peter123 | 2 years ago | on: “AI is the exact opposite of a solution in search of a problem.” – PG
It's the solution to far more problems than its developers even knew existed.
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peter123 | 12 years ago | on: Square Market Accepts Bitcoin
They probably absorb the risk of double-spend, which is way harder than stolen credit cards and chargebacks.
peter123 | 12 years ago | on: Fancy.com "removed Bitcoin per Apple's request"
IAP is only for virtual goods, not real goods.
peter123 | 15 years ago | on: Why Mobile Apps Will Soon be Dead
The standards for access to device capabilities are already defined. Just waiting for platforms/browsers to adopt them.
peter123 | 15 years ago | on: The Web is Dead-on
You actually trust the browser less than the individual apps developed by different companies? I'd think the apps would have more security holes than a browser that's been tested and used by millions of people everyday.
peter123 | 15 years ago | on: An iPhone App Market That Doesn't Require Jailbreaking... Which Apple Can't Stop
peter123 | 15 years ago | on: NoSQL, Heroku, and You
Yes, we are running MongoHQ with Heroku and so far, it's been great. Tool-wise, not great, but been told that it will get better.
peter123 | 15 years ago | on: Google Secretly Invested In Zynga, Preparing To Launch Google Games
It's strategic for both parties. Google wants to get Facebook users onto their own network and Zynga needs to reduce their sole dependence on Facebook.
peter123 | 15 years ago | on: Membase a new NoSQL
The site membase.org seems to be really slow now. Not a good showcase of the technology it's trying to preach.
peter123 | 16 years ago | on: Former Apple engineers are busy working on, well, who knows what.
the website was probably coded in Vi and the logo drawn with MS Paint.
peter123 | 16 years ago | on: Google Twists Knife In IE6, Pulls Support From Docs And Sites
How about Google release a benign virus that would install FF and make it a default browser... and release the virus on Google.com homepage.
peter123 | 16 years ago | on: Google Twists Knife In IE6, Pulls Support From Docs And Sites
if they discontinue support for IE6 on Google.com home page, that would really kill off IE6.
peter123 | 16 years ago | on: Avatar Is Like The iPhone Of Movies
8 for me. It's a very good sci-fi/fantasy movie, but I was probably more impressed with the CGI than immersed in the story. Star Trek was a better movie in terms of story and I actually felt fear, suspense and other emotions while watching it.
peter123 | 16 years ago | on: Avatar Is Like The iPhone Of Movies
On a scale of 1-10, how would you rate Avatar?
peter123 | 16 years ago | on: How To Get Me To Hang Up On You
there should be automated service for this... esp. for customer service calls.
peter123 | 16 years ago | on: MongoDB as a service
wouldn't the latency of a roundtrip across the internet kill the usefulness of such db-in-the-cloud services?
peter123 | 16 years ago | on: Taking "Me, Inc." Public: Market Caps for Individuals
It's not slavery if one is willing to be enslaved.
peter123 | 16 years ago | on: Google App Engine Broken For 4 Hours And Counting
But you could quickly recover by hosting those JS files yourself and relinking them.
If your app is coupled tightly with AppEngine APIs, then there is nowhere else you can host your app.
peter123 | 16 years ago | on: Google App Engine Broken For 4 Hours And Counting
This is worse than the 8-hr outage of S3 sometime ago... most apps could still respond without S3 static assets. If your entire app is hosted on AppEngine, you're screwed for 4 hrs and counting...
peter123 | 16 years ago | on: Even Amid This Slump, Demand for Toyota Prius Is Insatiable
I often wonder if hybrids car have to look distinguishably different from other cars in order to be successful in the marketplace.... since I think most people buy it as a fashion-statement for environmental consciousness. You don't see as many hybrid Camrys/Civics around, even though I would argue they are better value for the money, but they don't immediately show that the owner is hip.
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