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by apalmer 13y ago
I wonder, I remember talk that the Nook was the reason that barnes & noble survived when all the other rick and mortar bookshops went out of business due to Amazon. Not sure if its true or not, wouldnt think the Nook was THAT popular.
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by apalmer 13y ago
It still happens because, when your seeking that viral edge sometimes the cost benefit analysis turns out in favor of pissing off a certain percentage of your members. As far as the ethics involved, I don't really expect corporations to be
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by apalmer 13y ago
Ehhh dont disagree with you on a theoretical level, but are the average software development manager management skills sooooooo strong that it totally overrides basic technical proficiency? definitely there are a individuals that this is tr
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by apalmer 13y ago
What do you mean by 'nicer' word? I really honestly don't get it. I mean if it were some consumer property, like say the size of a hard drive or such, then yeah makes some sense, for a term used in strictly in technical circles to describe
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by apalmer 13y ago
This i think is the very key point the author was making. An 'entrepreneur' would look at investors as bags of resources, which he will leverage to enrich himself. To an 'entrepreneur' investment funding is not intrinsically an more importa
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by apalmer 13y ago
Ehhh the point I think he is trying to make is a 'entrepreneur' in this situation would take out a personal loan, or hustle to get the 12K instead of giving up a significant portion of his venture.
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by apalmer 13y ago
I don't know that mono is guaranteed to be slower or not, but definitely a lot fewer man hours have gone into polishing mono as compared to the amount of effort spent to polish the .net framework on windows. Further, even if Mono itself is
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by apalmer 13y ago
Seems a big part of this is is a lot of the proponents thought the comparison was really a Ford vs a Corvette, I dont think a lot of people were really internalizing exactly the ramifications of the order(s) of magnitude difference in perfo
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by apalmer 13y ago
ASP.Net kind of put themselves out of the benchmark game here: Mono Issue #1, since the vast vast majority of ASP.Net websites run on windows a Mono performance test even if accurate is going to be of dubious value. Mono Issue #2, since Mon
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by apalmer 14y ago
Hey man, just wanted to put it out there, I am sure you have a much better understanding of the space than I do. I dont even think these are 'deal breakers' i just think they are questions that you have to be able to clearly answer when loo
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by apalmer 14y ago
I am basing it on the assumption that you cant pragmatically do 100 matlab sessions on a single server or VM. While a single Matlab session may run great on a server you are SSHed into, i dont think you can run 100 matlab sessions on a sing
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by apalmer 14y ago
looked at your product, it appears to be quite literally octave in the cloud. Serious question, How can this scale to tens of thousands of users simultaneously using it? It is entirely possible that this is no where near as performance inte
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by apalmer 14y ago
Ehhh, I am not sure that this is truly the issue with your presentation. If it is truly "we can do X just like FamousApplication(tm), except we are in the browser and we can be profitable charging 10% as much as FamousApplication(tm)", that
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by apalmer 14y ago
Yes and No In societies of extreme poverty children have long been viewed a hedge against old age
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by apalmer 14y ago
only thing shocking about this story, is that people are actually shocked by it. do we not know that money runs the world? i mean its almost infantile, its not even a question of world view, its simple science, its like writing a news story
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by apalmer 14y ago
Not similar at all, maybe in sentence structure, not in logical structure
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by apalmer 14y ago
I think the argument is that the 'fuck it' level is not necessarily contact in terms of communication with the entire world but may be filled by simply picking up a couple specimens/pets and rolling onwards...
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by apalmer 14y ago
1 - fair enough, but I dont think the author is arguing what you claim he is, and doesnt seem to be a central point 2 - disease aside, the intent is important, the argument is that when technologically advanced meets less technological soci
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by apalmer 14y ago
ehhh you arent really backing up your points. We have to take this argument for what its worth, i mean we are basically talking a thought experiment along science fiction lines right here... and thats ok, makes for an interesting change. BU
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by apalmer 14y ago
I am just trying to double check to make sure I understood so bear with me. Are you telling me that stock prices systematically went down for decades and no one took this into account to make money? there is hope after all...
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by apalmer 14y ago
Outside of Companies who's core competency is related to technology 'IT' means everything that is computer related. Actually its even further, I cant 100% pin it down, but the feeling is its like, if you dont have a CTO or Chief Science Off
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by apalmer 14y ago
Facebooks problem is a fundamental development culture one, 'move fast and break things' is not great from the perspective of developers latching onto your platform. If the reward is great enough, yes its worth it...
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by apalmer 14y ago
Isn't it better to attract them all and then pick the ones you want? I am 50 lbs over weight just saying...
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by apalmer 14y ago
I was shocked when I got to that part. Even aside from the specific jobs he mentioned, he seems to truly believe no one in the united states does physical labor that requires physical strength. Even being charitable one would have to at bes
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by apalmer 14y ago
Its really hard to get any idea of what this platform actually is. I had to read the whole blog post to even get a hint of what the platform is supposed to do for me, and was left with more questions than answers: 1) Is this a centralized p
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by apalmer 14y ago
I think i have seen this before, it came out basically pretty well aligned with the generally accepted racial groups, except there were i believe 2 groups for sub saharan instead of one group of 'blacks'. Has been a few years since i saw th
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by apalmer 14y ago
I see your point, I guess its all in how you do your accounting. One way of looking at it is the initial $7 dollars is already sunk costs, and quite literally he probably was using the $7 dollars from Shirt A's sale to purchase Shirt B. I m
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by apalmer 14y ago
No. You are stating your opinion based on disregarding the facts at hand because they don't align with your worldview, this is exactly how an intelligent person can end up not understanding something basic. The individual who actually went
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by apalmer 14y ago
There can be a really thin line between the classification of high functional autism and aspergers and just plan introverted. My son is definitely in the in the challenged side of the coin, so I am not claiming at all it isnt 'real', just s
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by apalmer 14y ago
I definitely found the usage of the term arbitrage to be unusual, but it did logically make sense to use it in this way. I wasn't sure if the author was creatively using arbitrage in this way, or if the term already was being used in certai

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