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by malachismith 14y ago
Dave, You're a smart cat. And you've been really successful in the tech / entrepreneurial venue. But this piece perfectly illustrates a common problem among successful tech entrepreneurs. You've not only assumed that a problem you struggle
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by malachismith 14y ago
Thank you so much for saying this. It perfectly captures my feelings about this piece - and also my frustration for what eating out has become. I actually had some asshat try to take pictures of the meal I was eating with his iPhone the o
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by malachismith 14y ago
OK, as a former professional athlete this piece is, as usual, half-smart and largely uninformed (and hugely frustrating). Important points: 1 - Don't confuse a "health club" with a gym. 2 - Don't confuse a "personal fitness trainer" with an
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by malachismith 14y ago
As a former publishing professional, no - there isn't. If the article were to differentiate between online subscription revenue and print subscription revenue, and were to control for other factors that ALSO drive switch to subscription, th
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by malachismith 14y ago
You can make a (stretch) claim at correlation just like you did, sure. But correlation (stretch or otherwise) is not the same as causation.
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2013 Cloud Predictions (appreciating and hating on AWS)(christacy.blogspot.com)
1 points by malachismith 14y ago|0 comments
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by malachismith 14y ago
Wait.... this article makes no sense. So subscription revenues are going up, and subscription revenue as a percentage of total revenue is going up. That's great. But why is this an indication of success of the paywall? Seriously...
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by malachismith 14y ago
Analysis and modeling should always be free of dogma. Otherwise you will (as the other of this post demonstrates) start using your analysis and modeling to justify and prove your dogma (rather than to understand). The fact that Silver's ana
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AppFog Gets Cheaper - Adds More Storage(gigaom.com)
1 points by malachismith 14y ago|0 comments
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by malachismith 14y ago
The idea that SNS isn't first-in, first-out is scary enough to me - but the fact that it's also "at least one copy will be delivered" (rather than "only one copy") makes it kind of insane.
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by malachismith 14y ago
Thank you so much for sharing this. It's about time people started pointing out that EBS is a disaster. If we all do, maybe Amazon will finally fix it.
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by malachismith 14y ago
"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting."
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by malachismith 14y ago
Vote.
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Politicians funded by the NRA(opensecrets.org)
8 points by malachismith 14y ago|5 comments
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Memory and Instance Configuration for Running WordPress on AppFog(blog.appfog.com)
2 points by malachismith 14y ago|0 comments
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by malachismith 14y ago
You misunderstand the goal of a Venture Fund within an investor's portfolio. It is supposed to to be high risk, high reward, GROWTH investment.
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by malachismith 14y ago
Patent Trolling is just another means to the same end.
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False Equivalencies (or How Hipsters Are Ruining Coffee)(godshot.blogspot.com)
2 points by malachismith 14y ago|0 comments
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by malachismith 14y ago
The exception - but only in severity.
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by malachismith 14y ago
this was simple calculus. big companies do it all the time. their legal department, their leverage... their money -- against the lack of all three (by comparison) possessed by a small company. it's not that they didn't know what was going o
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by malachismith 14y ago
Medically this is untrue. You need to understand the actual definition of "addiction" before making statements like this.
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by malachismith 14y ago
as a journalist... his job is the very OPPOSITE of "fighting for any excuse for his action." REALLY weak
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Node.js + RabbitMQ + AppFog -- A Tutorial(blog.appfog.com)
3 points by malachismith 14y ago|0 comments
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by malachismith 14y ago
The money quote, "Rather than engage in this empirical debate, or even acknowledge its existence, Kappos acted as though it was self-evident that stronger patents always create a larger incentive for innovation." And, of course, we have cop
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by malachismith 14y ago
They you've pretty much got unlimited choices. AppFog, Heroku, you name it. Everyone supports PHP and MySQL these days.
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by malachismith 14y ago
are you looking for PHP only platforms, or platforms that support PHP along with other languages?
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How to update your app on AppFog with Git(blog.appfog.com)
6 points by malachismith 14y ago|1 comments
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Hot PaaS AppFog hits 100k apps deployed, up 150% in just 6 months(venturebeat.com)
1 points by malachismith 14y ago|0 comments
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Getting started with Redis on AppFog: a Redis/Sinatra/Haml tutorial(blog.appfog.com)
3 points by malachismith 14y ago|0 comments
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by malachismith 14y ago
This is SO cool!!! Cannot wait to try it out.

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