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More like "S3 ain't shipping until dropbox files are missing" or "EC2 doesn't go until Netflix is slow".

sp332 got it. They also used "knife the baby" internally to kill any project that could impact Windows/Office.

Jeff Bezos is using Bill Gates' playbook from the 1990's: build alternatives to the most popular apps on your platform; bundle them; and improve app quality over time. This business strategy is very hard for a company like dropbox to compete against, even if they have better IP/quality/features.

Edit: we can also expect Amazon versions of "knife the baby", "cut off their air supply" and "DOS ain't done until Lotus won't run".

I tried to get my son into Scratch, but he didn't like it. He loves hacking on Lua code in the Roblox game.

OneNote has been available for many years, it is one of the hidden gems in the office suite. Now they are going head-to-head with Evernote and making it available everywhere: OSX, iOS, Android, Windows, Windows Phone, etc.

There are three sides to every story. In this case there is her side, github's side and the truth. It is not that someone is lying, it is that people perceive things differently and it takes time to detangle perceptions to reach the truth. Let's wait for the truth before casting stones in either direction ...

The wage-theft stuff lowers the curve for everyone, not just the top tier. It lowers the entire wage curve.

I'm using Anki to teach reading/writing English to my kids. Anki is also a great way to learn a programming language or API (see: https://sivers.org/srs).

His response to Captain Kirk was epic. https://twitter.com/Cmdr_Hadfield/status/286948264236945408

Commander Hadfield is an inspiration. I wish him a safe trip home.

Two reasons are float (they get your money before you use the coins) and breakage (they keep lost and/or forgotten coins).

Then why do type 1 diabetics only count carbs? A diabetic can eat as much protein, fat and fiber as they want, but have to match insulin levels to their carbohydrate consumption (except fiber).

I'm highly simplifying, but carbohydrates are converted to blood sugar which insulin converts to energy at a cellular level. Insulin is needed so your cells can feed off the blood sugar. The blood sugar that isn't used is stored as fat. Carbs are quickly and easily converted to fat. Other forms of food can eventually get converted to blood sugar, but not as easily and quickly as carbs. You absorb protein, minerals, vitamins, fibers, etc. very differently than pure Carbs. So a Carb rich diet will make you fat. Diabetics are only concerned with Carbs because they have the highest impact on their blood sugar level.

Further, America has proved this. Few cultures consume as much carbohydrate rich food as America, and as a result, they have the biggest issue with diabetes, obesity, etc. Carbohydrates are the cheapest food to buy (fast food and junk food are very heavy in carbohydrates), so a disproportionate number of low income people have obesity problems

Dude, its the carbs.

There are approximately 3,000 nerve endings in a working cochlea that need to be stimulated by a few (8, 10, 12, 24) electrodes. So no matter what, it not going to sound like what a fully functioning cochlea. You can't get the resolution. The algorithms are important, but so are the number of electrodes. Ideally you want 3,000 electrodes perfectly aligned with the nerve endings.

It must be a difficult choice for parents to implant their children. Children make the best candidates, but the technology is changing at such a fast rate. 24 electrodes today could be 3000 a few years from now. Once they are in, you can't replace the electrodes, only the signal processor.

What you describe is more commonly called a technical lead or senior engineer, and a good one is worth their weight in bacon.

The idea is that many letters in the Latin-based alphabet are similar (i/j, v/w, b/d/p, etc.) and dyslexics confuse them. The idea of the fonts is emphasize the differences and de-emphasize the similarities.

LOL. I think the error message appropriately describes the Canadian tech sector. BTW, I am Canadian.

Agreed. The business of "Montessori Schools" and the teachings of Maria Montessori are often two very different things.

With Hacker's Keyboard.

I don't know why you are getting down-voted. It is in Google's interest to have a large training corpus of faces for many machine learning algorithms (face recognition, expression recognition, age detection, etc.).

My father fought in the Warsaw uprising when he was 16 years old. He spend the next year as a prison of war in a forced labor camp. This video has brought tears to my eyes. Thank you for posting it.

OTA HD (with a decent antenna) with a Homerun HD from Silicon Dust for distributing the content to your network.

+1 for fpm. It makes building packages (rpm, yum, etc.) really easy. So you can deploy your own projects with all the benefits of a package manager. Jordan did a great job with this.

How ironic.

This is inline with their work to get hadoop, Linux etc. They are not adding any new featues. They are simply porting to their proprietary operating system.

This is very forward thinking by Valve. It opens up the possibility of Linux-based game appliances which could run as VMs, dual-boot, consoles, etc.

I prefer "It is hard to teach a new dog old tricks". Much of today's cruft was originally written by new dogs.

I agree with your general argument about NYC. SV isn't only where you get "people doing startups for the sake of startups" (although it has that). It is more technology focused and less "all business" like NYC.

Agreed. Although I would call it prosumer, which is just a consumer with a bigger budget :-).

Consumer-grade video cameras are being replaced by cell phones.

I own a Sony alarm clock. It is very cheap both in price and quality. I plan to replace with an iPhone stand.