kakooljay

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by kakooljay 17y ago
Great tips - reminded me of a post on beating writer’s block: http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/8864 Note: It's a FUN post, not really practical for coders [eg: "Graham Greene wrote exactly 500 words per day, even stopping mid-sen
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by kakooljay 17y ago
In case you were wondering... Sergey Brin, Rajeev Motwani, Lawrence Page, and Terry. Winograd. What can you do with a web in your pocket? Data Engineering Bulletin, 21:37–47, 1998. [Hey Larry, who's Lawrence Page? :p]
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Super-Social Networking: Superhero Facebook Status Updates(comicsalliance.com)
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85 percent of Mac owners 'fess up' to owning a Windowns box(pcworld.com)
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by kakooljay 17y ago
Slides are here (PG warning in effect lol) http://carsonified.com/blog/web-apps/start-up-metrics-that-m... 11 & 12 explain the AARRR / pirate model... Great references (slide 20) too - thx
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by kakooljay 17y ago
Funny.. Btw, I think wwwycombinator.com [ http://wwwycombinator.com ] is still available ;)
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by kakooljay 17y ago
See: http://www.mysql.com/why-mysql/scaleout/scaleout_pitfalls.ht...
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by kakooljay 17y ago
Just speaking rhetorically.. don't mean to generalize. I'm sure Bill Gates would have dropped out sooner (in high school, instead of college) if opportunity came knocking sooner.. You're obviously an exception & probably dropped out fo
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by kakooljay 17y ago
Nice overview: clear & concise. Thanks.
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Avatars to have business dress codes by 2013 (itpro.co.uk)
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by kakooljay 17y ago
"Hennessy... remarks that companies are great things, but they are missing most of what makes a university so appealing to its employees: the freshness and excitement of the students and the freedom to conduct one's own research." That's wh
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Children as young as five 'using the Internet without parental supervision'(dailymail.co.uk)
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by kakooljay 17y ago
Maybe you're right. Apparently Pareto originally used his distribution to describe wealth allocation & intuitively it seems fair to assume that 20% of the developers account for ~80% of the earnings. But are you sure? Btw, if developer
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What's the Secret Success of Mint.com? The Real Numbers...(christine.net)
76 points by kakooljay 17y ago|31 comments
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by kakooljay 17y ago
Thanks - Mint is discussed in The Web Startup Success Guide [ http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219858 ] but I actually found this more useful. Update: the parent link disappeared? Did you delete it?
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by kakooljay 17y ago
Interesting, but not really surprising. Artists & musicians aren't "getting rich" either.. Is there some reason a normal(ish) distribution wouldn't apply to iPhone earnings?
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by kakooljay 17y ago
Includes a discussion of Stanley Milgram's famous experiment ["with a budget of only $680, he set out to test the speculative idea that people are really connected in the global friendship network by short chains of friends.. he asked a col
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Mathematics of the Small-World Phenomenon (from Networks, Crowds, and Markets)(cs.cornell.edu)
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by kakooljay 17y ago
Have fun with this one! Btw.. Ycombinator.com Valuation $7.07 Million News.ycombinator.com Valuation $9.52 Million Bizinformation.org Valuation = $11,764.25 (hehe)
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How much is your website worth?(bizinformation.org)
1 points by kakooljay 17y ago|1 comments
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by kakooljay 17y ago
Yep.. of course it is. Is flash good for PCs? Is Thai food good for international cuisine? Choice & competition are GOOD. We just need better ways to find & filter apps (& information in general).
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by kakooljay 17y ago
This is hilarious: Schmidt: let me, some of your assumptions about Chrome adoption are wrong. The adoption rate of Chrome is [very strong]. We are going to do a better job of getting that message out. Schonfeld: Steve Ballmer calls it a rou
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by kakooljay 17y ago
Exactly... just like doctors should earn a lot of money because their skills save lives, not because professional associations conspire to limit the number of doctors.
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by kakooljay 17y ago
Love this: In early September, endowment officials announced that they had lost $10-billon, a 27-percent drop... Vanity Fair sent a reporter to Cambridge this year to assess the damage. She was told that the university had lowered thermosta
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by kakooljay 17y ago
>making a single stew out of them all seems like a mistake. Ya... http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20070710/absurd-the-giant-swi... Maybe their design choices were.. uninformed. The team was small, quite secluded (in Australia) & se
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by kakooljay 17y ago
Are honeypot strategies still effective? They talk about using hidden form fields here: http://www.rustylime.com/show_article.php?id=676 ...but they add a disclaimer: "We are no longer using this method as it, after more than a year of su
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by kakooljay 17y ago
"4. Stop spam trackbacks.." Don't forget to consider using rel="nofollow" (which most weblog software marks reader-submitted links by default)... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_in_blogs#nofollow
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by kakooljay 17y ago
Last I heard [mid-Sept]: Apple said that "Apple has not rejected the Google Voice application and we continue to discuss it with Google." Seems sketchy... [ http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-10356432-265.html?tag=mnco... ]
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by kakooljay 17y ago
I tried to post this too - I think it's hilarious.. surprised no one else has commented on this :)
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Technical glitch mars MySpace demo of Embedded Live Video Chat(readwriteweb.com)
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