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by raquo 16y ago
Windows was free (preinstalled) for end users since at least 3.0 IIRC. Adsense is essentially free for publishers. Both it and Adsense have huge positive network effects. Not to say that they weren't best products on the market when they go
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by raquo 16y ago
Why would he bother writing his own physics engine if there are free and easy solutions already ? People who invent their bicycles don't end up shipping stuff in two weeks with no prior programming experience. http://cocos2d-iphone.org
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by raquo 16y ago
It also works on a larger time scale. When I was working 9-to-6, weeks passed like days. Now that I'm on my own, time passes much slower because there's so much different stuff you have to do and learn every day.
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by raquo 16y ago
The "Conclusions" section of this wiki page is rather uninformative... See http://www.safehaven.com/article/3880/the-past-performance-o... (from external links) There's a table with all 22 confirmed signal clusters 1985-2005 and the follo
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by raquo 16y ago
Not that I'm a finance expert, but I'm uncomfortable with an indicator the parameters of which were optimized by backtesting half a century ago. On the other hand, a confirmed Hindenburg Omen signal occurred on Jun 16th 2008, which would be
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by raquo 16y ago
Although a special eminent domain for Skolkovo-like projects is most likely to be passed this autumn, it is not really required. And you will be compensated for land only, not for buildings. And how fair do you think the applied "fair marke
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by raquo 16y ago
> risks are manageable Not really. I live a hundred meters away from the future Skolkovo site and if they decide they want my land, it will not be manageable for me, even though they have no rights for it. You're right though that not e
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by raquo 16y ago
The final destination for me is US, the path may vary.
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by raquo 16y ago
You're right on both points: 1) if you're doing the business in Russia with clean hands you're wildly uncompetitive 2) in most cases you won't be able to do that anyway because the laws assume benevolent government therefore giving it too m
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by raquo 16y ago
I wanted to write a lengthy comment about the problems in Russia, but it was going to be so long that I'll just list the key points, they're pretty much self-explaining: Corruption, weak law enforcement, very strict laws, everyone is guilty
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by raquo 16y ago
OK, obligatory inversion: What do you (programmer/etc.) know about your girlfriend's passion?
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by raquo 16y ago
The players were providing liquidity , what could be wrong with that?
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by raquo 16y ago
> we will see a repeat of the web app takeover that occurred on the desktop Desktop apps are not like iOS apps. They don't have very easy purchasing/billing built-in, they have to be downloaded and installed in a weird way (very few of
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by raquo 16y ago
> According to a recent survey, 100 per cent of female professionals said they had been subjected to sexual harassment by their bosses As much as I hate Russia^, this is total BS. I can speak of Moscow, S.Petersburg, Perm, Ryazan. It co
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by raquo 16y ago
That's from the same guy who says Facebook is worth $100b http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2008/01/vc-sees-2b-ipo/
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by raquo 16y ago
Generating (any kind of) ideas is the easiest and most important part of doing a startup. If you can't do that, you shouldn't go further, but rather first learn to generate ideas yourself. Business ideas are no different than programming id
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by raquo 16y ago
Open-source is irrelevant here. It's (1) "I own this copy of music/software and can do anything I wish with it" vs (2) "I licensed this copy of music/software from you on the terms we have agreed on, and I will adhere to these terms". Both
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by raquo 16y ago
Yeah, it's fine for our software but not their music
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by raquo 16y ago
I would but I'm not that good of a programmer (yet)
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by raquo 16y ago
Why don't they just code such a chrome and publish it in the AppStore..?
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by raquo 16y ago
In HL2 the tutorials are really great. First, there are a lot of mini-tutorials throughout the game with no instructions where you can not advance until you learn some easy skill - like breaking wood with crowbar, shooting a padlock to open
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by raquo 16y ago
What google is actually showing me is much more sad: http://i.imgur.com/sjGqf.png It matches what is shown to me on http://google.com/complete/search?output=toolbar&q=how%2... (note that it is NOT sorted by the number of queries)
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by raquo 16y ago
That reminds me of "provide liquidity"
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by raquo 16y ago
While this is great design in isolation from the rest of the world, it will only add more confusion unless it is ubiquitous . Currently you just have to look for labels like + and - in the battery slot, and with such devices there may be n
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by raquo 16y ago
See image: http://www.inside-lane.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Diverg... The roads that merge both have only one lane. The one that comes from the right has a yield sign. It also has a rather sharp bend just before the merge so 1) the c
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by raquo 16y ago
> nothing is wrong now that wasn't wrong before Only technically true, if at all. Ultimate corruption, political monopoly, no security of any kind for 20 years and no signs of improvement give me no hope whatsoever that the next 20 ye
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by raquo 16y ago
There was more hope back then that Russia would improve, because it then was in transition from USSR, broken economics, low oil prices, budget deficits, you know. Since then oil price rose from $20 to $150, and... nothing changed. Those who
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by raquo 16y ago
Obligatory: http://xkcd.com/719/
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by raquo 16y ago
Everyone assumes that SSL search will be ever turned on by default (seems unlikely). I think it would be most natural to make SSL search opt-in. Anyone who cares about his/her privacy will be able to turn it on and webmasters will still hav
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by raquo 16y ago
Does not seem to be the case. I have Russian Win XP at work and English OS X at home. Both are running Opera in which 1) preferred language is set to English and 2) navigator.language = "en". Yet at work reddit's interface defaults to Russi

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