alttab

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by alttab 17y ago
After reading the discussion (all 14 comments that exist right now), it seems that people have given you plenty to think about. It looks like you wanted to make a web app that was simple, interesting, and attainable. For that, I give you an
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by alttab 17y ago
The article outlines only one major reason for karma-based systems. People can get addicted to their rating, creating "karma whores" and the like. This is nothing that probably hasn't been discussed here and on other communities. Its a bala
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by alttab 17y ago
You make a fantastic point. It's the social psychology principle at play - what stories can we think of that are easy to recall? That said - does anyone know of a desktop-rich web app that is in the black from charging to use it (That isn't
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by alttab 17y ago
And you make a good point. Some will bite. My pondering was merely a function of - is it enough to build a business? For instance, if Google wanted to become your one-stop-shop for online desktop-grade web applications (aren't they kind of
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by alttab 17y ago
That's a great point. And this is something I've been thinking about recently. It is as if some start-up business models are merely based on creating technology that either another company will want to buy outright because it runs parallel
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by alttab 17y ago
I myself was absolutely amazed at this demo. It makes me feel like I'm not innovating at all! At the same time, this isn't exactly new. GWT did something similar with Java (although it wasn't necessarily as polished) and as others have stat
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by alttab 17y ago
That may have been a good thing. In some cases, stacking two layers with conflicting policies could thrash from caching/garbage collection logic. This is at least the argument of most full stack proprietary formats.
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by alttab 17y ago
I have heard multiple stories of these "low overhead" operations of high frequency trading. They are making millions. Makes me wonder if a large enough cluster of these operations trying out their (same) ingenious (simple, but effective) al