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   by dminor 16y ago

   http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/blog-into-book/
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   by dminor 16y ago

   A Groupon salesperson called us awhile back to see if we were interested. We crunched the numbers, wondered how anyone made money using Groupon, and told them "no thanks". In retrospect, I can see it working in a few cases: 1. You are not w
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   by dminor 16y ago

   SeatGeek is already an affiliate to the larger ticket selling sites (StubHub et al). This replaces/upgrades their flash version.
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   by dminor 16y ago

   Excellent interview. SeatGeek is a pleasure to use.
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   Don't make your Android app free for 1 day(groups.google.com)

   287 points by dminor 16y ago|83 comments
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   by dminor 16y ago

   What they want me to hear: don't pirate software. What I actually hear: use as much free software as possible.
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   by dminor 16y ago

   And won so far, but it's still on appeal.
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   by dminor 16y ago

   I'm talking about per capita public money spent on healthcare by the government.
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   by dminor 16y ago

   Well we do pay double per capita what Canada pays for healthcare, so it wouldn't surprise me at all.
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    by dminor 16y ago

    When I saw this story it reminded me of a thread I read a long time ago: http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/finance/227686/?start=0 I think its popularity indicates a good opportunity.
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    by dminor 16y ago

    After your cilantro bolts, let it flower and harvest the seeds when they're light beige. Presto, you've got coriander.
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    by dminor 16y ago

    The optimistic side of me hopes that people are seeing the writing on the wall for software patents, and are hoping to extract value before the landscape changes.
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    by dminor 16y ago

    Sun/Microsoft was a breach of contract lawsuit. Oracle/Google is a patent lawsuit.
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    by dminor 16y ago

    Not to mention the first graph would be far more useful if it displayed relative job losses rather than absolute.
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    by dminor 16y ago

    Yes, but the graph has it at $6,000 billion, i.e. $6 trillion.
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    by dminor 16y ago

    "jab hot search phrases into their prose until it becomes a bloody pulp" I love this quote - it so accurately describes "white hat" SEO at its worst.
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    by dminor 16y ago

    The article confuses "degree" with "education".
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    by dminor 16y ago

    AsyncTask does encapsulate the threading stuff though. The HTTP APIs aren't Android specific - they're just the standard Java API and Apache's HttpClient. I suppose Google could create another API on top of these APIs (and all the other a
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    by dminor 16y ago

    Google is no longer developing it: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/update-on-google-wave...
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    by dminor 16y ago

    I just figured the "ultimate" guide is to unplug from the internet.
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    by dminor 16y ago

    Merchants pay higher fees on rewards cards.
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    by dminor 16y ago

    This is pretty important - if you're not paying for everything with a rewards card, you're subsidizing those of us who do.
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    by dminor 16y ago

    Verizon's open 700Mhz network hasn't materialized yet because they're busy rolling out LTE on it. It will be very interesting to see what the manufacturers do when they don't need carrier approval.
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    by dminor 16y ago

    Google's an engineering company and I think they should fight back as such. Get together a team of your best and brightest, take Postgres, and turn it into a drop-in replacement for Oracle. And be very public about your efforts.
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    by dminor 16y ago

    Isn't Verizon's LTE going to be on the 700Mhz network that's supposed to be open to all (certified) devices?
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    by dminor 16y ago

    Or rather, 98% aware that they're using open source.
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    by dminor 16y ago

    > Are you assuming that only self-interested actions can be rational? That's pretty much the definition of "rational" as it is applied in Economics. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_choice_theory
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    by dminor 16y ago

    Seems like a lot of hackers moving to Portland lately!
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    by dminor 16y ago

    > Nick was living in 81 square feet in a 3 bedroom in a beautiful brownstone in Park Slope for under $800. Living out here is costing him more money. Yes, but at least you get more than 81 square feet!
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    by dminor 16y ago

    Mongrel2 is supposed to handle WebSockets as well as HTTP, so I think open connections with sporadic traffic are a use case Zed has to worry about.