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by rudiger 16y ago
Devil's advocate: software isn't free or easy to create either. Maybe open source license should require "best-effort" documentation, or prevent the witholding of it.
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by rudiger 16y ago
This is a tired argument. Why don't we all go and work the fields? Maybe then we can "actually" create something (whatever that means).
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It's probably not that much percentage terms. I mean, the software industry is worth many $100s of billions in annual revenue (incl. companies' revenues, employees' revenues, and benefits to the greater economy), so it's probably a tax on
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by rudiger 16y ago
Anyone know the story behind IE6's huge presence in Asia (especially China)? Why haven't they upgraded? Is it because Windows XP is still very popular? If so, why? Also, is there a popular "native-land" browser, the way Xunlei is the most p
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Just like Sinatra himself.
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by rudiger 16y ago
Given human nature, it was probably both.
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by rudiger 16y ago
Precisely. I don't think people understand just how huge of a deal the iPad really is. They're well on their way into a defining a huge product category in a bigger way than Microsoft defined PCs to be Windows. I don't think their competiti
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by rudiger 16y ago
"It’s incorrect to expect iOS to be as “open” to developers and their businesses as Mac or Windows"... Unless there are fundamental limitations, why shouldn't it be as open as Mac OS X? I should be able to download apps directly and pur
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by rudiger 16y ago
It's Asperger , and it's much more serious than standing still for 45 minutes at a software development job interview when you were 15 years old.
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by rudiger 16y ago
Euclid's Algorithm [1]; it's one of the oldest algorithms still in use, simple, elegant, powerful, has lots of generalizations, many theoretical and practical applications... [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclidean_algorithm
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by rudiger 16y ago
Jewish men and women are a precocious bunch :) I'm sure you'd find that US-born Jewish founders are relatively younger too.
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by rudiger 16y ago
Bank of America matches 100% of your Keep the Change savings for the first 3 months. After that, they match 5% a year. The maximum total match is $250 per year. Sign up for SwipeGood through a Keep the Change card and donate to charity for
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by rudiger 16y ago
I'm reminded of the only time Twitter ever spent money on marketing (SXSW 2007)[1]. They negotiated with the festival to put flat panel screens in the hallways. They paid $11,000 for this and set up the TVs themselves. [1] http://www.quo
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by rudiger 16y ago
Password protection shouldn't be done in the presentation layer, regardless of language.
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by rudiger 16y ago
Questions: What's Stack Overflow's valuation, who valued it, and what are the terms?
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That's the problem, right? It's a system that's profitable for you, profitable for the content farms, and profitable for Google.
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by rudiger 16y ago
If you're interested, there are plenty of research papers on the topic of determining the canonical source of duplicated content online.
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by rudiger 16y ago
Mark Cuban had a TV show, The Benefactor [1], with a similar premise. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Benefactor
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by rudiger 16y ago
I hope no one is doing anything involving passwords in PHP.
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by rudiger 16y ago
Thunderbolt aims to replace nearly every kind of single-use connectors (HDMI, DisplayPort, eSATA, USB, Ethernet). Unifying the connector for displays, peripherals, network and power is a great idea, so I can't complain if they're going up a
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by rudiger 16y ago
This article is from 2005. It's quite likely that Basecamp's downtime was around a week per year. At that time, Rails was expected to have ~400 restarts a day[1] ;) [1] http://www.loudthinking.com/posts/31-myth-2-rails-is-expecte...
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by rudiger 16y ago
Are you sure your web application "just can't entertain the notion of anything other than 100% uptime"? That sounds like a vacuous promise to me. Even telecoms switches are designed with something like 99.9999999% (9 nines) of availability;
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by rudiger 16y ago
Has become? From the beginning, Watson's purpose has been to advertise IBM's computers.
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by rudiger 16y ago
That's 3.6 million Facebook users in the Breakup Notifier database , not 3.6 million users of Breakup Notifier. Since the app pulls in all your Facebook friends, and people generally have a few hundred friends, I suspect the number of us
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by rudiger 16y ago
Question: Why'd you give it such a sensational title?
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by rudiger 16y ago
Google is probably doing the same thing with AdWords. Google has every bit of information about Groupon and LivingSocial AdWords spending (millions of dollars per month). When Google launches their competitor, Google Offers, they'll know ex
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by rudiger 16y ago
Facebook isn't going to provide "probabilityOfBreakUp" in their API, but you might be able to build a factor model from accessible information; for instance, number of photos in which a couple are both tagged might be a statistically signif
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by rudiger 16y ago
Not every public school is as bad as the one(s) you went to.
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by rudiger 16y ago
A while back, I heard that Facebook can predict when two people in a relationship are about to break up, based on statistical patterns in account activity prior to break-ups. I'm not familiar with the Facebook APIs or what sort of account
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by rudiger 16y ago
I was talking about phones.

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