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by harryf 15y ago
> I've still no clue why humans procrastinate. I do - it's a sign you need a rest and a sign you've been doing too much of the same and some variety is required. Take a day off, do something different, get some fresh input.
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by harryf 15y ago
The problem here is this isn't a sustainable strategy long term. While Amazon has succeeded in killing the bookstore, this works because consumers are willing to accept "browsing" for books online. The same is not true for many other types
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by harryf 15y ago
IMO what's missing in the search space is a web search engine with an API, especially with access to the raw crawled content. Amazon used to do this was the Alexa web crawl data ( see http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/alexa_turned_in.ph
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by harryf 15y ago
An fun exercise is to ask random people you know why changes in interest rates are so important and so diligently reported by the press. My own experience is most people have no idea.
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by harryf 15y ago
For Europeans the Schengen zone has made travel within the Union far simpler. They should revert this because it ruins your gap year?
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by harryf 15y ago
A trial of this nature could end as a fantastic promotion for Grooveshark, assuming they can survive it.
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by harryf 15y ago
Que 15 minutes of Sunday afternoon navel-gazing.
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by harryf 15y ago
Have you ever heard of Gartners hype cycle? http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle Hype, fud, fact and misinformation are all part of determining which technologies succeed and which fail. Many of HN readers have been through 2 or 3 of
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by harryf 15y ago
I wonder if Steve needs to move to marketing? He's done an awesome job here of highlighting one massive difference between GPlus and Facebook - that you can really publish publicly to the whole world, the way the web was intended.
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by harryf 15y ago
Wasn't there a myth that Microsoft killed Commodore with a mole on the board?
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The advantages of being a late adopter...(twitter.com)
1 points by harryf 15y ago|0 comments
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by harryf 15y ago
Agreed. But to me she doesn't need to be a subject expect on financial markets. My point was her education has trained to be able to understand models of complex environments. I'd argue that gives her better chance of actually understanding
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by harryf 15y ago
Well quantum physics has this at it's core - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle I'm not saying it's directly applicable but the anyone who has grasped it, should be capable of understanding market effects as well.
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by harryf 15y ago
As the article makes a point of mentioning Angela Merkel... > All this is true. Yet Mrs Merkel seems to lack a sense of urgency. Despite the world’s calls for action, she does not believe in bold strokes—be it letting Greece default, or
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by harryf 15y ago
Well it seems like their trying to prevent a proposed law from becoming an actual law. Whether the threat is significant enough to warrant this action, I can't judge but it is a pretty effective form of protest, you have to admit, given tha
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by harryf 15y ago
But money isn't static. It circulates. Liquidity etc. It's more like electric current - if your system allows it to circulate fast, it will enable more buying...
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by harryf 15y ago
Can you share some finished examples?
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by harryf 15y ago
Throwing in a Swiss boot - http://startupchart.ch/ - of course Switzerland is a country, not a capital. But then so is Sweden...
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by harryf 15y ago
...so it's "top 10 locations I'd rather be right now"?
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by harryf 16y ago
Wag the Dog anyone?
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How to bring work to a standstill. Minority Report style(youtube.com)
1 points by harryf 16y ago|0 comments
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by harryf 16y ago
Hi o1iver - catching up... Great - feel free to get in touch via twitter - @hfuecks is me.
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by harryf 16y ago
Living in Switzerland as a UK expat, I know the tech scene around Zürich fairly well. I haven't heard of these guys before but they're based in Basel so perhaps they haven't done the rounds yet. There is certainly a need for this. Tech fund
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by harryf 16y ago
Wonder whether the Google Apps has it's own profit and loss as the bottom line? The response is suggestive of Google Apps team being funded by ad revenue and not really having to care too much winning and keeping it's own customers. Can any
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by harryf 16y ago
The problem you'd have with anything that represents a page as some kind of graph is you have to construct the whole tree before you can start doing anything with it. The API largely precludes streams. Callbacks would be possible but some o
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by harryf 16y ago
> I'm always surprised to see that code still being used - it's the least complete selector library out there by a long way. For this use case being complete doesn't matter so much as users are just after a handy way pull content out of
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How I Used Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to Validate my Startup Idea(memonic.com)
7 points by harryf 16y ago|0 comments
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by harryf 16y ago
Wanted to use it with Google Analytics for a kind of recommendation engine of the form "users that liked this page also liked...". But they never approved my request and a 60k request limit won't cut it either.
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by harryf 16y ago
Wonder if Amazon are also considering selling apps on AWS via this appstore? Would easily work for EC2 images but might also work in the "platform as a service" space like the sort of thing Heroku is doing. Or just "buy a blog" e.g. wordpre
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by harryf 16y ago
I work as a developer for the online arm of a yellow pages provider in Europe. Thanks to regulated data and a more conservative populace, it's still a very profitable sector for a fairly simple and well known business model. None of "we com

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