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by superqd 14y ago
I think you may want to reconsider the URL as well. I know good domain names are hard to come by, but million dollar home page was a wonderful name. But only1414apps doesn't roll off the tongue very well, and doesn't stick in the brain ve
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The site says its the "ultimate" iPhone app discovery destination. I wasn't certain how it was supposed to help you discover apps, because at first it just looked like a very long list, which isn't very helpful. Then I saw a filter, but t
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You are welcome.
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Well, there isn't a barrier to signing up, it's just that there isn't a compelling reason to sign up. I perused a number of topics, and none of the reasons (the name of the site) were interesting, funny or motivating. Without insightful o
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So, are you supposed to create a topic, and explain why it's worth pursuing, or are you supposed to create a topic and other people are supposed to give you reasons why it should be done? I can't quite tell. You may need to seed it with pe
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I am stunned. Seriously, seriously stunned. I've complained about patents once before, and I think this sort of patent is a perfect example of something that wouldn't be worth a single day of patent protection. It's a colossal over-paymen
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Yes. The scatter plot is just a different version of how others felt about the movie. It does not communicate how that movie is related to other movies (that I have rated), nor does it inform me of how similar I am to the people who rated
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I applaud their efforts to improve on movie ratings, but this is not an improvement. I agree with another commenter that they've really just created a 2D histogram, which is more difficult to assess than the histograms they complained abou
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I don't know, I looked at your past submission for makeusdate, and it appears that you got tons of useful feedback and encouragement. Very little of the posts I saw there were negative at all. Some were blunt, but still encouraging and ad
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Google can subsist on ads, because it's primary function is to help someone find something. The ads are related to what you are trying to find, so they are sometimes actually relevant as part of your search, and to the function for which y
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Make the patent term proportional to the value of the disclosure contained in the patent. That is, the value of the claims in the patent should dictate the length of the patent term. We could crowd source the value. the USPTO can list "h
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It's not bad, but overall it isn't "sexy". It seems not to communicate the feel/experience of the site you are working on. You may want to include elements that indicate debate (either as abstractions, or stylistic images/graphics). Or i
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Although we all want to avoid unnecessary code, etc, I think you need to do what best serves the user experience and still satisfies your aesthetic for the site. I'm in a similar situation. I want to follow good practices, but ultimately
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In general, we would probably be better served eliminating software patents altogether, even though these days I'd be willing to argue that it's possible that some software patents might actually be justifiable. However, given that such pa
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On your first point, I agree. Software patents are easily distinguishable from others, and I think most people are able to discern the difference. I believe that's why most of us find their existence so repugnant at first, because we are
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I think so. If a patent is applied for, the method/solution it provides (physically or otherwise) should be reframed and published as the problem to be solved and have the public polled for whether they agree to pay the cost. For instance,
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A hopefully useful thought on software patents
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Not us. Currently we are working unfunded, so the cost to purchase the hardware and upgrade our home internet service to be reliable enough to support a business server was too high. You would also have to worry about fault tolerance your