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by viscanti 15y ago
Better for whom? They'll have trouble justifying their valuation indefinitely, which normally would mean that they're better off going public sooner rather than later. But Facebook stock seems to be a rather liquid investment right now on
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by viscanti 15y ago
The current data sales business model doesn't support their sky-high valuation. Most investors assume that Facebook will "figure out" a better way to monazite their audience. Facebook commerce and credits sales for the Facebook platform l
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Property rights might not directly translate over, and there may be some need for new acquisitions, but it's still (likely) a much easier sell. It's a bigger step to do something once than to do it in a slightly different way. I don't mea
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The biggest hurdle is probably property rights. The second biggest would be clearing a path (building bridges, leveling the ground, etc). Those two would be solved now, and the rest could essentially be "swapped" out. It wouldn't be triv
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by viscanti 15y ago
Quantum Algorithms (run on quantum computers) are the future for Machine Learning. This article was from 2009 though, and I haven't seen a whole lot of progress in the field. Artificial Neural Networks that can model every possible value
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by viscanti 15y ago
He spent a substantial amount of time talking about his motivation to become a programmer. The other jobs he worked at, etc. Then once it comes to how he actually did it, he drops the ball and misses a great opportunity to tell an interes
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by viscanti 15y ago
I think you're misinterpreting my comment. I actually liked the article. I was simply explaining some of the reasons some people may have viewed it negatively. You could have done a better job of explaining the process. It's basically a
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by viscanti 15y ago
My biggest problem with the article is that it's essentially a puff piece about how awesome the writer thinks he is, and how special he is for being able to learn the basics in a short amount of time. The post is entirely too hand-wavy abo
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by viscanti 15y ago
Total users is a poor measure of value. Google's search is so valuable because people are using it to actively find something. Advertisers are looking to let people know about their product/service, and the most valuable time is when some
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Sites like odesk.com are fairly well arbitraged, with a sizable portion of workers willing to work for very cheap. Workers with a significantly lower cost of living can afford to take less for the work they do, bringing down the average co
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by viscanti 15y ago
His biggest problem seems to be the "community". There's certainly some people doing projects in node who would probably benefit from doing it with something else. But to judge the framework by some "community" is silly. The node communi
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by viscanti 15y ago
I'm a big fan of the study group setting for these classes. It's been a great way to find and work with like-minded people. I'd encourage you to find one for future classes, but I'm not sure how sustainable they are. The AI and ML classes
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by viscanti 15y ago
The fixed toolbars (as well as other performance advantages) are why I initially started using Sencha Touch instead of jQuery mobile. I'm sad to see where this 1.0 release is. I've been expecting working fixed toolbars for a long time. S
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I think independent study groups are the big win from this. This isn't the first time high quality videos have been online (the full "regular" ML class can be viewed on youtube), but because it's more "real-time" it allows for groups of pe
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Design can be split-tested by someone with average skills and end up with above average results. The same is not true of development. Throwing together a bunch of things and trying them in production leads to unmaintainable code and many
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I think the idea is to find out more about a product. Some people research a product before they get to the store, but some people don't. That's especially true for impulse buys. I see the value of QR Codes in stores as being a way to qui
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The biggest problem in education is that it doesn't scale well. Individual attention might be "best" but it requires access to a great instructor who can tailor instruction to the student. Sub-optimal teaching methods (like KA) take a dif
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It really depends what problem you're solving. Not all problems require elegant solutions that other programmers will admire. If that's the case, you have several options: 1. Switch to a "harder" problem (however that's defined), that nec
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by viscanti 15y ago
At the end of the day a web app can do one of three things. It can delight it's users, it can exist and nobody cares or it can annoy it's users. It's helpful for companies to think before they act. Is this action going to delight, annoy o
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If you get past the (awful) stereotypes of programmers as "geeks", you're left with a small data set and no analysis. I'd guess that a significant portion of the entrepreneurs moved to Seattle to participate. Moving to a new city probably
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by viscanti 15y ago
False. Several complex factors are at play here, but supply/demand effects are not the root cause. This Forbes article does a good job of explaining things. http://www.forbes.com/2010/08/01/rising-cost-education-opini... TLDR; it turns
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by viscanti 15y ago
The difference is that this is a class that you participate in real-time. Each week you cover the same material as everyone else in the class. The alternatives that you mentioned are all self-paced. Each has it's merits, but being able t
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by viscanti 15y ago
The only thing I'm implying is that different people have different values/priorities. My post explicitly states that some people have more family obligations than others. That said, friends and family isn't a specific obligation for a set
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I think Haskell (and functional languages in general) will become increasingly popular as it is (they are) a powerful way to deal with concurrency and can easily take advantage of multiple processors. Languages are tools in a developers to
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You're making the mistake of assuming your values are universally held by everyone else. They aren't. Some people really enjoy building something, even if that means not spending as much time with family/friends. Different people have di
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Privacy rights will be respected when people are actually willing to pay social online. Social networking sites (and almost every website in general) is designed to make money. This is especially true at large scales, like Facebook and Tw
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by viscanti 15y ago
I've used EventEmitter on a couple toy projects, but I've always assumed that's adding a bit more overhead to everything than just using callbacks. It's easier to read though and probably easier for someone else to figure out in the future
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by viscanti 15y ago
I guess I don't understand the Author's sense of entitlement here. Someone took time to build a tool to help her learn to code, and she found it difficult. Different people learn in different ways. For some (many?), making it fun and add
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by viscanti 15y ago
Looks like you need to email them to find out more. The article says it should be up on github soon. I haven't had a reason to play around with OCaml, but this could be something fun to hack on.
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I suppose our definition of "startup" differs. It seems a startup can only be a startup if it's attempting to solve a problem that requires significant upfront capital and scaling. I disagree with that view. For me, a startup is a company

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