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by pmichaud 17y ago
I think it's pretty clear that the best way to make money from a site is to sell things. For money.Crazy, I know.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
Hard work and discipline are necessary, but not sufficient for success. When you get to the top, remember all the breaks you got, and consider giving some breaks to others who are where you are now.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
I really don't think the journal model works well anymore. It used to be that distributing papers was burdensome, so they compiled them into journals and professionals paid for a subscription. Built into the cost was peer review -- they cou
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by pmichaud 17y ago
That's probably why you're not wealthy, which is fine, but it's something to bear in mind.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
I went there, but I don't know what it is. It's a dating site, but why am I signing up for it? I don't know what the features are at all. So I try to look around, but I'm met with a login screen. Seems like maybe I'm supposed to register th
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by pmichaud 17y ago
It does add value -- a thread is valuable if there's a question of fact, and there are accurate answers to the question. It may be manipulative to pose a "question" in the form of willful ignorance, but some might just call that "creative."
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by pmichaud 17y ago
The articles actually makes a great, albeit obvious point: despite the geeky caterwauling for Chrome to have a robust add-on ecosystem, addons are not only uninteresting, but unknown to the internet population at large. Chrome needs to be e
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by pmichaud 17y ago
We don't know if it's a big mistake or not. Of course I'd prefer smaller, zero, or at least very well targeted ads, but whether the new ads are a big mistake or not depends entirely on the data: when the sites roll the ads out and do the an
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by pmichaud 17y ago
What you were thinking and what the system would eventually become are two different things. I'm saying the inevitable consequence of a system like that would be the scenario I described. Do you think company stocks started out that complex
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by pmichaud 17y ago
If you're at all familiar with how shares are traditionally divided in a business, then you'll realize this is no trivial matter. If you want to think of an individual operating agreement or charter as an "implementation," then the complex
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Ask HN: Where to find socially conscious Startups?
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by pmichaud 17y ago
FSU, which is a perfectly respectable program, offers an online BS in Comp Sci.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
No, that was a different person. He was Canadian, I believe. ParrotSecrets guy is from India.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
The alternatives are not 1) Sproc 2) Scattered around the app haphazardly The only apps I've seen use the BLL-as-an-sproc trick were written by people without any experience writing scalable code at a real company.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
Clearly not. I was just using an example, and I did say it was a superficial one. My point was that signaling credibility through shows of raw math talent can be effective.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
Just to tug sideways a little bit, math skills can be a form of marketing in almost every profession, even if the skills are only superficial. A person who can offer brief explanations for math concepts to lay audiences, or can compute in h