
Lenovo were the OEMs for IBM's Thinkpads. LG still makes monitors for Dell, hard drives that are rebadged and I'm not sure of what else (they are a huge conglomerate)
Acer was already everywhere, just branded under another company's logo.
Acer, Asus, MSI, LG, Levono, HTC were OEMs for popular brands who decided to strike off on their own.
For the lazy: The article states the rate is $20-40 CPM.
True, but innovation may occur based on necessity rather than incentives (Most of the population is still ridiculously poor). Different constraints and resources may also yield other solutions.
From a Electrical Engineering standpoint, any battery of tests will not hold up due to the amount of variables, both software and hardware. The article references iPhone as a perfect case, but Apple (and AT&T, indirectly) have 100% control on what occurs on the device. The software, hardware, and user flow is under strict standards of processing and memory allocation. Furthermore, the low processing power and subsequent need makes the margin-of-error and standard deviation lower.
This is not the case for laptops. Due to running different programs, there are differing memory and processing allocations which cause different hardware elements to be accessed. Chrome and Firefox (same use case) have vastly different memory footprints and certain versions of Photoshop (same program) will utilize the GPU, increasing current drain. Since programs are constantly under development and will use different amounts of resources, a manufacturer cannot say that browsing the internet or using a specific program will be a certain amount of time.
Mainstream laptop batteries are Lithium-Ion, which degrades with time (faster with use). Unless retailers begin to throw out older batteries (by manufacturing date), there will be no standardization for consumers.
I know you want to look in your online communities, but I have a friend who is a wedding photographer who can introduce couples with specific dates. Let me know if interested.
It would be great if you could comment on coders coding at night and sleeping during the day or other schedules to optimize productivity. Is this detrimental from a sleep perspective? (I have heard unqualified statements that light affects the amount of awareness when awake/sleeping)
I was wondering if you could comment on nocturnal/abnormal sleep cycles.
I have tons of ideas. Shoot me an email and we can chat.
Well, Mars exploration can be a potential commercial enterprise in real estate, travel, and natural resources (unsure on this one). Regardless, I think the point of the article was to point out there needs to be 1) focus on a tangible benefit/gain, and 2) be able to scale from small to big, similar to most startups.
It would be interesting to see the same model with revenue and profits instead.
Always Innovating has a detachable-touchscreen netbook for $400
I'm been meaning to build my own library under pretentious motivation; however, I've had a hard time to justify the performance, time, and money of an archaic medium. A simple ebook reader will do.
Didn't want to confuse anyone.
fyi, here's a discussion on the name change http://joshblog.net/2009/05/16/adobe-announces-flex-builder-...
How about a pc inkjet printer? They can actually be hooked up to the nice touchscreen ones you see at restaurants. If size/perception is an issue, why not try a small photo-printer such as the new Polaroid PoGo.
Also, as a side note, Starbucks might not be the best fit since it's a relatively low-price-point commodity. Both previous examples were high-price-point, luxury experiences, which would benefit from 1) the lack of a bad reaction 2) receipt as a marketing tool since you create worth through creating a souvenir. Starbucks on the other hand, would only benefit through the latter, where you create worth through impressions (kind of like those annoying magazine signup forms). This is actually not helpful since Starbucks doesn't need any more impressions due to their many stores, and when you throw them away from the back seat of your car, you'll indirectly attribute the brand to junk.
It would be nice to see online services mimic retail merchandising techniques.
I second OpenFire, though it has an annoying LGPL license. Ideally, a sub-protocol can be written for Wave as a subset of the IM/XMPP Transfer plugin.
It might be worth a note that the second derivative of a few select markets are improving. I wish I wrote down the other links.
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/05/horray-second-derivat...
please post video of the lectures online. thanks.
shoot me if it doesnt work out.
I apologize. I misread.
Regardless, my previous comment applies to the article.
Both your comment and the article assume that CEOs function in similar capacities as Steve Jobs. This may be appropriate for Apple for the last 5 years, but the same may not apply for CEOs for different companies, different times, and different situations.
As the article pointed out, CEOs taking a PR role will follow the same rules as PR, which justifies the stock dip. Others will steer towards management, optimization, or new-venture roles - but this isn't saying they replace all management, optimization or new venture initiatives. CEOs merely approach things on a larger scale and must balance the relationships between each component of the business.
So, Yes we need CEOs and No, CEOs don't need shouldn't require more compensation and definitely not adoration. There are CEOs as equally successful whom are loathed.
I would be interested in:
- if they're leveraging any new algorithms (categorical, semantic, or otherwise) and hopefully he could briefly explain the new ideas involved.
- any shifts in research and development regarding semantic search algorithms, semantic web and how Wolfram|Alpha plans to contribute to these trends.
- specific types of research information (DNA, relevant research information) and use cases for businesses (i find that the service is novel, but not particularly useful to businesses)
- how frequent they will be updating the existing data, and how frequenty they will be adding data
- shout out to U of I?
btw - can you guys focus more on the startups instead of how-to's? i miss the days when sites actually reported on new startups and not about gossip or top 10 lists.
The algorithm probably only categorizes faces opposed to identifies faces - to recognize a logo vs human is a waste of time.