dejb

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721.
by dejb 19y ago
Yes it is just one anecdote. Probably not enough evidence to condem the whole area of SEO. Now if you had 2 anecdotes that would be a laydown.
722.
by dejb 19y ago
I agree. Aquiring the right tools is important. As long as you remember that the tools are there to get the job done not the other way round. Preferably you can do the majority of your 'technique aquisition' on someone else's time so when y
723.
by dejb 19y ago
To me what separates the men from the boys in software development is the ability to get the job done effectively. In my experience, while the boys are playing with programming methods for the sake of it, the men are actually implementing f
724.
by dejb 19y ago
There can still be competition within the industry though. All that is needed is a way to to determine how to best reward the industry participants for effectiveness. For music that could be some measure of the number of downloads/listens t
725.
by dejb 19y ago
If the money actually went to the artists I'd be happy to pay a $5 a month tax. But somehow I don't think this is how that scheme would work out.
726.
by dejb 19y ago
I don't think it is possible to suggest that you could live forever in a world that will be completely different without appearing a bit religious/cult-ish. That really is pretty much exactly the same message as many religions. But I don't
727.
by dejb 19y ago
Yes your diet makes absolutely no difference to the way your body or mind works. Just keep loading those cheeseburgers in mate.
728.
by dejb 19y ago
I agree that it is like a prisoner's dilemma. Perhaps more like the iterated version which does actually allow for cooperation to be the optimal solution. I think countries holding large amounts of US dollars have a large incentive to talk
729.
by dejb 19y ago
I think it ranks up there with 'Ideas are worthless'. You could just as well say the 'Air is worthless' or 'Air is nothing more than medium that can be used for commercial flight'. The ability to monetize something is not the only measure o
730.
by dejb 19y ago
The sentence was not taken out of context. That was the saddest part of Arrington's article - the fact that he seems to no longer be able to view music as anything other than a commodity.
731.
by dejb 19y ago
Wow. You are doing about over $45CPM per ad unit. That sounds really good. I wish I was in that area. But I think the principle still holds - if you are going to be replacing ad views that are automatically and reliably earning $45 CPM then
732.
by dejb 19y ago
I'd say about 1.5 to 4 times the CPM for each ad unit of whatever you are getting from google ads would be an average starting point. Higher end for smaller and/or targetted ad runs and lower end for large run-of-site ads. If there are a re
733.
by dejb 19y ago
Ever heard the expression - 'Stubborn as a mule'
734.
by dejb 19y ago
I was talking about the world view that appears to underpin his opinions - not specifically what he was trying to say in the article. So what if 'symmetric exposure to information is not equivalent'? If the net result is benefit then isn't
735.
by dejb 19y ago
It is just me or has the discussion of this article has strayed from the more interesting and fun angle - America bashing.
736.
by dejb 19y ago
No real compelling points to the article and it brings up a number of arguments which appear to support the proposition it is purporting to rebut. The overwhelming impression I get of this guy's world view is that it is all a zero sum game
737.
by dejb 19y ago
You need to implement materialized views using triggers. Not ideal but sometimes it has to be done.
738.
by dejb 19y ago
I think it says 'only savants should apply, idiots are welcome'.
739.
by dejb 19y ago
Oh yea... and as a perl programmer I consider myself superior to both C (which I've had the misfortune of coding in), Lisp (don't know) and Rudy (sounds nice??).
740.
by dejb 19y ago
I think pretty much programmers of every language think they are superior to every other one. The 'dummy' languages think it because of ignorance... or because they earn more money than someone at the same skill/intelligence level on a 'sma
741.
by dejb 19y ago
All the speaches of his I've seen are pretty much the same thing. Wish he would come up with something new.
742.
by dejb 19y ago
SugarCRM. The bastards removed half of the Project Management functionality in 5.0 but now they are promising to bring it back.
743.
by dejb 19y ago
I wonder if an expert (human) with access to the same data set, any automated tools they choose and their own knowledge/research of movies could do a lot better. I think they probably would be able to crack the 10%. If they couldn't then it
744.
by dejb 19y ago
Nice idea. Shame it doesn't work. Something where users could sing or hum the tune could actually work though. A true 'musical' search engine. I had this idea years ago but I think the implementation would be really hard.
745.
by dejb 19y ago
Would you settle for $someDic = {}; ?
746.
by dejb 19y ago
I don't know if it was actually paid by google. But it sure does read like an ad.
747.
by dejb 19y ago
Looks like spam to me.
748.
by dejb 19y ago
Well you could to some extent make the same argument over any attempts to predict the future. Global warming is an instance that comes to mind. The point of it all is that your assessment of the likely futures can effect your current action
749.
by dejb 19y ago
I don't think that was what he was saying. I agree that the article contains nothing new.
750.
by dejb 19y ago
Doesn't think what? That the Kurzweil book is an interesting read? I think what you are trying to say is that this guy doesn't agree with the notion of the singularity. Fair enough. Though I think his assertion that we aren't in a time of a

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