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by terra_t 16y ago
For a long time, Google ads were entirely contextual: they served up ads based on the content of your page. Contextual ads work well on a site for which the text is predictive of what ads will make money; for instance, in the case of a
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Many of the people who've done best since Reagan have been rent seekers like dentists, doctors, lawyers, and corporate executives. So far as business creators and owners are concerned, it's fair to say that the issue of who "created" the
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A hint I'll drop is that the "monetizability" of a niche for advertising isn't what you'd think. For one thing, areas that everybody thinks are "monetizable" often have huge amounts of content chasing a small advertising spend, resulting
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Infinite Space: An Argument For Single Sharding in MMOs(gamasutra.com)
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Is this spam or am I missing something?
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I reached this point in my life where I realized I'd only be "really on to something" if I was working on something that didn't make sense to everybody else... If I was working on something that everybody else understood and see the value
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I like the part at the end where he says that "employers are the main competitor to angel investors" -- that could be the beginning of a whole new essay...
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Yeah, but this battle between NY and SF is getting tiring for those of who live in the other 48 states, or, for that matter, the other 3026 counties. [ok, there's another 200 or so countries, but I think some businesspeople need to re
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Yeah, but there's a fetishization of "high concurrency" (being able to support a huge number of connections) rather than absolute performance. For instance, you might have a system which has a latency of 1 second, and at a given workload
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Friends don't let friends work in job shops. The fundamental problems aren't about code, they're in project management. Job shops occasionally strike a good balance, but inevitably bad clients drive out the good clients. From time to tim
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I was a grad student at an Ivy League school and I found the "all you can eat" food options to be impossible; everything was so stuffed with fat that I couldn't eat much of it... Maybe that was the idea.
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I grew up in New England and I'm still in the Northeast.
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Personally, I'm offended by the popularity of "Classic Rock" and the fact that marketing channels have broken down to the point where there's no connection between great music being made today and many listeners. I grew up listening to "Cl
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I want to build a factory for efficiently copying other people's ideas and executing them; that's goal #2, after I execute #1, the project that will get enough revenue that I can put together the team capable of doing #2.
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Bull. My parents were working class slobs, but they bought me a computer at the age of 10. It was a TRS-80 Color Computer which was the cheapest thing you could get at that time. It was just about the only thing they spent money on for m
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They shouldn't be. Working in the job shop business I've seen that 20% of clients are responsible for 80% of unprofitable projects. They should be your competitor's clients -- your competitors will lose so much money servicing them that you
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Leonard Nimoy's Photography Show Opens At Contemporary Art Museum(nytimes.com)
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Penrose's argument has always been full of it. Humans aren't Turing-complete; they can certainly emulate a small, finite, Turing machine, but they can't emulate an arbitrary large one. An individual human is not complete in any way; lo
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You should. Livejournal has been run by an excellent team for years and they've perpetually struggled with this. One of the big problems of "Web 2.0" is that web communities lead to high user engagement, which leads to two things: (i) lo
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how's this different from livejournal?
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Standing Desk Built for $0.00 From Stuff Found Around The House(flickr.com)
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CS Paper: Let users pick any password they like, if it's not too popular(eecs.harvard.edu)
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I find your arguments somewhat convincing, but I've got the feeling that the "size of the financial industry" is one of the major reasons why it's not working. The housing bubble, for instance, shows that it can make very bad decisions
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This is one of the crappiest blog postings I've seen... ever. The "one programmer can be 1000 times more productive than another programmer" thing is true... but mostly not true. The reason for that is that some programmers are active lia
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I told the financial adviser that administers my 401K at my current job that "it's clear that putting money in a 401K makes Wall Street rich, it's not clear that it's making me rich." There's a serious breakdown of trust between Main Stree
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I think the products are too expensive. This guy made his own standing desk for $0.00 (reusing stuff lying around the house) and then added sit/stand capability by adding a drafting chair from Staples for about $120... http://www.flickr.c
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Geeks Rule and MBAs Drool(ericsink.com)
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Nice to see the NYT catch up with what the rest of us were concerned about 5 years ago.
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I did a stint as a maintenance programmer. I was proud of it, then. I'd worked on code written by McArthur geniuses and the worst PHP monkeys -- no matter how complex the code was, no matter what language it was written in, no matter w
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The real advantage of PHP is deploy-ability. If you choose mod_perl, mod_python, JSP, or most of the classic environments you need a sysadmin to take care of the web server... It's going to crash from time to time, run out of memory,

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