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by sami36 14y ago
Regardless of your stand on OSS & proprietary software, most of the world runs on Windows. The idea that reading a doc file required "..programming tools to hack the files and make them open...." is hyperbole. If you have enough tech sk
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by sami36 14y ago
You still need to tell Perl your intent, laid out in a very specific way. by the time you're ready to write your code, you've already solved 99.9999 % of the problem at hand. you're severely underestimating your smarts.
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by sami36 14y ago
No we can't. I base that on being a software architect who sat through endless useless marketing meetings from IBM & their ilk promising the imminent advent of Doodleware (have a business person with domain knowledge & no techni
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by sami36 14y ago
I want crowd-funding to address consumer choice,editorial & artistic freedom, consumer friendly consumption mechanisms, platform lock-in and profit concentration. Crowdfunding is very much compatible with all of these requirements. Theo
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by sami36 14y ago
I wish Netflix would transition fast to an HBO model where they produce their own content. I could see them establishing a kickstarter like content crowd-funding option (opt-in) for say 15 $ / month extra where users would vote on shows, fi
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by sami36 14y ago
1-"degenerate shitbags, or maybe adults making a rational decision to work for an employer balancing risk & compensation in a chronically high unemployment society working for a company operating in a very high margin business. 2- "ther
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by sami36 14y ago
The flaw in the argument that ending the drug war will financially starve the cartels..(true) & if fighting criminality is our stated policy then it's the right thing to do..is that it's overlooking the accompanying weakening of the la
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by sami36 14y ago
Most high-profile Kickstarter projects raise 20 % or more of their total pledges in the last 48 hours. If you check the pledge total trendline on Kicktraq , you'll see that it aligns pretty close with that number. I disagree with a previous
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by sami36 14y ago
They're both TOXIC. I was so glad when these two departed & the rest of their ilk self-exiled to Pando Daily (Sarah Lacy & Paul Carr, to be specific). & now that ! SIGH
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by sami36 14y ago
without delving in the conspiratorial, Can anyone explain why would the broadcast be restricted to Apple TVs other than trying to control the number of concurrent streams they have to serve for scaling purposes ?
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by sami36 14y ago
Am I the only one thinking there is more to this story than what has been leaked so far ? I don't usually step up to the defense of corporate America but in my dealings with Amazon, I haven't encountered anything but stellar customer servic
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by sami36 14y ago
couldn't agree more. I don't understand why mega productions (in the scheme of things) that are effectively pre-orders as Project Eternity are OK while other categories as home improvement or fitness gadgets are shunned upon. There is a co
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by sami36 14y ago
Kickstarter brings a comments section that is not controlled by the project creators. That's extremely important. You want a degree of scrutiny from backers that are asking the tough questions. The Lockitron model dispenses with that impor
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by sami36 14y ago
Google will charge the survey initiators, take its cut, pay premium content providers with the balance.
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by sami36 14y ago
This is brand new, I saw it previewed on JLG Monday Note blog. The consumers are going to be incentivized to take them as a form of micropayment for access to articles behind a paywall...win-win for everybody I guess.
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by sami36 14y ago
Apple doesn't share its sales figures with any third party. misleading linkbait
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by sami36 14y ago
Has anyone seen this ? it claims to print at 25 microns res & its founders have an impressive pedigree. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/formlabs/form-1-an-affor... I have no connection whatsoever to the project besides being a 3D