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Feel free to add/modify this as it’s pretty basic… but…

Google Now learns your individual patterns, and gives you (hopefully) applicable information before you need to ask for it. Like if you wake up and drive to work every morning on the same road at 8am, Google Now will give you a traffic summary of that road every morning at 7:30am or whatever. You don’t search for traffic, it just volunteers it based on what you have done previously.

Google Voice Search simply searches based on spoken input as opposed to type, image, or whatever else. So instead of searching (your phone, the web, etc) by typing in a query to a search box, you speak into your device and Google Voice Search translates it into a query.

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I’ve been using the browser/desktop preview and it’s awesome… so maybe I’m missing something… how do you get it on the phone?

2 days ago on Google refreshes Drive for Android interface, adds option to 'scan' paper documents 1 reply

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Ah gotcha. I was looking at the text in the article, which clearly says growth.

2 days ago on With downloads dwindling, music publishers throw a roadblock into Apple's iRadio plans 2 recommends

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100% verified, I looked at his nickname.

2 days ago on After heated battle, Portland residents reject bid to fluoridate city drinking water 1 reply 1 recommend

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If you grow by 25% in year 1, 20% in year 2, and 15% in year 3 your growth is “diminishing gradually in size, amount or strength.” You could say your growth is dwindling and you’d be 100% correct in your statement.

Yes, you’re still growing, but you’re growing at a smaller rate year after year. Size isn’t dwindling, growth is. Overall size and growth are different things. One can clearly dwindle without the other one dwindling.

The author used exactly the correct terms and you guys are interpreting them incorrectly.

2 days ago on With downloads dwindling, music publishers throw a roadblock into Apple's iRadio plans 1 reply 3 recommends

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzgGTTtR0kc

3 days ago on Things called One 1 recommend

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Considering the post has no recommends (as of now at least), then yes, you definitely could recommend it harder.

3 days ago on Why won’t Bitcoin die? 1 reply 9 recommends

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Interested in this myself, even if it’s just something to play with for a bit. It’s a cool idea.

7 days ago on Dell's Project Ophelia will turn any HDTV into an Android computer this May 2 recommends

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Compared to what? Tumblr?

I misspelled falling down, I’m not sure it can get much worse.

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Wait?! There’s porn on this thing?!

7 days ago on Yahoo reportedly eyeing Tumblr for possible $1 billion acquisition

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It’s not the same though.

Google is offering products “free” that drive users to other profit generating products they provide, and there’s nothing wrong with that. It’s like the free toaster that a bank gives out if you open a checking account. They’re not selling toasters cheaper than a department store, and they’re not competing with department stores by offering toasters.

Paypal appears to be taking the Wal-mart approach and absorbing a loss or little/no profit situation until competition simply runs out of money to operate. You can outlast them by simply having more money to back your product until there is no competition.

They are different scenarios.

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N7 starts at $199 here in the US, iPad mini starts at $329.

$130 difference for you keeping track at home.

10 days ago on Confirmed: Google apps run better on the iPad Mini than the Nexus 7 2 replies 2 recommends

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Source says Canada, Mexico and Japan are in the process of joining this group.

10 days ago on Internet advocates say the TPP is the biggest threat yet to open web

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I hate Donald Trump so much.

16 days ago on Donald Trump backs a Kickstarter rip-off to save crowdfunding from the hipsters 3 recommends

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I hope I don’t come across as trying to attack Bit Torrent (the company, not the technology), but this seems very anti-consumer from the get go.

Is Bit Torrent providing this bundling/gate service to artists free of charge? How about the promotion of the bundles (via this “library” that’s mentioned)? How about the managing of email lists that are compiled from people unlocking files (storage, marketing, advertising)?

I can’t imagine there’s nothing in it for them, so if an artist isn’t paying iTunes or Amazon for presence in their store, paying Bit Torrent is better why?

If it is in fact a free service for artists (which I obviously find very doubtful), who pays the price?

Hint: the consumer.

Also: You don’t want to defend a company because they’re not paying you? My oh my, that’s probably the worst comment I’ve ever seen from any Verge staff member.

16 days ago on BitTorrent goes legit with new ‘gated’ file format 1 reply

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I get that am not trying to condone piracy.

…but lets take music for example: Amazon and iTunes both sell DRM free music. They’re already in place, they’re easy, and they’re legal.

