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I've been on a Asus Zenbook for almost a year now and I must admit that I am extremely happy with it. I would seriously consider this one, if only I would have gotten used to dual screens. Since I am also using a desktop at home with a 32" 4k display I've really appreciated having everything on one screen.

This is right. That's why you should not only be looking at IRR but also multiple of money returned (MoM or MOIC). When you saw a couple of private equity fund presentations (of which VC is just one subset), you will better understand what the differences are and how this affects your potential investment as a limited partner in such a fund.

But let's also not forget that in many cases these funds are driven by their investors to focus on IRR. Many times these funds do not cater towards retail investors. The problem is therefore coming from the institutional side where people seem to be pushing these metrics.

That is correct. However, according to a quick Google search, each hp, Lenovo, and Dell produce roughly the same number of laptops each year. Therefore the technician's statement about hp's being of better quality should weigh heavier.

I had a Dell XPS 9310 until about 3 months ago when suddenly one of the fans died on me for no obvious reasons while I was in quarantine. Given that the fans are now soldered onto the mainboard, Dell was offering me to repair this for almost the same amount I paid for the whole laptop 2 years earlier. Needless to say that this was the last time I will buy a Dell.

Since I am located in Asia, I also went to one of the unauthorized repair shops to see if they could offer a cheaper way to get this done. When I walked in, I saw two customers in front of me with Dells. When it was my turn, I also asked which laptop brands are having the most and least issues. Not surprisingly, Lenovo and Dell rank very high. The Taiwanese (Asus, Acer) as well as Razer and hp were considered of higher quality.

I was at Stanford during the time when the iPhone launched in the late summer of 2007. In the subsequent fall quarter, I took a class that was taught by Eric Schmid. When the topic in one of the classes came to Android, Eric admitted straight out that Google has one primary goal: to get more people onto the Internet. Because more people on the Internet would mean more people would search for content, generating more revenue for Google. Making Android available for free was lowering the cost for mobile phones.

There were other devices out there that qualified as smartphones and enabled users to browse the Internet (just think of the terrible HTC Touch, powered by Windows Pocket PC). Hence the threat wasn't just Apple.

I am very much concerned about focal accommodation. This becomes particularly important when driving at higher speeds. The sheer fact that my eyes do not need to adjust focus when looking into rear view mirrors (in comparison to cameras/screens) saves me critical milliseconds when overtaking a car or before making a turn.

Of course, this becomes irrelevant when we are talking about parking.

If anyone is looking for the report that this article is referring to:

http://resources.oxfordeconomics.com/how-robots-change-the-w...

From the article, the dependence on Android with a Google services seems to be something that is expected by consumers outside of China. Without those, the appeal for its otherwise great hardware may be diminishing.

On processors, RISC-V certainly had the potential to change the game. Not just for China but also for the established players. But even then, designing and producing (at high yields) are not the same. China still has a lot to learn here.

Don't get what's "great" about these movies. According to IMDb, the ratings are: Synchronicity: 5.5 Lazer Team: 5.7 Southbound: 5.9 The Witch: 6.7 10 Cloverfield Lane: 7.3 Midnight Special: 6.7 The Lobster: 7.1 Hardcore Henry: 6.8 Elstree 1976: 6.1 High-Rise: 5.7 TMNT: Out of the Shadows: 6.0 Swiss Army Man: 7.1 Kubo and the two strings: 8.1

Surprised I didn't see any of the following on that list: ARQ (6.4), Project Almanac (6.4), Self/Less (6.5), Chappie (6.9), Star Trek: Beyond (7.2), Ex Machina (7.7), Train to Busan (7.6), The Martian (8.0).

Arstechnica also runs a story on this and cites a VW case where researchers were ordered by court not to disclose a flaw: http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/08/trading-in-stock-of-...

The real issue here is that stock effects have occurred because of both (i) a potential flaw in a product and (ii) short positions. Carson acts as a monetization platform for product flaws of publicly listed companies, creating value by executing (ii) for (i) and thus creating real pressure on companies to disclose and address (i). To what degree these accusations are true is another question and pulls this into the same reign as the currently ongoing public feud between Ackman and Icahn over Herbalife.

I guess before that happens, we should have all migrated to another tool - Microsoft OneNote being the closest competitor, having this tool at hand may make sense: http://www.howtogeek.com/227719/how-to-convert-from-evernote...

I assume most people would first enter their own number to see what this really does. Then they enter all their friends' numbers. Another way to collect address books.

I am on the US AppStore and searched for it on my iPhone and found it. But none of the links worked for me.

