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by RobGR 18y ago
If a drop of 6% is $300 (according to the article), the average mint.com user is spending $5,000 a month. That seems way too high to begin with, and secondly, a suspicously round number. Perhaps all the numbers were rounded off when told
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by RobGR 18y ago
I quit paying my $200 yearly fee because the magazines I was getting seemed to be mainly full of "datamation" type psuedo-commercials, and what I call the "web-3.0-is-the-new-web-2.0" articles. Also, there was supposed to be some enormous l
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by RobGR 18y ago
I have taken extensive PHP applications and re-coded them as a C/C++ module to the PHP language. It worked out successfully. A simple loop in PHP that just does some math and prints our a value, can be 1,000 times faster in C; if a PHP o
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by RobGR 18y ago
These guys are making the code publicly available. They are not making a search engine page that actually competes with google publically available. (Every search on aspseek.com returns no results.) Also, I don't think the test is commerc
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by RobGR 18y ago
It's not illegal to implement a patent that you don't own. Part of the whole "deal" of a patent, is that in exchange for exclusivity of it's commercial exploitation, you have to reveal it for other people to examine and experiment with. S
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Geek Austin From BarCamp to BarCollege(geekaustin.org)
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by RobGR 18y ago
I don't know if "perks" are a new currency. I think there will be a return to practicality and cash will have more value. All my friends who used to brag to me that they had 100,000 airline miles saved up, are now trying to see if they ca
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by RobGR 18y ago
The hypothesis that best describes the origin of HIV is outlined in an extensive book by Edward Hooper, titled "The River", and originally laid out in a Rolling Stone article (of all places) by Tom Curtis. This "new" evidence is consistent
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by RobGR 18y ago
If anything, it should be a lower resolution system. If you measure a distance by crudely pacing it off, you don't say it is "134.581234 yards". You say it is about 130 yards. Consider the following questions in thinking about how many si
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by RobGR 18y ago
I know two people who use an OpenMoko as their "daily driver" phone. Admittedly, those two people are hardcore linux geeks from the local LUG, and even they admit that they are putting up with some annoyances that many people would not dea
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by RobGR 18y ago
It is a C-like language, based on something called wiring: http://arduino.cc/en/Reference/HomePage http://wiring.org.co/learning/index.html
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by RobGR 18y ago
I have always wondered why these died out. I have never seen one myself, but they seem the most efficient and streamlined way to run a restaurant. It would possible to provide high-quality food for fast food prices via the this system. I
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by RobGR 18y ago
When I suggested the group meeting thing, it was because the social aspect of college is very desired. I think it is also not as good at today's universities as we would wish. The students seem very perceptive to social status, and a lot
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by RobGR 18y ago
Are you sure that going back to school, and finishing your degree, will address the "I need to learn more" problem ? You may need a degree to address a particular social issue, like not being able to be promoted in a particular organization
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by RobGR 18y ago
I suspect that we are too focused on web applications as potential businesses to the exclusion of other ideas. I recently attended a "Startup Camp" barcamp thing. We had an idea session, and it started with the reading of a prepared list o
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by RobGR 18y ago
The iBear thing is stupid and kind of creepy. The internet controlled switch is a good idea. It exists, of course, but most examples are expensive and aimed at datacenter type applications. There is also the X10 devices. I think that most
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by RobGR 18y ago
I think they change practices like that on a semi-random basis so that people can't make those predictions.
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by RobGR 18y ago
A business -- or a charity, military platoon, gang, masonic lodge, baseball team, or any other name we have for a group of people -- is not a robot. It is still a group of people. Take some activity we might consider disgusting -- like cho
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by RobGR 18y ago
I have long suspected that most datacenters waste a tremendous amount of cooling energy. For example, if a datacenter is usually a higher temperature than the outside temperature, and you are running active cooling, it makes no sense to in
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by RobGR 18y ago
I think a general class of good startup ideas are archivers of removed content. There is a project at MIT that archives videos removed from YouTube, there are people who would pay to have access to that. A similar class is adding search t
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by RobGR 18y ago
King James and others objected to tobacco when it was first introduced to Britain in the 1600s.
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by RobGR 18y ago
Has anyone here played with an OpenMoko ? I have examined one, but have so far avoided putting out the cash to buy one. I have always disliked the cultist and elitist aspects of Job's company. I see Apple as no better, and possibly worse,
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by RobGR 18y ago
That furiouslol guy just wants to scare you off so you won't be raining on his parade when he launches his photo sharing site next week.
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by RobGR 18y ago
If what you have works for you now, stick with it until you try to do something that doesn't work.
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by RobGR 18y ago
I recommend you find a friend, or friend of a friend who does sys admin work at a company or school, who uses Linux and one of the common MTAs -- sendmail, exim, postfix. Pay them a flat monthly fee to handle your email, and do whatever th
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by RobGR 18y ago
I agree with ojbyrne's analysis of the numbers, that they seem less than advertised - although keep in mind that you can bill more than 8760 hours a year, especially on the internet where no one knows if you are a dog, or working on a proje
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by RobGR 18y ago
I'm disappointed at the number of "go to court" and "now go talk to your lawyer" responses here and in replies on the blog article. Going to a lawyer is expensive. Going to court rarely helps your financial situation. You should do it onl
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by RobGR 18y ago
I think you are missing the important part of this idea, probably because Seth wrote way too many words for something that could be compressed into a paragraph with an hour or two of careful editing. Of course you can get the idea that peo
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by RobGR 18y ago
You say "Also why target such a niche when you can target everyone with an internet connection." The answer is, that targeting everyone with an internet connection is not targeting. It's called carpet bombing the internet, and it's expensi
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by RobGR 18y ago
You mean receiving SMS messages and putting them on the web, or typing messages into a web page and sending them out by SMS, or both directions ? I advise purchasing a real cellular modem, such as from MultiTech, putting a SIM chip in it fr

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