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by terra_t 16y ago
Quote: "It’s a bubble based on too much early stage money throwing itself at too few good ideas." How bad is it going to have to get before investors discover the other 48 states in the U.S.?
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by terra_t 16y ago
With scraping I'd be concerned about legal issues more than I would about getting "shut down or blocked" technically. On the other time, I spent my postdoc time working on "low observable" webcrawlers rather than physics... I'd seriously
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by terra_t 16y ago
That's partially true, but I think also it's a sign that they're more interested in seducing investors than they are in making revenue. If you could get a large enough population involved, you ought to be able to make this work in small t
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by terra_t 16y ago
The sales people at the last place I worked were looking at a target market of 5000 firms, but they were looking at contracts that would cost $10,000-$30,000 a year.
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by terra_t 16y ago
yet another site that fills the stereotype of "hyperlocal" and "location-based service". Both of these seem to be a euphemism for "NYC and San Francisco"
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by terra_t 16y ago
-1 blogspam; this has been in the NY Times and everyplace else...
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by terra_t 16y ago
BTW, who the heck are these people? I don't see any contact form, contact email, contract phone or anything.
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by terra_t 16y ago
you bet. sometimes you get in a groove and you can get a lot of good links very quickly; over time you might develop relationships with people who can help you. but, overall, this is emotionally difficult work where you can sometimes fee
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by terra_t 16y ago
Maybe I'm old school, but I think it comes down to work. When I was the publicity directory of a college radio station at a small school, I'd put up 300-400 letter-sized posters to promote a dance with maybe 7-8 distinct designs. This wo
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by terra_t 16y ago
If RDF's got a problem it's that it's too simple, at least in terms of the functionality it's offered. It's complicated as hell to do simple things in RDF, but that's a different issue, not the one I struggle with every day.
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by terra_t 16y ago
How's this better than Freebase or dbpedia?
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by terra_t 16y ago
Good insight. My thinking today has moved beyond SMO more in the directions of public relations.
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by terra_t 16y ago
It's hard to say. The toughest problem people have starting community sites is getting the community. Dealing with problem behaviors is something you worry about after you've got the community. Just as casinos hire shills, many community
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by terra_t 16y ago
You can definitely buy them from people who host their own machines in data centers.
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by terra_t 16y ago
The people who do things like this, those who do any social media operations (SMO), are smart enough to use it to promote 'acceptable' content that won't be flagged as spam. If it comes down to a war with the operators of the site, you w
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by terra_t 16y ago
"Analysis Paralysis" often has a root cause: incompetence. A pal of mine was a consultant for a logistics company serving a large country that's north of the U.S. This company was developing a package tracking system in Java, back around
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by terra_t 16y ago
Not necessarily. Most people find success on social media sites is capricious; not a lot of people read the "new" queue, so your first few organic votes are a matter of luck. Downvotes on reddit make this go double. Even great content c
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by terra_t 16y ago
I knew this purple-haired superheroine who did this to a certain "Zone" which is famous for vapid and incoherent blog postings written in broken English. She made about 1000 fake accounts and used Tor to make them appear to come from multip
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by terra_t 16y ago
Note that Microsoft and Apple want to obliterate flash just as much as anybody does... IE9 shows that even Microsoft realizes that "HTML5" is a far deadlier weapon than Silverlight.
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by terra_t 16y ago
The only person who ever questioned that word for me was a wiccan teenage girl who sees fairies.
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by terra_t 16y ago
People regularly convert verbs into nouns. It's a semantic error, but it makes the invisible process of "making the web better" visible to the muggles.
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by terra_t 16y ago
I think it's harmless, and it crystalizes the idea that things are changing, the same way that the term "Web 2.0" did. Muggles have a lot of trouble with names. I worked for a big Uni back in the age when Mozilla's browser was caled "Moz
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by terra_t 16y ago
-150 infographic blogspam.
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by terra_t 16y ago
From my viewpoint it comes down to manageability. I've got scripts that make it take < 2 minutes to set up a new domain or subdomain on my server, and each one of those is in it's own directory so it can be copied, backed up, or mov
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by terra_t 16y ago
I like the principle of "making things more difficult" in exercise. It's a major principle of training in martial arts: you spend a lot of time training to do things in ways that are a little more difficult than when you really do them so
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by terra_t 16y ago
There's truth in this argument, but it doesn't disprove the concept. As you say, there's one way to solve the grounding problem: if you've got a system that does a job successfully, you've solved the grounding problem in a particular co
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by terra_t 16y ago
Sorry I missed a factor of 1000. Fast breeders on mined uranium have the same problem as plutonium breeders... Except you can breed plutonium faster (but less efficiently) in LWRs!
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by terra_t 16y ago
ho hum. you're always competing with the person who'll try to "copy facebook for $15/hr" once you've got more than one customer you'll inevitable get in the situation where, if you were honest, you'd have to tell Customer A that his proje
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by terra_t 16y ago
Realistic breeder fuel cycles also use a mix of actinides that would be unattractive for bomb makers: you're going to start with fuel that's been through an LWR once or twice, so contamination with Pu240 and Pu241/Am241 will be high to be
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by terra_t 16y ago
And that gets us to the central problem of our energy policy. Utilities are moving towards a short-term thinking model where they install natural gas turbine with a low capital cost and use electricity deregulation to offload the risk of vo

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