tomwalsham

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by tomwalsham 15y ago
A sidenote, but it's interesting that your comment drifts into the 'fallacy of the now' which is the antithesis of the essay. You posit Raspberry Pi (flippantly or not is not clear) as the 'next Steve Jobs' response... I love what Upton's t
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by tomwalsham 15y ago
There are very few successful futurists in the literal sense. The long bets are not on the current startup ideas which will still mould the world 5 years from now. YC's view of investing in those with the wherewithal to effect change - not
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by tomwalsham 15y ago
Sports fans have been using live P2P streaming for many years, the most obvious being Sopcast (sopcast.org - even the website is copyright 2007). The quality is pretty good, and the 'danger' posed was made clear with some of the first domai
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by tomwalsham 15y ago
I hardly see it as gouging customers when they are happily, voluntarily entering into the agreement with full awareness of the terms and alternatives. All of these poor souls were perfectly capable of setting up 'bobsdiyproject.org' and att
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by tomwalsham 15y ago
a) Trusted space for collecting backed pledges. Try doing that with PayPal and see how quickly you get shut down. b) Well branded name with first-mover advantage which brings higher CTR on social campaigns. c) Centralization of PR - contact
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by tomwalsham 15y ago
Brings to mind the 2003 attempt to backdoor the linux kernel: http://kerneltrap.org/node/1584 - even that wasn't spotted at first glance.
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by tomwalsham 15y ago
Xmas as a replacement for Christmas comes from Χριστός and usage in English dates back to the 1500s. Admittedly the use for Christian [sic] was a bit lazy, but I was not attempting to make any point. I enjoyed Helianthus' take on it though
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by tomwalsham 15y ago
The Adult companies are opposed (and boycotting) as they already have established brands. The Xtian groups are opposed due to it validating pornography (when they shouldn't be, easier filters). The mainstream companies are opposed as the 'p
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by tomwalsham 15y ago
When searching, if Google doesn't detect my query as a potential Image search, it's always been convenient to just click 'Images' on the top and get your current query in image form. This used to work for other services - News in particular
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by tomwalsham 15y ago
When you install on multiple machines it's going to be a pain point, and knowing that the prime focus of Canonical looks to be Unity support there's understandable concern from users that their DE of choice will be sidelined (look at the co
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by tomwalsham 15y ago
Really? Twice in one day. I'll paraphrase myself from the last post: Distrowatch stats are based on hits to distro pages on their 'informational' website. They don't reflect downloads, active installs or anything tangible beyond interest in
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by tomwalsham 15y ago
As someone's who has exclusively used Linux since early 2000s, I never saw the aspiration for Linux to ascend to mainstream popularity on the desktop as something I favoured. I wanted feature parity - browsers, plugins, sdks etc. - and for
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by tomwalsham 15y ago
adCenter blocks non-IE browsers, but ludicrously doesn't actually use any proprietary MSIE code - a simple user-agent spoof gets it working 100% in Firefox.
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by tomwalsham 15y ago
MVP is one of the many words which has undergone corruption and softened in meaning through people's personal interpretations (Pivot, Startup...other increasingly vague terms). The approach put forward here is not exactly new - if you read
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by tomwalsham 15y ago
I'm really happy to see more people moving into this space. I've used a number of different systems (openCalais, AlchemyAPI, Zemanta...) in a variety of projects (Sentiment analysis, document classification...), and what I've found thus far
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by tomwalsham 15y ago
I was more angling at whether you're concerned about litigation/C&D from existing players defending their TM. It's a great name, but potentially provides an unwanted complication down the line.
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by tomwalsham 15y ago
I'm interested in why you'd go with 'Treehouse' as the name considering the trademark space for educational content is already pretty cluttered for that term. Was this considered and dismissed?
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by tomwalsham 15y ago
Technically not all - Toronto-Dominion (TD) dumped all subprime in 2005 and weathered the storm considerably better than the rest of the big 5. Much kudos was given to Edmund Clark at the time for driving a fundamental change based on his v
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by tomwalsham 15y ago
The fascinating thing about that post is the number of sneering comments, with their own (broken) implementations of FizzBuzz. At a glance only maybe 20-30% of solutions in the comments there actually work, and many are horribly suboptimal
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by tomwalsham 15y ago
I've always found the Amazon approach interesting. As part of their sales funnel they email related content to you based on your browsing habits when logged in. Clearly they therefore have a large incentive to persist the user's login statu
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by tomwalsham 16y ago
Regardless of the veracity or not of Compete stats, I personally completely removed /. from my daily visited sites about 2 months ago, after 10+ years of it being my #1 morning destination. I have nothing tangible to pin this on - they ha
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by tomwalsham 16y ago
For example, searching for negative numbers. No amount of escaping or encoding will force any of the major SEs to read -17 as anything but an exlusion of 17 from the results.
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by tomwalsham 16y ago
I just came here to post much the same thing. In my answer I combined the metaphone results (also limited) to remove false positives... I don't think a Mr. Godby would be too pleased to have airstrikes on his property due to using too broad
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by tomwalsham 16y ago
Long-form copy is really slanted towards selling high-cost products, especially intangibles to less-informed markets. You start with a vision, expect skepticism, bring the viewer round to your idea and then hit them with a pricepoint that b
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by tomwalsham 16y ago
It will be interesting to see if this negatively affects the traffic to some of the 'newspapers' (Daily Mail, Telegraph) who just recycle PR in the guise of journalistic endeavour. cf. http://churnalism.com Does the algorithm update also
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by tomwalsham 16y ago
There's a long running joke response to 'solutions to spam' that's been running on slashdot since they were giving out 5-digit uids. cf. http://www.ninjavspenguin.com/blog/2007/10/01/slashdot-spam-... Although totally flippant, and never
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by tomwalsham 16y ago
I'm somehow reminded of this thread: http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=646041&cid=2460... Strange things happen in organizations with a lot of top-down control over people who are attempting to create within their own boundarie
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by tomwalsham 16y ago
It's been my not-so-private view for some time now Arrington has consciously turned into a professional troll. While TC had great value a few years back as a news source, the purchase by AOL was IMO the culmination of a steady decline. I'm
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by tomwalsham 16y ago
Regarding tactile feedback. I recently just re-enabled audio feedback on my Chumby (resistive screen), and the combination of physical push + audible 'click' is sufficient for most of my need for feedback, and those of my 3-year-old. I also
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by tomwalsham 16y ago
For me, a low-value numeric id has never been an impediment. Aesthetically you might lose a small amount, but many of us use surrogate indices in our databases and it fits well with that design pattern. The backcountry example smacks of ove

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