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by maayank 14y ago
It's IAC, owners of ask.com, match.com, okcupid.com, Vimeo. Who knows how they structured this deal.
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by maayank 14y ago
Some background: there was a month-long bidding war between answers.com and IAC (ask.com) for about.com[1]. I wonder how things went since IAC's offer[2]. Did Answers upped their offer? Did it went personal and they left the table? One can
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by maayank 14y ago
Agreed! With the caveat that it should be both to and from (using some standard schema). Replied elsewhere to OP and addressed this as well.
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by maayank 14y ago
I worked at SAP Research on that exact subject. Many comments here were really spot on and sprung to my mind as well. Instead of responding to each one individually and as you asked for it I'll try to organize my feedback here, FWIW: 1. I w
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by maayank 14y ago
I like this idea very much and its simplicity, but it seems inevitable to me that going down this path will just recreate RDF[0] and RDF Schema. A sort of a semantic web version of Greenspun's tenth rule[1]. For those of you who want to qui
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by maayank 14y ago
He asked what API, not what field of techniques. NLP is comprised of many different things, all different techniques and observations and not concrete code implementation of them. I for one am also interested if he used some ready API that
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by maayank 14y ago
Well, that's what "jury of one's peers" is all about, a broad spectrum of the population.
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by maayank 14y ago
the definitive research paper on it right now which was titled "The Origins and Ends of Giftedness" It seems this is it http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.110...
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by maayank 14y ago
Really, what's the deal with this? Why is Germany the most problematic in this aspect? Every country have such organizations but somehow it's always my German contacts to which showing a video becomes an epic poem.
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by maayank 14y ago
It was a major disappointment for me at the time as after years with Linux I bought a Mac exactly because I wanted to focus on my work and not on solving fringe kernel issues. Luckily, no major problems since then.
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by maayank 14y ago
There was definitely some wifi drivers problem in the original Lion. I wrote a fairly popular blog post summarizing reported solutions to the wifi problem in Lion and what solved it for me: http://thoughts.maayank.com/2011/08/wireless-prob
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by maayank 14y ago
"During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man." --Thomas Hobbes
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by maayank 14y ago
Why? How is it so different?
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by maayank 14y ago
Once MS, always MS[1]. I always have a shred of faith that next release their marketing will be more elegant, but every release I'm disappointed. I would pay to read a blog post making a strong case for their naming scheme. [1] http://www.
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by maayank 14y ago
Exactly. I just went over my credit cards' reports and it specifically says next to the international deals "fees: 0.0"[0]. Both reports checked are for the business/corporate versions[1] of two famous credit card entities (Visa, Amex, Mas
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by maayank 14y ago
But isn't international credit/debit cards (even such with "limited charge") a solved problem? Except when under 18, all my credit cards were always international.
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by maayank 14y ago
An honest question: assuming you have more than 1 credit card, aren't all/most of them international? Are local-only credit cards the norm in the U.S.? And do you really need a bank account per credit/debit card? I'd assume you have "extern
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by maayank 14y ago
I see it's from 1995. Is there something more updated? With the prominence of programming life-style businesses I'd imagine there are new things to be taught.
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by maayank 14y ago
A lot of what he said regarding reliability figures and testing plans reasoning resonated with my experience in (software engineering) projects and made me think how his remarks are applicable to software development. Note to people who did
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by maayank 14y ago
I posted some days ago an appendix by Feynman in the Challenger report, "Appendix F - Personal observations on the reliability of the Shuttle"[1] for those interested. Also, half of "Why do you care what people think?" is about his experie
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by maayank 14y ago
Arguing about problem #1 doesn't mean it takes away effort from dealing with problem #2. Maybe the author should also write a blog post about "How can you waste time arguing about eating your vegetables while THERE ARE COBOL LINES?" Is that
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Richard Feynman: The Value of Science(alexpetrov.com)
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Appendix F - Personal observations on the reliability of the Shuttle(webcache.googleusercontent.com)
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by maayank 14y ago
Would be interesting to hear your take on [1] :-) In any case, if you're ever in the greater Tel Aviv area give me a shout! (my email is at my profile) [1] http://www.quora.com/Israeli-Culture/Why-are-Israeli-people-...
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by maayank 14y ago
Research at Ra'anana Israel: http://goo.gl/maps/M7Xcw It is a great interview! Both the reporter and Hasso were not afraid to be bold. It is also a common criticism in the local financial newspapers that Israeli startups have a problem wi
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by maayank 14y ago
Yesterday I submitted an interview with the co-founder of SAP, a leading figure in the technology sector[1], about the state of the software sector in Germany. He had lots of criticism and comparisons with the U.S., so if you find this art
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by maayank 14y ago
"Is Stripe available outside of the US?" "Currently Stripe is US only..."
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by maayank 14y ago
If I put my thesis paper and vacation photos on a service that uses EC2 as a backend, I'm not a competitor to either the service or Amazon. If I'm the provider of said service, Amazon are a potential competitor.
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SAP co-founder on Germany and the software business(spiegel.de)
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by maayank 14y ago
Three words: Invite only beta. Ask people who are interested to put in their emails and when you have the available funds for X freemium users (maybe by some paid-for service) release X invites.

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