mojuba

86 ms·

901.
by mojuba 11y ago
Exactly this. By announcing separate open hours for groups B and C, don't they deliberately make their normal hours even more A?
902.
by mojuba 11y ago
Some content providers may choose to allow that, because it's in their interest to deliver content to more readers, be more popular. Let's not forget, the whole point of journalism is to reach out to more readers. How the journali
903.
by mojuba 11y ago
I'm sorry but how do you know it was the search website that sold information? It could as well be the first web site that she opened that happened to be on the same ad network as other related web sites she visited. Just guessing.
904.
by mojuba 11y ago
Right, that part needs some improvements. I'm thinking, advertisers might compete for viewers by paying more for a given keyword, i.e. the prices are not fixed and the highest bidder wins the viewer. Another question is whether these a
905.
by mojuba 11y ago
As a possibility, a model whereby advertisers pay both content providers and readers for viewing ads. I can imagine a system where before viewing expensive content (your next ultradeep NYT analysis I really want to read) I'm given a ch
906.
by mojuba 11y ago
Yep, with the only thing seriously missing being search.
907.
by mojuba 11y ago
Or not necessarily about the present time. For example a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away they had very advanced AIs but no computers or mobile communication (in any practical form) :)
908.
by mojuba 11y ago
Honestly, I don't get what the article is about. Was probably expecting something deeper, e.g. why our vision of the future is always so wrong and dull and not only in terms of cultural changes. Take any prediction from the 1960s for e
909.
by mojuba 11y ago
Exactly. I call it exploitation of the unknown. You can generate lots of "theories" by just combining a couple of mysterious things into one. For example, something that hasn't been tried yet afaict, is a theory that black ho
910.
by mojuba 11y ago
I don't think it's just nostalgia. I think there is certain craving for touching physical things, moving them around, giving as gifts, and even breaking them. Digital takes over because it's more practical, but the physical s
911.
by mojuba 11y ago
The clueless ones are usually newcomers e.g. to the Internet. Everyone of us got caught up in a scam at least once.
912.
by mojuba 11y ago
I think it was probably an unjustified replacement for a simple bar code in your case. I check in using bar codes usually :)
913.
by mojuba 11y ago
Shouldn't the uses you mentioned be covered by NFC and iBeacon in this day and age?
914.
by mojuba 11y ago
I haven't seen a QR code that wouldn't lead to a plain online ad for a long while. Their other, "sincere" uses have diminished most likely because there are always more reasonable alternatives, such as a short and memora
915.
by mojuba 11y ago
Certain types of bullshit (if not all) are built on the phenomenon of Eternal September[1]. There are always those who are clueless enough to trust a spam/scam email or who'd believe that the hamburger on the billboard would be as
916.
by mojuba 11y ago
Can't say how effective this campaign can be, but I'm glad QR codes are now officially included in the list of bullshit. Can't agree more.
917.
by mojuba 11y ago
Dying games simulated using a dying technology, Flash that is. No nostalgia for me tonight :(
918.
by mojuba 11y ago
I agree. I think the current state of AI can roughly be described as "we want to fly like birds" rather than "we want to fly". Aviation is a great example of how the formulation of a task makes a huge difference. We stil
919.
by mojuba 11y ago
Or as an alternative theory, Randall Munroe wants to know if it's OK to tell everyone when he throws away all his socks and buys a bunch of identical ones.
920.
by mojuba 11y ago
One of the most annoying problems in C and C++ (and Objective-C/C++). Most of the time we deal with quantities, sizes, distances, coordinates, identifiers. Except for the latter, all others can end up in the negative space even when we
921.
by mojuba 11y ago
Sad and true, and it's because we still live in a survivalist world. We talk a lot about sharing and doing good, but our instincts tell us the opposite. Nobody's going to share their wealth with you except your parents (if at all)
922.
Will Your Hardware Startup Make Money?(medium.com)
1 points by mojuba 11y ago|0 comments
923.
by mojuba 11y ago
Can someone comment on whether there is still age preference/discrimination at these YC events?
924.
by mojuba 11y ago
> It's very natural to write, and easy to type. You start with super-short examples that are easily understood, using a bare-bones editor. Explaining blocks and iterators is a challenge of course. Same can be said about Python, Swif
925.
by mojuba 11y ago
It would've been supercool if it looked hand drawn and 3D at the same time. I don't know how to implement this, but I suppose should be possible with the right tools and a graphic designer who'd grasp the idea.
926.
by mojuba 11y ago
It's a skill. An artful engineering skill.
927.
by mojuba 11y ago
To find out later that not everything can be cached, e.g. time(), rand(), file_get_contents()... to find out further that no sys or lib call that contains I/O can be cached. And then damn it, why bother caching at all?
928.
by mojuba 11y ago
> you discover old v4-only devices late rather than early Could you explain what this means?
929.
Time, People and Money: Exactly Why ‘Hardware Is Hard’(medium.com)
26 points by mojuba 11y ago|7 comments
930.
by mojuba 11y ago
That's pretty much the only thing I miss about the life in the USSR: no ads. I wonder if we could ever claim back our visual field and have more control over what's allowed in the streets.

More ›