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by jpwagner 17y ago
Can't dismiss it, but this line nudges me in one direction: "The term “Setup” is the preferred customer-facing term for First Use."
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by jpwagner 17y ago
He's a scientist not Guy Kawasaki...
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by jpwagner 17y ago
In what year did the first car sell for a net profit?
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by jpwagner 17y ago
<sarcasm> biggest failure of the 1890s: the automobile. More costly than a horse, less accessible than a train. How will there ever be a positive return on investment when it comes to the horseless carriage... that and more when we
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by jpwagner 17y ago
and the thought police tactics get more sophisticated...
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by jpwagner 17y ago
How did google crawl this? Was the pdf link just taken down?
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by jpwagner 17y ago
I'm going to throw out there that Wolfram|Alpha might scrub it's sources' data more thoroughly. How can you trust unemployment data from a month ago? 2006 may have been some major study by INSERT_MAJOR_ORGANIZATION_HERE.
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by jpwagner 17y ago
Wolfram|Alpha is focused on academic use-cases (for now), not searching for your own name or an online newspaper/blog. It is purposely NOT Google.
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by jpwagner 17y ago
This is absurd: "Now every engineer can have their own office." NOT INEVITABLE--EXCESSIVE SPENDING "The new building needs to reflect that we’re a successful and established company. Lets “do it right” and have a lobby and reception area th
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by jpwagner 17y ago
Person X member of 97% Person Y member of 97% Person Z member of 3% Person W member of 3% ________________________ Person_A_@_List: X, Y, Z Person_B_@_List: X, W ________________________ Person_A writes: @Person_B you be cool! Received by
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by jpwagner 17y ago
agreed. actually that's not NO overhead, but it's trivial and the right solution. instead of just one flag link on an HN post, there should be flag as inappropriate vs. flag as stupid *edit: make that "flag as waste of time"
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by jpwagner 17y ago
The title is misleading. The article is really about excess spending. Yes, if you spend excessively you're damned. No, you're not damned if you don't spend excessively.
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by jpwagner 17y ago
FWIW, I'm positive Jarre would be offended.
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by jpwagner 17y ago
a joke in a poor taste, but amusing none the less...
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by jpwagner 18y ago
And yahoo's back in the game...
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by jpwagner 18y ago
Hate to be insensitive, but: 0.00003% of the US has been infected with this disease (some already recovered) and it passes in a few days and it's been fully airborne for more than a week. Similarly, if their gross estimate of 2700+ worldwid
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by jpwagner 18y ago
I don't think this is a weak argument and I personally HATE that you phrased this as "the same thing" attempting to immediately skew readers' opinions. There isn't a great analogy that really exists, so here's a fantasy analogy: Suppose Ber
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by jpwagner 18y ago
GoogleLookup is useful sometimes. If the rainfall changes in Seattle, your spreadsheet would update... Although another proton won't likely be discoverd in a Hydrogen atom.
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by jpwagner 18y ago
My comment on Wolfram|Alpha limitations: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=584045 Simple example of Google Limitation (I'm sure there are better): =GoogleLookup("Ruler of France","1821") =GoogleLookup("1821","Ruler of France") both retu
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by jpwagner 18y ago
I know! It's like thinking that Ducati competes with Amtrak. Sure their products have similar objectives, but their function, specs, market, etc are completely different.
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by jpwagner 18y ago
The new Zuneberry. So slim it fits in your inside Armani pocket. So durable you can run over it with your BMW. So reliable you can use it in your NetJet. So obsolete in a year, you can get your management consulting firm employer to get you
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by jpwagner 18y ago
Communication breakdown... This congresswoman should've asked: "Are you completely unbiased on this subject?" Instead she asked about his personal profit (too open-ended.) An experienced politician can get out of that one. The last sentenc
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TechCrunch on Al Gore's right to invest...(techcrunch.com)
1 points by jpwagner 18y ago|1 comments
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by jpwagner 18y ago
I like how McDonalds gets its own button
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by jpwagner 18y ago
They did a great job with what they've put together so far (and if I would've had reasonable expectations, I'd be happy) but I felt he hasn't addressed some of the toughest problems yet: handling proprietary data what if scenarios training
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Wolfram Alpha Harvard-Sneak-Peak Video(cyber.law.harvard.edu)
2 points by jpwagner 18y ago|1 comments
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by jpwagner 18y ago
" They gave the monkeys the bananas because they were [adjective]" now it can describe a third noun...
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by jpwagner 18y ago
or better yet: [Send Error Report] [Don't Send]
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by jpwagner 18y ago
You know how you can buy a bachelor's degree from "university of joe schmoe" or some such made up university? I'm sure that people have done that and it has helped them get 'some job.' If there exists an analogous scenario for an MBA, I dou
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by jpwagner 18y ago
David Allen... Paul Allen founded Microsoft

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