Convergence devices have a long history. I read in Steward Brand's 1988 book, The Media Lab, about devices that would converge, collect the functions of our small electronics. Xerox PARC was starting on ubiquitous…
I was one of those boys who bought a TRS-80. The thing is, I don't remember it as a peer accepted pursuit for me either. This was before anyone noticed, let alone Hollywood recast it as their version of Revenge of the…
Yeah, I had a Cherokee and knew that the road out from my house flooded every 3 or 4 years. When if finally did ... the police got there first and blockaded it. I had to drive around anyway. That was funny, I cussed for…
Went camping this week. Left my Prius behind, took my girlfriend's 4x4 up the forest service road to the campground ... found 3 Prius there ahead of me. We need less car than we think we do.
I enjoyed this review from 2012, but in 2014 we are past a 2013 "MOOC backlash" and live in an era where lines are well drawn. There are still some educators committed to true distance learning, but some also who have…
I always considered it a mild anti-theft measure. "Hey, that's my ..." [meaning sticker combos should be pseudo unique]
I personally (redundantly) am an android/linux user, but I perceive that iPhone and iPad are accepted in rich and powerful circles, and are precisely the market for an IBM effort. I don't think IBM wants to sell _both_…
thank you, noted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJUhlRoBL8M
You know, companies with the size and wealth of MS sometimes employ people just to have them NOT innovating elsewhere. Consider 18K smart people freed of that as the bright side.
While I defend "disruption" as a thing, that happens sometimes, I don't think this is it. What Apple and IBM have really done is join an ongoing movement, something that has been going on for years. People already have…
Should karma be an ephemeral thing? Should it age off in a week or so? There could be a downside to the early entrants benefit. Sure, you can explore new territory and carve out a huge position, but you become a "Land…
Are there too many bad questions? Why not the Google answer, which is that search brings you "good" no matter how much "bad" there is?
The striking thing for me was to Google a few questions in a row, to find good answers on SO, and then to see that each one was also closed/rejected for some reason. It was strange to see that the answers to these…
Curious on the "hybrid progeny have wildly different/non-uniform offspring." I bought some "Big Thai Hybrid" chilies because that's what the store had (rather than just regular Thai chilies). Any idea how far offspring…
As logfromblammo notes, this is a very old thing. Perhaps as old as agriculture itself. That said, I see nothing wrong with the branding, as an education and promotion drive. If it gets more gardens in, all the better.…
In many older parts of California you can rent an apartment over a garage. Great system. Revenue for the home owner, good environment for the renter, distributed rentals. Of course that was then, right? When people talk…
1. We have a currency without government! 2. We were robbed, and will now contact the government.
I am not a nutritionist or a biochemist, but as a guy with an old BS Chem and a general knowledge, it does not surprise me to hear (again) that we are not all bomb calorimeters. We have long known that our metabolic…
If you believe in technological plateaus ... it's possible that ReactOS has all the time in the world.
I have a related suspicion ... that Google made the deal in part because they believe Lenovo will run Motorola well, with goals compatible to Google and Android. I don't think Google was ever into Motorola to make it…
Once, as a relative UNIX newbie, I "cleaned up" a Sun box, until I had moved things I needed for boot off the boot partition. I got it all back, manually mounting partitions, and etc. but I was certainly in a cold sweat…
But don't most people here, at HN, want that right to decide their own openness? I mean, does everyone here plan to do a web startup and then produce a tarball of [their] full work? A full DB API? I understand that we…
This is a digression, but it is slightly more complicated. The top US software companies, by market cap, all use FSF tools, but then in turn decide their own separate levels of openness. Entrepreneurs here will use FSF…
So, I was at the park watching soccer. My friend introduces me to a "world famous neurosurgeon." We all talk and he says that he'd interested in giving her son (now in CS) an internship, and then something about not…
Convergence devices have a long history. I read in Steward Brand's 1988 book, The Media Lab, about devices that would converge, collect the functions of our small electronics. Xerox PARC was starting on ubiquitous…
I was one of those boys who bought a TRS-80. The thing is, I don't remember it as a peer accepted pursuit for me either. This was before anyone noticed, let alone Hollywood recast it as their version of Revenge of the…
Yeah, I had a Cherokee and knew that the road out from my house flooded every 3 or 4 years. When if finally did ... the police got there first and blockaded it. I had to drive around anyway. That was funny, I cussed for…
Went camping this week. Left my Prius behind, took my girlfriend's 4x4 up the forest service road to the campground ... found 3 Prius there ahead of me. We need less car than we think we do.
I enjoyed this review from 2012, but in 2014 we are past a 2013 "MOOC backlash" and live in an era where lines are well drawn. There are still some educators committed to true distance learning, but some also who have…
I always considered it a mild anti-theft measure. "Hey, that's my ..." [meaning sticker combos should be pseudo unique]
I personally (redundantly) am an android/linux user, but I perceive that iPhone and iPad are accepted in rich and powerful circles, and are precisely the market for an IBM effort. I don't think IBM wants to sell _both_…
thank you, noted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJUhlRoBL8M
You know, companies with the size and wealth of MS sometimes employ people just to have them NOT innovating elsewhere. Consider 18K smart people freed of that as the bright side.
While I defend "disruption" as a thing, that happens sometimes, I don't think this is it. What Apple and IBM have really done is join an ongoing movement, something that has been going on for years. People already have…
Should karma be an ephemeral thing? Should it age off in a week or so? There could be a downside to the early entrants benefit. Sure, you can explore new territory and carve out a huge position, but you become a "Land…
Are there too many bad questions? Why not the Google answer, which is that search brings you "good" no matter how much "bad" there is?
The striking thing for me was to Google a few questions in a row, to find good answers on SO, and then to see that each one was also closed/rejected for some reason. It was strange to see that the answers to these…
Curious on the "hybrid progeny have wildly different/non-uniform offspring." I bought some "Big Thai Hybrid" chilies because that's what the store had (rather than just regular Thai chilies). Any idea how far offspring…
As logfromblammo notes, this is a very old thing. Perhaps as old as agriculture itself. That said, I see nothing wrong with the branding, as an education and promotion drive. If it gets more gardens in, all the better.…
In many older parts of California you can rent an apartment over a garage. Great system. Revenue for the home owner, good environment for the renter, distributed rentals. Of course that was then, right? When people talk…
1. We have a currency without government! 2. We were robbed, and will now contact the government.
I am not a nutritionist or a biochemist, but as a guy with an old BS Chem and a general knowledge, it does not surprise me to hear (again) that we are not all bomb calorimeters. We have long known that our metabolic…
If you believe in technological plateaus ... it's possible that ReactOS has all the time in the world.
I have a related suspicion ... that Google made the deal in part because they believe Lenovo will run Motorola well, with goals compatible to Google and Android. I don't think Google was ever into Motorola to make it…
Once, as a relative UNIX newbie, I "cleaned up" a Sun box, until I had moved things I needed for boot off the boot partition. I got it all back, manually mounting partitions, and etc. but I was certainly in a cold sweat…
But don't most people here, at HN, want that right to decide their own openness? I mean, does everyone here plan to do a web startup and then produce a tarball of [their] full work? A full DB API? I understand that we…
This is a digression, but it is slightly more complicated. The top US software companies, by market cap, all use FSF tools, but then in turn decide their own separate levels of openness. Entrepreneurs here will use FSF…
So, I was at the park watching soccer. My friend introduces me to a "world famous neurosurgeon." We all talk and he says that he'd interested in giving her son (now in CS) an internship, and then something about not…