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by bpyne 11y ago
It's possible that my observations won't solve the problem. But, we agree on the fundamental that content providers either need payment from the consumer or from ads or both. Right now content publishers are often taking money fro
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by bpyne 11y ago
I agree that there is a poor signal-to-noise ratio for content on the web. When I wrote the response I had in mind professional journalists and writers; publishers like The Economist, Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, ACM, etc.
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I don't think the issue is people not wanting to pay for content. The Web breaks apart for-pay models in different ways: people want content from more publishers than they can afford; and, people want to share. Getting people to pay fo
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No stats that I'm aware of. My observation is that people generally imagine disaster scenarios that do not come to pass when it comes to large traffic changes. Two short anecdotes to support the observation. 1) My wife and I visited Ir
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I wouldn't extrapolate too much from the observation you made about Google producing more founders. Both companies are "corporate" in that they have lots of jobs dedicated to keeping the company running, but have no direct im
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It's tricky picking a "best fit language" when you're not sure at project inception what you're fitting it to. Say, for instance, that you're developing v. 1.0 of an application in a new application space. Your
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I was a little slow. It took me until 28 to have the epiphany. What finally brought me there was a diagnosis of hypertension and a realization that I hadn't dated in close to 6 years. Now I'm close to 48. Having more control over
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When I was a contractor I had more control of my hours. Employers preferred 40 hours, but would accept less depending on their situation. Other than that, I worked alongside internal people and did the same work.
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"I don't think children need us as their friends - they have plenty of these all over the place." It's not a binary choice: friend or parent. Parenting is situational. Sometimes kids need you to empathize as a friend wou
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I was drawing up a reply that makes an analogy to home contractors using undocumented labor. (I won't entertain far-below-market bids because those contractors are certainly using undocumented labor.) But, then I realized that I eat in
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Just some advice, don't worry about organized league vs. street play so much. I played organized hockey year-round (up to 3 teams at a time) and still had plenty of time for unorganized play with neighborhood kids. I grew up in an urba
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I think we need to have a better idea what's meant by "family ties". I'm from the US. My teammate on a project is a woman from India. (We're both working in the US.) She doesn't have children, but I have a 9yo
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Do you know that he hasn't advocated for better pay/working conditions? Professors run the full gamut of opinion on this issue. Without knowing him, I would think it difficult to know his stance. As far as slapping his name on the
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Businesses have been poaching from grad schools for quite a while depending on the field. My father-in-law regularly has his doctoral students poached by Wall Street because they have extensive training in developing mathematical models and
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I'm not thoroughly sold on the "too old to learn" adage either. I think it has more to do with time and focus. Since moving into the stage of life in which I have a family and more responsibility in my job, I have considerabl
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by bpyne 11y ago
Not arguing. Just clarifying. The answers were odd to me, perhaps because I'm used to cities in the Northeast. While I was in LA, back home it was 40 degrees colder. We had come out of a Winter with temperatures in the low single-digit
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For me, the residential streets were even pretty cool. There was some great graffiti art, lots of Mexican food available, etc. I found a good comic bookstore to get something for my daughter. Overall, it's a pretty nice walk.
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So they drive to a destination and then walk/run/hike as exercise? I can understand LA having some periods of the year in which walking isn't pleasant. But, there can't be many.
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Pageant was a bridge from observation of problems to the realization that average people can make a difference. I haven't taken the time to make a time line, but it probably paralleled Stipes' increased political activism. I lost
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A question for the LA natives on here. Last year at this time, I had the chance to visit LA for my first time. I stayed in a B&B in Los Feliz and spent a few days walking around it and Silver Lake. My first day I asked the B&B owner
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Michael Stipe said in an interview that "Fables of the Reconstruction" was his least liked record. When they recorded it the band was exhausted from touring, they were burned out and very negative. The negativity made for a dark r
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All the advice is well-worth reading. Number 16 ("Rubber Ducking") is my particular favorite. It kills my ego every time, but the thought process involved in explaining the goal, attempted solution, and the problem seems to make t
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It's amazing how often the "we're not a software company" phrase is bandied about. My employer has been around for a while, the IT department has over a 30 year history. Yet, we have the phrase repeated to us whenever we
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Targeted ads have some appeal. But, I'm still not sold. Here's an example of why. My wife and I started watching Parenthood recently. There are some very moving scenes in which a couple comes to terms with their Aspberger child&#x
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I dread this scenario and hope an alternative to pay more for television programming is provided. We're down to 45 minutes a day of television right now. Shows consist entirely of Netflix/Amazon Streaming/AppleTV. Forcing ads
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Just a few points... I'm happy you are not afraid to call yourself "junior". Humility goes a long way to becoming a great programmer. Asking permission is obeisance but it is also communication. Whoever you asked may have kno
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I switched to a Mac laptop late in the PowerBook series. Before switching, I developed mostly on Unix (AIX, Solaris, and HP-UX) and appreciated that I could drop into a terminal when necessary and use a solid shell scripting language. Windo
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Unpredictable is my cat weaving its way downstairs every morning in front of me and suddenly stopping. I'm sure something puts his senses on high alert but you'd think after the first few times I tripped on him, knocking him down
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Thank you Freshyill and JWN! I nearly ripped my hair out trying to keep the Minecraft, Forge, and the JVM in sync version-wise for the Pixelmon mod. I tried upgrading just one of them and the Pixelmon mod silently failed. Of course the foru
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Interesting change going on in language education. I'm a coordinator for my daughter's elementary school's after school program. I wanted to bring in foreign languages so I started with Spanish because of the large Spanish sp

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