jamesk2

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by jamesk2 17y ago
It is abysmal but isn't it a bit early in the game to call Android out? Multiple companies are involved in getting these things out and it takes longer to set up than having one company control everything. There's a lot of marketing dollars
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by jamesk2 17y ago
As someone who as explored both "creative" pursuits such as art and the technical pursuit of coding, i explain to my techie but creatively challenged friends that pursuing art is like hacking your brain's kernel while it is running. A bad l
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by jamesk2 17y ago
Wouldn't the cost per square metre fall with efficiencies of scale alone? While it might cost $200 per square metre in the beginning, the costs would fall over time. Non-standard parts installed by huge amounts of human labor vs. standardiz
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by jamesk2 17y ago
I've been using Yammer for my startup. The members of our team are in LA and NY. When two of the three talk, the third member can catch up when he can. We put notes, links and documents on there. It's also a group Getting Things Done system
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by jamesk2 17y ago
That may work but there's going to be so much noise in the population how do you filter it to get "colors?" There's a google vid on this subject: I never did get through it but it might make more sense to you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
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by jamesk2 17y ago
This is cool but is there a function for finding hidden topics? i.e. given red, yellow, blue -> colors
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by jamesk2 17y ago
Go for the library support. I chose python because of existing functionality I needed now. Writing it from scratch would have been very time consuming. As for non-web services, Python has some good GUI tools and some workable ways to make w
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by jamesk2 17y ago
Knowing a market is pretty intrinsic to marketing. It seems obvious now but iFart was genius in that lots of people found the concept funny enough to pay a dollar for. I know plenty of people who have bought it on a whim at parties.
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by jamesk2 17y ago
Your odds of hitting on Red or Black is not 50/50. It is 47.37%. The ball can land on green. If you don't get your money back, it's a loss. http://wizardofodds.com/roulette Most games at Casinos are stacked against you. They have very sma
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by jamesk2 17y ago
An innovation is a new way of doing something. A cell phone maker actually owning the store where applications are sold online was new and successful or we wouldn't be having this discussion. Really, how many applications would the iphone h
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by jamesk2 17y ago
Apple is trying to do innovative things like the App Store. In trying something new, they made mistakes. And if they want to keep innovating, they have to keep making new mistakes. I hear all the time that we as entrepreneurs need to fail f
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by jamesk2 17y ago
Specific applications and platforms can have a short shelf life but really each application that is made can teach you things that can be used towards progressing towards the long terms goals for your company or humanity. I'm developing a t
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by jamesk2 17y ago
Thanks jrockway for clearing that up. So if people get used to using GV on iPhone, Blackberry and Palm, it would make switching to GV on Android trivial. There would almost no transition costs. I get tired of my iPhone (or more likely pisse
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by jamesk2 17y ago
GV is a VOIP application. Maybe I've read too much TechCrunch but it seemed to imply that it would use the data network and not use minutes. Are you sure it used your minutes and SMS instead of VOIP and SMS through google's accounts?
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by jamesk2 17y ago
Google Voice is a threat to AT&T and every other potential carrier for the iPhone. Maybe AT&T didn't really have anything directly to do with GV being yanked but it sure isn't going to make carriers around the world happy to have th
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by jamesk2 17y ago
Stephen Baker's book, the Numerati, covers what data geeks are doing with stats, data mining, semantic analysis, machine learning... Here's a link to some of his talks on the subject: http://thenumerati.net/index.cfm?catID=4
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UK will arrest TechCrunch's Arrington(networkworld.com)
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by jamesk2 17y ago
Google should create a translation module for dead languages. Why stop at scanning old books? Scan some ancient tablets Sergey!
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by jamesk2 17y ago
I remember suggesting this to Steve Case when he was CEO of AOL. It was before paypal and it would have made a lot of sense for AOL to become the micropayment processor since they already had access to their subscriber's credit cards. I'm g
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by jamesk2 17y ago
Yeah, in a way Apple doing this is a zoomed fractal version of what is happening with China. They make and sell lots of stuff and they use the money to build out their financial industry. It's also what GE (GE Capital), Sears (Discover Card
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by jamesk2 17y ago
His site sounds like digg's recommendation system or what reddit tried to do with their recommendation system. It's really hard to be second mover without a significantly better algorithm or lots of money. In the search engine space, Google
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by jamesk2 17y ago
Its probably safe but if you are a U.S. based company, why take chances with a country whose leadership is not very friendly to America? Would the people funding your company be understanding if Gaddifi decides your company is unacceptable
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by jamesk2 17y ago
Getting your circulation going helps relieve both eye strain and wrist pain. I've had both on very stressful projects. Get into the habit of working on your cardio. It's been shown that cardio does help with stress management and brain func
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by jamesk2 17y ago
The .ly TLD is Libya. Is it safe to use .ly domains like bit.ly does? Will Libya just jack the domain name Cuba style?
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by jamesk2 17y ago
Here's a video about Pythagoras and the musical ratios developed on a single string "guitar" - very interesting for math + music heads. http://bit.ly/tuAvW
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by jamesk2 17y ago
I think we're disconnected on this because my point is that branding Yahoo results pages with the Bing logo is horrible for Yahoo. And yes, while luxury brands use many parts not specifically made by them, they do not promote another brand
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by jamesk2 17y ago
Porsche 911 Turbo: ENGINE BY VW or - Your 130 thousand dollar automobile is made by the same people who make your kids 15 thousand dollar automobile. It would turn a lot of people off Porsche and boost VW's brand image. I think many people
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by jamesk2 17y ago
Hypercard was the gateway drug to programming for me. From Hypercard to Macromind Director to PERL. Sometimes I kick the programming habit but I always seem to go back. Now it's Python.
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by jamesk2 17y ago
Just looking at the homepages of Google vs. Yahoo - it's clear that Google's focus is search. On Yahoo's home page, search is just a feature on a page littered with tons of bandwidth hogging widgets. But Bing is clearly a search engine. Tha
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by jamesk2 17y ago
Bing on Yahoo search results pages is a product endorsement. Users will become familiar and comfortable using a Bing branded product. Bing Sports is a text ad on the current "sports" search results page. It'll go from, WTF is Bing to, "oh B

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