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by ignostic 13y ago
I'd agree that the paper makes claims it can't begin to back up in the real world - I originally said pretty much that. But to say that we couldn't come up with enough facts to prove something seems to show a lack of imaginat
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by ignostic 13y ago
> *"Capitalism is great at technology and incremental innovation, but bad at science." Be careful with those broad strokes - they're likely to be a result of selective perception unless supported by external fact. I actual
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by ignostic 13y ago
I think you're making a lot of assumptions about who their target demographic is. Maybe it's not the guy who has time to run to the store in the afternoon, but the mom I know using Amazon Prime because taking two kids to the store
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by ignostic 13y ago
It's a joke among engineers that you need to graduate from college so that you can start learning. My college experience (non-technical bachelors) was just a joke, period - high school 2.0. Still, I wouldn't have the good job I do
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by ignostic 13y ago
> "Introvert and extrovert are outdated terms as meaningless as Freudian oral and anal types" That's not completely true. For one thing, there are a lot of studies that have found correlations between introversion/ex
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by ignostic 13y ago
You shouldn't confuse legitimacy and legality. > "Swartz may have had a "legitimate political cause" but he sullied it (in my opinion) with illegal activities." In this case, the law was part of the problem. Aar
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by ignostic 13y ago
This would be a great option for the many individuals who use their computers for nothing but productivity and browsing. You wouldn't need to buy Office and a new computer up front, and theoretically you can stay up-to-date without buy
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by ignostic 13y ago
I feel like I'm a different species when I hear someone excited about working 80+ hours a week. Having so little free time and so little time to spend with friends and family seems like a sad life regardless of the paycheck. I agree wi
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by ignostic 13y ago
>stark contrast 7 months difference doesn't seem that stark.
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(2) Could be looked up by someone easily, and could potentially turn foreign readers/customers off for no good reason. I think you're better off just banning IPs. You can get a blacklist to start if you're really worried abou
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by ignostic 13y ago
Easier said than done. What happens when the power goes out to the city's system? Can we trust the city to keep traffic info up-to-date? What happens when there's too much interference? When you're in a tunnel with the roads
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by ignostic 13y ago
This was actually supposed to be [1], sorry. http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2012/02/10/the-tru...
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by ignostic 13y ago
My opinions on patents are still evolving, but I tend to see drug patents as a good thing that needs reform. I know it's a bit of a tangent, but would someone mind explaining a little? My main concern is that we can't expect anyon
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by ignostic 13y ago
> " It blocks payment from any prepaid Visa/Mastercard - even reloadable cards" This is to prevent money laundering and tax fraud.
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by ignostic 13y ago
That's really stretching the meaning. It's more like "guessing" than it is "confirmation bias."
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by ignostic 13y ago
I liked the author pointing out that the process itself is often geared to disregard what the potential employee wants. The people hiring for the firm might care what the potential employee wants, but it's easy to forget or fail to ful
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by ignostic 13y ago
You're right - even my relationship with my fiance is based on us wanting something from each other. We want to love and be loved - to care and be cared about. Are we "using" each other? Maybe, but there's no manipulatio
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by ignostic 13y ago
> "For example, with the FourSquare online social network, under majority threshold (50% of incoming neighbors previously adopted), a viral marketeer could expect a 297-fold return on investment" This is illustrative of what b
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by ignostic 13y ago
This is the FAA's decision that FEMA seems to be (perhaps over-zealously) enforcing. The reason they give is "to provide a safe environment for larimer county flooding SAR" (search and rescue). http://tfr.faa.gov&#
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by ignostic 13y ago
I completely agree with you - I commented something similar before I saw this. Let me play the devil's advocate, though. Couldn't you argue that "growth hacking" has a lot in common with "agile programming"? Ne
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by ignostic 13y ago
He did link straight to a definition. http://www.aginnt.com/growth-hacker
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by ignostic 13y ago
Effective marketing often relies on either finding new mediums to reach an audience or presenting the message in a a new way. Oh, and it's easier to make marketing more effective when you can measure, test, improve, and iterate. I don&
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by ignostic 13y ago
Let's look outside the startup world for second. Managing large, sprawling corporations is nothing like starting a company with a few products. I'm not saying it's harder, but it requires a different skill set. Neither Musk n
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Meetup already integrates with Facebook, and it shows the name of the Meetup rather than the product. Meetup wouldn't gain any additional advantage from breaking their app down into a million pieces.
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> "I disagree - I believe people have an intimate enough relationship with certain meetup groups that they work as a micro-social network. To that end, it would make logical sense to have an independent application for those groups.
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by ignostic 13y ago
It's too old to comment on. That particular thread is 131 days old.
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The premise here doesn't support the hypothesis. We start out talking about Facebook apps, and it makes sense. The name of a game, when it appears on a timeline, is far more compelling than the brand names. If you're trying to sel
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by ignostic 13y ago
I don't know what island you're referring to, but there are a lot of claims out there like this - a lot of people claiming they speak the "Queen's English". Every claim I've heard, much like Eskimos and snow, t
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A thick southern accent is far easier for Americans to understand than a thick foreign accent. I've never heard a native English speaker that I had a hard time understanding.
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Don't worry about it, PG, you just had a run-in with the looking-for-reasons-to-be-offended patrol. I actually thought this would happen when I read the post, but I also understood what you mean. It's a fairly benign point if we&#

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