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by jssmith 9y ago
You make "it's not Facebook" a key part of your value proposition. This was the case for Snap early on, and I believe it's a big part of the reason why they got so far. Their users needed a social network separate from t
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by jssmith 9y ago
My guess is that the contract under scrutiny to the RFP COMM-16-BC-2020. Here are the services to be provided: - Research and Data Analytics - Strategic Planning, Program Development, and Integration - Communications Support for Dec
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by jssmith 9y ago
Ugh, lockout must be pretty frustrating. Receiving one message could be worth as much as sending 1000 messages when valued by conversion to the spam end-goal. It's also a less obvious technique and one that's more difficult to blo
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by jssmith 10y ago
Friendster definitely failed because they couldn't pull off scale. I was CTO of the Tagged social network at the time and the issue loomed large during our 2005 fundraising. Investors had seen $50m go down the drain when Friendster got
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by jssmith 10y ago
Google's support for a multi-cloud vision would be a lot more meaningful if they were offering the open source alternatives as part of their cloud platform and contributing to their development. Google has done so in a few key cases (K
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State lawmaker seeks to ban texting while walking(arstechnica.com)
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UCB CS294: Virtual Machines and Managed Runtimes(wolczko.com)
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by jssmith 11y ago
There is a lot more substantive detail in one of the linked articles: http://gcaptain.com/canals-feel-ripples-of-container-shippin... - Ships are going the long way on "back haul", from Europe to Asia, not the oth
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Five questions to ask when starting a company(johann.schleier-smith.com)
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Show HN: Analyzing a snapshot isolation read anomaly(github.com)
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by jssmith 11y ago
Neat stuff! I'm also really curious to see where exploring active materials through the lens of computation and computer science might lead.
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Quantum ‘spookiness’ passes toughest test yet(nature.com)
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The Need for Agile Machine Learning(johann.schleier-smith.com)
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by jssmith 12y ago
I would use a visual programming language in a heartbeat if it provided a first-rate environment for solving problems that I care about. Here are some challenges that need to be overcome: 1/ I agree that the inertia of history is again