What problem is this new method solving that hasn’t already been solved?

Consumers already have said they don’t like things like this, iTunes and Amazon already learned that by removing DRM from their content.

This new “easy” DRM from a different source is supposed to be better?

17 days ago on BitTorrent goes legit with new ‘gated’ file format 1 reply 1 recommend

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I can suppose I can see that. They’re using a gate in an almost literal digital way… it’s got a latch, that’s about the only thing keeping it from blowing in the wind. Trivial to break, trivial in effectiveness.

So, again, why would a consumer use it?

If you as a content owner are telling your user that 1. you need to download a torrent client (and avoid all questions on what else they can do with that client) and 2. give up your personal info, pay, or who knows what else to unlatch the gate to use the files you download

I mean… they’re ushering their users to the torrent ecosystem and expecting them to never remove the blinders?

17 days ago on BitTorrent goes legit with new ‘gated’ file format 1 reply 1 recommend

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The only positive, at least if I’ve got it correct, is that the swarm will be larger when using Bit Torrent. Although it doesn’t seem as though Bit Torrent would even be required, so the downloading tech itself is fairly irrelevant isn’t it?

So speed, all for the price of your personal information. I guess these companies are figuring it’s better to have you than your money.

…but then there’s the fact that the company will have to invest less in infrastructure because they’ll be using your computer and bandwidth instead of their own.

It’s all for their benefit. Why would a consumer want this other than the speeds, which probably top their connection ability anyway?

Haven’t iTunes, Amazon, etc already been through this? They eventually stopped using DRM because people hated it.

17 days ago on BitTorrent goes legit with new ‘gated’ file format 1 reply 1 recommend

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So you download files that you can’t (in theory) access? Then “unlock” them by some method?

Isn’t that just asking for the crackers of the world to exploit the files? How is this really any different from all the DRM stuff that everyone hates, doesn’t work, and eventually only confuses and irritates legitimate users while getting bypassed by illegitimate users?

17 days ago on BitTorrent goes legit with new ‘gated’ file format 1 reply 4 recommends

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Part of me keeps thinking (hoping, lusting, drooling) that once Google has their small test areas out of the way they’ll come to the Pacific Northwest and buy Frontier (who through some kind of agreement or something took over all of Verizon FIOS in the area). Another existing network along with a larger service area (for a larger test or whatever) and Comcast desperately needs competition in the area.

21 days ago on Google Fiber also coming to Shawnee, Kansas following Austin and Provo

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I still use my old Macbook too, it’s my only laptop actually. It’s the black version and I’ve swapped a SSD in there and maxed out the RAM. I wish Apple would bring back a black notebook.

25 days ago on Do You Have an Old Mac? Do You Still Use It?

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Tons of “write a function/program that does this” problems. Off the top of my head I remember one that I had to write a function that returns the Fibonacci sequence up to the desired input. Usually these aren’t very difficult if you’re qualified for the position, you either know them or you don’t. I think, at least generally, if you fail these, you’re cut automatically. They’re intended to make sure you actually know the syntax of the required language, not your thinking skills. Conversely…

I’ve had that ball problem too at some point. Weird logic problems are a favorite of older programmers I’ve noticed. Just a heads up, they’re not trying to evaluate your coding abilities. More often than not, they’re trying to see how you think through problems. You probably wouldn’t have an interview if they thought you couldn’t write the code after being given the solution (like in the first point).

Tons of vocabulary questions like “What does function/variable/global/static/scope/class/method/whatever mean?” Again, I don’t think they’re really looking for your ability to code here. I think they’re generally trying to evaluate your ability to communicate with others programmers you may be working with. If you can’t talk with other programmers without constantly asking “what does this mean”, even if you know how to code, that’s a bad thing because you’ll be wasting time.

28 days ago on For The Programmer Out There, What Questions Were Asked In Your Tech Interview?

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I agree with the RGB LED being so useful, LightFlow itself for me is another one of those apps that is too nerdy IMO. It’s got too much customization at times, which makes setting it up simply take too long, however it provides a great experience once it is (I save my setup just so I won’t have to set it up again ever).

I have colors for different kinds of notifications, and flash rates for importance. Example emails are green. My main account flashes very quickly and less important accounts flash slower.

30 days ago on Lightflow (LED) has changed my hardware expectations for my next phone