"There have been a lot of devices sold out there that do not have technical merit," he said.
However, after the rumors forced the proposers to go public with their idea early, reception on Reddit and Twitter was mixed, ranging from suspicion and skepticism to cautious optimism that the proposal, for an addition to bitcoin called extension blocks, had technical merit.
Notable developments in this direction have been for milled rice storage in China (and in S.E.Asia; Annis et al., 1984), but this approach has considerable technical merit and is potentially of more general application.
The argument that an operating system is whatever Microsoft or anyone else says it is has purely technical merit.
The Truscott rule, which has some technical merit, is this: Always play for the opening leader, on the left, to hold the queen.
"We've worked to create many of our ultra high resolution VAST photos like one [of Lower Manhattan and the Freedom Tower] at that beautiful sunrise or sunset time so we can have technical and aesthetic merit in our photos," says Piech.
Individuals who exerted more effort writing spent more of their time pausing, deleted more words, wrote more sentences per paragraph, and had better technical merit and use of rhyming in poems, but their work was not considered more creative.
Academics, having emphasized technical merit and broader impact to attract support for their research, often fail to solve for competitive advantage, thereby creating great technology in search of a business application.
None of the current crop of successful ICOs have any technical merits, no matter how dense their white papers.
Apple designs well, in general, but while I've appreciated the technical merit of the last 4 iPhones I've owned, I haven't been overly fond of the sharp, hard edges.
