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pkrs··on Our experience moving to SF to do YC
Yes, London. You know- Fish, Chips, Cup o' tea, bad food, worse weather, Mary ing Poppins, London!
pkrs··on Assange: Google Is Not What It Seems
A lot of what he writes has nothing to do with the facts but rather adds to the general "evil theme".

Somehow he was able to paint having "analyticity" as a bad thing: "Schmidt’s dour appearance concealed a machinelike analyticity".

And acquisitions are conveniently renamed into takeovers: "In 2004, after taking over Keyhole"

And then this. I don't even:

"The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist. McDonald’s cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley’s technologies to flourish is called the U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps."

pkrs··on OS X Yosemite
Continuity/Handoff requires Bluetooth LE, so a bunch of older devices would not support it.

Chart here: http://www.macrumors.com/2014/06/17/yosemite-handoff-bluetoo...

pkrs··on Google Now vs. Siri vs. Cortana – The Great Knowledge Box Showdown
I don't think it's possible, people on different platforms issue different queries partially due to marketing and insiticts on what works and what doesn't.

Also commands that already sort of work lead to more queries issues lead to better quality.

pkrs··on GitHub.com momentarily blacklisted in Russia
Screenshot for the curious http://habrahabr.ru/post/239021/#comment_8027431
pkrs··on GitHub.com momentarily blacklisted in Russia
Seems that it was banned because of this commit about suicide https://github.com/amdf/objidlib/commit/e9c31e97c0ca7863516f...

Based on the previous experience if github reacts in any way this will probably get resolved sometime in the future.

pkrs··on Hacking Hearthstone with machine learning – Defcon talk wrap-up
You're thinking about Big O notation, which is not the case here
pkrs··on Hacking Hearthstone with machine learning – Defcon talk wrap-up
Clearly a mistake in my opinion, fortunately point is still valid regardless.

a + 1.16h + i/6 < a + 1.25h + i/4