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by aston 19y ago
Cool. I'd be interested in seeing similar analysis on a per-comment basis.
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by aston 19y ago
It's true that you do generally have to take the GRE to get into MIT grad school, but it's not really what you're being admitted based on (although you might be rejected for sucking). It's funny to even see an MIT-wide admissions page, sinc
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by aston 19y ago
When you own the browser market, whatever you implement becomes the de facto standard.
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by aston 19y ago
On your final comment, it's a pretty universal truth that every community will eventually find a common enemy. It's part of feeling like you're part of something.
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by aston 19y ago
Yahoo says: "We have included deception forum results - Show only disception forum" (link to the latter is http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search?ei=UTF-8&rd=r1&p=%... ). No defense for live.com
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by aston 19y ago
Can you provide queries where yahoo.com, google.com, and live.com are differentiable to a significant degree? Just out of curiousity, moreso than critique.
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by aston 19y ago
There's this one out called Yahoo.com. Up and comers. Lots of eyeballs. About to be acquired.
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by aston 19y ago
AKA pmarca's "Product/Market fit": http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/06/the-pmarca-gu-2.html
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by aston 19y ago
Do you play?
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by aston 19y ago
Well, PS3 was not responsible for the wide adoption of Blu-Ray. The studios were. If the PS3 had been an all out slam dunk like the PS2, Toshiba wouldn't have given up, they would've lost. As it stands, the PS3 isn't really even outselling
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by aston 19y ago
Actually, there's no way a comment like anewaccountname's would get upmodded to that extent were it not a verbatim reference to pg's previous article. The fact that people here upmod/downmod based on whether they agree rather than whether
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by aston 19y ago
1) Get bought by Microsoft. 2) Let Microsoft run the Yahoo businesses like they do all of their others, as a P&L that could actually take significant losses in the first few years just to gain market share. 3) Profit (half a decade from
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Reddit's discussion of karma for comments(reddit.com)
3 points by aston 19y ago|1 comments
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by aston 19y ago
Upmodded for your first half. But Arc is definitely not drop in replacement for PHP. And you can use PHP 5 in basically the same ways you could use PHP 3.
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by aston 19y ago
Eh, I don't think the repr matters much. What does matter is actually getting all of the other methods implemented (stuff like cmp, eq, etc.). They're all basically pass-throughs, though. Even with that, I think it's still broken in some wa
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by aston 19y ago
Pretty Sweet. Here's my hacked together Python version (not sure what Monads have to do with it): class Maybe: def __init__(self, obj): self.o = obj def __repr__(self): return repr(self.o) def __getattr
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by aston 19y ago
Of course it's faster to use a precomputed reference than to find an element in the DOM. I can't see the "overhead" of manually storing a reference to a DOM element in a variable ever mattering in any application. Grab it once and you're do
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by aston 19y ago
Actually, I'd argue that relying on magical global variables mapping to page elements is bad practice in the first place. If you want an element by ID, that's what document.getElementByID is for (or $ if you're using a JS framework). If you
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by aston 19y ago
Hey, Ivan, I realize this isn't the right venue, but I'm not sure what is, so... I like you guys's product a lot. The execution's really clean, and it seems that all that needs proving is the model itself. My thought, though, is that you gu
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by aston 19y ago
The case you're talking about, I think, was that of Kai-Fu Lee, who actually was allowed to work at Google, but wasn't allowed to work in the areas he worked in at Microsoft for a year. Instead, he did general recruiting.
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by aston 19y ago
Maybe not. Dwight and Jim... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3SBwS8Mds&feature=relat...
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by aston 19y ago
Do you have any evidence? Microsoft buys tons of companies, including those competing with internal products. LookOut is a great example, and one that's relevant given the current discussion of Outlook plugins.
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Bill Gates Deletes Facebook account(thesun.co.uk)
1 points by aston 19y ago|2 comments
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by aston 19y ago
My bad. Thanks.
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by aston 19y ago
This is devastating stuff, if true. How large were the student and teacher sample sizes?
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by aston 19y ago
Pretty old news. http://damienkatz.net/2008/01/new_gig.html , January 1st.
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by aston 19y ago
4x valuation would be small, i.e. not expecting too much growth.
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by aston 19y ago
Danger's been one of my favorite companies, ever since I saw the Hiptop and heard that some independent startup had made it. This could be a really good thing. Microsoft definitely has resources to let them do more awesome stuff, and Robbie
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by aston 19y ago
If you divide mass by enery, how do you get energy out?
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by aston 19y ago
When I was there last summer, the rate conversions project was basically a one person operation. It doesn't look like Google knows what a megaton is, but even if it did, it'd be the same unit class as joules, so I doubt your conversion coul

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