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by rm999 18y ago
I do remember the good stuff MSR has done, but does it justify the cost? Microsoft has probably spent about half its current market capitalization on MSR (very rough estimate based on its budget for the last few years: 7-8 billion, and the
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by rm999 18y ago
Note that I am specifically talking about research "that will never produce a dollar." That was the whole point of the article - stock holders shouldn't be subsidizing research that has a ~0% chance of benefiting the company; a lot of MSR i
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by rm999 18y ago
I agree that Microsoft wastes resources on research. Normally, I love the idea of private companies funding research, but Microsoft has a habit of not using its research for anything commercial. Instead, they file for thousands of patents a
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by rm999 18y ago
That guy on reddit is a troll, and his comment was modded down. No free social site will ever be invulnerable to trolls, but they must be ignored. I post on both reddit and here, and I think your generalization that "everyone over there jus
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by rm999 18y ago
"Perhaps the author's and our time would have been better spent if he offered a coherent defense (maybe even using vaguely correct grammar) of these academic economic hypothesis rather than a sweeping ad hominem attack." I disagree, because
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by rm999 18y ago
It's tough to provide a good incentive. I think your idea of initially targeting zip codes not covered by craigslist is good, but then your problem is marketing to thousands of local, semi-rural areas. Very tough... Perhaps a way to break i
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by rm999 18y ago
If you want to tell people how to use a self-moderating site, you are likely setting yourself up for failure. Either hire moderators, go to Slashdot's system of rewarding certain behaviors with moderator points, or live with the digg/reddit
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by rm999 18y ago
As long as an idea can make things more efficient or provide a useful service people are willing to pay for, it's a viable idea. This is an illogical argument: "NO BOOK EXCHANGE HAS EVER REALLY SUCCEEDED. I HATE TO CRUSH DREAMS BUT PLEASE F
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by rm999 18y ago
I agree with others. Putting a service you don't know is worth paying for on a list called "services worth paying for" is misleading - and yes, most people skim long lists.
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by rm999 18y ago
Then there's another article on the front page (From $80,000 a year to eviction) full of stories of people leaving their jobs and then getting screwed when they need a new one. Not everything is as simple as "leave your crappy, back-breakin
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by rm999 18y ago
Craigslist is like a social network site - its users and brand name are its sole asset. The actual design of the site isn't ideal, but it's enough to keep the masses happy, and that's what matters. A single competent competitor could take i
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by rm999 18y ago
Scipy - it can be used like matlab, but it's python. At the very least, make sure your solution can easily and efficiently work with linear algebra, a plotting tool, and some basic statistics functions.