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by sdrinf 16y ago
> [..] they are all but begging Google to compete head-to-head Except for the part where Groupon provides an amount of hand-holding for businesses, that G has neither history, nor reputation of doing. Historically relevant datapoints: G
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http://www.sens.org/rc (Short version: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategies_for_Engineered_Negli... )
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Your problem isn't with the phrase then: it's the connotation. That problem would not be solved by not calling stuff as-it-is, mostly because the root cause is journalism -from their point of view, you're either next Facebook (and thus, sto
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Worry not, for sharing expertise does not oblige listening :)
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Welcome to the fire&motion effect[1]. You now have three problems. First, by chasing what some other people think is sexy technology, as opposed to going with what allows you do Get The Job Done, and quick. Second, your misunderstandi
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Are there any publicly traded betting pool for this? I've got 10 bucks saying FB will open up their data silos (at least for Google) within the next 12 months :)
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In data/text mining disciplines, correctness is fuzzy, rather than being boolean. For most industry-wide applications, having a solution that covers 99.9% of the cases (1 mis-classification in 1000 sample) is well below acceptable bounds. S
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Code iceberg is in the eye of the beholder. Recently started bizdev-people consistently underestimate the time requirements for certain well-exercised tasks. Some of the most common icebergs are: -form validation (seriously -one of the most
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Solution: http://groups.google.com/group/metaoptimize-challenge-discus...
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Empirically: http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=gmail%20slow&cm... Statistically: http://www.google.com/trends?q=gmail+slow Personally: browsing from London, UK, mail.google.com resolves to 66.249.92.83 (New york - NY), speed
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Thanks for sharing that. Out of pure curiosity, and for the betterment of all of us here, would you mind sharing your mistake? I accept, that you've grown for the better of it, and I'll promise not to be judgmental.
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Protip: timewaste comes not from the companies themselves, rather sneaky recruiters, who will, at some point in the conversation, offhandedly ask 1, to provide references (previous managers you've worked with), and 2, who's interested in yo
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I've used to type exclusively on my handy IBM PS/2 keyboard ( http://www.dansdata.com/images/clicky/ballboard1024.jpg ). Not only was it a beauty to behold, it was manufactured in 1983, had no performance degradation either since then, or
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> I'd be curious who actually gets taken by scams like this. Theory of multiple intelligences suggests, that, when working in the right context, the ability for building strong & profitable businesses does not necessitate the "intel
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Thanks. Would you mind pointing out implementation choices, that will come back biting us down the road? :)
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Cog is a little webdev framework of mine, a work-in-progress steal from spending couple of years in different companies. Since A/B testing is considered pretty fundamental to most of my clients, I thought I'd share with the dear community o
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Show HN: A/Bingo for PHP(github.com)
33 points by sdrinf 16y ago|12 comments
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These google-docs-spinoffs are fun, except for one part: you lost me on the authentication. Please please do not make me create another username/password combination; maintaining systematic password diversity is a high-cognitive task which
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by sdrinf 16y ago
That's not really a plastic way to look at it. One of the highest predictor of success (in both entrepreneurship and life) is "rolling with the punches". So if life handles you lemon? Make a tea, and get the best of it. You're a twenty-some
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Problem: born in hungary. Solution: during high school, I've complemented my english courses using the Internet (reading RFCs, and white papers). After university, I've literally hacked myself out of the country, by doing consulting on the
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Tell HN: Experience-based pivot for the musical industry
3 points by sdrinf 16y ago|1 comments
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Innocent-looking question from an ex-AI researcher: Take a moment, and disregard your technological know-how (the fact that you think you know how it works), and consider Google strictly as a black-box. Which functionalities of a strong AI
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Maxmind's offering was already within our radar, but your datapoint pretty much nailed that investment. Re: "Not as Described" -Given that our shipping solution offers package tracking with numbers, and signed-for options, AND the user will
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Welcome to the law of Diminishing returns. Your choices fundamentally boils down to the following: -Take the blue pill. Stay in wonderland. Pick a technology, any technology. Drive yourself into it deeper. The rabbit hole goes much, much fu
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We're planning to use the shipping address returned from Paypal as-is (and not querying from our side), mostly for stripping the funnel to it's bare minimum -is that kosher? Definitely signed-for. Other than Nigeria (which I'm quite keen on
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Ask HN: dealing with credit card fraud while selling physical products online?
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Word of encouragement: "This too shall pass" :)
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Aside: that earn-mojo thingie on the right side? that just earned it's rightful place in my /etc/hosts deny list. Please don't.
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By no means am I looking for "money bags to carry me"; neither would this be my "first foray into serious business". However, you are asking me here to give up the primal discipline of meritocracy -evaluating plans, ideas, thoughts based up
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Coming from an engineering perspective, finding a suitable "business-side" person is extremely harder, than the other way around, for the simple reason of track record. How do you measure someone's ability to actualize a business? By observ

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