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by pork 15y ago
You jest, but I think an Amazon store could be a cool idea -- they simply stock a revolving selection of their best rated books from every genre.
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by pork 15y ago
This is precisely what you want the consumer thinking, and it's amazing that a simple fact like that eluded the likes of Samsung, etc.
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by pork 15y ago
With their heavy reliance on memcache, you're probably not wrong.
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by pork 15y ago
Why bother? Just hook up Disqus--it's free and just a couple of lines in your html.
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by pork 15y ago
Please don't take this personally, but the whole "you're the product" meme, while it has a shred of truth in it, has been so re-hashed on the net that it's no longer pithy or informative. Just google for "you're the product" and you'll see
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Hardly. Hotlinking an image can send an FB cookie too, and that's all you need.
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by pork 15y ago
That's a micro/premature optimization at facebook's scale.
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by pork 15y ago
Whatever you've read, Facebook likely has a non-trivial push strategy, just like everyone else. Nobody at their HQ is committing directly to the live site.
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by pork 15y ago
Your comment made me laugh, but in seriousness, FB might be causing people to spend more time than they used to online, so that 200% number is, in a certain sense, not implausible.
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by pork 15y ago
Theoretically, fine-grained targeted advertising is the money. To get to that fine grain, you need lots of Stasi-like data. That's the tough part, unless you're FB. The other half (algorithms) can be continually iterated and improved by thr
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by pork 15y ago
Who is in charge? A business professor who lectures sometimes at the U of Chicago Booth business school.
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by pork 15y ago
There was nothing false about what he said. His statement was prefixed with "some commentators note...", which is absolutely true. Unfortunately, the word "commentator" has mistakenly been conflated with authority and accuracy in popular cu
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by pork 15y ago
Yes, while you're at it, who would put their life story in a scrapbook. Oh, wait...
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by pork 15y ago
> but once the closed triads are more than a certain percentage the entire social network dies I'm pretty sure you're misinterpreting a research paper that I'm familiar with. A common measure of network structure is the clustering coef
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by pork 15y ago
Hell, remember ipad? Sanitary napkin jokes, pundits predicting doom, and a stoic Jobs? But it's almost become the "xerox" of tablets. Unfortunately, the name is the least stupid aspect of Netflix's new plan.
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by pork 15y ago
No, it's just a list. Look at http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=1521... for example, no full-text download. It's sad, because most publishers allow authors to post a self-generated version of the text (i.e., the Late
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by pork 15y ago
A sinking ship still has momentum.
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> I'm no longer willing to deal with the two-day turnaround time for the DVDs. (I'm not proud of that last fact, BTW.) I don't see why that's unreasonable -- they've had instant viewing for quite some time now, but the online collectio
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by pork 15y ago
You might want to add that qualifier to your article. Startup founders and employees may be in different life phases; your advice is likely to be relevant only to college-aged founders.
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by pork 15y ago
Straw man, but nonetheless, care to substantiate with examples?
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by pork 15y ago
That's because one of the side-effects of big data is the new definition "data scientist" = Ph.D. <graduate|dropout> in any field, no matter how unrelated to statistics or data mining.
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by pork 15y ago
FWIW, you don't "crack" cryptographic hashes, you just find a valid preimage, of which there are infinitely many.
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by pork 15y ago
Novice code isn't necessarily imbecilic code, you're conflating the two. If I'm otherwise proficient and have a grasp of hardware conceptually, my iOS code isn't likely to do those things you stated. (signout from subthread)
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Not if it gets the job done.
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No one is born writing elite code, and the question is one of overcoming fear to conquer new ground, even if modestly at first.
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by pork 15y ago
"I was merely a web developer, not an iPhone developer" Thinking that alone is a mistake -- there is nothing magical about iPhone developers, and ios programming can be learned quickly. If you're doing a startup, you can't believe anything
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Or in other words, you're only going to get constant factor improvements in asymptotic run times with these chips.
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When large advances in processing power become cost-effective and widespread, programming paradigms will change to take advantage of the fact. Cases in point: the Cell processor and modern PS3 games that really take advantage of it, CUDA on