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by dsil 17y ago
That's like saying this website is one big ripoff. Mixing and matching content from other people to create something new is totally valid.
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Measure everything(marginalrevolution.com)
1 points by dsil 17y ago|1 comments
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by dsil 17y ago
Think of it this way. Say someone was trying to get and use as much GPS data they could find to map the world's trails. Each source and format might require a different algorithm to "curate" it into a usable form for your data structures,
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by dsil 17y ago
This only applies if you're turning down work at $100/hour because you don't have enough time.
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by dsil 17y ago
I feared the same thing when I stopped smoking, but I found, to my great surprise, it's actually possible to get up from your desk and go for a little walk WITHOUT smoking.
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by dsil 17y ago
I agree, using it on the internet I kept clicking on the "screen" instead of using the buttons. Though, I do find myself occasionally futilely poking at ATM and gas-station screens that were made years before touch-screens became common.
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by dsil 17y ago
This is very common, essentially the default, it's just a matter of whether a site uses the information or not. Consider, by default apache logs have IP address, and IP address approximately equals location. Actually, that article probably
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by dsil 17y ago
I can think of 2 reasons for this. One, like you said, people don't seem as quick to post the "first thing that comes to my mind" sort of comment, which tend to be fairly shallow, or pun or meme-based. Also, it doesn't take much for a stor
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by dsil 17y ago
Check out LEGO Mindstorms, it's basically LEGO with motors that you program. I think something physical attached to the (abstract) programs would be a great way to start. It's recommended for ages 10+, but I'm sure a bright kid with an adu
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by dsil 17y ago
It's time for Wolfram to shit or get off the pot. Has anyone ever seen a single use of it that wasn't scripted?
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by dsil 17y ago
Spin a web.
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UC Berkeley StarCraft Class, Week 11: Deception(sirlin.net)
2 points by dsil 17y ago|0 comments
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Undoing Meg Whitman’s eBay(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
10 points by dsil 17y ago|4 comments
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by dsil 17y ago
No, customer service is part of marketing.
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Pirate Bay lawyer demands retrial.(finance.yahoo.com)
27 points by dsil 17y ago|1 comments
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by dsil 17y ago
My guess is they tried for a while, and never managed to get a usable version working well enough, and the company now exists as a portfolio of patents waiting for someone else to improve it.
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by dsil 17y ago
Looks very interesting, and relatively affordable...but, how are you supposed to get it to hover in mid-air like it appears to need to be used?
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by dsil 17y ago
gmail just uses tags instead of folders. That way a single message can be in multiple folders at once. You can still do anything you could do if they were called 'folders' instead.
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by dsil 17y ago
The only thing intrade.com has under "Legal" is which supreme court justice will be the next to leave (Justice Stevens leads at 35%).
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by dsil 17y ago
Google owns 3 of the top 6 - google, blogspot, and youtube
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by dsil 17y ago
I like Microsoft-is-big-and-dumb stories: "As an interesting side note, Providence was heavily involved in the $15 billion round, and submitted a term sheet in the $10 billion range or higher at that time. The big rumor is that Facebook con
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Facebook, Twitter at work 'makes you more productive'(management.silicon.com)
1 points by dsil 18y ago|0 comments
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by dsil 18y ago
Search for: wiki Joan of Arc wiki Elijah Wood wiki Somalia wiki Molybdenum
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by dsil 18y ago
I think it's important to note that the "major strategic decisions" he is involved in while he is out: "particularly...the user interface of the new iPhone" UI design as a major strategic decision is pretty underestimated.
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by dsil 18y ago
Found via http://www.marginalrevolution.com/ , a great, very readable blog about economics.
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YouTube Is Doomed(businessinsider.com)
52 points by dsil 18y ago|49 comments
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by dsil 18y ago
I disagree. Whats wrong with their reasoning: "Omaha does not perform updates when an application launches, because we understand people want to use the software when starting it up, not perform maintenance tasks first." I don't like havin
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[pysqlite] Connection deadlock because of file lock(itsystementwicklung.de)
8 points by dsil 18y ago|2 comments
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by dsil 18y ago
Driving a car, voting, and signing a lease are all much much simpler to do than understanding a non-compete agreement. And actually I think the line of "most" people falls somewhere in the middle.
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by dsil 18y ago
No, you can't really buy the connections and press that YC companies get. You can buy mediocre connections and press, but YC companies get a lot of good access to good connections, and the press they get (many good links and discussion fro

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