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The hidden meaning of the hidden Starbucks logo(blogs.reuters.com)
72 points by alex_c 17y ago|40 comments
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by alex_c 17y ago
Well, not if - as the story suggests - the intellectual property is jointly owned by TechCrunch and Fusion Garage.
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by alex_c 17y ago
Cheers - got it :)
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by alex_c 17y ago
It doesn't matter if it's just a trickle. With enough trickles we can make a very nice river. That really depends. I'm not saying social change never happens from the bottom up, but for me, this pledge is just one step up from, say, an i
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by alex_c 17y ago
As for people not being driven by pledges, again, I am a professional engineer and I took an oath when I graduated. I have so far been true to it and I take it very seriously every day of my professional life. Yes, but you are most likely
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by alex_c 17y ago
The code is pretty damning, but before I get really outraged, a bit of context is always useful. Has anyone figured out where this graph has been used?
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Ask HN: Any iPhone developers want to chat about monetization?
3 points by alex_c 17y ago|0 comments
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by alex_c 17y ago
What do you suppose would be the odds of a literary theorist getting a parody of a physics paper published in a physics journal? Well, actually... http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/
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by alex_c 17y ago
I wasn't talking about low-quality sites, I was talking about low-quality (e.g. unfocused, or hard to monetize) traffic. I don't want to split hairs - yes, obviously, a song is not identical to a page view - but at a very basic level, both
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by alex_c 17y ago
To put that in perspective, $167 for 1 million plays is the equivalent of a CPM of $0.16 for an ad-supported web site. A bit on the low side, but $0.16 is in the right ballpark for a site with low-quality traffic. I think the question is:
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by alex_c 17y ago
Thanks for posting that link, that's how I found the journals :)
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The Making of Prince of Persia(jordanmechner.com)
60 points by alex_c 17y ago|9 comments
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by alex_c 17y ago
- Women rate 80% of males as less than average looking. The graph is completely off-kilter from what you might expect (a pretty usual normal distribution around 50%-attractive) This is very interesting. It's always been almost impossible
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by alex_c 17y ago
To me, it's interesting that Apple doesn't seem to have performed an audit (or hell, a search&replace) after the first time this came up. Fool me once...
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by alex_c 17y ago
Like rdj said, that really depends on what you mean by small, focused, and successful. I've had moderate success with Facebook apps (~1 million users total), but I haven't touched the platform in about a year, so I might be a bit out of the
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by alex_c 17y ago
I think many tech blogs are the worst offenders, and go way overboard with widgets and third party services. Take the front page of TechCrunch - it weighs in at 508KB. Mashable gets to about 884KB before FireBug gives up in disgust. I can
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by alex_c 17y ago
The whole mobile advertising market is probably not much bigger than this, but it's growing, and AdMob is the clear leader. I suspect AdMob would be worth a lot more than this in a couple of years if left to its own devices, which is the b
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by alex_c 17y ago
4) We taught some of our customers to be evangelists. This is obviously not an issue for all products, but how do you teach customers to be evangelists if most other potential customers are their competitors? In fact, scrap that. Can you
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by alex_c 17y ago
1) After a certain point you level max. There are loads of people here that I could learn a lot from, but the forum is greatly limited and becomes repetitive. The reason new members think that it's devolving is not that HN is changing, but
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by alex_c 17y ago
It might be willful ignorance on my part, but I really want to believe that eHealth is the (unfortunate) exception, and not how IT usually works - even when we're talking about government contracts.
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by alex_c 17y ago
42?
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by alex_c 17y ago
This wouldn't have anything to do with that "rush job" you posted about, would it? :p
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by alex_c 17y ago
Overblown. It will likely move to a freemium model. Everyone made fun of Hulu before it launched, but it ended up being quite good - there's no reason to think they don't understand the impact of making it pay-only. http://gizmodo.com/53
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by alex_c 17y ago
Ah, sorry - was just looking at the article pics.
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by alex_c 17y ago
You mean the mouse?
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by alex_c 17y ago
And for the cynics in this thread: you only get to complain about MBA's if you can do their job better than they can. I'm not saying you can't, I'm just trying to be fair. I don't think that's fair. Someone definitely has the right to co
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by alex_c 17y ago
I've set up a similar voting site with moderate success (about 3.5 million page views in a bit over a year): http://www.bestsporecreature.com/creatures A couple of points: - The biggest hurdle is that you need to have watched both movies
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by alex_c 17y ago
However, I have to wonder if it was perhaps the other way around whether we would have people complaining about how trashy the app store was and how their decent app was buried under loads of other spammy/trashy apps. Yup - that would be
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by alex_c 17y ago
I usually don't agree with "don't solve problem X, because Y and Z are worse" (society isn't exactly like prioritizing bugs), but in this case - right on.
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by alex_c 17y ago
No -- I think the fact that it's considered culturally inappropriate to express clearly racist and sexist opinions is a benefit -- it's the first step to stemming the spread of that cultural virus. I disagree - and I think the fact that m

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