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901.
by olefoo 15y ago
You get the same dippy dynamics as you do with any other randomly assembled group of people. 2 of them will utterly fail to perform for a reason that has nothing to with the startup, 5 of them won't perform because they're too busy being ma
902.
by olefoo 15y ago
You should look at the work on pypy; specifically the RPython subset of python. It uses type hinting for static type analysis for the JIT compiler. It's not as hardcore as a fully statically typed language like ML or C but it will catch mis
903.
by olefoo 15y ago
I was under the impression that the raising of the 500 shareholder limit was to allow the crowdfunding aspect to be meaningful; 500 investors at $100 a pop is only $50,000 that makes a certain amount of sense. However, I'm not familiar enou
904.
by olefoo 15y ago
Because the only monopoly they have is on Apple products. There are other phones, other laptops and other tablets available. No one is being forced to develop for IOS, no one is being forced to buy Apple products whether they want them or n
905.
by olefoo 15y ago
Recognizing the harsh practical reality is not "giving up"; if you're acting under the constraint that the end user of a web service must also be the customer, then you cannot under any circumstances get people to pay the actual costs per/c
906.
by olefoo 15y ago
I think you hit the nail on the head. But it does restrict the ambit of the possible for web properties to ones where the end-user both understands the value and is willing to pay the cost of the service being provided. It would be impossib
907.
by olefoo 15y ago
I wonder about that. It seems to me that the bitcoin wallet shouldn't have been accessible after reboot, at least until someone came by to give the agent managing it the passphrase that would allow it to decrypt it's state. From the sound o
908.
by olefoo 15y ago
Given that the floodgates on new TLDs are opening, it seems quite possible that a TLD operator could run afoul of the law and put thousands if not millions of domains at risk.
909.
by olefoo 15y ago
That's not particularly useful to people who want to rip through the entire corpus using standard textmining tools; we'd really rather a signed torrent of a compressed imap archive or something similar. Having all the headers in formats acc
910.
by olefoo 15y ago
That's a good point. Few actual people want to read Newt Gingrich's political autobiography, yet it was a New York Times bestseller based on sales. And Romney has done similar things http://www.salon.com/2010/10/15/mitt_romney_book/
911.
by olefoo 15y ago
It's one chain of a money laundering operation. Multiple books are created at high but not too high prices. Stolen funds are used to buy them; (through multiple intermediaries, work from home mules being a favorite) and the profits are move
912.
by olefoo 15y ago
In one possible future Wikipedia editors are vetted by an independent auditing commission consisting of topic experts, an Institutional Review Board and a jury of their peers. Once vetted they are given a cap and gown that they must wear wh
913.
by olefoo 15y ago
The phrase "Eating the seed corn." comes to mind. Also the old anarchist saw: "Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries"
914.
by olefoo 15y ago
Decorators can be misused, but they can also succinctly express an aspect of the program that is repeated many times in different contexts. My own rule is that a decorator should do one thing, and that thing should be described by it's name
915.
by olefoo 15y ago
Fortunately for many people, the US is not the only country. Millions of companies survive and thrive without doing business in the US. At this time in history, we are used to thinking of the US as being a favorable business climate; relati
916.
by olefoo 15y ago
Mozilla has good creds as a stalwart member of the Rebel Alliance and the work on https://browserid.org/ does in fact lay some of the needed groundwork for a changing the ground of debate when it comes to identity on the internet. That sa
917.
by olefoo 15y ago
To the layman, much legalese looks and sounds repetitious because it is hedged with caveats and guards. It's precision is part of what makes it opaque. And yet, if one deciphers several T&C documents one starts to see similarities in st
918.
by olefoo 15y ago
It's been tried http://khulaproject.com/ I don't think it's a particularly viable business, it might be a good feature of a larger business that was focused on helping customers navigate the complexities of modern life; but on it's own, t
919.
by olefoo 15y ago
Relatively few people here have a problem with Pinterest making money; the problem they do have, is making money by modifying the links the users are posting without disclosing that modification. I'd be somewhat squicked if I saw that parag
920.
by olefoo 15y ago
Predatory pricing does exist, but several conditions have to be true of the commodity being priced. It must be a rival good, it's production has to have high-barriers to entry and it cannot have easy substitutes. In the case of online maps,
921.
What comes after SOPA/PIPA?
4 points by olefoo 15y ago|1 comments
922.
by olefoo 15y ago
Yours is the first post on the topic to make me think that the _agent_provocateur_ accusation might in fact be true.
923.
by olefoo 15y ago
Eh, the wall of text probably had more to do with the fact I was coding all morning and the verbal parts of my brain had gotten bored and restless. But seriously, if you're going to copy ifttt.com, copy the "focused, no frills, functional s
924.
by olefoo 15y ago
I can see what you're doing and even sort of admire the hustle. But in the grand scheme of things ifttt.com will always have the stronger brand. For one thing, they work now, and I give them my auth proxies because they do useful things for
925.
by olefoo 15y ago
I want ifttt to charge money or drop ads on the emails I have it send, or something that makes it so that the service itself will have staying power. Also, box.net if you read HN, pay them to make adding you as a channel a priority.
926.
by olefoo 15y ago
You're ignoring the longterm effects of someone who chronically creates work for others due to their lack of preparation or ability. It is not good for a company to put itself under stress like that. It's especially poisonous when the perso
927.
by olefoo 15y ago
Shortest version that you would understand without being given a comprehensive education in the last three decades of political philosophy: "If you use the language of your enemy, you become your enemy."
928.
by olefoo 15y ago
This is a dangerous business model on several levels: a. It cheapens the idea of social influence, by participating in it you become a compromised voice. b. If one of the companies you are shilling for should meet with some moderate level o
929.
by olefoo 15y ago
I've had mine for a month, and was wearing it pretty much all the time. I actually found it pretty useful for making me aware of how much activity I was logging. I was even exploring the unofficial api to grab as much of the raw data as pos
930.
by olefoo 15y ago
The article mentions PLV8 which transparently converts everything to JSON internally and can be used to output json directly. And there are various other extensions to Postgres that will allow you move JSON into and out of the database. If

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