richmarr

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by richmarr 11y ago
What's the SI unit of pedantry?
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by richmarr 11y ago
You see the problem there is that development and test are gateway environments. They lead frequently to other environments such as staging, and production, at which point you find yourself dependent on Oracle's latest stuff and it can
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by richmarr 11y ago
Perhaps the accelerator model just isn't naturally very valuable to startups, and YC are just a statistical abberation? It just seems more likely that one company has made an aberrant success out of a bad market than almost every other
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by richmarr 11y ago
> You are unsing a very specific example do draw a very far-reaching conclusion. No, I don't think "in some ways Europe is a more homogenous market" is far-reaching at all, especially when accompanied by a concrete example
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by richmarr 11y ago
I think this view is one-sided Despite having many different languages, in some ways Europe is a more homogenous market than the US. For example, an insurance business can operate freely across Europe with only one small piece of additional
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by richmarr 11y ago
I get the correct gimp.org site too. whois seems to indicate Shawn Amundson as the owner, which sounds about right. I wonder if we're part way through DNS propogation
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by richmarr 11y ago
Completely agree with your awesome comment except for one niggle... > it's net neutral for most companies My take is that if there were only two companies this would be true. Considering that no company employs more than a tiny frac
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by richmarr 11y ago
You can do that via API, so it's pretty trivial to set up using an integrator like Zapier or tray.io.
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by richmarr 11y ago
It's reassuring to think that there'll soon be a growing population of smart systems and artificial intelligences that hate Internet Explorer too.
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by richmarr 11y ago
> ... delivers a sense of 'presence' in the virtual world I keep re-reading your comment and it keeps getting stuck in my marketing filter. What do you mean by a sense of presence?
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by richmarr 11y ago
Getting a chicken isn't an end... it's a beginning. Walks on the beach, holidays together, frisbee, trying to cross a river with a fox and a boat that only holds two...
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by richmarr 11y ago
> its a much larger markup than just a few pennies. I want to echo this. Anecdotally I find that markup to vary between 20% and 80%. Talking about that as pennies feels disingenuous to me.
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by richmarr 11y ago
> ...require that a car be continuously insured... This doesn't seem like an issue, maybe I'm missing something. You just model it as continuous insurance based off mileage rather than insurance that's only active when dri
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by richmarr 11y ago
> That could be done locally It could be done locally, but in order to not share any data with the server you'd need to run the analysis (with all of the associated data) on the local machine, which unless I'm missing somet
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by richmarr 11y ago
> Their incentives is to maximize profits, not the user's happiness, wants or needs Sure, although user happiness (broadly) drives market share so they need to maximise that to maximise profit.
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by richmarr 11y ago
It's not just about advertising. By looking at customer data in aggregate you can learn more about behaviour patterns and support the things your customers might be interested in doing. Buying products is one of the things you might
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by richmarr 11y ago
I wouldn't say the patents we hit were broad. In some cases we thought they were fairly obvious, but that's much more subjective. We didn't chase prior art, mainly because none of the barriers were unavoidable and we wanted t
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by richmarr 11y ago
Just to echo this a bit, I spent 3 years working on image similarity tech and a lot of our research was challenging, not because of the intrinsic complexity of the problem, but because we had to implement it in such a way as to step around
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by richmarr 11y ago
> Another example of the low social status is those horrible open offices, like a call center. Ugh. So, where you work software devs are in an open-plan space and other roles have their own office?
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by richmarr 11y ago
I'd like to upvote this twice.
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by richmarr 11y ago
Software isn't constrained like other things... cough cou-SOFTWAREPATENTS-gh Sorry, just had something in my throat there.
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by richmarr 11y ago
It is only confrontational to those who are already biased. Again, you're opening with a statement that will put peoples backs up before they've even heard your argument. If you want to make an accusation of bias you need
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by richmarr 11y ago
If you're going to post an opinion that's a long way from other people's you need to step it out slowly and provide evidence for each mental leap. If you don't do that you tend not to win many converts to your way of thi
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by richmarr 11y ago
I belong to the static typing camp... REST, static/dynamic typing... all decisions like this are a cost trade-off. There aren't really two 'camps', there are just comfortable positions on a scale, places where pe
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by richmarr 11y ago
Sounds reasonable. Perhaps the 'ism' is the problem; it sounds like an encompassing ideology rather than a tool.
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by richmarr 11y ago
This kind of anti-feminist vitriol is really unfortunate. I'd have hoped we'd be past this by 2015, but alas not. Happy to debate the actual issues with anyone here, but first we have to unpick all the snarl-words, FUD, and hatred
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by richmarr 11y ago
It feels like 'socialism' (which is actually closer to an optimum model than free markets for some types of problem) needs to undergo the same identity shift in the US that started for black & gay people after the Second World
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by richmarr 11y ago
Interesting idea. It's too late to remove the dividing lines on earth Too late implies it was possible before but isn't now. Why's that?
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by richmarr 11y ago
From the sounds of it you've made up your mind and post-rationalised some of this. a quality of life far below that of a prisoner in a second world country Quality of life isn't just about food & accomodation. for t
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by richmarr 11y ago
Well, I respectfully disagree, for the reasons already stated (like most of the on-topic replies to that comment). Even the ones that agreed with pg suggested other mechanics to make up for the down-sides of the current system. At the start

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