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by eykanal 14y ago
It's definitely a rational response. Not all rational responses make for successful, profitable companies, though. Ads are often a poor business decision, as they can cheapen both your product and your business's image. As to your "fuck 'em
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by eykanal 14y ago
They do, but they're unobtrusive to the point of being borderline useless to everyone, user and advertiser. See the recent news about GM and others stopping their of facebook ad campaigns.
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- Absolutely no one will see this and think, "Wow, ads, THAT'S what Skype was missing. I'm glad I have a better product now." - Maybe a couple of people will think, "Meh, another ad-based monetization business plan. I'll live with it." - Ma
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by eykanal 14y ago
Thanks for the replies. For #4, I mean that when I hit the "tab" key, it doesn't insert a tab, but rather acts as forms normally do... focus moves to the next element on the page, which happens to be something different than the text editor
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by eykanal 14y ago
- Can't actually provide link text (<a href="#">link text</a>). - Can't insert images, videos, flash, etc. - No way to set custom styling, change font size, change font itself, change the font itself. - Tab doesn't insert ta
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by eykanal 14y ago
Why is this the top link on HN? There are already numerous courses available that will allow you to learn this stuff for free from very highly ranked universities, including Stanford [1] and CMU [2], among others. This will just teach you s
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by eykanal 14y ago
I can't read the embedded Scribd document (scribd is blocked here)... what term does Motorola claim has a "plain and ordinary meaning"?
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by eykanal 14y ago
Some people will embody a few of these, but the more you combine the more rare the person is.
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by eykanal 14y ago
Dang, I deleted a sentence. Thanks for point that out. Edited to amend. Slackers are fun to hang out with, though...
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by eykanal 14y ago
In the realm of "productivity", there are many different personality types: - People with vision, who can recognize potential in a concept or idea - People who, given an idea, can conceptualize all the use cases and rare exceptions - People
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How to hire and keep a data scientist(shadyacres.tumblr.com)
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by eykanal 14y ago
Are you familiar with the following phrase? > If you're not paying for it, then you're not the customer; you're the product. Facebook's product is it's database of user information. If the actual customers, which currently consist mostl
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by eykanal 14y ago
From what I understand, Facebook's main problem is a lack of a stable income source. It's becoming more and more apparent that advertising is not going to be the panacea that it was thought to be, what with numerous studies showing poor fac
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by eykanal 14y ago
The argument here seems to be that Kickstarter, by hiding failures, is doing a disservice to others who may want to start a similar business. Kickstarter is a business. Showing failures would be a bad business move, as the author admits; th
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by eykanal 14y ago
Interesting solution, but is this really a problem? The only situations I can think this applies to are large-scale open-source projects with many maintainers, and even more people submitting patches. For closed-source projects without exte
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by eykanal 14y ago
If only...
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Microsoft finally gets it right with Bing(shadyacres.tumblr.com)
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by eykanal 14y ago
Heh... how this looks in IE 8: http://i.stack.imgur.com/Fz3jT.png
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by eykanal 14y ago
The correct link is: http://www.defectivebydesign.org/dayagainstdrm/
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by eykanal 15y ago
What is the point of this article? The guy said he'd make a video game, and people pledged money. He's pretty upfront about what he's making on the Kickstarter page. The article author is upset because the fellow is using a tutorial? Who th
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How to appropriately lie on your resume(shadyacres.tumblr.com)
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Don't describe your skills via your college major(shadyacres.tumblr.com)
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by eykanal 15y ago
There is no good reason why the article couldn't include a link to the Kickstarter page in the actual article text, preferably at the top where they first mention it. Are they that worried that people will leave and not come back? Shame on
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by eykanal 15y ago
Thanks for clarifying that about point 2, I didn't realize that the fact that it would be entered as evidence later on was relevant to his showing it now. Very interesting how the legal system works.
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by eykanal 15y ago
Very interesting summary. I've never been on a jury, and I learned two things from that article: 1) The lawyers can say basically whatever they want, but the jurors are "supposed" to only consider actual evidence - stuff shown from the witn
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by eykanal 15y ago
It's worth mentioning that, if you're not doing regular backups of your hard drive, storing something on your hard drive as a "backup" is a gargantuanly bad idea. Use AWS or some other redundant cloud solution; the likelihood of Amazon shut
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by eykanal 15y ago
There's an excellent line in the middle of the Android Support Visualization article he links to ( http://theunderstatement.com/post/11982112928/android-orphan... ): "In other words, Apple’s way of getting you to buy a new phone is to make
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FizzBuzz for Applied Stats(shadyacres.tumblr.com)
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by eykanal 15y ago
It's worth noting that there already are many open-source research packages. My graduate and postdoc work was using magnetoencephalography in neuroscience, and the majority of the packages are open source. The authors were happy to welcom
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You are your own worst critic(shadyacres.tumblr.com)
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