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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
Congratulations on taking on an ambitious project at such a young age! This strikes me as extremely useful for a large segment of PHP devs. Just as a FYI, the layout doesn't work on my Win7 Chrome browser. The content appears below t
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
Gutenberg looks awesome! I have a special interest in tools that help programmers build documentation while they code. Part of the reason is that I struggle with it constantly. A shameless self-promotion here: in the last 2 days, my cowor
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
This is Travis from the team doing the live hackathon. We'd love to have people stop by the chat room and offer feedback. We'll also check this page somewhat regularly. Right now, it just views markdown documentation, pulling fr
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
What if they just ran their calculations something like this? Suppose a 10MB youtube video is watched 100x. That's 1GB traffic. The NSA could record the video (10MB), then simply record who watched it (maybe a few dozen MB in http he
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
It seems to me that it is because the hiring process is a short-term one. The rationale for firing someone can happen over hundreds of hours. Sometimes you don't know that someone will be a bad coworker until they've been a bad
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
I dunno, I could see that really resonating with parents who want complete knowledge of their child's location at all times. And what they were doing. That type of technology satisfies every parent: those who want to be helicoptering,
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
Numbers are from 2012 b/c I didn't want to spend more time looking for more recent #s. But according the MS Q3 2012 numbers, their Business division revenue was $5.81 billion, up 9 percent from $5.33 billion a year earlier.
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
I don't think I disagree with you, but the term set up to fail suggests to me that someone who set up the city did so with the intention that it fail. One danger is the categorization of Detroit as an exception, that it couldn't h
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
I think he may be referring to machine overlords. If the automated processes are what replace humans as the dominant life form, who will watch the automation? I think the "dominant life form" thing is a bit of semantics. But I h
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
According to popular mechanics ( http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/forensics/432... ): 'No studies have proved definitively that fingerprints are unique. Likewise, it is unclear if prints chan
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
Facts are not copyrightable. Collections of facts might be. I think collecting products and prices for sale @ WF is allowable, in the same sense that it is OK to distribute baseball box scores. As long as you aren't directly republis
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
Zero sum games, taking prized possessions from your friends... you can do what you will. I don't regret any of my money spent on my MTG cards, but not because it taught me skills to become a stock broker.
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
I would consider saying "please reply to this message to unsubscribe" easily accessible, legitimate, and free. I think spam is more complex than just saying "spam is spam". Especially in b2b (see the other comment about
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
How do you measure success? Is it number of viewers, awards won, etc.? My cynical side says that success is (advertising_dollars_per_episode * #_episodes) / (cost_per_episode). So the more ads they can sell for more money divided by
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
Gotcha, thanks for the clarification. I agree with you on the email personalization, btw -- response rates skyrocket when an email is personally written, even if it has common snippets. My personal hope is that we're entering an era wh
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
Would you consider it spam if someone manually went to a site, found their contact information, and sent them an email by hand? It appears to fit the same definition as "unsolicited", and yet, that is one of the purposes of a bus
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
Anyone know the source of the 35-50% increased fuel efficiency numbers? I'm curious if it's a point-to-point estimate, or what. It'd be pretty amazing if the efficiency was such to overcome the reduced drag from flying at h
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
This sounds pretty much exactly the opposite of what I hear from pricing experts. Charge based on the value you provide to the person using your service, not based on your costs. An easy system to post ebooks and charge for them is probabl
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
no, that was only when Bush Light was in office.
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
I also agree that this is coincidental. There is no reason to connect what a politician says they represent with what they actually represent. A more innocent website would involve a random slogan generator. It's unlikely there was in
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
I think one point of the article was that recurring revenue is more complex than that. It all depends on pricing, time to recoup customer acquisition cost, and a few other things. If it takes 18 months to become a "jacket" (ie br
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
Some food for thought in here. But I'm not sure it's necessarily a problem with SaaS businesses. His conclusions depend on the arbitrary numbers in the example analysis. It seems to me that his criticism is with the pricing rath
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
From the end of the article: >It’s like the old Jackie Mason joke — A man is selling jackets at cost. The customer asks “how can you sell at cost, how do you make any money?” Answer: “I sell a lot of jackets!”'
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
There are also issues with using IQ as a proxy for... anything. Especially when we're talking about topics with strong racial components.
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
My company runs a large dataset that includes construction companies and government contractors. Contact me via my profile email if you're interested in talking more about this.
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
I can't pretend to speak for Patrick, but I'm guessing that a lot of people asked him for more and more advice. I bet a lot of people wanted to pay him to help them. I don't find it strange at all. Given his success with
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
100 calories of oatmeal is 26g. 100g of quinoa is 83g. Research [0] shows that portion size is important in controlling obesity. [0] http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/76/6/1207.full (note - this was just a
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
Maybe I'm going cross eyed from a long day, but looking at that result... how can Quaker oatmeal have 2g of protein and be 5% USRDA, while quinoa has 4g of protein yet 7% USRDA? Shouldn't that be 10% USRDA for quinoa?
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
> The problem is that half the population is below average in terms of mental ability and education. Isn't this a problem everywhere, though? Why do we only hear this issue WRT the U.S.? (I freely admit it could just be because I
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
First, take a deep breath. You're going to be OK, even if it doesn't feel like it right now. Next, take a look at today's Zen Habits -- http://zenhabits.net/failed/ . It can help you set perspective reg

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