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by Jd 15y ago
What is the original vision? As far as I can tell it was chatting with avatars that resembled real people. What does that get you? A few underpopulated pretty environments, lots of chat, and people having virtual sex with their virtual bodi
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by Jd 15y ago
Many people who are perceived as "acerbic" are simply direct and don't engage in the poo-pooing that characterizes many human social interactions. To get rid of them is to revert to a less intelligent form of life.
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by Jd 15y ago
There is a classical school of valuation that has difficulty dealing with Internet companies. Namely, a number of VCs, etc. have recognized that having a large number of passionate (or possibly addicted) users is the ticket to desirability
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by Jd 15y ago
I hate to say this here, but msuster is the one VC out there who really knows how things work and talks straight -- and the one I'd really want to go to bat for me. There is no sugar coating or extra idealism, but he's not limited to just s
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by Jd 15y ago
I always find it interesting that one of the first arguments used against a gold standard is that people who argue for it are idiots -- something economists in the US magically discovered when, contrary to previous agreements, we moved off
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by Jd 15y ago
Not if my karma is at risk...
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by Jd 15y ago
Has to have all the basic functionality of the original. Here's an example: I just played for a bit and after setting a city to build something noticed a few turns later that one of my easternmost cities had been taken over. When? I don't k
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by Jd 15y ago
Images at the bottom for Green Certified Site, HN Sidebar, and Analytics by Mixpanel take away from the simply lookfeel of the site. Besides, it looks like all you need to get "Green" certification is to pay the certifiers $10 / month...
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by Jd 15y ago
Paintings and photographs are not the same.
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by Jd 15y ago
Now!
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by Jd 15y ago
There definitely is something psychological as well as practical. First, it is an issue of social dynamics. Very intelligent people frequently develop means by which they congregate without the less intelligent. Elite academic institutions
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by Jd 15y ago
While "under promise and over deliver" might be good general life advice, I'm not convinced it works when dealing with angels/vcs.
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by Jd 15y ago
There is a way around this. Charge the person sharing the file a certain amount of money after a certain bandwidth (rather than the person downloading the file). This would virtually prevent large scale piracy without preventing many other
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by Jd 15y ago
I'd imagine that's only so if some human has intervened and told the "actual value" of something. However, I'd imagine that in just as many cases, if not more, there is no real "actual value" -- only computers playing with each other.
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by Jd 16y ago
The original Xoogler blog was phenomenal, not only lots of informative content about the early days at Google but a great literary achievement. Each post was a veritable essay and well worth reading. Sadly doesn't look like it has maintaine
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by Jd 16y ago
Some what ridiculous that we must figure out what the point of his post is instead of him just telling us.
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by Jd 16y ago
The benefit of using the whole jQuery library on a single page is that it will likely already be cached, particularly if you are using the Google version. The largest time expenditure is on the loading from an external server, not the proce
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by Jd 16y ago
I completely agree about both bugfixing and documentation. That said, bugfixing someone else's crap code still sucks.
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by Jd 16y ago
As I see things, the main job of the non-programmer is marketing/sales. Sometimes you need this, sometimes you don't (@Yegg's "What are you building?" post is useful here http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/02/are-you-building... ). I
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by Jd 16y ago
Fairly useless unless you know the institution in question, how widespread the problem is, and whether or not it has been worsening. My personal observation is that many of the structure in question is oriented specifically towards jocks wh
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by Jd 16y ago
Good idea, but: (!) You should invite more people. I can't figure out why you wouldn't want as many as possible (2) You should change the name. Not only is it not good to label yourself as a "reject," there may also be people who have indep
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by Jd 16y ago
There is positive reinforcement and negative reinforcement. In this case, embarrassment may not be sufficient, you may also need some mechanism (e.g. a quiz) to dock the grade of the unmotivated student.
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by Jd 16y ago
Lecture/test allows people to only demonstrate competency in subject at the time of the test, meaning that even if they have a vague understanding when attending (or skipping!) the lecture, they will use the period of time just before the
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by Jd 16y ago
re: (1) Not quite sure what to say here, but it might be best to have a short promo video for those with more limited attention spans and a longer one (or multiple ones) that go into more depth related to various features. re: (2) I look fo
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by Jd 16y ago
First, a comment: Friggin' awesome! Second, a list of (hopefully helpful) criticisms: (1) Re: Intro video. Way too long. Don't need to see the face of the founder. How can you use an ordinary hot water heater and discuss water temperature?
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Understanding "The Cloud"(fractastical.com)
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by Jd 16y ago
As far as I can tell, this gives anyone the freedom to purchase then give away the software. Meaning that there is no moral, ethical, or legal barrier for the original developer to charge $5 to the first purchaser and for the first purchase
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by Jd 16y ago
Money quote : "Facebook Comments is basically Facebook writ small: while it’s maddeningly mediocre lowest-common-denominator crap, it’s not quite bad enough not to use." Yep.
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by Jd 16y ago
It's not a trap -- there is no way EBay can provide all of the necessary information that would stop people from getting scammed since someone would simply try a new trick that wasn't listed in the documentation. It isn't simply "trial by f
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by Jd 16y ago
I can't decide which I like better, "In 80 characters or less, define a class object" or Chuck Norris jokes I've heard lately.

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