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by loumf 14y ago
Is this it? http://stream.mcohen.me/entry/dropbox-t-shirt---back-22-173.... -- this is great because it almost begs anyone who sees it to ask you what it means.
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by loumf 14y ago
To get ROI, you need to also know the value of a customer. If each customer pays 2 x Customer Acquisition cost in the first month, then the ROI is 2 in the first month. If it's a subscription, and 100% stay for a year, then it's 24 (or 240
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by loumf 14y ago
Aside from it not being ROI, I thought it was as good as any guess. What I was hoping for was a clever way of measuring some of the things you assumed. I think what you calculated is called customer acquisition cost. ROI is how much you m
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by loumf 14y ago
I don't know anything about WUSTL, but I had similar issues with my local University, which has a great CS department, but we found the normal channels too complex. We contacted the University ACM chapter and threw them a party -- pizza, wi
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by loumf 14y ago
I took "They guarantee that the inputs are legal" to mean that they limited it to programs with specified behavior. They don't know what the behavior is -- just that it is specified. If they can do this, it finds a subset of bugs, with no
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by loumf 14y ago
As a CrossFitter, I can tell you that I compared the price to personal training. I feel like I get the results of a personal trainer + a community feeling -- and it costs $7/session instead of $30 or more (since I go 5 days/week). After a
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by loumf 14y ago
I'm sure -- I clicked around randomly and my impression was that the articles were generic and auto-generated. Sadly, it might be able to compete with what passes for local news some places, but my local paper is much better. The key to loc
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by loumf 14y ago
I just took a quick look at Patch and it looked like very superficial robo-generated news from public sources (police blotter, HS sports schedule, stock photography). It doesn't look very readable. Here's an article that puts words around
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by loumf 14y ago
In "Made to Stick", they profile a newspaper called "The Daily Record" in Dunn, North Carolina. Their penetration into their local area is 112%. Quote from the owner: "The fact is, a local newspaper can never get enough local names. I'd h
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by loumf 14y ago
Although he doesn't mention it here, Berkshire also owns about 18% of the Washington Post: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_Berkshi... Not sure if this is related at all, but Adrian Holovaty (co-creator of Django, foun
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by loumf 14y ago
Some interesting observations about Amazon's P/E ratio here http://www.mondaynote.com/2012/05/27/decoding-share-prices-a... on Jean-Louis Gassée's "Monday Note". Basically, Amazon forgoes profit to get market share, will push out all comp
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by loumf 14y ago
I think that the lesson is -- if you can get your expenses down to $20,000 (which is really hard), you have a chance. In real life, you'll have to make up the difference somehow 1. Work a little 2. Get expenses even lower 3. Find ways to g
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by loumf 14y ago
Agreed -- the free or $29 price made me think this software wasn't going to be good. If it actually does what you say it does, you definitely need to charge more and the free version (if there is one) should be much more limited.
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by loumf 14y ago
How much of a problem is this? You said that it wasn't money -- that it was just not knowing the cost. If that's true, I don't understand at all -- the cost is 20% more than the listed price. If you see a burger at $10, that's really $12 --
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by loumf 14y ago
If it stays there, then $38 is the market view of the present value of future business models it thinks FB will be able to create. It's not just what they do now, it's "the unknown" things people think they will be able to do (which is jus
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by loumf 14y ago
Yes, that and the rally at almost exactly that level a little before 12pm
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by loumf 14y ago
On the one hand, this indicates that the underwriters did a good job of maximizing FB private shareholder value on the IPO. On the other, the shape of the daily curve looks like it was supported at that level artificially. Even if not, it d
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by loumf 14y ago
It depends on what you are using as a UI, but probably. If it boots into a full screen, remote-controllable app that never crashes, then it might be ok. I toyed around with Boxee for Mac on a dedicated old laptop and it was really close --
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by loumf 14y ago
I agree with this -- get as much cash as possible, not equity. If they are not successful, you come out ahead. If they are successful, you will probably be so diluted, that it won't matter to you. Get your expenses and 11 x (difference b
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by loumf 14y ago
And the reason is because they don't allow you to run code that you download (which you would have to do to support JavaScript).
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by loumf 14y ago
Browsers are totally allowed -- there are alternative browsers in the iOS App Store right now (I use Atomic). What is not allowed is to download code and execute it, which makes it impossible to write your own JavaScript interpreter, and fo
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by loumf 14y ago
I would pay 10k to have future unethical employers filter themselves out (even if it filters out some ethical ones too). I might not have handled this exactly like J, but I certainly wouldn't think twice about hiring him because of this.
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by loumf 14y ago
On google ads (at least Display ads), there's this little triangle in the corner with plenty of opt-out options. More info here: http://support.google.com/adsense/bin/static.py?hl=en&gl...
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by loumf 14y ago
As a manager, I personally stress having a sustainable work schedule and work-life balance. In practice, over the course of 20 years, the developers I have managed that are "truly outstanding" work more at developing their craft and work ha
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by loumf 14y ago
Jules's point is that the map is done twice, which it is. If you don't want that, you can reduce into a collection and then reduce the collection twice.
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by loumf 14y ago
It should. It depends on which reducing function you choose -- the map step doesn't consume the stream, it just set up the mapped function to be called as you reduce. If your reducing function is lazy, then it works on infinite streams.
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by loumf 15y ago
One way a food journal helps is by stopping you from eating bad things (because you consider the food before you eat it). I wouldn't want to remove all of the friction here (for weight-loss anyway). Help in getting it right and avoiding ba
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by loumf 15y ago
If you search for "convert wordpress to book" you get a bunch of sites, including this one http://www.blogbooker.com/wordpress.php , which is free. There are a lot more.
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by loumf 15y ago
If you are making a documentary about the police doing their jobs, then I think you can go ahead. Not sure if you need permission from documentary subjects to show the film, but you can film it.
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by loumf 15y ago
Go to nerdfitness.com and poke around at the free options ( http://nerdfitness.com/blog/top-posts/ ). Take a cue from to OP's site and do a 12-week challenge. During the 12 weeks eat the best eating plan you can manage for at least 5 days/

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