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by emmett 16y ago
It depends on whether your mental model is "applying a sequence of filters to a result set" or "editing attributes of a query". If the latter, you'd expect them to be equal and the opposite would be surprising. Just from the point of view o
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by emmett 16y ago
We know what it costs to buy internet-only: you can buy internet from AT&T for $30/month if you get DSL. So it's unlikely that many people will opt into $145/month internet-only cable. Will the pricing go from $150/month to $10/month? A
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by emmett 16y ago
It's possible that they will...but also possible that they won't. Given the evidence presented, we can't know. Has anyone done a followup study?
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by emmett 16y ago
If applying a steel spike sticking out of the steering wheel resulted in a measurable decrease in deaths from traffic accidents, would you support it?
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by emmett 16y ago
Have you tried Scribd since they've transitioned to HTML 5? I now find it quite usable.
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by emmett 16y ago
I am pretty sure this is false. While the overwhelming number of unique visitors to reddit are not logged in, those users are far less engaged than average. Logged in users make up a huge percentage of the pageviews because of their higher
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by emmett 16y ago
14.3 million pageviews per day comes to 163 per second, on average. Reddit's traffic, like most sites of its kind, probably peaks during lunch hour during the workday and probably peaks at 5x that number. So we're looking at 815 pageviews p
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by emmett 16y ago
I know the reddit guys, and I can tell you it's definitely not that. Hitting the DB is extremely rare - almost everything comes straight out of cache (either memcache, or memcachedb for caches which are more expensive to rebuild). Execution
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by emmett 16y ago
It is if you want a job at a startup. Which many people on HN definitely do.
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by emmett 16y ago
Putting the "Share" button on every little page makes me never want to click it. You should only put it on really significant events that I might actually want to share. Also you didn't make a big deal when I leveled up, and I have no idea
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by emmett 16y ago
The numbers cited in the post (as he points out) do not take into account all the antipoverty programs we have. When you take those into account you get a graph like this: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_djgssszshgM/SvtscpywvOI/AAAAAAAABD... Th
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by emmett 16y ago
Very similar to the arguments of the Luddites: The power loom is putting workers out of a job! Some attempt to do something which gets the unemployed back to work could be good, but trying to create make-work by using more people than a job
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by emmett 16y ago
The "true histories of great startups" would make an amazing series.
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by emmett 16y ago
Because Jobs is free to respond, whereas someone on the Safari development team would face serious consequences for doing so.
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by emmett 17y ago
Yelp can also put bad businesses out of business, and does. And it can make an already good business a success, which it also does. What evidence is there that they change the world net negative, rather than net positive? My experience with
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by emmett 17y ago
For simple things like adding tables or adding columms, just do it. Add the column/table, then release new app code relying on it. For more complex things (changing the name of an existing column, or breaking a table into two parts, etc.) y
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by emmett 17y ago
Even more telling, he's willing to abandon the iPhone platform despite this .
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by emmett 17y ago
This post uses a terrible example. His hidden variable is programmer skill, and he assumes that high skill programmers prefer to work at agile companies over waterfall companies. Therefore, he claims, agile is not really more productive tha
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by emmett 17y ago
They're not really "Just X, only for Y" - that's just the fastest and simplest way to explain what they're doing. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/XMeetsY
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by emmett 17y ago
Yeah, me-too products are never really interesting. I mean, does the world really need another search engine? There's already Lycos and Altavista. Calling an internet startup's idea "me-too" is a pretty lame criticism. Most of the most succ
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by emmett 17y ago
I don't really understand your problem fully, but if Mixpanel looks like a good fit I would recommend using them for your new data, and creating a separate system for viewing your historical data. That reduces the requirements for the code
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by emmett 17y ago
This is a good idea, but the execution is lacking. In particular, the data entry is really painful. There are two big problems: 1. I have to somehow know the calorie counts for every exercise I do and every food I eat. You should let me inp
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by emmett 17y ago
Why do you think Yelp is actually erasing bad reviews? It seems most likely that this is sour grapes from business that are unhappy with poor reviews, rather than any wrongdoing on Yelp's part.
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by emmett 17y ago
The PRC is a bad example for that; they're also likely to execute you: http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/china-executes-corrupt-offi... Nigeria or even Russia would probably be a better example; at least they're not famous for killing peop
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by emmett 17y ago
Source: http://www.inc.com/magazine/20070501/column-guest.html?partn...
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by emmett 17y ago
I'm a regular Aardvark user and I never go to the vark.com website...so it wouldn't surprise me that their Quantcast stats are very low.
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by emmett 17y ago
I voted up your comment; you bring up three very likely scenarios. This is a side issue, but an important one in my opinion: Why did you mention John Edwards there? Did it really make what you were saying more clear? Or was it just a great
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by emmett 17y ago
Yes, tons. See "commoditize your complements". Microsoft is a master of this as well. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLetterV.html
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by emmett 17y ago
Treat school like your day job. You only have to be there like 6 hours a day, 5 days a week - it's a pretty easy job.
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by emmett 17y ago
Quoth the author: In a very dynamic language like Ruby, open classes and method aliasing (e.g., alias_method_chain) mitigate this problem, but they don’t solve it. If you manipulate a class to add logging, all instances of that class will h

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