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by colins_pride 18y ago
Its not so much about search as the realtime indexing, at least for now. Their db is up-to-the-minute; their search algorithms are 15 years old.
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by colins_pride 18y ago
That's fair, but numbers 2 & 3 are good points that you don't hear from everybody and their mother. And besides, I wouldn't want to bet against Paul.
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by colins_pride 18y ago
From the article: "In the US, we regard branding and marketing — convincing people what to buy — as core business functions. What Asustek proved is that the companies with real leverage are the ones that actually make desirable products."
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by colins_pride 18y ago
I agree. It's enough to say that development has gotten much faster, but deployment is still a slow pain in the neck, and you are the guys who are going to change deployment. Most of the time the smooth, concise story sells best, in my expe
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by colins_pride 18y ago
There are a few issues here. When you get paid, that money probably gets deposited into a bank. When you start a family, you probably take out life insurance to make sure that if something happens to you, your family will be financially sta
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The evolutionary role of cooking(economist.com)
64 points by colins_pride 18y ago|30 comments
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NYPD cop seen in YouTube shove dismissed from force(cnbc.com)
2 points by colins_pride 18y ago|0 comments
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by colins_pride 18y ago
The graphic also conveniently starts with the 1990 recession. Unemployment went from 5.6% in 1979 to 10.8% in 1982 (7.6% now). But wait, what's this at the bottom of the graphic "Office of the Speaker"?!?!? Selective statistics from a polit
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by colins_pride 18y ago
Sure; I'm assuming you're asking about my assertion that "R is the right platform ... " I've used S-PLUS fairly extensively, and I think there's a lot in common between R and S-PLUS. But R doesn't have the licensing constraints, which makes
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by colins_pride 18y ago
Web data mining is so due for a renaissance. At big companies, purge rules eliminate old data to save on storage costs. At startups the focus is always on getting a product out, adding features & getting users. When guys start figuring
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by colins_pride 18y ago
This article focuses on strategies for preventing showdowns with users, which is the right approach since a company is never going to win these sorts of confrontations, whether it is Facebook, Digg or anybody else.
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by colins_pride 18y ago
The date was December 19, 1997, and the judge was Thomas Penfield Jackson
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by colins_pride 18y ago
Nothing tops the Microsoft anti-trust judge who declared in open court one morning that he had separated IE from Windows on his PC, and he didn't understand why all of these Microsoft guys were saying it was so tough. When they took a look
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by colins_pride 18y ago
Two thumbs up. I can already tell that Quote 10 is going to come in awfully handy on my next project ...
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by colins_pride 18y ago
Somehow this vaguely reminds me of patent trolls
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by colins_pride 18y ago
Minds < species is a real biological mind grenade.
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by colins_pride 18y ago
This is basically an anthology of three Paul Graham essays. If you're here, you've probably read the essays, and if you've read the essays ...
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by colins_pride 18y ago
I'm not sure that the bankruptcy laws call for the nationalization of failing banks.
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by colins_pride 18y ago
Is having one good algorithm better than giving the user the ability to tweak the algorithm?
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by colins_pride 18y ago
If you can figure out how to trick the system, you get unlimited access to $500 bikes. That's a much better incentive than the guy who built the system had.
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by colins_pride 18y ago
I agree it doesn't make much sense with the current setup. But if twitter did decide they really wanted to sell twitter analytics, would you want to be competing head-to-head with them? Open API doesn't have to mean replicate-our-whole-data
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by colins_pride 18y ago
Each of these people finds a form of structure that works for them. The trick is to get the benefit of discipline without giving up any creativity.