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by hvs 15y ago
Facebook only reports "active" users because it is possible for them to do it in a positive light. If they had the same sort of usage that Foursquare undoubtedly has, they would be counting all users that signed up as well. That said, I sti
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by hvs 15y ago
It took Python and Ruby over 10 years to break into the "big time". F#, while really cool, still doesn't have its "killer app" to drive adoption. Keep in mind, F# only just became a first-class language in the MS suite with VS2010. Give i
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by hvs 15y ago
I think it's equally important in those situations to get at why the user wants to do that and coming up with a solution to their problem in your framework. One thing I've learned after years of supporting users is that they often ask for
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by hvs 15y ago
"Before she became a staff writer at the Times, she was the editor of LAist.com, web producer for the public radio show Marketplace, and a web consultant for the Getty. She is on the board of the National Book Critics Circle." Agreed.
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by hvs 15y ago
Depends on where you work. Banks and financial institutions have notoriously slow upgrade paths in IT.
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by hvs 15y ago
I think that if you are really passionate about something specific that makes you a geek, although I might add a qualifier that it generally has to be an intellectual pursuit. Most importantly, being a "geek" is not about an image, it's a w
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by hvs 15y ago
It sounds like you are describing a "hipster" more than a "nerd", but maybe the two have become one in the same in some ways. That said, "true nerds" were never in it for the recognition as a "nerd" or as part of some "movement" they just w
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by hvs 15y ago
Good call on the green eyeshade.
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by hvs 15y ago
I'd say that the COBOL hat would be one of those thin-brimmed fedoras from the 60's, but that's just too cool for COBOL. COBOL doesn't get a hat that was worn by Frank Sinatra.
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by hvs 15y ago
Being a writer has never been a way to get rich. All those movies about newspaper journalists are not filled with a bunch of wealthy writers. They are grinding it out, for the most part, and they always have.
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by hvs 15y ago
"May" in this case meaning "we haven't actually done any testing yet." Can't anyone wait until they have tested their theory before having an article written about it? This title could just as easily have been "Humans are going to record
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by hvs 15y ago
"Tried?" Certainly it wasn't that hard to explain.
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by hvs 15y ago
Ah, the wonders of the rule of law. China is certainly making progress (as is India, not so sure about Russia) in this area. But anywhere you have to bribe ten people to get things done and your property can be confiscated on a whim you're
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by hvs 15y ago
I completely agree, but one point that he briefly mentions that I think is even more interesting is the idea of a Facebook IPO. Consider that Facebook isn't going anywhere (most likely) and will be a major company for a long time. That stil
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by hvs 15y ago
It's funny that you would mention "social safety nets" when it is most likely the economies of those areas that push the entrepreneurs to the U.S. I'm not saying the U.S. doesn't have its own issues (boy, does it), but I don't see why entre
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by hvs 15y ago
Skid marks and debris can actually provide a pretty accurate picture of the speed of the collision.
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by hvs 15y ago
At some point, each person decides how much value something provides to themselves or others and acts accordingly. You put a lot of value in the items that you list, others put value in things like Airbnb. To claim that because Airbnb doesn
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by hvs 15y ago
From the article, it sounds like these new sites are literally clones. They are scraping Airbnb listings and posting them on their own sites. They aren't just using the idea of Airbnb, they are using the content . That's just what I ca
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by hvs 15y ago
They are smaller trucks, though.
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by hvs 15y ago
She/he shouldn't have to. Groupon customers should be tipping on what the full amount would've been without the Groupon.
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by hvs 15y ago
Most enterprises and governments don't work with startups.
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by hvs 15y ago
I'm unclear what you mean by the "hip term of the moment". You are aware that that term has been in use for at least 30 years, and most likely longer, right? And yes, TechCrunch started as being about startups.
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by hvs 15y ago
The issue is collecting sales tax for items bought outside of their state. Interstate commerce is a federal jurisdiction. If they collect sales tax in Washington state, it's because they have an office there.
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by hvs 15y ago
Illinois did something similar with what it called the "Mainstreet Fairness Act" in March [1]. Illinois, as you may know, was rated as the worst state in the country for debt last year [2]. These states would rather chase after more revenue
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by hvs 15y ago
I think he has a good point, and as someone who really likes functional languages, I agree with him, but I think there really needs to be a better explanation of functional "patterns" and how to structure large functional programs before it
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by hvs 15y ago
Not to excuse the obvious SQL injection vulnerability, but it looks like that is more of design firm than a web development firm. I'm guessing that they don't have the strongest developers (but then again, I would've thought Sony would've h
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by hvs 15y ago
And be ready to spend money to defend that patent.
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by hvs 15y ago
Ah, I missed that part.
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by hvs 15y ago
Or he'll be working from home.
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by hvs 15y ago
Only to have it co-opted to mean doing anything . "Hey, I just hacked my resume together in Microsoft Word!", "I just hacked dinner together with some pans and some food!", "That was a great hack putting together that email!"

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