m3mnoch

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by m3mnoch 13y ago
this is the same exact reason i use "amy" from ivona for my morning commute. as a non-brit, rather than frustratingly hard to understand, listening to her instead is totally dreamy... that, and she doesn't stumble over names
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by m3mnoch 13y ago
> In my opinion HTML/CSS/JavaScript is the best interface design technology ever invented i thoroughly agree with this if you say "interface implementation technology" instead of "interface design technology&quot
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by m3mnoch 13y ago
i'm happy to explain it to you in four easy steps. first, look at this chart: http://www.searchmetrics.com/en/services/ranking-factors-201... second, notice how all of the highest ranking seo factors are soci
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by m3mnoch 13y ago
i'm not really sure they're the same. seems to me that whatsapp is more of an active "keeping in touch with friends" where facebook's forte is more of a passive "keeping in touch with friends". that would
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by m3mnoch 13y ago
heh. methinks a programmer who thinks programming is objective and not subjective has the equivalent professional experience in the field as a designer who doesn't know the difference between design and art so designs subjectively.
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by m3mnoch 13y ago
heh. i'd expect nothing less from zed. this comment makes me assume some of you youngsters don't know who he is. from his site: "Yes I say "fuck", and quite a lot of "bad words", mostly because it's
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by m3mnoch 13y ago
i think you're point is a bit off-the-mark, so i'm going to add a qualifier to the title to put you in the right direction. "Flappy Bird is proof that no one knows what the audience wants..." ...in order to fully maximiz
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by m3mnoch 13y ago
ha! that's awesome!
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by m3mnoch 13y ago
> Ditto here :) I don't use Slackware these days I used to love that distro. Still miss it at times. right? ...stupid redhat coming along and making it obselete!
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by m3mnoch 13y ago
man. i must be terrible at communicating. > Same difference. 12% on 1 server is 12%. But if you have a dozen servers with the same 12% gain then it's still 12%. Such is the nature of percentages. no. you said it yourself. if you
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by m3mnoch 13y ago
> I suspect you're not really understanding what those ab results are representing ah. no, no. i'm not adequately explaining where i was going with that. lemme try again. 1) it's not 12% on a web farm. it's 12% on
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by m3mnoch 13y ago
way back in the late 90s stone age of interactive ad agencies, we were doing our first really big gig for hp. it was a demo shipping out to retail stores showcasing one of their products -- a run of 30,000 stamped cd roms. i was the one de
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by m3mnoch 13y ago
so, what you're saying here is that if you skip the ease and convenience of .htaccess files, you can get better performance? as in, if you get slasdotted (ha! i'm old!) your site will stay up either way as long as you're get
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by m3mnoch 13y ago
tldr: like most things in life, there is no "one correct answer". basically, the cheaper the property, the better idea it is to buy. yes. this tool illustrates it perfectly. [ http://www.nytimes.com/interactive&
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by m3mnoch 13y ago
probably not since all the other rocks (many an order of magnitude smaller) are still in their same places.
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by m3mnoch 13y ago
indeed. as a guy who's modeled and built economies for mmos, i can confidently say the more movement and activity in your economy, the healthier your economy is. consistent, steady growth and activity, rather than spikes (unbridled li
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by m3mnoch 13y ago
no. the music recording is the manifestation of the performance/service. so, not viable as a product. cd players perform the service of playing the music. (aka automates the performance) totally viable as a product. think of it like
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by m3mnoch 13y ago
playing fast and loose with formal definitions here, but basically because services, by their very nature, are scarce goods -- you are paying for someone's time. once you productize/automate that, it becomes non-scarce and the ma
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by m3mnoch 13y ago
two quick things. on the cars -- horses were bought and sold. trains. boats. you name it. buying a product that is transformed by technology is not the same as trying to take a service and transform it into a product through technology.
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by m3mnoch 13y ago
the relationship between the two is "true fans". where are the true fans? they're where all the piracy is happening. what do true fans pay for? live performances and a chance to connect with the artists. hence, the epic m
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by m3mnoch 13y ago
while not "in-store sales", i think this helps: "The result was massive sellouts. The São Paolo show alone grossed £1.58 million (US$2.58 million) alone." personally, i'm with you. in-store sales are a red herring.
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by m3mnoch 13y ago
to put it succinctly and in gamer terms: would you rather have a giant sword that does 16 points of damage with a 10% chance to hit? or a dagger that does 4 points of damage, but with an 80% chance to hit? it's all about the dps, bab
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by m3mnoch 13y ago
not to be a parade-rainer (because this is really cool!), but it's not really a 'clone'. it's really just a cube rendering engine with a handful of textures and a barebones python socket server. in my very humble opinio
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by m3mnoch 13y ago
personally, i don't suspect any of the obstacles really matter. look at it like a cart-before-the-horse problem. similar to the ebook/kindle, amazon will simply create something that solves an enormous pain point for people and t
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by m3mnoch 13y ago
or when everyone sets up corporations, take a dollar salary, and run all of their expenses through petty cash?
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by m3mnoch 13y ago
if 100 million miles isn't enough to gain statistical significance, what number is?
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by m3mnoch 13y ago
keep in mind, these are ivy league heavies, not local state school middle-of-the-pack undergrads.
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by m3mnoch 13y ago
no -- not really. for that, i would use second life as your measuring stick. people will pay professional developers for toys to play with (eq next, for example), but enabling hobby developers to make money off their efforts using your plat
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by m3mnoch 13y ago
prolly because i am not afraid of being hellbanned or whatever hacker news calls it these days. been there before. remind me to tell you about the time i was banned from the quarter-to-three forums sometime. or maybe i'm more of an a
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by m3mnoch 13y ago
sorry to hear your country doesn't have solid support for those streaming providers. that sucks. my country, however, does. as do all (well, most) of my friends' countries. that would be why i used "i know no one" as

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