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by prospero 18y ago
What possible benefit would there be to a project like that?
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by prospero 18y ago
There's always an intermediate step between advertising and making money off the consumer interest it generates. The Internet hasn't changed that. Google targets people who are searching for a keyword. In some cases, these may be people w
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by prospero 18y ago
I thought about pointing this out, but Google displayed ads on their site before anything else, and the ad network was an outgrowth of their initial success. Anyone who has enough people wanting to advertise with them can create an affiliat
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by prospero 18y ago
For example, I'm sure there will be huge new businesses that depend mainly on advertising. Is Google going to be the last, ever? For better or worse, Google defines the baseline in online advertising. New companies can't compete on ubiqu
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by prospero 18y ago
At the expense of Window 7's market penetration, which I imagine is the primary concern right now. They need the latest OS version to be a necessity, not a luxury.
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by prospero 18y ago
Why not just include macports?
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by prospero 18y ago
Unfortunately, OCaml only has lightweight threads, and F# isn't very performant in a non-Windows environment. I'm not sure there's really a clear winner here.
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by prospero 18y ago
I've been looking for a version of this with English subtitles for a while now. Do you have any suggestions?
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by prospero 18y ago
Don't worry, once you hit level 20 you can multiclass. It actually looks like their model is that they find three strangers with different skillsets and put them together in a team. It's an interesting idea, but it seems like interpersonal
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by prospero 18y ago
Okay, that's one question answered, but there are eight others.
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by prospero 18y ago
Does the startup have funding? Does it have appreciable revenue? Are either of these things on the horizon? Does the developer have applicable experience? Is he willing to take increased equity in exchange for a decreased salary? How man
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by prospero 18y ago
It's a forum. There are six sub-forums. It has the school colors, which is nice, but the orange is distractingly bright. Is there something else that I'm missing? Do you have integration with class listings, or club directories, or spor
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by prospero 18y ago
Sure, go hog wild.
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by prospero 18y ago
You can easily lose the big picture by stepping through each line of code, especially if your program is heavily iterative or even mildly threaded. You can miss the forest for the trees or the trees for the forest; the middle ground is elu
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by prospero 18y ago
It's omnipotence without omniscience, though. Any reasonably complex program will grow beyond the programmer's ability to keep it all in his head at once.
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by prospero 18y ago
In this scenario, the longer a company goes without succeeding, the more money they cost you. If the equity cost were recurring it might work, but if the company doesn't steadily grow you'll just consume it all until there's nothing left.
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by prospero 18y ago
That would require that your users have an implicit distrust of hosting reviews, which they almost certainly don't.
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by prospero 18y ago
Having a vision and making money aren't incompatible. Every step Microsoft took towards a computer on every desk was a step towards a larger customer base. Microsoft identified a large trend in computing early on, and made money off of it
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by prospero 18y ago
I have striking insights into totalitarianism. The left, naturally, hates me.
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by prospero 18y ago
A Western thinker, Albert Camus, has written jokingly, in one of his letters, that a time will come when people will start asking their servants to make love for them. If someone falls in love with somebody, he will appoint a servant to go
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by prospero 18y ago
This is a nice counterpoint to to the self-adulatory posts by Jason Calcanis, et al. Well written, too.
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by prospero 18y ago
Baby Boomers: stodgy, ponderous dinosaurs? Haberdashers: mad as hatters? Ducks: bent on world domination?
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by prospero 18y ago
Android and OpenSocial were platforms, and needed to attract developers to realize their full potential. Google leverages user data to improve their searches (and most of their other products), but there's not really a network effect in pl
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by prospero 18y ago
If they don't control how people view their data, they can't serve ads. That makes any potential upside to this service totally irrelevant.
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by prospero 18y ago
That's because those companies are large and public, and the equity they have in the company makes an annual salary unnecessary. I don't see how that applies in this situation.
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by prospero 18y ago
I can't say for sure, but I'm pretty certain no one's been turned down because they've been too "ready to rumble".
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by prospero 18y ago
Activity is an awfully vague term. I know of one company that's hired professional actors to act out different scenarios, in the hopes that they can distill the essence of suspicious activity, and thereby automatically detect it. I'm not o
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by prospero 18y ago
I work for a company in this space. Our product tracks and describes things of interest (faces, text, moving objects), and allows the user to search for similar items at other times and on other cameras. It doesn't make security guards ob
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by prospero 18y ago
This article is two years old, at which point F# wasn't much more than a research project.
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by prospero 18y ago
It's because we tend to think in terms of gestalts, and those don't play well with reductionist approaches. It's only a contradiction if you assume that we apprehend all the constituent pieces of the world at once, rather than the abstract

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