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by frabcus 14y ago
When you introduce a new commodity, like Bitcoin, there will be a speculative period like this. Nobody knows how useful it is, how much people will like it. However, they are guessing that in the future, as more people hear about it, more
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by frabcus 14y ago
Not necessarily. They might have bought to hold - expecting BTC to be worth more in a year. Not caring about day-to-day fluctuations. That will depend on fundamentals - is it being used as a trading currency or store of value currency by mi
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by frabcus 14y ago
The past tense is presumably because the GP doesn't want to use a tool produced by Elsevier, so as far as they are concerned the tool no longer exists.
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by frabcus 14y ago
He can refuse to do what he's told to - it refers to this in the article. His share price might then collapse, and he has a substantial financial stake in himself. It's the same as any company - all the staff could refuse to cooperate and w
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by frabcus 14y ago
How is this different from WebFinger? And a more detailed question - what is Mozilla's political strategy for getting adoption? I hope they succeed!
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by frabcus 14y ago
How could you? Any process and algorithm you picked for that measurement would be a prejudiced choice. For example, if you used a human digital camera as your input, you'd be biasing based on frequencies human vision can see. If your algori
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by frabcus 14y ago
Lovely! Is there a ready-hosted version, so I don't have to install it?
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Four ways we’ll help WhipCar if they tell us what went wrong(flourish.org)
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by frabcus 14y ago
Does it have multiple cursors for typing? If so how is that implemented? P.S. Also how is dragging implemented with two mice? (Just clicking is easy, you just have one hidden mouse that you make jump about when anyone clicks)
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by frabcus 14y ago
The Innovator's Dilemma doesn't say you have to start at a "low end" and work up. That's just how it was for the computer storage industry (the example in the book) in the second half of the twentieth century. It says that you have to start
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by frabcus 14y ago
Bitcoin itself may have any number of problems - it is though, the first algorithm that allows truly distributed ownership of objects in a network. I think that changes the game totally. I don't yet know what application of it will go mains
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by frabcus 14y ago
There's a surprisingly good book by Seth Godin (sorry!) called The Dip about this dilemma. http://www.amazon.com/Dip-Little-Book-Teaches-Stick/dp/15918... The key thing, he says, about successful people is they quickly and accurately eit
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by frabcus 14y ago
Great comment. I love Quora as a Q&A vertical focussed on startups. As a content creator though, I'm increasingly tempted to put it in the similar StackExchange site http://answers.onstartups.com/ , where at least my content is CC lice
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by frabcus 14y ago
Love it!
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by frabcus 14y ago
I do self-censor myself each time I post a bug, to see if it has security implications! Most don't - it's similar to software in that regard. I'm already used to doing that self-censorship for software, so guess it is natural.
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by frabcus 14y ago
I find I need more complicated notes than I could store in a TODO application. For example, see here where I had a general bug, took notes, got quotes, and (as someone above mentions) attached photos of fireplaces. https://github.com/frabc
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by frabcus 14y ago
I'm the Francis in the original article... Some years ago, I helped make a bug reporting for cities too like you mention, it's http://fixmystreet.com/ - equivalent in the US is http://seeclickfix.com/ I wonder if subconsciously that was
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by frabcus 14y ago
It depends on the place too. I'm from Europe, and find travel alone in Europe a little dull. Travel in Asia is so interesting, I prefer it alone.
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by frabcus 14y ago
There are other business models. Westlaw / Lexis Nexus's customers and competitors who do not have this curated information, can get together (via an intermediary perhaps) to curate them better. See for example this open law data project in
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by frabcus 14y ago
My dad had type 1 diabetes. He had all the problems you mention, and died when I was 11. Yes, died essentially because the equipment wasn't as good back then (he was born in the late 1930s, died in the 1980s) as it is now. He also taught me
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by frabcus 14y ago
As well as Tufte, the video at the end of the post, where Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman talks, is well worth listening to.
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by frabcus 14y ago
I only use a web browser and a terminal on OSX. Often I want to repeatedly swap between a terminal and a web browser tab - for example, when developing a web application. Having them in the same tabbed window might make the workflow, and di
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by frabcus 14y ago
They could use an open standard for international company numbers instead of a closed one, e.g. see http://opencorporates.com/
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by frabcus 14y ago
gizmo686 - strange definition of "open source", sounds like one Microsoft would use. The definition I've been using for over a decade is the one from the Open Source Initiative http://opensource.org/osd
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by frabcus 14y ago
That's very misleading. In the late 1970s computers were already 30 years old. Yes, the "PC" was new. And that's the whole point - we now have cheap (but rubbish) desktop 3D printers. It's the equivalent of the transition from mainframe to
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by frabcus 14y ago
Really not an issue. I haven't had any, and have been using it for a year!
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by frabcus 14y ago
I'm the person who's repository and issue tracker (and house!) this is. I've been using Github for tracking house issues for nearly a year. Partly I chose Github for user experience - it's a pretty good and simple issue tracker. Partly it w
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by frabcus 14y ago
Such a dated definition of a good lawyer! If a lawyer's advice pisses off your users, that isn't a good lawyer. Sure a lawyer can claim that being "conservative" on behalf of their "client's interests" is the best way to act. That's no lo
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by frabcus 14y ago
Yeah, it's not mature enough yet. We're also trying it for integration tests, as it is much quicker than Phantom or Selenium. Even there, where we control the standards-compliant site, it isn't quite good enough yet. Would love to see more
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by frabcus 14y ago
This isn't always the case - APIs often change. Facebook, for example, is (at least was, a few years ago) notoriously bad at changing in an unpredictable and buggy way, and I stopped using it for that reason. Some HTML scrapers are more rel

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