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by pgroves 15y ago
As much as I wish the innovations of g+ and Facebook were centered around RSS and email, this is just the way new technologies evolve. Identity management and permissions management for who can see a user's content just don't have a good st
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by pgroves 15y ago
The reasoning in the article is a bit off for evaluating the popularity of a website. Saying the usage has dropped in 11 of 21 isn't surprising. Many websites gain users in a pattern of big spikes, followed by steep drops, but with the new
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by pgroves 15y ago
It's a nice visualization. One more suggestion: Do label the time zone. even if it correctly detects the user's time zone, that's unexpected on the internet. Plus you don't label 'current' time... for all I know it's a Time Zone ahead but o
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by pgroves 15y ago
I had a high-school teacher that told us you could write a SSN on an envelope and the postal service was required by law to get it to the person. He claimed to have tried it out by sending himself a letter, but it took many months to arrive
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Law Firm Offers New Low Price "Startup Menu"(bizjournals.com)
1 points by pgroves 15y ago|0 comments
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by pgroves 15y ago
I did click on "learn web design" and was taken to a video with no description. I turned it off after a few seconds of pleasantries (eg. "Don't worry if you're totally new to web design"). I really think you guys should consider putting a c
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by pgroves 15y ago
This whole fiasco is just a standard example of the mismatch between the sales/marketing/pr view of a product that the world normally sees and the what engineers think of it. PR people talk about what's good about a product all day. That's
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by pgroves 15y ago
This has been done for the sake of creating an 'ethical' investment vehicle. There were a few index funds that were built around investing in ethical companies. The problem was that over time almost every company in the S&P500 made it i
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by pgroves 15y ago
Touche, jballanc.
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by pgroves 15y ago
While I totally agree with this speech, it also seemed a bit odd coming from Steve Jobs. Sure, he lived his life that way, but it took thousands of Apple employees doing exactly what he wanted to fulfill his vision. His success came from be
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by pgroves 15y ago
He deliberately deleted some files from websites he had admin access to. Not exactly the behavior of someone in need of help from the police.
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Larry Summers: Government is a crappy VC(nytimes.com)
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by pgroves 15y ago
I would agree. With a population size of only 20 the algorithm is closer to being hill-climbing with random restart. Crossover can't do much if there isn't a lot of diversity in the population, and a small population can't be very diverse.
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by pgroves 15y ago
Agreed. The reason I end up with some '-er' classes is to separate out immutable definitions and the classes that work on the definitions. In your example, by making the FlowchartShape a simple definition class, you can then write that to a
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by pgroves 15y ago
Maybe that's a feature not a bug.
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by pgroves 15y ago
I got that impression from the article. I also get that impression from all the companies that still do the opposite, today, as is discussed in the article. Perhaps I should have qualified that statement with "in terms of large american com
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by pgroves 15y ago
I know everyone likes to think Steve Jobs came up with the idea of focusing on a few very good products, but it's actually an old idea. "Indeed, the basic problem of U.S. competitive strength in the world economy today may well be product c
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Automated Design of Trading Strategies: Demo [video](designbyrobots.com)
1 points by pgroves 15y ago|0 comments
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by pgroves 15y ago
Maybe it's obvious, but using more or less the same technique with a piece of music and an instrument in your hands works great, too. You learn small nuances in how better musicians play while also getting in some good ear training. Works m
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by pgroves 15y ago
It's funny that he says he doesn't need the productivity loss of keeping up with RSS because anything important will show up in his Twitter feed.
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by pgroves 15y ago
1) I don't know much about being on a sports team as an adult or parent, but the site feels snappy so I like it :) 2) It definitely sounds like you're solving a problem a bit more general than just sports teams, so you may be selling yourse
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by pgroves 15y ago
I actually really liked fast flip as an interface to google news. I was hoping they'd expand on that, perhaps making it an alternate interface to Reader (the Google RSS Reader). So to answer your question, an RSS reader as sound as Google R
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LinkedIn's Analysis of Startup Founder Profiles(blog.linkedin.com)
2 points by pgroves 15y ago|0 comments
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Scott Adams does not heart SF(dilbert.com)
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by pgroves 15y ago
I wonder if the Startup Genome guys would be interested in tackling that? They seem more focused on "what makes a startup successful," but they seem to work by doing surveys like what you're talking about.
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by pgroves 15y ago
The founders are playing a dangerous game in this story. If key engineers don't have much reason to stick around other than it being exciting, they are likely to leave as soon as they get bored or tired. And yes, you can get bored while wo
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by pgroves 15y ago
1) I think you're too worried about the dev not being a "mobile dev." There really aren't any developers with 5 yrs experience on the currently dominant mobile platforms b/c they haven't been around that long. Good developers can pick up ne
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Type Fascism(blog.rastageeks.org)
1 points by pgroves 15y ago|0 comments
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Music Sales by Format and Year since 1980. [Animated GIF](fastcodesign.com)
2 points by pgroves 15y ago|1 comments
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by pgroves 15y ago
Why is the product considered worthless if it can't do animation yet? The demo clearly walked through examples of inanimate artifacts that are currently rendered as bitmaps on big polygons that could be greatly improved, today, by the techn

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