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nowey··on Oracle’s Cloudy Future
Oracle has IaaS and PaaS solutions now....
nowey··on How the Arab World Came Apart
I think even farther back with the overthrow of the Shah in Iran it started
nowey··on Extracting Qualcomm's KeyMaster Keys – Breaking Android Full Disk Encryption
If only they had an OEM to do this, with a plant in Texas....
nowey··on What Software Engineers Earn Compared to the General Population
I'm in the 90th percentile in household salary in my country. I'm single so double my salary to accomodate the 2.5 people living on average, and I jump to to the 93rd percentile.
nowey··on Enrollment Is Surging in Machine Learning Classes
Ooyala has only 3 data scientists. All have PhDs and come from a math/statistics/com sci background. Kueski only has 1!
nowey··on Enrollment Is Surging in Machine Learning Classes
You need to know the background which is Statistics Discrete Math Algorithms

Most books on the subject assume you already know what linear regression is, Naive Beyes is just explained briefly theoretically and it goes right into the code in spark, R or Clojure for example. However UC Berkeley's course is very theoretical, almost no code is shown and its just MATLAB code (don't remember the name off the top of my head), their spark course though is heavy on the code with IPython activities.

nowey··on Apple’s declining software quality
Hardware releases
nowey··on NASA estimates 1B ‘Earths’ in our galaxy alone
theres 500 stars in a radius of 50 light years. hopefully we will find plantes there, a planet 1400 ly away is cool but very distant still if we want to study it in detail
nowey··on The Verge's web sucks
i uninstalled chrome and facebook, replaced with ff and tinfoil. much better battery life. only google apps i have is play music, google and translate (im rooted)
nowey··on Compose Is Joining IBM
there's free allowances https://console.ng.bluemix.net/pricing/
nowey··on United Airlines awards hackers millions of miles for revealing risks
Reminds me of the guy who found the starbucks gift card exploit and decided to test it live. That got him the lawsuit.
nowey··on Apple’s Share of Smartphone Industry’s Profits Soars to 92%
When the profit margin is a cool $250 USD and everyone else competes in low price/volume but cant even reach apple's numbers, its not surprising at all. Same is true for the Macbook, they don't ship as much as Lenovo but they do have a margin that their customers are more than willing to pay.
nowey··on Buffer's transparency dashboard: Public salaries, equity and more
I'll take his salary, thank you very much!
nowey··on Buffer's transparency dashboard: Public salaries, equity and more
and your last statement is untrue:

http://www.npr.org/2014/04/13/301989789/pay-secrecy-policies...

"Under the National Labor Relations Act, enacted in 1935, private-sector employees have the right to engage in "concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection."

The language is somewhat antiquated, but according to Estlund, "it means that you and your co-workers get to talk together about things that matter to you at work.""

nowey··on Why Coke Cost a Nickel for 70 Years (2012)
355ml glass bottle in mex costs 6 pesos, or 0.30usd, while the plastic bottle version at half a liter goes the same price. cans can go as much as 10 pesos in vending machines. 2L plastic is around 25 pesos or $1.50USD. I don't buy soda so my numbers may be off by 10%.
nowey··on Install OS X 10.10 Yosemite in VirtualBox
I run Yosemite Zone on a Lenovo W530 just fine, 13Gb RAM Allocated to OSten. Sure it's a little slow but it's usable. Still I agree, on slower hardware it's useless. I'm buying a Macbook Air 2011 next week since I need something faster and the Lenovo is a company machine.
nowey··on Deflation
>When everyone expects prices to fall, everyone becomes less willing to spend

I find that contradictory. If something becomes cheaper, I will be more likely to buy it. It's the entire reason to have discounts and sales.

Slippery slope fallacy?

nowey··on $149 Chromebooks
also thank the component manufacturers for finally selling their chips super cheap!