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by dschobel 17y ago
see also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_Law
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by dschobel 17y ago
This is a great idea. My original thinking was to suggest a combination of enforcing a minimum number of trusted users and then reporting a weighted average of your trusted users + the mass' rating but your solution is conceptually nicer si
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by dschobel 17y ago
The feedback of the voting system is still essential, it's just that you can't really trust the voters anymore. It's gotten ridiculous to watch the votes swing from extreme to extreme on one comment based on the follow-up discussion where p
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by dschobel 17y ago
The 5 W's are the abstract. The rest of it is what shows everyone else that you've done your due diligence and thought the idea through in the context of existing research.
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by dschobel 17y ago
I can't tell if you're kidding, but I don't see what legal compulsion FB, MySpace, et al can receive from the Chinese gov to kill accounts.
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by dschobel 17y ago
The intersection of people with something worth saying and the people who write books is far from total.
727.
by dschobel 17y ago
There was a story on NPR a few years ago about this exact phenomenon in retirement communities in Florida. Places where there was no one under the age of 55 and no kids around. The societies quickly degenerate because no one has any incenti
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by dschobel 17y ago
Well it's particularly odd because he claims he received a lot of feedback from other SFers who all see the same issues as he does and are equally fed up. I say it's odd because the startup culture is be all about opportunism. Is accountabi
729.
by dschobel 17y ago
I was thinking more along the lines of starting your tech company in a city whose cup doesn't overflow with them and creating jobs locally rather than having all of the tech talent in america move to the bay area.
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by dschobel 17y ago
re: Hotmail to enterprises They already have outlook web access (OWA) as a feature of their enterprise outlook product and plenty of independent providers exist which will host your entire outlook stack for you.
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by dschobel 17y ago
I know you're speaking with tongue-in-cheek but there's some unsettling truth to what you say. People can be less involved in their community if they can just escape to like-minded havens on the internet rather than fixing the real issues g
732.
by dschobel 17y ago
So what's your take on the liability issue? It doesn't sound like this was a technical failing of netflix' anonymization process but rather a matter of deduction of various independently anonymous pieces of data.
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by dschobel 17y ago
[The researchers] identified several NetFlix users by comparing their “anonymous” reviews in the Netflix data to ones posted on the Internet Movie Database website So why sue netflix instead of IMDB? Additionally, is there an expectation
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by dschobel 17y ago
The consensus position seems to be that they should accept MS' apology and move forward with their world-domination plans with their obviously desirable UI rather than moaning about some vague notion of damage done to them for the brief tim
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by dschobel 17y ago
This page is simply good graphic design. A much better example of NYT's use of interactive media was their unemployment graphic: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/11/06/business/econo...
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by dschobel 17y ago
Sure, to the extent you want to access google services. But isn't that a given? My desktop is tied to my google account to the same extent that I choose to use google search and email.
737.
by dschobel 17y ago
You're playing semantic games. js code is still UI.
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by dschobel 17y ago
Unless I'm mistaken though, the OP's point is that if you're streaming the video directly from the network justin.tv's stream will still have the FOX, ESPN, et al, ads in place. The real threat would be a live stream from the game or as an
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by dschobel 17y ago
is there something specifically wrong with Android phones vs other platforms or is that another tired reference to the Schmidt quote?
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by dschobel 17y ago
The best estimates still only put production costs of an iPhone 3GS @ $178.96 1 The rumor isn't so crazy if you remember that google's most general mission is to get people online and using the web and looking at their ads. You can guaran
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by dschobel 17y ago
He does have a point (one which merits better than his -4 fate). If your biggest asset is your UI, not only do you have to appreciate you have a tenuous competitive advantage but you should have a battle plan, both technical and legal, for
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by dschobel 17y ago
on the 5% chance that Arrington's right about their financial situation, they're practically out of cash. And now they have to hire a legal defense. If the tablet's software isn't 100% open-source and hackable, I'd be worried on the long-te
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by dschobel 17y ago
Are there companies where maintenance & bug fixes aren't the domain of the junior developers? I've never seen otherwise unless the junior guys can't handle it and it gets escalated to the people who are trusted with design.
744.
by dschobel 17y ago
Great post and crash course in long lived HTTP. Did you write your own http server/library or are you using an existing one for the current Comet implementation?
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by dschobel 17y ago
Dygraph is very pretty but if you have a significant percentage of users on IE I'd definitely double and triple check the performance first. As I mentioned below, the sample chart is very choppy on IE8 (although it's wonderful on Safari, FF
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by dschobel 17y ago
And doubly so for businesses with high power needs, such as data-centers or even software houses.
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by dschobel 17y ago
has this team considered an expansion into device level power monitoring down the road? plugging a sensor into the jack itself? that would be really compelling if it were possible to make the sensors small enough and inexpensive enough.
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by dschobel 17y ago
#4: "I've talked with potato growers who say point-blank they would never eat the potatoes they sell. They have separate plots where they grow potatoes for themselves without all the chemicals."
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by dschobel 17y ago
I believe the intended meaning was environments which are not naturally occurring rather than attributing volition to nature.
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by dschobel 17y ago
It's not clear what their incentives are to mislead in this case though.

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