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George Robert Price, game theory and natural selection (30 min audio)(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by mtkd 15y ago|0 comments
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by mtkd 15y ago
This is a now legendary email thread. You can build some great software and leverage the revenue to acquire and expand further - but if you lose sight of the big picture then stagnation, disfunction and decay is not far away. When I first s
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by mtkd 15y ago
I've not seen any evidence keyword URLs give any SEO benefit. If they once did, it doesn't appear to be the case now.
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by mtkd 15y ago
Apps is not compatible with quite a few Google products currently - including Google+. It's a great product, but as soon as you start paying you do feel like you've become a second-class citizen to Google. Possibly indicates that non-paying
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by mtkd 15y ago
Goldman Sachs must be flapping over the PR plus is getting. Google really do seem to have product momentum - an FB account could very soon be Myspace cool. Also I sense there is something going on with G/Twitter at the moment - the plus lau
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by mtkd 15y ago
If it had been at all intended for business use it would work with Google Apps accounts from launch - it doesn't.
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by mtkd 15y ago
I hope they do something on the namespacing. Linkedin appear to be including a country name in the URL now which increases namespacing, but that isn't enough. This is one of the biggest challenges I see online and in gaming at the moment: H
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by mtkd 15y ago
Patenting is everything. Until that is fixed - innovation is a tarpit.
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by mtkd 15y ago
When I first read about this - it seemed like a new Groupon angle that might have some legs. Seeing it in the flesh - it feels wrong. It's passing-off. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passing_off
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by mtkd 15y ago
Or choose technology based on requirements. If the port to SQL was so easy and used half the storage and didn't appear to impact performance - it was possibly the better solution in the first place. Mongodb is awesome - one of best technolo
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by mtkd 15y ago
That was the only bit I liked - I've seen it somewhere else recently - one of the fashion sites I think - I love it - rest of the page I'm not so sure about - but I wouldn't like to be judged on one of our early mocks.
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by mtkd 15y ago
I want to bias my Google SERPs, Twitter search etc. with my social graphs - linkedin, twitter, facebook - like I do offline. Sometimes I may still want to allow anonymous (to me) signals to influence what I see, but generally I only want to
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by mtkd 16y ago
Team payment options would be good too - $25/M 7 user option or something.
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by mtkd 16y ago
There is certainly a dynamic with social sites that the 'next generation' want to use something new - just like with music genres - you can't be cool indefinitely. The next generation may reject social altogether - and not want to be tracke
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by mtkd 16y ago
Everything you need is here: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html Those guides are an exercise in best practice framework documentation.
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by mtkd 16y ago
Personally, if you want to learn something - jump in and learn it - do what interests you. I started with Rails first (someone sent me a PDF of an early Rails manual - I started skimming it about 8am, finished the entire book of 300+ pages
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by mtkd 16y ago
I doubt they'd be using Mono - if it really is an F# issue it maybe indicates it's a failure in some of the legacy system they are replacing.
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by mtkd 16y ago
"And as a final note, solely for the seriously nerdy techies, there's been some talk about the failure being due to F# error." http://ftalphaville.ft.com/marketslive/
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by mtkd 16y ago
The problem for Google is that any non-algorithmic approach (using a feedback mechanism) will just be abused by the SEO industry - they'll just crank up mechanical turk to start reporting anyone ranking above their clients.
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by mtkd 16y ago
If you took 35 startups that span continents and are no more than 2 years old I think the results would be significantly different. I've worked in close proximity and remotely - you can't beat a small team of motivated developers working wh
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by mtkd 16y ago
I don't see how you could anti-game this, the SEOs would just use mechanical turk to hire 100s of people (with valid Google Accounts) to do the reporting. At best G could use the information as a list of potential spammers and filter domain
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IMDb still run from a house in Bristol(dailymail.co.uk)
2 points by mtkd 16y ago|0 comments
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by mtkd 16y ago
1) I'm not convinced about judging all the developers you hire on with the same criteria - I think you just end up with a clone army 2) I'm not convinced about hiring someone based on their ability to bang a working algo out in 30 minutes I
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Should I work at a startup or as a quant at a hedge fund?(quora.com)
2 points by mtkd 16y ago|0 comments
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by mtkd 16y ago
If the features are significant enough to convince a CIO to change browser than yes. If the product is not ready for mainstream release for the next 12 or 24 months then yes. If it's only slightly better than IE compatible alternatives and
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by mtkd 16y ago
Crash magazine will always be my most beloved. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_%28magazine%29
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by mtkd 16y ago
It's important to embrace the fact you do not feel like working. Too many coders, myself included, try to work through it but end up procrastinating. If you don't feel like working - go and do something you feel like doing. You'll be a lot
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by mtkd 16y ago
At least we know who that anonymous job advert was for last week.
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by mtkd 16y ago
I've been coding since the 80s and as far back as I can remember hacking has always meant breaching security, it wasn't until the 90s that I started hearing people trying to 'reclaim' the use. Clearly some tech communities were using it ear
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by mtkd 16y ago
That's interesting, thanks, I remember writing my own on the Z80.

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