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by greatreorx 16y ago
Yes, I've never seen them admit to it, but I think lead gen has to be part of their business plan. Mint predicted (and got) about $30/user per year from lead gen. If banksimple can be the trusted first place people go to for financial advic
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by greatreorx 16y ago
So this delay has been due to delays in being approved as hardware for the iPhone? I remember being excited that Apple was opening the 30-pin dock to 3rd parties, but it seems like that was over a year ago and the only things released that
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by greatreorx 16y ago
After reading more about this, it sounds like they are going after sites who have not followed requirements to get safe harbor under the DMCA... specifically registering correct contact info with the US Copyright Office and clearly posting
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by greatreorx 16y ago
In your original post you said that your thyroid issue is being treated and in normal range. I'm not sure if the blood work you posted is the most recent, but it shows a TSH of 4.1 - which the lab considers in normal range, but some doctor
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by greatreorx 17y ago
I like the idea. Not sure about making money from it, but definitely see it as useful. typo on home page... "Also contact us if you want to contribute by helping uns organizing the links." Can you add more specific information to your sear
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by greatreorx 17y ago
Their earliest patent was filed in 2005. Maybe I have a poor memory, but I feel like anyone 'skilled in the art' of web/mobile technologies would have anticipated applying and combining existing technologies in this way back in 2005. There
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by greatreorx 17y ago
Agreed. IANAL and I don't know anything about CA small claims court or what grounds the appeal was on, but I would have asked the judge to not allow that evidence. Usually you can't present evidence on appeal that you could have presented
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by greatreorx 17y ago
"Now I’m not saying any of that is the case. For all I know, this was all just done by some automated software or a low-level grunt" I think you missed this part. He readily admits he doesn't know who or what was responsible for Warner's a
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by greatreorx 18y ago
I started using SuperGenPass a few months ago from a recommendation here and have been really happy with it. http://supergenpass.com/about/ It's a bookmarklet so you can review the code behind it and use it on any computer. You only have
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by greatreorx 18y ago
Yeah, it is lock-in. Live Nation owns The Fillmore (and 130 odd other live music sites). So they aren't going to be interested in any web solution you could come up with. They don't care about any new customer friendly features because t
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by greatreorx 18y ago
What if I decide to take the elevator? Some would say I'm lazier than the person who takes the stairs, but if the goal is only getting to the 6th floor, then being lazy (resistant to exertion) was more efficient.
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by greatreorx 18y ago
The fact that after a certain amount of snow depth, you have to use your back to lift and throw the snow. I was doing some Googling on this out of curiosity and ran into this... http://www.wovel.com which I feel like I've seen before but d
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by greatreorx 18y ago
I'm pretty sure this is incorrect. That section he is referring to in Apple's patent is just the part where Apple describes possible ways their invention might be used. In fact, if you read the intro to that section in the patent, it says
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by greatreorx 18y ago
I've had Bose QC2s for about 4-5 years now and it might be the $300 I've ever spent. I worked for several years in an office with an open floorplan and without my headphones, any time someone in the office had a conversation it would distr
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by greatreorx 18y ago
Go to events and talk to as many people as you can there... http://www.meetup.com/ny-tech/ and other smaller tech meetups http://nextny.org/ Nate Westheimer ( http://innonate.com/ ) is the new organizer of the NY tech meetup. He has st
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by greatreorx 18y ago
I don't see how anyone can read this blog post by Markus from 2006 about faking site traffic rankings and not think his current traffic stats are severely manipulated. http://plentyoffish.wordpress.com/2006/06/14/competitive-int... I'm no
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by greatreorx 18y ago
I think they are using 'meaningless' as 'lack of significance' more than 'lack of meaning'. Programming rules obviously always mean something, but they don't always seem significant. People who get programming are comfortable with that la
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Music and the Market: Song and Stock Volatility correlated(papers.ssrn.com)
1 points by greatreorx 18y ago|0 comments
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by greatreorx 18y ago
I always thought Pownce was a solid product. Design, UI/UX, the site copy and marketing - overall I thought it was really well done. If it wasn't for the overwhelming success of Twitter or how easily Facebook launched the same features, th
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by greatreorx 18y ago
So if we had 4 purely random macbooks, and 3 of them failed, then that would be a meaningful indication that the failure rate is higher than 10%? The issue is both small sample and lack of randomness.
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by greatreorx 18y ago
"If I put the purchases of hundreds or thousands of them in chronological order, then found 4 in a row that had failed, it wouldn't mean much (like the Aces example)." But this is exactly what happened to your friend. You can't ignore the
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by greatreorx 18y ago
It's only about 6 months old. My only experience was getting it up and running locally and testing out the functionality. It took a couple of hours to get going (mostly due to updating gem versions). From my standpoint I was happy with h
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by greatreorx 18y ago
Unless you aren't interested in using Ruby on Rails, you might want to check out LovdByLess: http://lovdbyless.com
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by greatreorx 18y ago
But completely unrelated ideas don't spawn the kind of creativity that is really useful. I completely disagree. Intelligent people from differing fields getting together will yield creativity on par or better than when everyone from the s
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by greatreorx 18y ago
"Mind you the government does not have a right to your password" They also don't have to let you back in the country. If your plan is to just not tell the agent your password, you might be in for an adventure. From Schneier's earlier articl
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by greatreorx 18y ago
When an email bounces, do you flag it in your system so that you don't continue to send emails to it? Not speaking from personal experience, but I've read that certain major webmail companies will penalize your server if you keep trying to
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Why trying to Out-Google Google is a search for FAIL (and how to actually do it)(thisisgoingtobebig.com)
14 points by greatreorx 18y ago|3 comments
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by greatreorx 18y ago
This moves reminds me more of Microsoft in the 80s. and then your question becomes, what is it about Microsoft that seems so successful that Google wants to emulate their business model?
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by greatreorx 18y ago
Earlier this week I was thinking about what type of iPhone app I could write to solve one of my own problems and this is basically it. Instapaper will make my commute (subway = no internet connection) much more bearable. Did I miss somethi
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by greatreorx 18y ago
"It would have made no sense for me to build Path 101 anywhere else but NYC, because my network is here." So right... if you have spent your whole life in NYC, went to college there, and spent a year working at one of the most well known Ea

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