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by mgummelt 8y ago
> For example, a CRM-focused blockchain might place the business logic for managing customer relations and sales on-chain and enable competing clients to build on the protocol. We can already do this with traditional APIs. The only benef
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by mgummelt 8y ago
Write in scala using only "vals" and there you have it!
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by mgummelt 8y ago
Sure, but mutability is orthogonal to OOP.
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by mgummelt 8y ago
I think we're in violent agreement here. AFAICT, the feature sets of OOP and non-OOP languages have converged so much that inheritance is really the last differentiator. Maybe you could throw dynamic dispatch in there, but there&#x27
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by mgummelt 8y ago
> when I hear "mock object" it's time to run Do Haskell programmers not create mocks to test external components? > OOP is the wrong-minded idea that a program should be a bundle of many "self-contained" objec
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by mgummelt 9y ago
They don't allow advertisers to target non-users. I'm sure they use non-user data for clustering, just as you described. They also probably use it when the user finally does create a FB account.
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by mgummelt 9y ago
The same could be said of FB early on. It just got bigger.
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by mgummelt 9y ago
What amazing things happened on Myspace?
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by mgummelt 9y ago
The type of ads you see on FB is only relevant to FB users.
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by mgummelt 9y ago
> We require websites and apps who use our tools to tell you they’re collecting and sharing your information with us, and to get your permission to do so. Am I missing something or does this line conflict with the rest of the post?
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by mgummelt 9y ago
It's actually exactly the opposite. Google's most valuable data is the long tail, which is substantial in search, since they have some data for rare searches, whereas Bing as none.
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by mgummelt 9y ago
Not really. Employees can have much more information and market insight than an external analyst, especially in tech.
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by mgummelt 9y ago
Why would one use ReactOS over Wine? I read this page: https://www.reactos.org/wiki/WINE , but it didn't really provide an answer. I understand that ReactOS doesn't require Linux as a dependency, but is that a
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by mgummelt 9y ago
Network effects are not limited to products that connect users. A network effect is when more usage increases the value of the product [1]. More Google users means more click data, which means better search ranking. But yes, Google also has
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by mgummelt 9y ago
If you had $1MM in cash, how much of it would you use to buy the company's stock?
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by mgummelt 9y ago
Supervised learning requires labels. Unsupervised doesn't. Self driving cars use elements of both. This is why companies like Cruise and Tesla are rushing to get basic self driving cars out there. They need driving data.
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by mgummelt 9y ago
Self driving cars have massive network effects, just like any product dependent on machine learning. More users -> more data -> better product -> more users. It's the same reason Google is invulnerable in web search.
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by mgummelt 9y ago
The Sources of Innovation by von Hippel [1] tries to answer this question of when innovation comes from users vs. manufacturers vs. suppliers. The book is nearly unreadable, but the topic is interesting. [1] http://web.mit.edu&
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by mgummelt 9y ago
I'm not sure the usage of C for apps is an example of worse is better so much as network effects. It's easier to write apps in the same language as the OS.
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by mgummelt 9y ago
If you had to use one language to teach a CS101 course, with the goal of having the students build a complex project at the end, would you bet on scheme or javascript?
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by mgummelt 9y ago
How does Go lack correctness?
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by mgummelt 9y ago
The original "worse is better" essay is on to something, but its conclusions are mistaken. Implementation simplicity only accelerates growth when the product must be reimplemented. Unix was a standard that had to be reimplemente
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by mgummelt 9y ago
If you'd like to learn about an open-source scheduler that does mimic some of the properties of an internal spot market, check out Cook: https://github.com/twosigma/Cook It's unlikely that Netflix implemented
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by mgummelt 9y ago
Yes, but bursting -/-> spot market.
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by mgummelt 9y ago
> Stranger Things season 2 is shot in 8K and has nine episodes. The source files are terabytes and terabytes of data. Each season required 190,000 CPU hours to encode. High resolution video is larger than you might expect.
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by mgummelt 9y ago
Ah, so it seems that the ambiguity lies in "container". All Mesos tasks run in containers, i.e. cgroups. Not all containers are filesystem isolated, and not all are Docker containers. Docker is so popular that people seem to thin
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by mgummelt 9y ago
How do you see Mesos as more bare-metal than k8s? Also, both Mesos and k8s deploy containers. I'm always confused when people call k8s a container orchestration tool, but not Mesos. What makes a container orchestration tool? Does ev
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by mgummelt 9y ago
Almost all of this is out of date. Did you try DC/OS a long time ago, maybe? > Their "Docker support" simply means they use normal Mesos worker processes to shell out to the Docker CLI across a cluster. This hasn't b
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by mgummelt 9y ago
Most of the Forbes 400 are self-made: https://www.forbes.com/sites/afontevecchia/2014/10/03/there-...
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by mgummelt 9y ago
> a multiagent environment has no stable equilibrium It does. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionarily_stable_strategy

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