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by ssharp 12y ago
Poker's problems are entirely cosmetic. It uses the same chips and cards and is played in the same building as blackjack, so it's always going to be associated with other forms of house-edged gambling, even though it isn't. T
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by ssharp 12y ago
Poker tournaments, especially picking a single one, are not a great way to really illustrate that poker is a game of skill. A book like Kill Everyone [1] puts forth a pretty reasonable tournament strategy where you try and accumulate a lot
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by ssharp 12y ago
AMEX also has surprising restrictive passwords. Is the security surrounding password resets so bad that it's more secure to force easier to remember passwords?
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by ssharp 12y ago
But by excluding the date, you eliminate the reverse: people being more likely to skip past it because it's not 2014. For some things, like your example, the date is very important. What solved world hunger in jQuery in 2010 may not wo
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by ssharp 12y ago
A lot of people your age will eventually have children or will no longer find going to the bar regularly that enjoyable. If you look at how much money major sports franchise owners are spending on improving the in-game experience for fans,
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by ssharp 12y ago
The 13" Retina should persist for some time. That model's entry price is only $100 more than the non-Retina 13" MBP entry price. I don't really see the appeal of the non-Retina version at this point. The Retina display i
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by ssharp 12y ago
You're right. Blackberry wasn't really a fad of novelty. I remember them starting to get really popular around 2004. They were the only device that made mobile email really simple by not overloading the phone with other stuff and
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by ssharp 12y ago
You "A" point is why we've seen the rise of "content marketing" over the past few years. Of course, that practice gets exploited a lot, with people using word mixers, automated article writing, low quality writing,
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by ssharp 12y ago
You can build your business in such a way that it works with or without Google, but it's going to work a lot better with Google than without it. People do lose sleep over rankings, because in some industries, the amount of traffic and
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by ssharp 12y ago
You're absolutely right. Roku has been around longer and is more fully featured than many of its competitors, but that's not going to matter in the long-run. Google, Apple, and Amazon all have substantially more brand recognition
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by ssharp 12y ago
What percentage of that 79.4 million bought the XBox 360 specifically for its video options? 100% of Apple's 13 million did. I personally use the 360 as my living room vehicle for Netflix and Amazon, but that's only because I also
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by ssharp 12y ago
I saw a Vizio smart TV that has a red "Netflix" button on the remote. That may change if Amazon becomes a legit competitor to Netflix, but Netflix definitely has a stronghold.
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by ssharp 12y ago
I don't think gaming systems and Roku as entries to streaming entertainment are great long-term, mass-market options. They are/were good for early adopters or the more tech-oriented. But for the larger markets, Chromecast, Apple T
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by ssharp 12y ago
HBO is also sticking it to Netflix with this move. It's clear that traditional premium channels and streaming premium channels are on a collision course and it makes sense for HBO to spread their content juice to someone other than the
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by ssharp 12y ago
It shouldn't be compared to Big Bang Theory. That show is a typical paint-by-numbers sitcom, the kind that CBS has been cashing big checks on for the past decade. They aren't particularly funny. I think Chuck Klosterman wrote some
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by ssharp 12y ago
From 2002: "My perception when talking to Cutts was that importance (the popularity and relevance of the backlink) counts more than the number of backlinks." I love -- earnestly, not sarcastically -- that Cutts was an idealist eve
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by ssharp 12y ago
I think you're right, but it's funny that both the code and the written explanation do not make that clear. Missing parenthesis in one case and missing comma in the other. I feel like I tend to use parenthesis when they are not re
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by ssharp 13y ago
I don't know how much of an effect this will actually have. It will be interesting, though. The SV mob was strong enough to affect Mozilla, but a service as huge as Dropbox might be mostly immune from the mob cries. They have lots of e
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by ssharp 13y ago
Serious question: Are there trailer parks in the area? A place where you can rent land for parking a mobile-home long term? I am not at all familiar with the SF/Valley rental market, other than hearing how it's exorbitantly expens
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by ssharp 13y ago
You can generally post on Craiglist and get offers within a day that beat a trade-in offer. People sit on car listings and offer low-ball prices that are still above how awful dealer trade-in offers are. I don't think selling a car is
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by ssharp 13y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Retailmenot's business model is drawing in people seeking discount codes and then tags their affiliate codes when the user clicks through to site to actually make a purchase. Coupon.com's business
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by ssharp 13y ago
It's less than 60 to clean and fill with water. The water takes longer than the cleaning. Really, if I want to be lazy and dump the grounds in the sink disposal, it would take about 10 seconds to clean.
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by ssharp 13y ago
BATNA is best alternative to a negotiated agreement, meaning, it's what happens if you don't agree. So really, a BATNA in a salary negotiation for a new position is not taking the position. In an existing position where you'r
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by ssharp 13y ago
I have a Breville machine that allows you to pour in a heap of coffee beans, and it grinds and automatically fills the filter with your desired strength based on how much water you put in the machine. I believe they also make one that has a
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by ssharp 13y ago
For salary negotiation, I don't think knowing your BATNA is that helpful. Your BATNA is either accepting their initial offer or walking away. I think your best course of action is to gather up salary data based on the job responsibilit
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by ssharp 13y ago
Weiss is a strong advocate of value-based pricing. Instead of pricing yourself on some per-hour basis, you quote prices based on the value you provide. I think this makes a lot of sense, but Weiss is basing these ideas from management consu
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by ssharp 13y ago
The deal is with Quicken Loans, not Quicken/Intuit. The companies are no longer related and have separate ownership. Quicken Loans is owned by Dan Gilbert who also owns the Cleveland Cavaliers, so he's obviously interested in bask
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by ssharp 13y ago
I have one pet peeve about this, which is typically my pet peeve on a lot of growth hacking / optimization writeups: lack of longer-term focus. I hate to preach too much because doing things without a proper measurement strategy may b
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by ssharp 13y ago
Growing up in the mid/late 90's (HS class of '99) and without high-speed service, I think I had an interesting hybrid experience. Napster wasn't around yet, but you could still get music from other sources like various F
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by ssharp 13y ago
Terrible news for Led Zepagain and Lez Zeppelin.

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