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by ggrot 17y ago
Please make it stop.
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by ggrot 17y ago
This is certainly embarrassing, but it's becoming really common. I wonder if there is anything that can be done to really make a dent in this problem across the web, I don't mean just fixing it on the site that you/I own, but ways of makin
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by ggrot 17y ago
"Moore's Law has given us exponential growth in computing technology, which has led to exponential growth in nearly every other technological industry." This is very untrue.
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by ggrot 17y ago
You could also use this approach for things like deciding how frequently to sync email/text messages, how often to retry connecting to a tower in an area with low reception, how bright to make the screen, how often to run garbage collection
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Why not regulate the voltage with software?(gregable.com)
10 points by ggrot 17y ago|2 comments
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by ggrot 17y ago
The argument about monkeys beating investors has nothing to do with investor biases. The point is that professional investors charge fees for their stock picking strategies and that due to the fees alone, these returns will be smaller than
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by ggrot 17y ago
>> That's the whole point of investment: you place your bets using your knowledge and intuition. It's a game in the end. That sounds like a better definition of gambling than investing. To me, the whole point of investing is so that
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by ggrot 17y ago
This is horribly bad. He bought some apple stock, it happened to go up, and he beat the market. I once bought myself black at a roulette table, it happened to be the next color, and I beat the house. Should I write a page about the funda
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by ggrot 17y ago
Also worth adding, if your ip database doesn't match amazon's exactly, there is money being left on the table. If amazon just "fixes" this issue, there won't be.
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by ggrot 17y ago
It may not actually be in Amazon's best interest to make this "free money". The ROI for publishers will be lower, hence the publishers will consider using alternatives (adsense, chikita, commission junction). Amazon will lose sales from t
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by ggrot 17y ago
Choosing not to pay someone money that they aren't even asking for isn't really the cut-and-dry "unethical" that murder is.
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by ggrot 17y ago
Sigh, why should amazon do anything wrt taxes except minimize costs to their customers, maximize profits, and be legal? What they are doing is legal. Their competition is doing the same thing. Why do reporters continue to blast big compan
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by ggrot 17y ago
The way I see it is that you are taking advantage of bad search results in a specific area. You are simply creating a web page that tries to match a specific video with a specific search query and monetize by putting your ads around the co
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by ggrot 17y ago
I wonder how much money amazon loses per minute 2 days before christmas. Ouch.
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by ggrot 17y ago
The percentage of the global economy that stores value in a particular currency will change based on the long-term expected inflation of that currency. Large companies hedge currencies all the time. If you live in zimbabwe, whenever you re
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by ggrot 17y ago
This is also a great video (google talk) about the technology: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWUeBSoEnRk&sn - shortened to 16 minutes, very well worth watching.
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by ggrot 17y ago
Is this the key criteria to optimize for?
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by ggrot 17y ago
Great article, stupid title. They don't explain why immigration is a ponzi scheme "that works".
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by ggrot 17y ago
How are they going to do that? They tell your browser to 301 to the target URL - the browser is what notices the target URL is a 404, not Google, so Google would have no way to know whether or not the target is gone. The target URLs could
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by ggrot 17y ago
I totally agree. I can remember so many times when writing documentation where a little image like this would make things much clearer, but I didn't bother because starting up Dia or the like would be too much hassle/work.
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by ggrot 17y ago
Another one that I recently saw (on hacker news) was http://www.highcharts.com/ - but dygraph renders much faster, you can actually watch the highcharts library draw as if it was animated.
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by ggrot 17y ago
I've been using this for awhile for some non-public stuff, full disclosure: I also helped dan write a little bit of the code. The error bars and the ability to adjust the moving average "period" are pretty useful features for some specific
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by ggrot 17y ago
That doesn't prevent the pages themselves from ranking.
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by ggrot 17y ago
matlab?
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by ggrot 17y ago
You can make it much shorter without loss, unfortunately Google Maps doesn't do it for you: http://maps.google.com/?saddr=Oak+Green+Way+33611&daddr=...
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by ggrot 17y ago
This is pretty old news. Amazon experimented with this briefly, caught alot of flak, and stopped. I recently had an experience where I thought amazon was doing this - I'd get one price when signed in to prime and another cheaper price when
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by ggrot 17y ago
Maybe, but I can't imagine they would be very upset by the interviewer continuing to take a little more of their time either. At the very least, it gives you the feeling that the interviewer fairly assessed you instead of dismissing you be
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by ggrot 17y ago
These other companies get more value by the internet existing and being useful. They don't get much value when people use the internet more . Google does. In a sense, google competes with other ways people spend their time, like televis
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by ggrot 17y ago
It seems like mustpax just presented a compelling reason to do so.
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by ggrot 17y ago
I don't see why it matters whether or not he uses cash or stock. If he had bought dexter using cash, the investors could have turned around and used that cash to purchase berkshire stock - making the deal equivalent to buying with stock.

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