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Why is the article blaming SoftBank? They bought Arm fair and square. They can do with their acquisitions as they please. Arm is a profit seeking company like every other profit se…

So why call it 'autopilot'? Seems like bullshit marketing to me. The first association we make when we hear that term is hands-off, not 'advanced cruise control'. They're specifica…

There is a well-known association between the Godfather movies and oranges. For example, Don Vito has an orange slice in his mouth when he dies in the garden. And yes, the fruit st…

This is great! I've been working on something like this as well (an automatic tracker for various body movements). Would love to have a chat about how you've accomplished this.

It would have been amazing if Jodorowsky's Dune actually got made and released. He really was too far ahead of his time for the studio. I feel that in order to make a roughly 2-hou…

Even if they are not technically selling at a loss (I actually suspect that they are, but in any case), their opportunity for a particularly high profit margin is something that is…

There are a large number of web applications running in IIS under the .NET platform: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2014/04/02/april-2014-web-... Also, Microsoft has made some a…

The difference is explained in the book.

While I generally tend to stand with McIntyre on the Bayesian vs frequentist debate (whether it is much of a debate anymore given recent advances in AI due to Bayesian techniques f…

Not only does testing help with managing large codebases by being able to make actual assertions about certain parts of the code (to be able to prove correctness) but it also impro…

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Agreed. I'm currently writing a package that contains a few sophisticated algorithmic parts and a ton of wiring. I find it much easier to utilize TDD in the wiring sections than in…

"Are hollywood movies really motivating career decisions?" You bet. When Top Gun came out, enrolment in the Navy and Air Force increased substantially. Wall Street in part fuelled …

If said company was truly innovative and satisfies the interests of consumers, I'm sure it won't have much trouble raising the cash necessary to continue being a law-abiding citize…

Great post Alex. I've recently started to experiment with Clojure on SemWeb apps, RDF, SPARQL, etc. In your post you talk about how Clojure enables you to abstract better than Java…

That's because Turkey keeps their currency artificially bound to the EURO. 2 lira ~ 1 EURO.

Not everything is about how much extra x% wage you can pull by going to grad school. I'll admit that that was my thinking when I initially decided to do a masters but in my second …

I read your quote, but it was framed in such as way that I got the feeling that you were being self-righteous and shallow. First of all you started off with "Surviving..." Now I do…

The actual quote: "It's too bad this had to happen under a proprietary platform with privacy problems."

I Like the headline, but the author presents a bunch of regurgitated fluff in the actual article. In the guise of motivation, all I took away from it is that the author is a pompou…

I run an emacs --daemon on a powerful server and connect to it from my netbook. Best of both worlds. Just need constant WiFi which I can almost always find.

Microsoft was able to make sure that they were the only OS mainly because of hardware makers' tendency to accept the solution that everyone else was going with. If your main compet…

I don't think the big reason for Microsoft's ascendancy was their deal-making. They provided a solution to hardware makers who wanted to sell their hardware. Microsoft came in with…

Ok, I'll bite. It seems to me that Apple is following a trend they set in the early nineties. Since around 1986 to 1994, Apple introduced some of its most successful consumer produ…