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Valtrex For Geeks

11 points by kyro 18y ago

markbao 18y ago
Two types of viral. 1. Artificial virality. Huge audience. Capture a part of the audience, you're in for a good userbase. Exponential increase. This is his Hotmail example. 2. Natural virality. "John has sent you $20 over PayPal. Create an account to transfer to your bank." Built in a certain fashion that forces it to spread virally. Who wouldn't take twenty bucks?
aaronblohowiak 18y ago
equating ebola and AIDS to hotmail and youtube. has human life become so cheap? i don't have a problem with the use of virus outbreaks being used to explain network effects, i do have a contention with the apparent disregard for the reality of, say, ebola spreading through zaire.
- aaronblohowiak 18y ago
  please explain why you downmodded me so i can improve the quality of my posts.
  - andrewf 18y ago
    I'm not the one who modded you down, but I'll bite. You have a problem with the author's irreverence towards virus outbreaks in Africa. Regardless of whether this is "correct", it is not of interest to (some large proportion of) readers here. If you want to criticise the authors' tone, the comments attached to his own blog may be a more effective venue.
    - aaronblohowiak 18y ago
      oh, i see your point. i will keep matters of style on the originating site, and matters of content here.
  - Prrometheus 18y ago
    Your comment sounds thin-skinned and self-righteous. People don't like to be told what examples they can and can not use in their similes. Also, your shift key appears to be broken.
- rms 18y ago
  You know that ebola has basically been cured? It was funded by the US government for military purposes, I think they are stockpiling the vaccine in case ebola is ever used as a biological weapon. http://www.thinkgene.com/vaccine-for-ebola-virus/ http://www.thinkgene.com/vaccine-for-ebola-virus/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola#Recent_outbreaks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola#Recent_outbreaks In the scheme of things though, Ebola is absolutely nothing compared to the horror of AIDS...
  - aaronblohowiak 18y ago
    no i didn't know that, thanks for the link!
- edw519 18y ago
  "has human life become so cheap?" I hear you. It's easy to fall into that trap when spending so much time with bits and bytes. The trap really becomes deadly when we make the leap from hackers to entrepreneurs, where the people are as important as the tech. Go easy on OP, though. He didn't invent the "virus" metaphor, he was just writing about it. He didn't have a whole lot of other options to make his point. (Point of clarification: AIDS is not spread. HIV is spread. A small but critical distinction.)

11 points by kyro 18y ago

Two types of viral. 1. Artificial virality. Huge audience. Capture a part of the audience, you're in for a good userbase. Exponential increase. This is his Hotmail example. 2. Natural virality. "John has sent you $20 over PayPal. Create an account to transfer to your bank." Built in a certain fashion that forces it to spread virally. Who wouldn't take twenty bucks?

aaronblohowiak 18y ago

equating ebola and AIDS to hotmail and youtube. has human life become so cheap? i don't have a problem with the use of virus outbreaks being used to explain network effects, i do have a contention with the apparent disregard for the reality of, say, ebola spreading through zaire.

aaronblohowiak 18y ago
please explain why you downmodded me so i can improve the quality of my posts.
- andrewf 18y ago
  I'm not the one who modded you down, but I'll bite. You have a problem with the author's irreverence towards virus outbreaks in Africa. Regardless of whether this is "correct", it is not of interest to (some large proportion of) readers here. If you want to criticise the authors' tone, the comments attached to his own blog may be a more effective venue.
  - aaronblohowiak 18y ago
    oh, i see your point. i will keep matters of style on the originating site, and matters of content here.
- Prrometheus 18y ago
  Your comment sounds thin-skinned and self-righteous. People don't like to be told what examples they can and can not use in their similes. Also, your shift key appears to be broken.
rms 18y ago
You know that ebola has basically been cured? It was funded by the US government for military purposes, I think they are stockpiling the vaccine in case ebola is ever used as a biological weapon. http://www.thinkgene.com/vaccine-for-ebola-virus/ http://www.thinkgene.com/vaccine-for-ebola-virus/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola#Recent_outbreaks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola#Recent_outbreaks In the scheme of things though, Ebola is absolutely nothing compared to the horror of AIDS...
- aaronblohowiak 18y ago
  no i didn't know that, thanks for the link!
edw519 18y ago
"has human life become so cheap?" I hear you. It's easy to fall into that trap when spending so much time with bits and bytes. The trap really becomes deadly when we make the leap from hackers to entrepreneurs, where the people are as important as the tech. Go easy on OP, though. He didn't invent the "virus" metaphor, he was just writing about it. He didn't have a whole lot of other options to make his point. (Point of clarification: AIDS is not spread. HIV is spread. A small but critical distinction.)