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by teeja 17y ago
"in our case we’re building the platform that will allow the content people to do more targeted content." Telling us what 'personalized' is about. Not doing better searching, doing better selling. Find the people with a little extra money,
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That's ... okay, whatever you want to call it, that's what it was called in the past when there was a problem. (I don't see why I'm getting downmodded for trying to help...) See this page for many more examples (hope it helps): http://www.
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Authors usually have houses and bodies and cars to feed, educations to pay for, possibly children, and no social life for months at a time. Their creativity and life are invested in their work. Amazon invests in a web page (form) for the au
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Yeah it sure does. Why do you keep so much? Because I can. I want to stick a picture of Bezos in a zip-loc bag. And then drop it into the toilet. And then send Jeff to the beach.
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"For some reason the fans just started going full-tilt all the time" Sounds like a kernel panic to me. My brand-new iMac did that on its first day right out of the box ... nothing on it but system software. First, and only, time - go figure
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As I read it, the WP article very nicely points out that exact roots are possible" "The theorem says that not all higher-degree equations have solutions which can be expressed by performing a finite number of operations... Some polynomial
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by teeja 17y ago
Much like how we project our ideas about our ideal love-object onto the people we fall in love with. Which, of course, no person can ever live up to. "God" is a very flexible object of contemplation. As a word, its entire meaning is depende
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Like trying too hard for that love interest that's out-of-your-league ... it's probably natural for people exposed to "big opportunity" for the first few times to try to oversell themselves ... and in the process give away the store to a bu
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There's a lot to be said for it, but it is clunky, and hard to learn ... OTOH there's WOW, which is better looking and easier to get started in. They're heading for 12-million users, which at $15/month makes SL look like Woolworth's. But th
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It's rather like the fact that the inflation rate has been skillfully manipulated since the 1980s... if you see it mentioned at all any more, which it used to be. But just because you're paying for the statistics doesn't mean you need the
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by teeja 17y ago
I need 'personalized' search results like I need a hole in the head. I use search a lot and I personalize it by using the search skills I've acquired. I don't need some unknown algorithm making unsubtle decisions. Making this opt-out is
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Air circulation is essential to efficient and comfortable heating with any heat source. However it's done, it must be or heat will pool at the ceiling. You're right if lighting is done at ceiling level. Table lamps, though, create some conv
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Make up (or find) as much gnarly, twisted data as needed to throw at your code to convince yourself that it will respond gracefully no matter what comes along. (Then if you can, get someone else to.) If it can't - or you can't test all conc
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Perfect example of the kind of straight-forward writing that is needed to help people to help people understand what's going on. It'd be great to see writing like this used to explain evolution clearly. (It may exist, certainly should exist
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why "no other company has been able to" I gonna take a wild guess that it's because Apple folks don't want to hear Steve Jobs say those magic words.
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BASIC. Everybody can learn it in 10 minutes (slight exaggeration). Nobody gains an advantage from having mastered some other intricate language. Non-programmers can play too. Or, since it's for robots, why not consider a new minimalist lang
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If you don't like to deal with the public, don't have business experience, and would rather focus on your discipline than on people/money/marketing problems, a PhD can be a cozy way to go ... if you pick the right one, and are crazy talente
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by teeja 17y ago
Conservation is (in America at least) definitely at the top of what most people can do. And they will, given time and good arguments. Water heaters used to be the #1 energy sink appliance in the average US home (early 1970s). But drafts, si
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by teeja 17y ago
Depends on what hands are washed with. Semmelweis used what we call chlorine bleach, Lister carbolic acid (dangerous stuff). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignac_Semmelweis Semmelweis's strategy reduced childbed fever in his ward by 90%. (T
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That was interesting. I sometimes wonder if these admins realize how 'insider' they've gotten. Anyway, there, right at the top of the table, is a prime example of a self-appointed executioner. His brag table includes over 2000 deletes. Just
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"Euclid is said to have replied to King Ptolemy's request for an easier way of learning mathematics that 'there is no royal road to geometry'" Math education could certainly use more fun, and I think most teachers who love the subject and a
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Couldn't agree more ... that is, once I have a good selection of downloadable fonts, and browsers support most desktop-publishing trix (like fonts set along curves ... good luck, CSS! ... and shapes other than rectangles). Because nothing k
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arXiv.org might be the place to search, depending on the subject area. Only been around since 1991 though.
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You're on the right track there. Knowledge about staying healthy and avoiding conflict has helped the most.
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I haven't owned an Apple laptop. I've been using a Gateway (Vista) for a year that has had zero problems. You may be right, since I'm aware (as a musician) how many musicians prefer them. I did get an iMac in 2005 which had a HD that went f
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When you've become dependent on cheap foreign labor to produce what we need, then you have to get creative to employ hundreds of millions of Americans. So: maybe its partly because we 'like a good deal' (more crap, less quality) that more p
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More of the people in those states are employed doing the things that have to get done every day ... wait the tables, make the beds, feed the cows. Jobs that don't go away but also don't enrich. With pockets of exception, they don't have ne
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Good article. Questioning everything that's 'known' is essential to coming up with new paradigms. And so far, computing certainly isn't an 'elegant' solution. "doubling your signal-to-noise ratio demands quadrupling your energy consumption"
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Does this mean that the person (who hasn't been playing for months) can pick up another, regularly played instrument and it sounds 'at its best'? Is it the violin which falls asleep or the operator (who hasn't played it much)? Because certa
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by teeja 17y ago
"I can’t believe how foolish I was to start my first company. Just me in my bedroom with no experience, making a little website." Just like Bob Moog in his basement, with no business experience, no business plan, no PR or HR department, no

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