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Open Source Exploitation and Burnout(supportedsource.org)
39 points by jrpt 10y ago|29 comments
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by jrpt 10y ago
Yes. As someone who's written popular open source before, I can say that if it made me money, I would've happily invested more time into it. Instead, it just brought me lots of thankless work, which caused me to abandon it. Fundin
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by jrpt 10y ago
The market for "solve an algebra equation and show the steps" is students who want something to do their homework for them. And yes, websites (and graphing calculator apps) already do this. For example, http://cymath.co
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by jrpt 10y ago
The iPhone is an evolution of the iPod, not really disrupting it. Some people might call it a disruption but I view it more as an evolution. However, Intel is definitely a good example. Netflix is another good one.
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by jrpt 10y ago
But I'm saying the effect could be a net transfer from taxpayers (people with medium to high income) to landowners especially real estate companies. Since much housing stock is owned by a business which may even be operated at 0 net
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by jrpt 10y ago
But you're an individual, and obviously changes in one individual's income won't affect the housing market. If everyone in your community's income changed, things would be different. The amount of land in an area is fixe
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by jrpt 10y ago
This was a bug in the DAO, not Ethereum. From what I read, this was the bug: https://github.com/slockit/DAO/commit/f01f3bd8df5e1e222dde62... I'm not sure why you'd find this satisfying, unless you h
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by jrpt 10y ago
No, multiple parties could execute a smart contract between themselves, and keep the code private. Smart contract just means it's a contract that gets executed through code. Even in the case of a public and decentralized platform like
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by jrpt 10y ago
If you could capture the entire logic in code, it wouldn't be arbitration, it'd just be a feature of the smart contract. The way you'd encode an arbitration clause into a smart contract is making the arbitrator an oracle. Tha
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by jrpt 10y ago
You're being pedantic. Contracts explicitly specify the arbitrator, such as AAA or JAMS. More info at http://arbitrationnation.com/arbitrationnation-roadmap-when-...
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by jrpt 10y ago
I disagree about Eat My Dust. It's more than just "check if I'm near a superfund site" It's about checking your actual (or prepurchase) home for various hazardous materials, regardless of superfund sites. This alrea
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by jrpt 10y ago
OK, I read your pitch and now I'm interested. What sort of plants are you ideally suited for? How important are the fish and aquaculture part? Would it really "pay for itself" given the labor costs (time)? I mean you say it i
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by jrpt 10y ago
There are a lot of interesting ideas in the submissions, so I wouldn't be surprised if Pinboard is one of them. It seems like an interesting pick. Personally, if I could only pick one, I'd pick Eat My Dust - Home testing for dange
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by jrpt 10y ago
I wonder if it'd matter if the computer had both a max APM, and a requirement that its actions can only be in a field of view at one time, and that it can only change the field of view a certain number of times per minute. This would b
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by jrpt 11y ago
Bitmoji has been in the top 500 for US iOS apps for over a year, and steadily growing. It's been about rank 50 for the past couple months. The Android app isn't quite as strong but is getting better. It's not really comparabl
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by jrpt 11y ago
Makes you wonder what concepts we have yet to invent.
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by jrpt 11y ago
Is the aim to do event sourcing for later data analysis or to actually base your app's business logic off of the events? I have some experience with using events to construct the final state for data analysis. (If you didn't mean
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by jrpt 11y ago
How is this the top comment? It's recommending changing your website without knowing what the effect is, which is terrible advice. I've personally run tests and seen tests achieve statistically significant (and very large) results
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by jrpt 11y ago
Instead of Phonegap, check out React Native. RN has much better future prospects.
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by jrpt 11y ago
Accepting contributions with a license like this is a solved problem. You just require the contributors to sign a contributor license agreement. In case the contributor is working somewhere, you also have them sign a corporate contributor l
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by jrpt 11y ago
Companies are more than willing to pay for software, but there's little incentive when they would otherwise get it for free and you're asking for a charity handout. I'm sorry but that's just reality. If I were you, I&#x2
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by jrpt 11y ago
That can't be correct given the price, and the fact that King had over $2B revenue and $500MM net income last year. These games make millions of dollars a day. They don't get bought just for data. The simplest explanation is that
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by jrpt 11y ago
Not really, the main difference is retention. Candy Crush Saga and Candy Crush Soda Saga have been in the top of the charts for years consistently, whereas Draw Something (or Draw My Thing, the web version) never had good retention from wha
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by jrpt 11y ago
Restaurants do this with things like happy hours or early bird specials. The point is to help shift demand to off-peak hours.
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by jrpt 11y ago
Let me know if you have questions about DataDuck. I made DataDuck to get data into Amazon Redshift. Why might you want a data warehouse? Here's some reasons why: http://dataducketl.com/blog/every-tech-company-needs
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Show HN: DataDuck ETL – Ruby framework for setting up a Redshift data warehouse(github.com)
7 points by jrpt 11y ago|1 comments
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by jrpt 11y ago
I don't know much about the correlations the article mentions (for example, are raves really a good reason why pub attendance fell?) however, I think that a discussion of alcohol is incomplete if it doesn't mention addiction anywh
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Why I'm Making a New ETL Framework(dataducketl.com)
2 points by jrpt 11y ago|0 comments
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by jrpt 11y ago
If anyone's looking for a straightforward ETL framework, check out DataDuck http://dataducketl.com/ The `dataduck quickstart` command is as close to automagic as you can get, and then you can customize your ETL after t
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by jrpt 11y ago
Some BI tools can connect to multiple databases, however the right solution is to put all your data into a single data warehouse and run the analysis off of that. Query performance is one reason, and here's a blog post I've writte

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