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by steve8918 14y ago
I get what he's saying, but I think he answered it himself, when he questioned if he was being overly dramatic. He is being really over-dramatic. I would love to hear about any occupation where the negatives aren't run into in a similar wa
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by steve8918 14y ago
It's very sad that instead of trying to figure out how and where this person went right in terms of preparing food, and trying to adopt those practices across the country, they chose to stifle it instead. That's classic bureaucracy at its f
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by steve8918 14y ago
Start building it now. That's the only answer. Get off your butt, stop taking in more feedback and other excuses for you to actually do something, and start building the prototype now. There are always reasons for you to wait, gather more
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by steve8918 14y ago
I agree with the author, but I don't think that dissolving the SEC will solve the problem of the SEC. The SEC is corrupt, but no one cares enough to fix it. I think the way to do it is to create an new exchange whose primary focus is to cr
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by steve8918 14y ago
Try the math with GOOG instead of ZNGA, and you'll find that shorting the stock outright is a lot more cost efficient than buying puts. The only way you make money with puts on stocks like GOOG or AAPL with huge premium is if you hit a home
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by steve8918 14y ago
I heard people would take new equipment and do things like sell them.
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by steve8918 14y ago
Not much of a story to tell, I bought ZNGA shares, and am unhappily suffering LOL. I figured they are getting close to book value, and they couldn't drop much further (always the worst reason to buy a stock). And I thought that given they
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by steve8918 14y ago
I guess this is a pretty good example of the difference between a business built based on "innovation" vs "extraction". With innovation, you consistently make new and exciting products and your customers are really happy. With an extracti
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by steve8918 14y ago
This is a more in-depth article with almost the exact same information that was previously on HN a few months ago. http://www.ewanleith.com/blog/900/10-million-hits-a-day-with...
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Absurdly Hyped Startup Airtime Has Officially Flopped And Top Execs Are Fleeing(businessinsider.com)
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The Sudden, Mysterious Exit Of A Quora Cofounder Has Silicon Valley Baffled(sfgate.com)
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by steve8918 14y ago
I hate how everyone has decidedly become a Steve Jobs expert, so I won't even begin to make a comment or guess on what Jobs would or would not have done. But it's suffice to say that Tim Cook's apology really isn't something that's so mindb
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by steve8918 14y ago
I didn't make a comment on previous behavior of Apple, or whether or not Apple has a monopoly. I was saying that Google could force Apple's hand in terms of how they behave in approving or rejecting apps, if Apple acts in an anti-competiti
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by steve8918 14y ago
In order to add an mp3 onto my iPhone I need to: start up iTunes and wait for it to load; plug in my iPhone to my iMac; find the song and drag and drop it into iTunes; click on Sync, and then wait for Sync to finish everything. If I haven'
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by steve8918 14y ago
Actually, I now agree with this. Like I said below, they might be delaying it to hurt iPhone 5 sales, as you mentioned. This probably makes more sense from a competitive standpoint, and then using the time to build an even better app (wit
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by steve8918 14y ago
They've won the current PR battle, but if they build a Google Maps for iOS, they will win the next PR battle. If Apple is reluctant to approve a Google Maps app, and Google claims that they have the app ready and waiting but Apple won't app
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by steve8918 14y ago
Maybe from a hardware point of view, but not from a software point of view. Case in point, iTunes is one of the worst pieces of software I've ever had to use. They could have made it so much easier to add music, etc, but it is probably th
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by steve8918 14y ago
From a purely competitive standpoint, this is why Google should be releasing their Google Maps app immediately, and if Apple drags their feet, they should launch a lawsuit to force them to do so. First off, it would probably be a really goo
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by steve8918 14y ago
Could you elaborate on the things that MongoDB brings to the table versus a database like MySQL? If you assume that the entire dataset fits in memory for both MongoDB and MySQL, as well as SSD backing for both, what particular advantages d
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New SARS-like virus found, man critically ill in UK(reuters.com)
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by steve8918 14y ago
I strongly suggest you read up on what constitutes libel/defamation. Just by saying something is your opinion does not protect you, as least in the US. https://www.eff.org/issues/bloggers/legal/liability/defamati... They didn't apologize
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by steve8918 14y ago
Saying that Appcelerator is extorting their users I'm pretty sure enters into libel territory. Extortion is a crime, and saying that Appcelerator committed a crime is setting you up for a lawsuit. It could very well have been an accident o
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by steve8918 14y ago
No, I think you mean High Frequency Trading, which is a specialized form of algorithmic trading. Algorithmic trading just means you use a computer to execute trades based on algorithms that you define. It can be as easy as "buy at market o
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by steve8918 14y ago
Yes, trading using algorithms to try to make money. Emphasis on the word "try". I love it, regardless of my level of success in it. My friend is a day trader, and he gave me one of his setups for trading. I didn't believe him, so I downl
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by steve8918 14y ago
After graduating from college, I completely immersed myself in computers, programming, networking, system administration, etc. I taught myself how to program, got a job programming, learned just about everything I needed to learn. I would
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by steve8918 14y ago
Thanks guys, I'm relieved to hear both of you have done it!
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by steve8918 14y ago
Can someone advise me on the point in the article about how Time Machine is insufficient to backup one's entire computer? My wife's Macbook Air uses Time Machine to backup, and I haven't done any other sort of backup with it. If her hard d
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by steve8918 14y ago
I'm neither an Apple fanboy nor a hater. I have an iPhone5, but I use a Windows 7 desktop PC. (I am, however, an Apple Maps hater after using it for a few days.) The annoying thing about articles like this is that it's basically the profe
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by steve8918 14y ago
The best way people, especially kids, have to protect their future selves from things they write or post today, is by assuming a fake identity. Kids are quickly learning that everything on the Internet is forever. Take the option of hiding
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by steve8918 14y ago
LOL it looks like we have a lot of pre-typewriter peeps in the house :) I'm old school, so when I learned to type, I learned it on an actual typewriter. When we had to fix mistakes, we needed to use good old fashioned liquid paper. So doin

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