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by arikrak 9y ago
Google is trying that again with news websites: https://contributor.google.com/v/beta Most consumers really don't like paying for things and don't really mind unobtrusive ads, so seems unlikely the economics
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by arikrak 9y ago
The can't tell if someone's a subscriber when the person opens a link from facebook on their phone, so they just allow all access from facebook. (It's also possible they want to encourage sharing on social networks.)
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by arikrak 9y ago
Once people started worrying about allergies, they started avoiding various foods, which caused more allergies... http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/02/23/388450621/fee...
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by arikrak 9y ago
Nice to offer a pay-it-later approach (like App Academy) but seems a bit expensive for an online course?
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by arikrak 9y ago
I initially tried that on WolframAlpha but it doesn't understand Mathematica syntax. But one can enter it on https://lab.wolframcloud.com after creating an account.
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by arikrak 9y ago
A lot if the advice in these books has become widely accepted, so if you might not find that much new in them if you've already worked at a tech company for a bit.
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by arikrak 9y ago
I was looking at this and thought it looked nice but then my computer froze so maybe they overdid the 3D graphics a bit?
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by arikrak 9y ago
Nice, looks pretty useful! I think the default execution time should probably be less than 60 seconds. Most simple programs that people run on this kind of site should have an execution time of less than a second, so ~10 seconds should cert
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by arikrak 9y ago
I haven't found Facebook to be very good at recommending things. They often don't seem to be able to tell what people are interested in, and they don't really let users control who they're posting to. For example, they s
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by arikrak 9y ago
Business usually settle rather than fight patent trolls, but I wonder if fighting is worth it if it can deter others from suing them in the future? I guess it depends somewhat on the outcome of the case..
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by arikrak 9y ago
I looked into investing a small amount in crowdfunding, but there are very few platforms offering it and the companies seemed to be raising money at overpriced valuations. It would be nice if crowdfunding could grow, since ordinary people c
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by arikrak 9y ago
It's hard to compare Lichess-rated players to e.g. FIDE or USCF rated players, since they have different populations. It's much easier to play on Lichess than in tournaments, so Lichess probably gives higher ratings. But one could
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by arikrak 9y ago
Costs can be reduced greatly even without any technological innovation. NYC and LA spend ~10x more per km of subway than what some European cities spend. (E.g. NYC's $2.2B/km vs. Paris's $230M / km. [1]) So try to replic
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by arikrak 9y ago
If no vesting was set up when ownership was divided, you technically own a third of the company. However if there was some implied agreement, or you want to be fair, it makes sense to give back some of the equity. I think it's reasonab
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by arikrak 10y ago
Question - is prolog used in the real world? I.e. are there businesses that use prolog in production?
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by arikrak 10y ago
There have been various improvements in programming that reduce accidental complexity but they don't apply in every area. For example, Ruby on Rails makes it easier to create an MVP, but scaling an application to millions or billions o
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by arikrak 10y ago
One thing you can do is look at how much the company has invested in the product. There may be a reasonable risk they may shut it down if it doesn't tie into other products that the company offers and they don't try to integrate i
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by arikrak 10y ago
It would be more useful if there was a way to see sites that actually were using the Cloudflare features that caused this bug. A large number of sites use Cloudflare, but few should have been affected by this bug: > When the parser was u
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by arikrak 10y ago
Google maps makes it easy to see the estimated prices of Uber and other services.
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by arikrak 10y ago
That sounds a lot more realistic but it's not as cool and romantic as eagles swooping in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgCNVdYzIcw
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by arikrak 10y ago
One can do that with affiliate advertising to some extent. I don't think it would be easy to use other pricing models since advertisers wouldn't trust small website's metrics. (And large websites already manage their own ads
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by arikrak 10y ago
If they reduce H-1B visas, can't large companies just hire more people overseas? How would you make companies hire more Americans?
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by arikrak 10y ago
I created Learneroo.com for people to learn programming online. It earns revenue from members paying for full access to the site. I considered selling it when I joined Google as a software engineer, but I decided it made more sense to keep
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by arikrak 10y ago
Right if they make H1B1 more restrictive, companies can just expand their hiring overseas. Offshoring could also accelerate as technology improves so being in the same office matters even less.
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by arikrak 10y ago
On a related note, does anyone know how IBM's Watson health is doing? They've been developing it for years but I haven't heard much about their results.
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by arikrak 10y ago
Everyone should be taught according to their ability. It doesn't make sense to mix people who learn at different rates into all the same lectures and the same overall grade system. Why make children spend 8 (boring) years in elementary
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by arikrak 10y ago
> In spite of the diversity of strategies one can design, it is important to remark that the heads-up limit Texas hold'em variation has been claimed to be "essentially weakly solved" in January 2015 by the Cepheus poker-pl
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by arikrak 10y ago
What about Silver diamine fluoride? It has been used for decades in Japan so it's not just hypothetical. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/12/health/silver-diamine-fluo...
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by arikrak 10y ago
Why couldn't they define the leap second more precisely then? I think there has to be an astronomic reason for the leap second. Either the Earth is slowing down or maybe the they want better alignment between the earth daily rotation a
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by arikrak 10y ago
It would be interesting if people had to put their money where their mouth was more often. E.g. if a politician makes a claim about the past or the future, there should be a way to hold them accountable to it.

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