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by codingthewheel 16y ago
Here's a contrary viewpoint: Online gaming/gambling right now exists in an almost-perfect state of deregulation . This deregulation allows low-rake, low-vig games to flourish, and is IMO only reason why it's possible for consenting adults
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by codingthewheel 16y ago
In the long run, the amount of luck in poker approaches zero.
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by codingthewheel 16y ago
I think hatred is a strong word. Most advertising is simply brain-dead. Most marketers are Internet-clueless. Mainstream sites (who ought to know better) are the worst offenders. The people handling ad inventory for mainstream sites (cough
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by codingthewheel 16y ago
I think it would be a pretty rare squatter who'd turn down say $300 free and clear for an obscure domain, provided you don't clue him in to your interest. As one of the other commenters said, just approach it casually and don't clue him int
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by codingthewheel 16y ago
If you look at the timestamps and the tweets, this was one of the first sites to publish the "scoop". A few others followed eg: http://news.google.com/news/search?hl=en&q=wikipedia+is+... It's obviously been years since we've seen a s
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by codingthewheel 16y ago
Asimov was a great popularizer of ideas that most people never come face-to-face with in a lifetime. And though some criticize his style, I always find it to be servicable and effective; he stays out of the way of his story. On a side note:
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by codingthewheel 16y ago
I see your point, but by that logic: "Governments provide services, and consumers consume them." But seriously, are you really saying that it's natural for hospitals to speak of their customers as "consumers"? Do you have kids? You provide
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by codingthewheel 16y ago
Not once they realize how hard it actually is to make any money on the platform. http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2010/06/full-an...
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by codingthewheel 16y ago
What platform are you talking about? The App Store is one of the (by the numbers) worst places to actually try to make real money as a developer. Average app price, by the numbers: around $1.90. Average sales $ per annum: around 3K. Half of
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by codingthewheel 16y ago
As a freelance developer who sells software and services on the side, I can say this would hurt. Badly. First, the clerical and administrative requirements. It's tough enough to set up e-commerce as it is without also having to track purc
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by codingthewheel 16y ago
Searchable full-text databases of political speeches. I've done it. You'll find both words used all over the place, with roughly the same meaning.
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by codingthewheel 16y ago
I see "consumer" used in place of "citizen" all over the place where it shouldn't be and frankly, I find it a little disingenuous that you're even arguing this point. Obama: "And we created hospital report cards, so that every consumer coul
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by codingthewheel 16y ago
Ah, but you're forgetting: with the rise of cheap, portable atom assemblers and reality compilers you can just construct your virus or your three-legged banana from the ground up.
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by codingthewheel 16y ago
What is really shows that people will use bad science and anthropogenic global warming (AGW) fear tactics to influence policy. What is shows is that this has been going on for 50 years. The argument for emissions controls has never been tha
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by codingthewheel 16y ago
Right. "Facebook unveils one of history's most powerful recommendation engines" This article is an attempt to garner eyeballs by making a loud statement full of dramatic words ("unveil", "history", "powerful") at a time when Facebook vs. Go
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by codingthewheel 16y ago
Y'know, not that there's anything wrong with turning a profit from bereavement services but...the best thing that can be said about these legacy.com vultures is that their receipt of a Webby Honoree award is proof positive that the Webbys a
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by codingthewheel 16y ago
Uh... and you think that ridiculously misleading title is anything other than a press release? The "it sucks" comment was thrown in as an afterthought.
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by codingthewheel 16y ago
Apple's has a minority share of the mobile device market. You are drastically overestimating the importance of a vocal minority. iOS already doesn't support Flash; won't support Flash; can't support Flash because that would threaten the clo
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by codingthewheel 16y ago
I agree, because this kind of thing is very common. I'd have taken it a step further: if you provide an answer to a question, you shouldn't be allowed to downvote other answers to the same question. And if you downvote an answer to a questi
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by codingthewheel 16y ago
Good point, and it all comes down to whether Oracle wants to play hardball. I saw a good discussion of this a while back, even touching on the disposition of some of the MySQL forks. Can't seem to find it anymore.
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by codingthewheel 16y ago
We're running a project on it right now. I'm not sure why my comment was downvoted-- shoot the messenger, I suppose-- but how is this relevant to the disposition of MySql as a payramp into commercial Oracle licenses? Or are you saying MySQL
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by codingthewheel 16y ago
Oracle is paving the way to turn MySQL into (essentially) SQL Server Express: a free hobbled version of an otherwise commercial database, designed to do one thing and one thing only: pressure existing MySQL developers into moving to (and pa
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by codingthewheel 16y ago
Does anybody know if there's an RSS reader that allows regular expression tagging across feed content? Eg, show me all RSS posts that contain "iPhone" or that match the regex "(?:iPhone|iPad|iPod|Apple|Android)" etc, as a simple example.
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by codingthewheel 16y ago
Well actually I agree. Well-stated. Open may form part of the ultimate successor to FB. It's 100% true the average Facebook user doesn't know, and doesn't care, about "open". But what being open wins you is support of the community, and i
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by codingthewheel 16y ago
You're right, and I think they are starting to sense it. This presents an interesting parallel universe in which Microsoft actually starts to channel some of that famous "underdog" energy that Steve Jobs himself channeled. Lately I've actua
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by codingthewheel 16y ago
Facebook could die a slow death when the world figures out how to create an open, federated version of Facebook. Instead of placing central control of our social graph with an organization that believes people are essentially targets on the
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by codingthewheel 16y ago
The only problem with this argument is that Windows and Office are both more popular than they've ever been and industry-wide, people are purchasing more desktop/laptop/notebook PCs per year than ever before. So if by "dead" you mean "more
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by codingthewheel 16y ago
I agree it's kind of silly to put forth a visual web demo and exclude 90% of browsers (especially when these same effects can be rendered in all browsers, with the proper browser-specific tweaks), but does there need to be a practical value
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by codingthewheel 16y ago
Wow. You are completely misinformed and, I suspect, just trolling (and presuming to instruct others) based upon events you had no connection with and only understand second-hand from others. By the way, your allegation that Microsoft "stole
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by codingthewheel 16y ago
Building the Digg bar: $50,000 Removing the Digg bar: $15,000 Website redesign: $82,000 Never having alienated your users in the first place: priceless.

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