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by marcus 19y ago
The point of the article is that there is a 4th category that is even worse, things that you know, but are wrong or have been made irrelevant or obsolete. Think of the experiment with the 5 monkeys, the problem is we as experts in a field a
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by marcus 19y ago
Actually using time as an additional salt is a very healthy practice, just make sure you store the time you use. It reduces collisions.
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by marcus 19y ago
Come on using base64? isn't that a bit too old school?
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by marcus 19y ago
Actually your analogy is very accurate and just as after you reach a certain level of fluency in a new language you stop thinking about what you are going to say and how to compose the sentence you want, and just say it.
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by marcus 19y ago
Cool idea, but I'm having an IRC chatbot flashback.
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by marcus 19y ago
Hell, I learned Python over a weekend, while building a project for a client (nothing like getting paid to learn a great new language). Not my best code obviously but it just flowed so naturally. The closest thing to poetry or pseudo code I
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by marcus 19y ago
The thing he doesn't get is that you can always have more smaller polygons, rendering a single 3D cube is trivial in any resolution/framerate you may want, the problem is that polygons interact/intersect and that takes some real computing p
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by marcus 19y ago
There is a real problem in teaching someone lisp, when they had no prior experience with functional languages and too much experience with imperative ones. You need to rewire your brain and think differently. Which is probably the exact re
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by marcus 19y ago
No offense, but these were the only links I could find with that format. Just tried it while signed and still the link when I do "copy link location" is direct. Maybe they only do it on a small focus group or for users in certain countries
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by marcus 19y ago
You are not looking at organic search results. The link is for non-adwords sponsored links. (notice the colors are different ). This is a paid advertising option, so it obviously has to be tracked so they can price it correctly.
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by marcus 19y ago
His quote: "practically any application, once people start using it, can be used as a lever to more activity and benefit delivery. Being smart about what you're leveraging is key." But my point is that some applications aren't viable at all
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by marcus 19y ago
First of all, Google doesn't use clicks to improve their searches, because they have no way of knowing on what you click, the links on the search page are direct to the websites that interest you and the JavaScript function (clk) doesn't se
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by marcus 19y ago
Evan misses one very important component of evaluating an idea. What is the effect of mass liquidity on the value add. Is the value gained by the first user identical to the value of the millionth user. Google,Amazon - even if I was the onl
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by marcus 19y ago
Yes, iteration in this sense is basically traversing along a plane mostly in the direction of biggest gain. So you'll mostly traverse to local maximum, once you get to a local maximum, there is no evolutionary advantage to doing a step in a
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by marcus 19y ago
True, but there are a host of techniques to skip local maximums, for example running several totally separate populations (families) for a certain number of generations and then creating a new population (family) based only on combinations
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by marcus 19y ago
Thats why I have always loved genetic algorithms. They are creating some patent worthy inventions using them now. Check John Koza's work. http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/0e13af26862ba010vgnvcm1...
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by marcus 19y ago
The point Dave missed is that Google for example doesn't really want to open its infrastructure to outside users, they consider their infrastructure and scaling ability to be a key competitive advantage. They want the walls in place, the wa
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by marcus 19y ago
If only we had down vote for articles.
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by marcus 19y ago
Absolutely and I am not saying that going after them isn't the correct strategy sometimes, but you should always be aware of your balance between these two poles. All I'm trying to convey is that you shouldn't assume that they represent you
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by marcus 19y ago
True, but it all depends on the way the individual claims are written in the patents governing multi-touch systems. If they have separated the claims for determining touch points and for the using different touch points to control zoom for
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by marcus 19y ago
The problem with key influencers is that they can help you get to the top few percent their crowd rather quickly but their requirements and expectations are totally different than those of the rest of your target audience and by leveraging/
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by marcus 19y ago
I think most patents on this technology have expired with the possible exception of multi-touch.
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by marcus 19y ago
The reason fighting climate change scored so low in the CC was not that the problem is not real, its that the damages are still pretty far down the road and that we don't have any really cost-effective ways to do it. We need to keep spendin
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by marcus 19y ago
I am still amazed by the fact that ebay has become a legitimate sale avenue for entire startups/businesses. Now that is brand/name recognition.
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by marcus 19y ago
So long as the parent company is not doing anything that is illegal under UK law, it is totally legal as far as I know or at least it was 5 years ago. What part of it do you think might be illegal? But then again, I am not a lawyer so pleas
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by marcus 19y ago
Build an entirely owned subsidiary in a respectable place, the UK for example. And funnel the transactions through it. Had the same problem in a startup I built 5 years ago that was based in Costa Rica. The entire process should take no mor
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by marcus 19y ago
Now all I need to do is give these monsters stats and I'll have the next big role-playing game "cubicles&bugs"
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by marcus 19y ago
You are doing it wrong, you are not supposed to cover the taste of coffee with crap like sugar and cream. It's like trying to fall in love with a girl by putting more clothes on her, our biology works in exactly the opposite way. A good dou
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by marcus 19y ago
Hacker - a machine that transforms caffeine to lines of code
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by marcus 19y ago
If they had only limited the spec to include Ogg Vorbis it would have sailed through... The problem is that most people companies have no idea what the difference is...

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