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by mercurio 19y ago
I think this says something about the issue (it's the top link on Reddit right now): http://www.paralleldesign.com/mckinney/kevin-01.htm
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by mercurio 19y ago
The article has some really great examples, though it's important to note that this is not a new technique, but one that Moore's law has finally made relevant. More importantly, this works for the kind of design that humans are really bad a
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by mercurio 19y ago
It's a reward mechanism. It's mere existence makes it valuable.. kind of like fiat money :) But seriously, on the micro scale, earning a single karma point feels good because it means somebody appreciates what you said. On a macro level, it
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by mercurio 19y ago
I wonder about this too. Sometimes you come across thought provoking articles that cry out for comments, but there are none. If the article is already a few hours old and fallen off the front page, and you do post a comment, it probably won
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by mercurio 19y ago
Google advancing a specious argument for personal gain... one would think people would find that more interesting than the votes indicate.
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by mercurio 19y ago
Even in a real world democracy, there are people whose opinions have a disproportionate influence. Why do we think that democracy would work differently in an online community? Further, one would expect to see a power law distribution in th
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by mercurio 19y ago
How about showing two electrons sharing the same state? We could call it "Forbidden Lust".
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by mercurio 19y ago
I don't think the mode of delivery changes the passive nature of the activity. A movie downloaded and watched from the pirate bay is no more 'two-way' than one seen in a movie theatre. I read your original comment to mean that because peopl
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by mercurio 19y ago
yeah, the willingness to pay is dropping. Its already disappeared for music (but itunes is changing that). Figuring out what the audience will like exactly is a different (and difficult) problem. I'm sure there were a lot of greek tragedies
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by mercurio 19y ago
While I understand the point you are making, I think you are underestimating the value and appeal of Hollywood's traditional offerings. Just look at the amount of movies and TV shows shared using bittorrent. Humans really really like storie
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by mercurio 19y ago
I would suggest reading this great short story by Asimov. Its called "Profession". http://www.abelard.org/asimov.htm
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by mercurio 19y ago
Only if its a circular linked list of two elements.
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by mercurio 19y ago
M stands for mille, which is latin for thousand (think Roman numerals). Thats also where you get the prefix, as in milliliter.
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by mercurio 19y ago
Where's the fun in that? :)
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by mercurio 19y ago
I think those are too low. At $0.05 CPM, 300 million page views would earn just $15000 a month. I doubt that that many pages could be served for a few thousand dollars. Look at their hardware and bandwidth costs and work out what a profitab
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by mercurio 19y ago
Actually this is a joke thats quite 'hackable'. Let me illustrate: You don't know what kerning is. You can make out that you are on a typography site so you have a basic idea of the kind of things it could be referring to. You notice that '
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by mercurio 19y ago
The idea that a startup's successful product will be very different from their initial offering is a bit overblown. Yes, there are any number of high profile examples where this has held true (blogger, paypal, flickr), but there are an equa
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by mercurio 19y ago
Interesting bit: Q: What typically happens to famous or iconic works of art after they are stolen? A: They can be sold to what’s called a “criminal venture capitalist”.
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by mercurio 19y ago
It could still do with some more work. The watch changes button made me expect that the page would show me real time changes. Why not change it to "Create Feed" as thats what it does. You have a lot of white space to work with. Use it to be
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by mercurio 19y ago
Nice idea. Made me think of tinyurl, so thats good. But this is just as easy to replicate, which makes me think of the hundreds of tinyurl clones. If you take a look at how those clones tried to distinguish themselves from tinyurl and what
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by mercurio 19y ago
I don't think too many startups outsource. Certainly not the type that YC funds, and certainly not development which is where you would hope to gain an edge. The issue with outsourcing development is that to judge the quality of the outsour
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by mercurio 19y ago
A startup idea is not just a one line description (like those much maligned hollywood pitches). The initial germ of an idea is followed by a series of ideas as the site is developed. Which of these end up being crucial to the success of the
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by mercurio 19y ago
The New York Times, Fake Steve Jobs, Wired, to name a few. Some of the very best reads are one-offs. This comes to mind: http://www.improvresourcecenter.com/mb/tpcs.html
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by mercurio 19y ago
You might want to set up some sort of vesting schedule to achieve this. See http://www.feld.com/blog/archives/2005/05/term_sheet_-_ve.ht...
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by mercurio 19y ago
Not very.
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by mercurio 19y ago
OK I thought of a better reason for Microsoft to keep Xobni independent. This way a business has to pay for both Outlook and Xobni! If Xobni was rolled into Outlook, then Microsoft could only charge for Outlook (possibly force an upgrade to
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by mercurio 19y ago
They are well-funded, but they cannot achieve much without Microsoft (because Microsoft controls access to Outlook). So Microsoft has huge leverage in this situation. This makes me believe that Microsoft is in charge of the timetable (whate
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by mercurio 19y ago
So I thought about this for a while and here's what I came up with: Scenario a) Microsoft wants to acquire Xobni, but Xobni does not want to be acquired at its present valuation (whatever Microsoft was offering). However Microsoft also has
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Ask YC: Why hasn't Microsoft acquired Xobni already?
14 points by mercurio 19y ago|26 comments
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by mercurio 19y ago
Hey could you delete your rescuetime entry from the poll, as its a duplicate entry? Instead just upmod paulgb's comment which votes for rescuetime too. Edit: never mind. there are more duplicates already, and they are in turn going to confu

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