warrenq | 5 years ago | on: Alphabet announces Q3 2020 earnings
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warrenq | 5 years ago | on: Reverse-engineering the problematic tail behavior of Fivethirtyeight forecast
Not necessarily.
There is a 0.750.750.75*0.75 or a 31% chance of no rain at all
warrenq | 5 years ago | on: Delete Facebook and You'll Lose All Oculus Games for Good
I don't think you understand what innovator's dilemma is.
Facebook is poised to crush the rest of the industry. They have the cash, talent, distribution channel and brand to do it.
Innovator's dilemma happens when 1) a low-priced, low-feature startup takes on higher-priced incumbent. High priced incumbent ignores low-priced startup. No one can go lower than FB on pricing
2) Fear of cannibalizations (EV eating Gas-guzzlers for GM, BMW). FB has always let Insta, WhatsApp and Oculus to run like startups with plenty of freedom. Oculus is not a threat to core FB, but an enhancer.
Bottomline, time to load up on FB stocks
warrenq | 5 years ago | on: Google is killing unlimited Drive storage for non-enterprise users
When entities sell/promise unlimited, they expect some good faith behavior from the users.
When your neighbor says, you can borrow my tools anytime he expects some good faith from you. You cannot go to his home everyday and borrow every tool and claim, but you said "anytime"
Your local park also offers unlimited playground time. But if you start practically living there and start hogging the slides 100% of the time, there needs to be new rules.
That's how society works. Can't believe this needs to be explained.
warrenq | 5 years ago | on: I made a simple Alexa knockoff that doesn’t spy on me
More likely he is clueless about what Alexa offers. It isn't just Voice Recognition, but also integration into many other devices that I can control.
warrenq | 5 years ago | on: On the foolishness of “natural language programming” (1979)
What's a window? What's a Trumpet? Lower Left of what? How long should I play the music? Don't like the music that's played, oh too bad now you have to go one level deeper.
Don't like the color of the button. Shit now we have to go another level deeper.
When I click the button the trumpet doesn't play. Oh shit, now we have to go really deep
warrenq | 5 years ago | on: Ex-Google boss Eric Schmidt: US 'dropped the ball' on innovation
30 years ago and 40 years ago, respectively
warrenq | 5 years ago | on: Noam Chomsky: 'There's never been a moment in human history' like this one
warrenq | 5 years ago | on: Microsoft's war on plain text email in open source
Ha Ha,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy
"Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface."
page 1
Bottomline, people who don't like YouTube are seriously underutilizing it's potential to change your life, make money, learn something