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by egiva 15y ago
I don't think that oversimplifying design into these basic terms like "graphic design", "functionality", or "Berkshire Hathaway", really helps everyone realize just how important design is to a web-based business. The internet came about re
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by egiva 16y ago
Programmers (top programmers) are also drawn to the enormous compensation packages and bonuses that financial firms were offering in the 2000s - top talent in statistics, mathematics, engineering and programming went straight into the finan
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by egiva 16y ago
Yeah, it is getting out and I think current press stems for some recent court cases. It's also not a new strategy - with at least 6-7 years in practice by most competitive hedge funds. If you studied non-linear mathematics, or genetic algor
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by egiva 16y ago
Exactly - thank you for clarifying my original post - I agree it was poorly presented, but I do think we were both elaborating the same point. HFT IS an arms race as you point out, and the details I find interesting have to do with infrastr
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by egiva 16y ago
True - without an open web, arguably your internet-based HTML5 app could be metered by Comcast or the other service providers - hence it would have been better to create your own isolated app for the iPhone, etc. But what about apps that re
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by egiva 16y ago
Yeah, I think you're right - maybe there's a "push and a "pull" effect involved - creating barriers to make submission more difficult might be a "push", but something like flagging or marking spam and off-topic stuff would be more of a "pul
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Should it be a bit harder to submit on HN?
5 points by egiva 16y ago|6 comments
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by egiva 16y ago
Depends on the fuel used and cooling techniques. Looking at the predominant fuel mix currently used internationally, there is only 80-90 years of nuclear material left - perhaps worse than peak oil. That's why the new emphasis by the Chine
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by egiva 16y ago
Yeah - I think Zuckerburg said that "it's better to make lots of quick mistakes" because you learn more quickly and that culture of fast, small changes to your product will generate a better result, in the end. It reminds me of the saying:
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How's your Spanish? Build Spanish into your product or else(theweek.com)
5 points by egiva 16y ago|4 comments
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Twitter is a Thunder Lizard(gigaom.com)
2 points by egiva 16y ago|0 comments
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by egiva 16y ago
That's a good question, and if I had a good answer I'd probably be working over at Twitter because from all the speculation about them trying to tie-up their company with Facebook and a host of other large companies, I doubt they know thems
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by egiva 16y ago
Good idea on the _appends_ - who wants to save the entire code for each iteration, rather than just the changes? (hitting myself over head) haha About Wordpress: their explanation seems more marketing-related rather than practical: http:/
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by egiva 16y ago
I can't speak about Hacker News, but Eternal September for me is synonymous with the "Disruptive Newcomers" effect - so you reduce the ability of newcomers to be disruptive by: 1. suspending accounts (maybe too drastic) 2. Community Flaggin
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by egiva 16y ago
I have totally hypothetical (but related) question, though: to what extent does a site's CSS need to be changed, for that CSS to be one's own? I'm just not sure to what legal limits people can use your site to save CSS code from other websi
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by egiva 16y ago
No takers yet on your question? If you're starting from scratch, the cards are stacked against you - why spend your time and resources competing in a saturated market? It would be far better to focus on another product idea, and that's prob
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by egiva 16y ago
No, I think HFT is a natural progression. HFT was popular among Hedge Funds at least starting in 2004. An acquaintance who ended up working as a tech-related VP at a smaller fund would tell me that the number one problem they had was mitiga
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by egiva 16y ago
I was expecting the video to be some sort of viral joke - they announce "gotcha" at the end, or a really exaggerated figure in a pinstriped suit stands up and hands this girl a $500 million check, but NO - shockingly, it's a real presentati
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by egiva 16y ago
I mean, they're really promoting Hadoop + Cassandra in this article, but if you're scaling your application(s) you really need to ask the "Cassandra or MongoDB?" question - for a good slice of developers, MongoDB will be more appropriate. H
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by egiva 16y ago
From a business standpoint, I've got to agree that AOL is making a lot of bold moves, and is trying to reform. But from a humanist standpoint, reading an article about AOL's massive amount of open office space, reminds me that they just lai
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by egiva 16y ago
I might pay for a Premium twitter account if I got past the Fail Whale - but a question: wouldn't picking any revenue model put an upper-bound on Twitter's evaluation? I mean, if the Premium account is $5 a month, and you know that 2-5% of
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by egiva 16y ago
Best Lesson from this article (for me): "Multiple small frequent iterations are better then one massive change [for already-established websites]". Amen brother.
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by egiva 16y ago
An $80 fixed fee for each startup-related law question seems like a great deal if you get somewhat extensive advice - i.e. something more than "come in to my office and we'll talk about it". Also, barriers to entry for this type of idea see
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by egiva 16y ago
Good response from Nguyen, but I also think one of their great features that I've read about, also gives credence to their name: the photos you share in common with people you are "connected" with slowly lose their color over time as your c
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by egiva 16y ago
I'm no expert on W.Buffet, but I've read a lot about his life and investment principles. He owns companies like Sees Candy, and although I love a good ol' box of Sees around the holidays (and I admire their company), I can't help but associ
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by egiva 16y ago
I agree that your gross income (or revenue if you want to apply this story to your business) doesn't mean much. To get ahead in life, (thinking medium-term here) you have to augment your income (earn more) while reducing your spending - bas
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by egiva 16y ago
Not bad considering that you get JSON back with it. For another RESTful API framework using PHP I would recommend the RECESS framework - http://www.recessframework.org/ It takes the cake because it has a graphical interface to help you do