Stefan Sigurdsson
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Seattle
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"I am quite impressed that these folks were able to select a speech recognition system, figure out how it works and integrate it into their large application, all in less than a month." What I wanted to hear :)
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If apropos is halfway, then describe, inspect and documentation is the rest... Well, I guess web search is in there somewhere too :)
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Mér finnst ansi áhugavert þegar Fred Wilson skrifar um svona stutt þetta/langt hitt færslur.
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This is very interesting - Fred splits startups into three categories, let's call them successes, survivals and failures. Startup employees have no hope of getting anything out of any VC-funded startup that isn't in the success category, because the structure of the VC deal guarantees that the VC fund recoups it's investment before anybody else.
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"[...] success on the Internet has depended on good ol' "nasty grassroots, viral campaigns, brass knuckling marketing," says David Stern, a venture capitalists of Clearstone Ventures, who has learned a lot from watching successful start-ups while at Idealab, and from watching MySpace."
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Or IPv4 + NAT that works, who cares exactly how it works... it's the promised escape from the address space size constraint (and non-communicative NAT boxes) that matters.
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"For many teens, MySpace is the first asynchronous messaging system that they use regularly. Sure, they have emails but those are to communicate with parents/teachers/companies, not with friends. People check in daily to see what messages they get. This was starting to happen on Friendster, but server slowness killed this practice. This will make it quite tricky for teens to fully leave MySpace while their friends are still using it." I'd never considered this, but it's a powerful argument - as long as your peers are using the system, you're stuck using it. Of course, in the case of Myspace everybody is just going to drop it at the same moment, as soon as it isn't cool anymore :) But, not so for most software that has some other purpose than being cool...
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This is pretty interesting - Fred Wilson's page is really "busy" in terms of the number of resources that have to be downloaded before the page can render, and he recently ran into difficulty when JavaScript stopped compiling in the page. The comments are good. Note - this mark tends to get placed in the upper left corner, although I've dragged the pin into the right margin. If you see this, please send feedback.
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I guess we're all going to wind up paying $150 - or however much - for an Apple version of virtual desktops. Aieh :) And, that time machine feature sounds great, but I haven't had a very good experience with Backup so far. Version 3 was the first to do anything at all for me. So, sceptical. But, still, paying $150 no doubt (or however much...).
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Nice Firefox extension that (hopefully) shows HTTP request/response headers. Haven't tried it yet.
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i've been using the clutch less and less in my daily riding. shifting up and down.
to upshift, get to whatever revs you think are appropriate to get to the next gear. apply a bit of pressure onto the gear shift lever in direction of next uppper gear. quickly back-off the throttle about a 1/4 to 1/2 turn and you'll feel the shift lever snick into the next gear position. quickly get back on the gas to the same position you were in before and the bike will accellerate smoothly. it'll feel kinda jerky initially but if you can do this all in a fluid progress, it'll feel buttery smooth rowing up the gears!
downshifting (this seemed SO unnatural to me until i tried it), while in lower revs, apply a bit of pressure onto the gear shift lever in direction of lower gear. quickly give the throttle a 1/4 - 1/2 turn MORE gas and you'll feel the lever snick into the next lower gear. keep the throttle consistent so that the revs match the wheel speed.
in both cases, when you apply pressure on the lever, keep it consistent and firm. if you're wishy-washy with the pressure you put on the lever through the process, you'll likely wind up between gears in a "false neutral".
to upshift, get to whatever revs you think are appropriate to get to the next gear. apply a bit of pressure onto the gear shift lever in direction of next uppper gear. quickly back-off the throttle about a 1/4 to 1/2 turn and you'll feel the shift lever snick into the next gear position. quickly get back on the gas to the same position you were in before and the bike will accellerate smoothly. it'll feel kinda jerky initially but if you can do this all in a fluid progress, it'll feel buttery smooth rowing up the gears!
downshifting (this seemed SO unnatural to me until i tried it), while in lower revs, apply a bit of pressure onto the gear shift lever in direction of lower gear. quickly give the throttle a 1/4 - 1/2 turn MORE gas and you'll feel the lever snick into the next lower gear. keep the throttle consistent so that the revs match the wheel speed.
in both cases, when you apply pressure on the lever, keep it consistent and firm. if you're wishy-washy with the pressure you put on the lever through the process, you'll likely wind up between gears in a "false neutral".
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