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by toddh 15y ago
Perhaps it means that it is impossible to create a rule that applies to a category without exception, real life is much more nuanced than that. So if you think you have such a rule, that is always valid, as people often do, we know it's a b
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by toddh 15y ago
If a retailer has to provide the lowest cost and the highest experience, doesn't that sound like predicting empty windows? And if those rents go down the malls collapse and all the windows will be empty. Plus, with electric self driving car
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by toddh 15y ago
What if the American revolutionaries just did startup weekend? You don't fix a corrupt system by hiding your head in a pile of money.
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by toddh 15y ago
Then you are missing out and are letting the masses decide what you read. Technical experts have highly targeted RSS feeds and thus highly relevant information. Once you give up on that you've really just given up.
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by toddh 15y ago
Habit?
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by toddh 15y ago
This depends on the cost model of the underlying resources and/or the scale you work at. For Facebook the 20% overhead of PHP of thousands and thousands of machines is significant. On GAE where startup time is expensive, Go's quick start up
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by toddh 15y ago
We also used to use diskless sun terminals that worked completely over the network.
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by toddh 15y ago
Gmail has a compact format if you go to setting which tightens things up nicely. I couldn't find one in reader unfortunately.
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by toddh 15y ago
Not being able to provide for your kids is far more soul destroying, don't ya think?
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by toddh 15y ago
Isn't message center just an email inbox in any case? We used to just send email to a client and the inbox would be your "message center." With html you could even make highly application specific presentations and interactions. I guess the
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by toddh 15y ago
Rome always found a pretext for conquering a new territory. They never destroyed without first find a "reason" that would excuse their violence. Sounds like Jobs follows the Roman example.
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by toddh 15y ago
What if Google suspends your account? Won't you lose your wallet then? Google has suspended a lot of accounts lately without consultation or timely redress. That's scarier than losing my wallet.
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by toddh 15y ago
Does google get a copy of your purchase data?
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by toddh 15y ago
The way I've handled that in the past to have a bit map for every attribute so the object owner can indicate which properties have changed, in some cases one side or the other is the owner of that attribute so it is accepted by default, seq
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by toddh 15y ago
Doesn't publish and subscribe handle sync between multiple objects?
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by toddh 15y ago
Imagine if newspapers in the time of the American revolution rejected all articles and letters without real names? There would be no revolution as it was largely argued and coordinated through the press. Even the Federalist Papers was writt
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by toddh 15y ago
Mistake or deliberate market manipulation?
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by toddh 15y ago
Damn SEO optimizers.
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by toddh 15y ago
Hm, he didn't mention having a company over pay for your startup.
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by toddh 15y ago
Like beauty, pornography, or simplicity -- you know it when you see it.
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by toddh 15y ago
I find this strange in that if you have someone watching online you can make sure they watch the ads. Isn't that what they want?
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by toddh 15y ago
No. but he is getting better.
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by toddh 15y ago
States were sovereign entities before the Constitution. Now power is derived from the people, not states.
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by toddh 15y ago
Why are states the magical unit? How about towns? Neighborhoods? Around banks? This was the situation before the republicans created a national currency during the civil war. Isn't attaching currencies to physical locations a little old fas
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by toddh 15y ago
Only in the same sense putting on a bandaid or taking some aspirin makes be doctor. Using specialty items created by others in rather uncreative ways according to well known rules.
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by toddh 15y ago
Wouldn't the FBI just go after all the servers in all locations?
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by toddh 15y ago
If the data was replicated in N places would they serve all N places? Just curious how that works.
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by toddh 15y ago
I rejoined ACM specifically to get one particular paper only to realize exactly this. The next two papers I looked for the exact same thing happened.
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by toddh 15y ago
Sorry, that's not my experience. And I read a lot of papers. Most of the time they'll link to a walled site or have no link at all.
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by toddh 15y ago
That's not my experience random walker. A huge number of papers are hidden inside journals, and sites like the ACM. I run into this problem constantly.

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