I usually use a fake Facebook account (with a couple of other fake friends) first. And only after I see how the app is behaving and if I see a real benefit to give access to my real friends, I might consider logging in with my real name and Facebook account.

I had Dell and Lenovo before buying an Air now. Was seriously considering Lenovo again but found it way more expensive (XS-Series) than the Air. Currently doing some webdev with (Java, Python, Eclipse) and find the maxed out version perfect.

I wish the hundreds (or even thousands) of hours from all those people wouldn't be wasted solving the same didactically useful but rather useless results of manual work. Why can't the manual labour put in result into something great or useful like a working program, framework, bugfix, codechallenge (I surely am fantasizing a bit here but you get the idea)? That was always something that bugged me about doing CS as an undergrad (and grad): all those hours of brainpower are wasted solving the same problem instead of looking at the final result from all the lessons and picking the best out of each assignment and having that at least run against last year's class. Education surely is ripe for disruption and this would be one way to make use of the larger scale of having a larger number of people work on problem sets.

When looking at their daily uniques, reddit's upward trend is not that significant:

http://trends.google.com/websites?q=reddit.com%2C+digg.com%2...

What I find more funny are the trends on Compete:

Reddit: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/reddit.com/

Digg: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/digg.com/

HN: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/news.ycombinator.com/

I would probably recommend going with PHP as it is one of the easiest server-side languages to learn. As others pointed out, JavaScript is omnipresent and picking it up after you got some basics down with PHP is fairly easy.

To get a hold of Java requires more time (it's forcing you to think in objects rather than just going ahead in scripting) and you will probably see less results as with Python, Perl or PHP.

If you have someone to help you out (to answer questions and set up some development environment etc.) in any of the languages above, I recommend going with that. It will have a huge impact on your progress and motivation.

You might want to have a look at Amazon's Flexible Payment System (FPS): https://payments.amazon.com/sdui/sdui/business?sn=devfps/o

Maciej Ceglowski provided more insights into his views about pricing and free services in this podcast interview from January this year (just ff to 24:19): http://5by5.tv/founderstalk/9

His major point is that users regard bookmarking sites as a bank where they want their bookmarks safe and secure. I find that a pretty compelling difference.

So the statement still holds that if you don't pay for a product, you are the product.

Maybe you should go for Fraunhofer in Germany. They are doing applied research which usually means that they work with industry partners. The jobs they offer are research positions and some of them might also be for people working towards their PhD. They have several locations throughout the country but IT is pretty strong in Berlin which might also give you an opportunity to dig more into the many startups there.

What helped me was pushing frontend tasks into the backend to utilize the full quota for those two. Adding some pre-checks to the tasks (e.g. asking questions like "do I really need to scrape this page again now?) were helpful as well.

Nevertheless, I feel that it has become a bit of a drag deploying a full-blown web-app on App Engine as these restrictions are running against fast iterations and quick deployments. I wish there were more tools to test the loads locally.

I wouldn't miss the old design too much if there were a chance to adjust the display density. So, where's the switch to change that? If this were consistent in design, I'd expect it to be around the same location as in Gmail. But it's just not there.

Drive down University Ave in Palo Alto starting from 101 and going all the way in to Palm Drive of Stanford Campus. It's an exciting view. Going all the way back, you will actually hit 1600 Amphitheater Parkway. If you have more time, take a peek into the streets crossing University Ave. But I also agree with byoung that Castro is a pretty cool spot.

I started using diigo a while back. While I thought I valued the caching feature a lot (back then it was still free), I must admit that I didn't ever made most out of it.

My favorites are TechZing and Mixergy.

I still believe famfamfam (http://www.famfamfam.com) is pretty good.

I would say startups in Europe feel more like a sub-culture than an appreciated part of the eco-system: they are common but the local media is not picking them up as much as in the US.

To get you started, you could look at SeedCamp (http://seedcamp.com) or TechCrunch's European site (http://eu.techcrunch.com).

Once you go through the articles and posts there, you might start to believe that Berlin is the epicenter of attention right now. However, the culture to embrace failure as well as the VC money aren't there (yet?).

eBay: Perl

Amazon: Perl

Twitter: Ruby on Rails, Java

Optimizely: Python

LinkedIn: Java

Craigstlist: Perl

flickr: PHP, Perl, Java

Tumblr: PHP

I believe that every business (in a certain segment) has its own KPIs. Without knowing what space you are actually in, it might be hard to answer that question. For some this is sign-ups, tweets or MAU. Identify the key metrics first and concentrate on those for the dashboard. The less you have the more significant they become and thus you can tailor your efforts more effectively towards achieving those goals.