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by especkman 19y ago
I think the key is the meaning of the word "distribute." I believe it is generally accepted that using MySQL in a web based application provided as a service doesn't constitute distribution (though there are some questions about situations
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by especkman 19y ago
In some countries (Germany for example), students have been herded into career tracks at a fairly early age. So, some 13 year old may be sent on a path towards becoming an auto mechanic, while another is guided off to become a surgeon or s
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by especkman 19y ago
He doesn't learn from mistakes.
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by especkman 19y ago
As noted, these influences can be very disentangle from any real-world analysis. There was an interesting study a few years back that looked at the "outcomes" of a cohort of people who had all been admitted to an Ivy League school. Part o
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by especkman 19y ago
The government used to have more involvement in the student loan programs. My father started up a non-profit under the state board of regents to service guaranteed student loans in Utah in the late 70s or early 80s after the feds passed so
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by especkman 19y ago
It's a fair outer bound to place. I just like to be really clear about the fact that people don't necessarily pay sticker price at private schools. I've volunteered for my alma mater at college fairs and there are a lot of people who are in
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by especkman 19y ago
Yeah, I'm glad we haven't formalized that system in the US.
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by especkman 19y ago
Let me propose the radical idea that a college education is not solely justified by it's monetary value.
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by especkman 19y ago
You do know that a lot of people going to private schools aren't paying full-price, right? Need based financial aid grants are often available (ie not loans) and sometimes they are substantial. I've known people who have paid less for a
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by especkman 19y ago
And I really need to finish doing something with iminuriphone.com
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by especkman 19y ago
Handy iPhone binaries for Apache & Python 2.5: http://iphone.natetrue.com/
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by especkman 19y ago
Concerned why? Are you concerned about someone stealing your proprietary code? Or are you worried because you have made unreleased proprietary modifications to GPLed code and you are worried that running your modified version on another p
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by especkman 19y ago
I don't know about data warehousing with spatial data, but two guys I was taking two a couple of months ago were both working on web apps that worked with geospatial data. Both of them were using postgres for geospatial use and endorsed it
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by especkman 19y ago
How's it been working with the AppleTV? I know Apple stripped out a bunch of stuff that wasn't needed by their apps in a software update, but people are still installing 3rd party stuff on it. They could have started an arms race with th
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by especkman 19y ago
Who was it at Google who had the sense to clone Overture's business model, I wonder.
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by especkman 19y ago
Have you had any content up on the domain before this? Google tries to get news items into the index quickly, but that doesn't mean they are doing it from newly discovered sites. Part of the reason they crawl sites frequently is that the s
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by especkman 19y ago
Why is the interesting? Some weak marketing speak (oh, but with attitude ) and no product I can actually try without giving them my contact info and hoping they pick me (please, oh please, pick me, please) BTW, I've never used Akismet bec
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by especkman 19y ago
Why is that the obvious implication, especially whith the two home-run examples he gives? Starbucks and Microsoft are built on smaller transactions than one would expect from enterprise software. Starbucks does it $3 at a time. Microsoft e
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by especkman 19y ago
Nice hyping.
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by especkman 19y ago
Nice business they've built for themselves, isn't it? On the other hand, you aren't counting all the raw meat they have to feed the goons they use to keep acts and venues from straying.
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by especkman 19y ago
You can turn it down, but not off, as far as I can tell. Actually, even turning it down didn't make much difference. It looks a bit odd.
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WinSafari & iPhone widgets? Is Apple making a platform play for rich Internet applications?(geekfun.com)
2 points by especkman 19y ago|0 comments
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by especkman 19y ago
I've blogged about this. What most of these commentaries seem to miss is that the material cost of the AppleTV is only going to drop since the hardware requirements aren't going to change much. Look at the bill of materials. There are $100
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by especkman 19y ago
At this point, there are over 150M adults online in the US. I doubt a large % of them will end up installing adblock. Keep in mind too, blocking ads isn't necessarily a rational decision for a lot of people in a lot of situations. We can p
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by especkman 19y ago
I don't think your experiment supports your conclusions. I don't think your assumption that it only works for dumb searchers is supported, since nothing in your materials & methods suggests that searchers were in your experimental or contro
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How Ads Really Work: Superfans and Noobs -- Great post by creator of Metafilter(fortuito.us)
28 points by especkman 19y ago|5 comments
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by especkman 19y ago
Well, lets start with comparables: 1) Which sites have seen their traffic grow to millions of visitors daily within a few days of launch. I can't think of any, but you must have a few in mind. 2) What did they do or fail to do to handle th
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by especkman 19y ago
1. I think the news.ycombinator.com crowd is a really poor proxy for the 150M Americans on line. 2. People's ad blindness depends, at least in part, on the situation. Some sites hide context sensitive ads for registered/regular users, becau
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Lots of thoughtful & thoughprovoking advice for entrepreneurs from the creator of ONEList (Yahoo Groups) and bloglines(niallkennedy.com)
2 points by especkman 19y ago|0 comments
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by especkman 19y ago
Is rejection of authority more common now? The stereotypical Millennial (according to marketers and social scientists who do lots of polling) has more respect for authority than either "Gen Xers" or baby boomers. The same people will arg

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