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by emmett 18y ago
I presume you're talking about "evidence based medicine" the right wing medical reform movement, not all medicine based on evidence. Because while many doctors reject that movement, few seem to reject using evidence to pick treatment regime
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by emmett 18y ago
"Preview mode disabled" - that is pretty horrible.
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by emmett 18y ago
Presuming (and this is a presumption, but not too large of one) that it desires to achieve a goal (continued existence, increased happiness, converting the universe into paperclips, you pick one), it can pursue that goal more effectively wi
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by emmett 18y ago
Perhaps that was the historical reason boys are high prestige, but modern China has huge opportunities for women (who "Hold up half the sky", as Mao put it). China was a society of prima genitor, like Europe; boys are high prestige because
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by emmett 18y ago
Actually, that's incorrect. There's a strong social prestige incentive for your one child to be a boy rather than a girl. There's a strong economic incentive for you to have a girl: there's a tradition of reversed dowries in China, and gir
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by emmett 18y ago
Exciting times. Browser competition is getting hot, and we're going to have a bunch of neat new capabilities soon. Even IE is innovating!
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by emmett 18y ago
The main problem is the popularity of PHP. There are some great PHP developers out there, but because of the popularity many of them are not good. And you learn how to code from the people around you. The other problem is that both Javascri
728.
by emmett 18y ago
With "flag"
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by emmett 18y ago
All you really need is an RTMP client for Safari so that it can play flash video and all the complaints would be moot. Hm...that's a pretty good idea, actually. I wonder how hard it would be.
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by emmett 18y ago
I agree. That's what it seems to be for. What I don't get is...how does that regex work? Can anyone give me a sample string that actually matches it?
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by emmett 18y ago
Try it; it doesn't seem to actually do this. The regex isn't in multi-line mode anyway, and the ^ is not at the front of the regex.
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A Google Javascript Mystery
5 points by emmett 18y ago|8 comments
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by emmett 18y ago
They form a field under multiplication and addition.
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by emmett 18y ago
Framework announcements should always come with sample code. Always. Talking about how great it is doesn't help me understand how it works.
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by emmett 18y ago
I would second the "this has a lot of features for a first cut" sentiment. On the other hand, if you've already written them, the cost isn't too high as long as your most impressive feature is in front. As for deployment...you can get a per
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by emmett 18y ago
There are a number of editors who can edit URLs after posting.
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by emmett 18y ago
Indeed. Our growth doesn't have a big spike at the end, it's just gradually doubling up every month or so.
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by emmett 18y ago
Since ustream is "quantified" on Quantcast, I know the actual traffic numbers for both sites. And believe me when I say, Compete doesn't even resemble reality.
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by emmett 18y ago
Alexa's numbers are crap. Total crap. They only reflect your traffic in the loosest way. There was a period of time where our traffic doubled and the alexa actually declined. It eventually catches up though....think of a random distribution
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by emmett 18y ago
We're currently running ads from a couple ad networks, but we're just getting started on monetization projects. We've raised both angel and VC rounds (google for it if you want the amounts and people)
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by emmett 18y ago
We're working on it, believe me.
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by emmett 18y ago
Our traffic is spiky, but not as much as the Alexa graph suggests. In reality our growth is much more steady; every now and then Alexa seems to "catch up". It's weird, and we're not sure what would cause that effect.
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by emmett 18y ago
Not startup news, but definitely hacker news. See the jargon files for more of the same kind of hackers at play.
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by emmett 18y ago
I see what you mean about it creating value, and I certainly agree that they are making the market for those ads slightly more efficient. However, it's still the broken window fallacy. Because the user clicked on that link in the search res
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by emmett 18y ago
It seems like you're making the argument that any company that turns a profit must by definition be creating value. But it's possible to turn a profit by all kinds of destructive means (fraud, externalized costs, etc.) In particular in this
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by emmett 18y ago
""Historically, we have never been meant to sleep in the same bed as each other. It is a bizarre thing to do. " ...what??? Where did that idea come from? Sleeping with other people is as old as humankind. Beds are unnatural, and having ne
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by emmett 18y ago
Why do I have to give an email and make an account to run a search?
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by emmett 18y ago
Google comes to mind. The traffic you get from bloggers/early adopters is rarely useful anyway, unless your service is particularly targeted at them. Before you spend resources on marketing, make sure you have your product where you want it
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by emmett 18y ago
Just launch. Don't promote at first, except to those 30 users. When you stop getting useful complaints from the 30, start expanding it. Eventually you'll have to think about promotion, but not yet.
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by emmett 18y ago
The best way to get a startup job is to network into it. If you're in SF, this is very easy - just go to all the web2.0 parties/meetups and you'll meet people hiring in no time.

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