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by mtkd 14y ago
How does he define a 'visit'? It's a vague concept now - from an ISP perspective hitting a page with G+ (or T or FB) button on it when signed-in takes down a 'visit' sized payload. When I +1 a page using Chrome Extension - is that a visit?
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by mtkd 14y ago
I'm rather sad to see the Ouya posts and comments like this on HN. There is no science to the knockdown - it's just naysaying. It's not like they're raising to build something really crazy like a space vehicle that docks with ISS. Many de
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by mtkd 14y ago
Your entire day is made easier and your life longer because many people ignored comments like this to produce all the services and inventions you now take for granted.
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by mtkd 14y ago
One factor assisting 'mobile' right now is that SEO is less pervasive - mobile apps are focussed on UX which desktop webapps long ago ditched to get rankings (ramming as much content on page as possible, overusing keywords, reviews, ratings
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by mtkd 14y ago
I worked on a Fujitsu tablet running Microsoft Windows 3.1 in 1994
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by mtkd 14y ago
It matters because there was a failure and it could be in a technology or service you also use. It matters because many users re-use credentials. Scenario: You send a confidential email to a colleague, colleague has her lastfm compromised.
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by mtkd 14y ago
The secondary market valuations were also predicated on the assumption that there was nothing very special to what Google were doing in online advertising and similar models could be applied to other high-visitor brands. There is now some r
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by mtkd 14y ago
"In its last quarter Facebook had $1bn of revenue and 40% pre-tax operating margins" The key execs and advisors involved in IPO were not conservative with the valuation. Do not be surprised if those same biases influenced some of the pre-fl
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by mtkd 14y ago
Social networks exploded because they created an interaction that previously wasn't possible. They have now become a tax on life - like email. A set of hygiene actions you have to perform every day. Do not underestimate how much the next ge
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by mtkd 14y ago
I do encourage any SQL user, who hasn't already tried MongoDB, to fire it up and try it themselves. Mongoid in Ruby is fairly fast to get started. I've been using SQL since early 90s. For web apps and large collections I've started using Mo
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by mtkd 14y ago
Impatient acquisitions when stressed to try and fix numbers/strategy can make any issues 10x worse down the line. Better to do nothing for 3 months. Take some time out of the office and do some deep thinking.
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by mtkd 14y ago
Long experience in development is often more about knowing what won't work as much as what will. Older developers can often rule 80% solutions out immediately - but a younger developer would have to work it out the hard way.
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by mtkd 14y ago
Kickstarter is starting to fill this gap.
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by mtkd 14y ago
Wait until the engineers leave to become VCs.
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by mtkd 14y ago
If a CEO has fabricated experience they have questionable integrity - and their ability to lead is impaired.
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by mtkd 14y ago
Why would you write a blog post with a question for a title and close the comments?
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Google's Plan For Motorola(businessinsider.com)
2 points by mtkd 15y ago|0 comments
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by mtkd 15y ago
I could see RMS using that all the time.
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by mtkd 15y ago
The full impact of a recession for a couple of quarters is usually not felt until several years later. What we're seeing with Nokia, BestBuy etc. is the companies that didn't adapt facing extinction. It should be happening to more - but the
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AAPL Market Cap = All The Companies In Spain, Portugal And Greece Combined(businessinsider.com)
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by mtkd 15y ago
People will tell you to take a break or find a hobby - but you may be like me and have to build stuff all the time - so they're not really viable options. I burnt out in 2001/2 - it took a while to get over it - here are some things that st
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by mtkd 15y ago
It's also advisable to try and keep the core dataset (which you absolutely depend on) as light as possible. Split out the heavy stuff on to other servers. Then have emergency flags in the webapps so you can run them in a low feature mode. I
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by mtkd 15y ago
Some of the best developers I've worked with have come from academic maths background and the development they worked on was the first time they'd written any significant software. It's easier to teach a mathematician to code than it is to
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by mtkd 15y ago
I see many interview questions (and discuss interview techniques with peers) and more often than not I wouldn't even know where to start - but I have managed to fairly consistently design/deliver large projects - and take a startup through
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Apple is crushing Google because they hire from San Jose State(businessinsider.com)
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by mtkd 15y ago
You can't ignore context. Fortran is a very strong language for a specific application - you can't compare it to Javascript. Delphi was a framework using Pascal. It was a revolution at the time - and you can see it's influence in many softw
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by mtkd 15y ago
I closed the original post as soon as I sampled the air of superiority that seems to be ever more present with some "intelligent, creative, and witty" developers and commentators. Hail the disruption.
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by mtkd 15y ago
This can't come soon enough. Too many sites are ranking by stuffing keywords and buying links. Next, Google need to find a way to rank a page based on it's role in a broader user experience - rather than being measured in isolation. Sites (
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by mtkd 15y ago
I wrote a tablet app for GfK around '95 using some Fujitsu tablet running Windows 3.1
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by mtkd 15y ago
If the only activity he's done is what he's mentioned in those issue comments - he really needs his account reinstating soon. There was no malicious intent from those comments - and he's done you a favour. If his account doesn't get reinsta

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