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cctan | 8 years ago | on: Uber drivers gang up to cause surge pricing, research says

What did Uber in India do about it? Does it affect the prices that much and frequently?

cctan | 8 years ago | on: Why Should I Start a Startup?

With your income determined by the market, you can scale big, not limited just to your own 24 hours and two hands.

cctan | 8 years ago | on: Why Should I Start a Startup?

This. If other people asked you whether you can start a project or not, and you reply using "wife" as an excuse, accept it for what it is. An excuse. I had met entrepreneur types that replied either yes or no, straight forward and no detour replies.

cctan | 8 years ago | on: Umbrella-sharing startup loses most of its 300,000 umbrellas in its first weeks

I would like to upvote that comment many times. The price point for the deposit is important, why is this so hard to understand?

The reason it failed is because of this simple use case:

You want to return it just after you arrived, and it is still raining outside (this is why you rent an umbrella in the first place). If you wait for the sky to be clear to go out, you won't remember the umbrella. But if it is raining again when you go out, why would you want to return the umbrella???

cctan | 8 years ago | on: China Tells Carriers to Block Access to Personal VPNs by February

I have a hunch that these kind of news had been circulated before, officials threw a few sacrificial lambs in to reach the quota, then the headlines fade slowly into background.

cctan | 8 years ago | on: How Strength Training Changes Your Body for Good

I think the cholesterol and salts will be bad for your health, no?

cctan | 8 years ago | on: Roomba Inventor Joe Jones on His New Weed-Killing Robot

One workaround is that I hope that it can climb up and down slopes that lead to the raised beds.

Does it detect cliffs or edges and avoid falling down?

cctan | 8 years ago | on: Generating faces of cats using Generative Adversarial Networks

So a Minecraft for adults? Automated content generation?

cctan | 8 years ago | on: Generating faces of cats using Generative Adversarial Networks

I too was expecting meow purr audio content generation when I clicked into the link haha.

cctan | 8 years ago | on: Analog Computers

At last, we will have a truly random number generator! Not the simulated fake rand() using timestamps as seed.

cctan | 8 years ago | on: I make $10k per month with the Amazon Affiliate Program

Sooner or later the readers will find out the truth. But in the mean time before the market re-adjusts itself, he's raking in 10k per month.

cctan | 8 years ago | on: Making a virtual machine in Google Sheets

I find this hard to believe, maybe on bank loans or something, but billions of funds transfer?

facepalm

cctan | 8 years ago | on: Windows 10 will use protected folders to thwart crypto ransomware

Why was this not implemented widely? I mean not in source control systems like git or TFS, but built into OSes.

cctan | 8 years ago | on: Enough

But developers and engineers should take the matter into their own hands and don't just bury their head in the sand and let the 'business' people decides their benefits and compensations.

It would serve them better if they can treat themselves as product and services providers in a free market. Band together and unite! Don't stab each other in the back for meager bones being thrown at you.

cctan | 8 years ago | on: Why Some Men Don't Work: Video Games Have Gotten Really Good

This. The same people that can be addicted to games may have the potential to be addicted to Chess in other time periods.

But they will be regarded as genius chess masters.

On the other hand, with our surplus of resources, its no wonder a percentage of our people can afford to do nothing but play games.

cctan | 8 years ago | on: More than a decade later, how original YouTube stars feel about the site

This is similar to how we moved away from depending wholly on newspapers, TV etc (old media monopolies) to Google, Youtube, Facebook (new media monopolies). Even though we can reach more audiences than ever before, 99% of it are being controlled by the Big Five.

cctan | 8 years ago | on: Intel to cut IoT jobs

From what I heard in Malaysia's Intel sites, IoT are used as reasons to open new departments or new turfs for some second class managers. No wonder it is missing the mark in what it is doing.