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by spenrose 16y ago
"Unfortunately, it isn’t just appliance reviews that are the problem. Almost any popular search term will take you into seedy neighborhoods." Quantification? Detailed examples? Link to his research? All missing in the original article.
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by spenrose 16y ago
Hhmm. You didn't actually mention my first reason (though #3 is sort of related): Google creates more value than it captures. Remember the Web in '98? Remember domain name bidding wars, because typing "www.shopping.com" into the address bar
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by spenrose 16y ago
Not just Yahoo: http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2010/12/14/dont-buy-th... "Big established companies with their own revenue streams simply don’t have the skillset needed to be the next Y Combinator" Of course, insofar as YC depends
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by spenrose 16y ago
I take your points. Here's the thing: if ACID is an aspect of developer tools and not a user experiences, and if ACID tools are the default, and if (as anyone who has held a checking account in the U.S. would surely agree) user-experience f
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by spenrose 16y ago
Googling for "site:delong.typepad.com karl marx" will get you some succinct interpretations of Marx's very large body of thought from a professional who knows his stuff and has a perspective reasonably amenable to the average HNers.
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by spenrose 16y ago
http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/2010/11/my-application-for...
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Climate Hawks Take Wing(blogs.plos.org)
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by spenrose 16y ago
Wonderful cause. I'd love to read about the tensions between your goal and the various business models that suggest themselves. You will succeed at your mission precisely to the extent that your users reduce their spending relative to their
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by spenrose 16y ago
You can fail, pick yourself up, and try again. You can increase your probability of doing good, and accept the tradeoff WRT business success. I should add that I think Paul presents a very clear vision of why he thinks this is not a problem
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by spenrose 16y ago
My concern about Paul's vision has always been (2), flexibility. It is my humble belief that you should care what you succeed at, not just that you succeed at something. On this point Paul seems to be leading in the opposite direction from
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by spenrose 16y ago
Apple sells 22M Macs a year, and growing. How many people do you think compiled a Java program on Mac OS X worldwide this year? 10K? M-a-a-y-b-e 100K?
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by spenrose 16y ago
Ah, right, different problem. There's much to be said and disputed about what makes a 10K program Pythonic; my oversimplification would be something like: - between half a dozen and two dozen files in 2-3 directory levels - lots of
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by spenrose 16y ago
Is it possible you're comparing lines of code directly? The "size" of a code base is tricky to define, but many people accept a rough rule of thumb that a project of complexity X that might require, say, 10K LOC in competent/straightforward
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by spenrose 16y ago
The Air is what Jobs shipped when he couldn't ship the iPad yet, but wanted to focus on elegant ambient computing.
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by spenrose 16y ago
I noticed that the URL was "blog.wattvision.com" and replaced the "blog" with "www". Worked like a charm ...
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by spenrose 16y ago
Anyone have good stats for the browser-vs-non-browser (i.e. dedicated FB/twitter client, Instapaper, etc.) use of HTTP to consume HTML. I bet you'd find that c. 2002 IE had 90% of the browser and browsers had 99.9% of HTTP+HTML, but that no
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by spenrose 16y ago
(I upvoted on InclinedPlane's behalf.)
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by spenrose 16y ago
See also: "Evidence-based Software Engineering": http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.113... and the work of Greg Wilson: http://www.slideshare.net/gvwilson/bits-of-evidence-2338367
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by spenrose 17y ago
Liked the first 4 better than this one, FWIW. This one he mostly talks about the browser/JS security model.
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by spenrose 17y ago
Almost no one. Total desktop sales have been drifting down for 2 years: http://images.macworld.com/images/news/graphics/143380-mac-u... Of the 800K desktops, over 600K were iMacs (no citation; sorry), and the average selling price was ~$1
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by spenrose 17y ago
If it sounds super high pitched, you should stop hearing it pretty soon as aging takes out the top of your hearing range. Problem solved.
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by spenrose 17y ago
I love DF, and this is a decent piece, but John doesn't cite a lot of much more developed thought on the subject. If you care, start with Jay Rosen ( http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/ ; http://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu
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by spenrose 18y ago
Maybe this comment is already here and I just missed it, but languages naturally have life cycles, and thinking in terms of Ruby's life cycle might explain both some of your early enthusiasm and your current discontent. (I'm going to draw i