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by gfunk911 16y ago
Ok. This article seems to be saying that Netflix epsnds 500 mil/year on shipping, and they now spend more on streaming than shipping. Let's say they spend 500 mil/year on streaming. http://newteevee.com/2010/10/20/netflix-ceo-we-are-now-
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by gfunk911 16y ago
What is the source of this screenshot?
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Ask HN: How much $ required to become investor in respected super-angel fund?
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by gfunk911 16y ago
There is a legitimate "existing library of apps / network effects" argument here, as well as an illegitimate "appeal to popularity" one.
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by gfunk911 16y ago
One possibility is that while the rich now hold a larger percentage of income, they hold a similar percentage of "income over subsistence level." In real dollars, the subsistence level is much lower now than in 1919. Assuming that subsiste
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by gfunk911 16y ago
They're profoundly different blogs, don't think they're candidates for a merge at all.
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Face up cards in 42 card deck = N Face up cards in 10 card deck = 10-N Face up cards in 10 card deck after flip = 10 - (10-N) = N N == N, so they are equal
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by gfunk911 16y ago
If the question is "Do a significant number of users run into problems with a piece of software," then the consensus is absolutely relevant.
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by gfunk911 16y ago
This thread is a classic example of something that happens over and over. Someone says something is hard to use. 1/3 of the responses agree. 1/3 of the responses disagree, say it's simple. 1/3 of the responses say it's simple, all you have
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by gfunk911 16y ago
Sometimes you sign up for something and wonder how you ever lived without it. I'm getting that feeling already, and I haven't even used it yet. I signed up before finishing the article, it's indexing my data now. Assuming it works as advert
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by gfunk911 16y ago
The point is that it's disingenuous to say you're only using ~25% of your money to buy the property, when in reality all of your money is at risk, because you're leveraging. If you invest 25% in the stock market, you won't lose more than 2
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by gfunk911 16y ago
People discussing this, please dispute the data, offer solutions, talk about root causes, etc. Please don't fall into the trap of calling the data racist.
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Part of the problem is that a language like Java: 1. Is verbose by its very nature 2. Has language characteristics that push the developer in the direction of using design patterns at every opportunity. So what might be a 1000 line program
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by gfunk911 16y ago
Right. I was expecting a link to a study, but this is just some guy's opinion, which contradicts existing research. Also, i can't imagine one who has experienced true intrinsic motivation for a sustained period of time saying that it's not
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by gfunk911 16y ago
Agreed. There are two problems that compound on each other but are somewhat distinct 1. Excessive models. They make this look work than it is by essentially having 2-4 customizations of the same model and presenting them as different mode
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by gfunk911 16y ago
Can somebody explain this to me? I don't get how leaving the exchange rate mechanism made Soros a winner.
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by gfunk911 16y ago
To clarify, I meant that I replace the machine workout with the free weight workout permanently, so that eventually my workout is entirely free weights.
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by gfunk911 16y ago
Exactly. Good form on free weights > Using a machine > Bad form on free weights. For me, introducing free weights gradually let me concentrate on the form for each one as I first did it.
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by gfunk911 16y ago
Great article, agree with pretty much everything. The one advantage of machines over free weights is that the machine will enforce your form. If you are able to maintain form with free weights, the effort exerted to do so is an added bonus
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by gfunk911 16y ago
I love this. Apple clearly laid out their reasoning, using facts and persuasive argument. The world needs more of this. Obviously, there is some spin in the post, and I don't completely agree with 100% of it, but I love the level of discour
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by gfunk911 16y ago
You can plug in a normal wired headset into an iPhone.
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by gfunk911 17y ago
Aren't these just one line utility methods that a user could write themselves?
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by gfunk911 17y ago
In high school, I would fall asleep in class all the time. Teachers would yell, I'd get in trouble, it was awful. It wasn't intentional, I was just so tired that I could not keep myself awake. If I could have stopped it, I would have been
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by gfunk911 17y ago
This is pretty cool. I wish they had reused jQuery where possible, or layered on top of jQuery.
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by gfunk911 17y ago
I love that Linus did what brilliant people do, which is modify the world to better fit how they want to work. I'm sure he modified his own practices somewhat, but he also modified the world by creating Git to enable his preferred workflow
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by gfunk911 17y ago
The advantage of inventing a better way to do something is that now you're selling a better product. Apple has been rewarded for their great ideas (embodied in the iPhone) by making a kajillion dollars and somewhat dominating the smartphon
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by gfunk911 17y ago
The Republican ideas, especially #3, #4 and #5, don't appear to actually represent the Republican consensus. If you showed me those bullets blind, I'd guess they were Democratic or neutral.
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by gfunk911 17y ago
The use of a URL in OpenID confused a hell of a lot of non-technical people. If WebFinger turns into "OpenID, but with an e-mail identifier," that might not be a bad thing.
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by gfunk911 17y ago
You guys seem to be saying he was wrong on most of them. I strongly disagree. Sure, he didn't nail every one exactly, because he's not psychic, but for all of them, he correctly saw the trend, and he's very in the ballpark. 1. This is happe
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by gfunk911 17y ago
The merits of this decision are a legitimete topic for debate. I'm still not 100% sure how I feel about it. The point that I feel like those who are against it completely miss (and that anti-business people generally miss) is that corporat

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