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by bsaunder 17y ago
I think you are undervaluing "increased familiarity with technology". I think the school systems are missing out on the transformational capability inherent in the use of technology. It's like using airplanes to drive around the country wi
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by bsaunder 17y ago
Some people seem to actively replace reality with their own notions. It continually baffles me. I can only suspect that I do the same thing.
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by bsaunder 17y ago
1. Why isn't there a duplicate filter that catches this? 2. Seems like a partial consequence of the higher churn rate modifications.
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by bsaunder 17y ago
yes, that was entirely my point.
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by bsaunder 17y ago
If only they developed an on-line store and a delivery mechanism. It would be the optimal solution from the customer perspective (price, feature and distance). Thanks in part to the ubiqutious internet.
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by bsaunder 17y ago
Thanks! Somehow I missed Text::Brew. Looks interesting. I've found that scoring is a rather slow operation (relatively speaking), and so at the very least people should consider using memoization when they score or some other technique to
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by bsaunder 17y ago
Nor do we need blankets with sleeves, that doesn't mean it's not a good business idea. Technically dumb is not necessarily economically dumb. I also don't agree with your assertion that it's technically dumb.
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by bsaunder 17y ago
The OP comes across being at the 91 percentile and saying... "hey, wait a minute, there must be blades!" He would have benefited by the addition of CONVENTIONAL.
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by bsaunder 17y ago
Sounds like you already have a great product. Rather than thinking about the next technical project, focus on revenue and income and let that drive your technical direction. Seems like your product might be in a good position to get some l
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by bsaunder 17y ago
Perhaps additionally, it's because there is always counter perspective that, for somethings, ring true.
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by bsaunder 17y ago
But is also has to do with how frequently the information is changed/accessed. e.g. If Oprah only publishes 3 tweets a day, but her one million followers each check 100 times a day (just to be on the bleeding edge of gossip), it's much less
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by bsaunder 17y ago
I think the trade off between push/pull is influenced by the ratio of the 'velocity' of data (how frequently it changes) to its access frequency. If accessed frequently, but changes less frequently, then push makes sense, if changes frequen
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by bsaunder 17y ago
Thanks for posting the printable version of the article. Much more pleasant.
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by bsaunder 17y ago
solving NP-Complete problems in polynomial time on the size of the problem input is either possible in our physical universe, or it is not I'd bet that it is.
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by bsaunder 17y ago
I up voted it. I skimmed it in a few minutes (reading your rant and typing this response took longer). I'm rather fluent in JavaScript so I didn't learn much new, but it seemed like a nice short comparison of some of the mechanisms of usi
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by bsaunder 17y ago
cheap labor makes the production equipment an unjustifiable investment because the ROI is less I think that's his/her point. The manufactured pot would need to be priced higher (to pay for the production equipment over a reasonable depre
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by bsaunder 17y ago
Interesting perspective, but don't you think it takes two parties to establish a real price? If you want to pay $5 and I want to provide the service for $100, then no price is set. To say that it's only the buyer's perspective seems to be
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by bsaunder 17y ago
I see your view, but my problem is, I really like free content. I can accept that to produce and distribute that content costs someone money. The ad based revenue model aligns very nicely with the quality of the content produced (assumin
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by bsaunder 17y ago
And when you find competitors, you need to realize that probably no one else you know has heard of them. The people here have rather bleeding edge knowledge of start-ups. There may be 10 start-ups for your idea. Some of them are probab
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by bsaunder 17y ago
The examples given seem more like inattentiveness than stupidity. Which makes sense. Attention to every detail requires effort (a lot of effort). Sometimes one person may not have all of the resources required to pay enough attention to
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by bsaunder 17y ago
hmmm... While reading through I visualized drawing the top-down perspective. Guess I'm guilty.
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by bsaunder 17y ago
cut -f2 tab-separated > just-the-2nd-column
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by bsaunder 17y ago
I think part of the cause of the big drop off may be the "release early philosophy". Sure, release early, but I think your early release needs to have a critical mass of utility to inspire the first circle to tell the second circle.
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by bsaunder 17y ago
I liked this. I never thought about it this way. Short. To the point. Seems interesting and useful.
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by bsaunder 17y ago
To point out just one qualitative improvement the author completely discounts: the internet. "Computer networks came a year or two after 1959 and didn’t change very much, other than how we waste time in the office, and whom advertisers pay
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by bsaunder 17y ago
Seems like the latter.
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by bsaunder 17y ago
It's clear from the article that he has no idea what defines current bleeding edge (I think this is true for the general populace).
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by bsaunder 17y ago
They almost got the title right: "Is Linux For Lusers?" (not that I agree with the content). Pretty much a meaningless rant. Seems like MS propaganda.
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by bsaunder 17y ago
they just track the indices I don't think that's right. Only the specific funds (e.g. the Vanguard 500 Index Fund (VFINX)) that say they track the indices do that (and generally charge a lower 'management' fee). Most funds (e.g. the Van
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by bsaunder 17y ago
Age vs. Income as a density plot... the points are too close together to be meaningful.

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