marcus

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by marcus 18y ago
<cough> Facebook </cough>
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by marcus 18y ago
Here is a policy change for you to consider/champion. How about not blocking an entire account for an infraction in a single field. If someone did something wrong with their adwords account block their adwords not their email. And if someon
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Dean Kamen: part man, part machine(telegraph.co.uk)
7 points by marcus 18y ago|0 comments
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by marcus 18y ago
Part of the registration process is that you testify that don't know of any prior existing uses of the trademark by 3rd parties in the field. If you are aware of existing prior uses of your trademark you might have committed fraud in your a
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by marcus 18y ago
Read http://www.lambdassociates.org/blog/bipolar.htm for another description and some insights into your friend's psyche
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by marcus 18y ago
I always liked "Software simian"
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by marcus 18y ago
Or more eloquently put: execution matters more than anything else, and the key to execution is passion
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11 Habits of the Worst Boss I Ever Had - David Silverman(discussionleader.hbsp.com)
2 points by marcus 18y ago|0 comments
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by marcus 18y ago
As I've always said, the difference between the expert programmer and the novice isn't that the expert is smarter, he just did the same stupid mistakes so many times, he knows his way out.
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by marcus 18y ago
Consider building a tool to let users import decks they created on other sites/with other tools (and thus probably retain rights on) to your platform
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by marcus 18y ago
There is nothing inherently insecure in browsers. But they do have lots of security problems, mostly they come from trying to support lots of different formats, plugins, programming languages and hence acquiring every security flaw of each
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by marcus 18y ago
Possibly but you should really try to concentrate on business opportunities that are a close match to your skill-set and temperament which I guess the coffee industry isn't for most of the visitors here.
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by marcus 18y ago
What an amateur, the algorithm described here suffers from the same problem as keeping the running sum only in the other direction. It will stop working when the values you send it divided by the count are smaller than the precision of floa
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by marcus 18y ago
Context is always helpful and obviously should be used in addition to personal history and even override it, but if the query has little context, the only context you can get is from the users historical data. Personalization doesn't guaran
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by marcus 18y ago
How can you call it unproven? When I google for Python I get stuff related to programming because of my search history, when a zoologist looks for Pythons he'll see stuff related to snakes.
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by marcus 18y ago
Loved the last sentence: Is what it does worth doing?
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by marcus 18y ago
Yes you start seeding, without uploading a single bit. People connect to your public/private tracker, and start downloading the data from you and from other downloaders who have already downloaded very small chunks of the file. But you're r
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by marcus 18y ago
Why shouldn't I just seed a file as a torrent? torrents let the people who started downloading, upload segments they have already downloaded...
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by marcus 18y ago
Of course you can monetize it without revealing the algorithm, just expose an API. The questions you need to ask yourself is what are the advantages of your algorithm in comparison to known algorithms for tackling the same type of tasks, wh
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by marcus 18y ago
All windows before 98SE had memory leaks every time a new thread was spawned. Memory leaks in newer versions of windows are due to sloppy user programs (mainly handles that aren't released properly but a precise programming can reduce those
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by marcus 18y ago
Read the story of Mel http://www.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.html
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by marcus 18y ago
The entire Timeline plot is a bit pathetic, your company builds a time machine and what does it do with it? Go back to the 1960s and buy Berkshire Hathaway stock? Of course not where is the money in that... They go and study the 14th centur
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VCs Reap What They Sow - GigaOM(gigaom.com)
3 points by marcus 18y ago|0 comments
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by marcus 18y ago
Sadly my compromise of using 0.5 was flat out rejected.
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by marcus 18y ago
You're right, French law forbids the sale of locked cell phones.
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by marcus 18y ago
Considering Adobe's track record with open standards I'm not really surprised. Their purpose isn't to foster innovation, it is to remove an obstacle from the decision path of people buying Adobe's products.
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by marcus 18y ago
Don't bother trying to find Google's IPs, just block writing to the database when the UserAgent is GoogleBot. It happens more than once per page, as the AdSense bot will occasionally reread the page to see if its content changed and it shou
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by marcus 18y ago
PS sold 1995-2006, Original Xbox 2001-2005. And don't forget the Microsoft/Nintendo/Sony are losing money on each machine only to make it up in game royalties (except for the Wii which actually sells at a profit), and games are still sold a
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by marcus 18y ago
You're right about technology being a lever and the importance of using it. Which is exactly the reason I believe we should try working on designing bigger better levers, and not just applying existing levers to existing problems.
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by marcus 18y ago
Look at the average life expectancy of consoles over the years 5-6 years is about the right number. PS2 is still selling and it was released in 2000 but that is about as old as it gets.

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