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691.
by cellis 16y ago
I got the water part without even thinking, and photosynthesis danced in my head as an answer, but carbon didn't even cross my mind.
692.
by cellis 16y ago
Traffic is bursty, not smooth.
693.
by cellis 16y ago
So I guess this means they aren't selling to Yahoo?
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Jeffrey Skilling wins Appeal(economist.com)
9 points by cellis 16y ago|4 comments
695.
by cellis 16y ago
You need millions and years of cutting red tape to set a franchise before you even see 1 red cent in profit. This: 1) Will take longer than 3 years to make 1 million. 2) Is probably not this man's expertise
696.
by cellis 16y ago
Looking for incredibly boring, yet painful problems in industries like healthcare, oil/gas, real estate, and ecommerce. Build a solid product using .NET or Java. Charge massive consulting fees and hire some slick salesmen. I know several pe
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by cellis 16y ago
But that's not quite accurate. You see, while these guys are in Finance, at least 1/3rd of the above have serious hacking skills, not traditional finance skills; James Simons - math, but closer to hacker than financier Kenneth Griffin
698.
by cellis 16y ago
Yes same stated profit , but they pay half their revenues to their employees. Otherwise their profit would be far higher.
699.
by cellis 17y ago
An equilibrium will be reached.
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by cellis 17y ago
Is that from a movie? Because if not , you really need to start being a screenwriter!
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The Half Hooker Economy(nymag.com)
2 points by cellis 17y ago|0 comments
702.
by cellis 17y ago
The reality be damned. Hindsight is 20/20. Imagine you're there, in the arena, adrenaline practically oozing out of your pores. You're 500 feet above the one of the most dangerous cities in the world [1], a warzone that's claimed the lives
703.
by cellis 17y ago
Mental illness? I'm surprised, but I suppose an idealist would think that. I'm pretty sure the fight or flight syndrome has been well documented as being in every human, not just soldiers. So, are we all mentally ill?
704.
by cellis 17y ago
They did run like crap, but most people left Myspace for Facebook for one of two reasons; 1) Facebook was cleaner, and 2) Facebook was used by high status people (started with Ivy League students).
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by cellis 17y ago
notepad.exe When I had jobs that required me to use Huge Enterprise Planner v 10.0, i copied my tasks as succinctly as possible to notepad. It's lightweight, doesn't get in the way, and just works. Todo.txt, and I keep it to 10 lines per da
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by cellis 17y ago
I know that you're thinking: "Premature optimization is the root of all evil". But when I use caching, I don't consider it premature at all. It's just a best practice, like not writing O(n^2) loops. Why wait until your site starts to "bog u
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by cellis 17y ago
For a seriously detailed analysis of the challenges of provisioning App Engine, take a look at Ryan Barrett's video: http://sites.google.com/site/io/under-the-covers-of-the-goog...
708.
by cellis 17y ago
"Care to cite some specific examples?" or, brasher "Citation needed."
709.
by cellis 17y ago
Nice. Currently using GAE...how do you plan to handle CDNs? Also, should i want to migrate my data from Google's Datastore, how easy would that be? What do you have that GAE doesn't? I'm asking on behalf of myself, mostly, but I imagine the
710.
by cellis 17y ago
Don't get angry, get a patent! That's probably the rationale Facebook is using with regards to IP rights ("We don't like the idea of patents, but we dislike even more the possibility of a patent troll extorting us for something that shou
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by cellis 17y ago
This is why the game I'm currently working on is built using facebook iframe/connect, and not fbml; the thinking being that this product should be able to stand on it's own merit regardless of which API i mash into it.
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by cellis 17y ago
He seems to discount the difficulty in harnessing the virality of Facebook, especially now with the locked down channels. I think virality is far harder to get right than good art, or a good story, or good game mechanics.
713.
by cellis 17y ago
This guy obviously has no idea how hard it is to make one of those hit games.
714.
by cellis 17y ago
Neat! I didn't know that what I call "The Zone" had been formalized.
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by cellis 17y ago
So here's how it works: Flash 10 has built in p2p support. Firewalls can block this, so if the firewall to the far peer is blocked,the near peer falls back to Stratus (adobe Server), which probably has a socket? open to the far peer.
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by cellis 17y ago
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/eula/stratus.html I don't see anything in the TOS against advertising. Nor in the FAQ, with regards to commercial applications: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/stratus/ Edit: That's an article. We'r
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by cellis 17y ago
Did he say his company was founded solely by him?
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The Story of AnandTech(mixergy.com)
3 points by cellis 17y ago|0 comments
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by cellis 17y ago
A friend of mine did this kind of work. He worked for KBR as some kind of contractor (in the green zone, out of the field). He said he grossed 216k in one year, 80k tax free. He also said that because he was always in the same location and
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by cellis 17y ago
I'm pretty sure these gigs are tax free for the first $80k.

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