tazzy531

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by tazzy531 14y ago
Even fractions of a penny in some cases.
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by tazzy531 14y ago
>Seems like a "curated fund" where organizations like YC pick the companies and crowdsource funds would be one of the better applications of the new legal permissions (the potential "worse applications" being boiler rooms pushing hot ne
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by tazzy531 15y ago
#3: http://verbling.com/
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by tazzy531 15y ago
As with all mchurch comments, you need to take it with a grain of salt. He was with Google for less than a year and has been extrapolating his short experience into a generalization of the company.
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by tazzy531 15y ago
Should be: the future value of Instagram is greater than future value of nyt.
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by tazzy531 15y ago
THIS! You hit everything right on the dot. This is what a lot of people aren't able to say publicly. But you've got the right read.
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by tazzy531 15y ago
Yet another reminder to enable 2 factor authentication on your Google account. [1] [1] http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/advanced-sign-in-secu...
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by tazzy531 15y ago
And if you join an engineering company where the engineers pride themselves on data and accomplishments rather than speculations, it may be worthwhile to provide evidence to support your theory than just argue with everyone without anything
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by tazzy531 15y ago
deprecated
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by tazzy531 15y ago
This thread is filled with great anecdotes. If you do encounter something where Google is not returning the best result for your query, fill out the Search Quality Feedback form: http://www.google.com/quality_form This will help the tea
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by tazzy531 15y ago
If you encounter these, please submit it to http://www.google.com/quality_form Search quality feedback is key to improving the search engine.
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by tazzy531 15y ago
Time in distributed cloud computing gets very complicated and very critical. Google has an interesting post on how they handled the Leap Second in 2008: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/time-technology-and-l...
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by tazzy531 15y ago
Maybe that's why they cancelled the Zune in 2011 to avoid having to fix the leap year bug.
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by tazzy531 15y ago
St. Louis has the wrong understanding of the problem. Money isn't the solution to building a tech community. Funding isn't usually the issue in getting a startup off the ground. The development of the tech community is how you entice entr
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by tazzy531 15y ago
Google works in the world of ms not seconds.
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by tazzy531 15y ago
This seems to be a case of the Dunning-Kruger effect where an unskilled worker has the cognitive bias to overestimate their skills. it is easy to write code. it is easy to write code that works. it is hard to write good code.
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by tazzy531 15y ago
$120/year? For what? The pricing/business model does not work with this especially when there are so many free alternatives.
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by tazzy531 15y ago
People complain when they take too big of a salary and complain when they take $1... Can't make people happy.
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by tazzy531 15y ago
>If a consumer watches one of my studio's productions instead of watching Avatar, we didn't just earn $0.99 -- we also stole a $10.50 purchase from 20th Century Fox. That's not how the economics work. Consumers have a level of disposab
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by tazzy531 15y ago
There really isn't anything revolutionary or innovative in this. It's basically the same exact model as Hollywood with different players. In addition, if the only distribution model is online streaming at 0.99, you'd need to sell 10M views
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by tazzy531 15y ago
I find two parts particularly interesting: (f) If seizure is made of books or other articles which do not contain obscene matter but contain information or advertisements relative to means of causing unlawful abortion, the procedure outline
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by tazzy531 15y ago
Here is the relevant regulation: http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr;sid=650... Title 19: Customs Duties PART 12—SPECIAL CLASSES OF MERCHANDISE Browse Previous | Browse Next Immoral Articles § 12.40 Seizure; disposition
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Copyright fight contributes to media industry decline(plus.google.com)
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by tazzy531 15y ago
NFC has a huge uphill battle in the US. It is not for the lack of ideas, nor is it the lack of people trying to build interesting technology with it. It is because of the carriers. Yes, the carriers, like Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile. B
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by tazzy531 15y ago
Let's say you walk down the street and every block, you look at your iPhone and see what wireless base stations are available. Say on a certain corner, you see "Linksys", "Free_Porn", "Mom's Wifi". You write that down in your notebook. Yo