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by viscanti 15y ago
Library support is a big deal, and obviously a new programming language won't have a whole lot of that. That issue gets a lot smaller, if the language allows an easy way to abstract away a lot of those issues, making it quick and easy to d
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by viscanti 15y ago
It's certainly not for everyone. One of the big selling points of google plus is being able to do things with friends. The goal seems to be to add an additional level of "social" to their social network. They're doing that through games
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by viscanti 15y ago
I don't think it's for a premium Youtube. I think it's to bolster their Google plus offering. Watching hulu shows live with friends across the world could be something to set them apart from Facebook. Right now Facebook's model is based
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by viscanti 15y ago
This needs a language filter option users can toggle on or off. Would love to have my niece play but there's some questionable content there.
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by viscanti 15y ago
It's an interesting article, but I think it's an oversimplification. In CS (the game), there's some strategy, but most can be picked up on the fly. There isn't a need to abstract away details, there isn't loads of theory that can help you
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by viscanti 15y ago
There's a lot of potential applications for mass manipulation, if it's possible. You'll be hard pressed to find specific examples, because a lot of them depend on how mass manipulation would be possible. Potential applications could be in
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I think it's more a case of buying their own hype. I think they actually thought they were revolutionizing local marketing. They looked at their huge (but unsustainable) growth numbers and thought they could spend their way to a sustainab
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by viscanti 15y ago
Obviously it depends on the person. A self-taught programmer is likely to miss out on the idea of abstraction (data and code) early on. Lots of things might just seem arbitrary or "magical". A solid CS curriculum will do a good job of sho
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by viscanti 15y ago
I agree that the idea that "customers hold all the answers" is flawed, but that's not what customer development is. A better phrase would be "no answers are found inside the building". You can't just ask people what they need and build it
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by viscanti 15y ago
The goal of customer development is to uncover a problem that is worth solving (and that people are willing to pay for). It's not billed as a customer acquisition strategy. Focusing on scaling before you reach product-market fit is premat
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by viscanti 15y ago
Obviously you're taking things to an extreme (but understandable, given the initial remark you're responding to) degree. A better wording would have said something like "A CEO should know a little (or a lot) about all the c-level roles".
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by viscanti 15y ago
3. Build Culture Bonus points for being able to remove stressful situations from the team, allowing them to be productive. If someone needs to be stressed out, it should be the CEO, not the team.
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by viscanti 15y ago
What was your competitive advantage before? If you didn't have a distinct competitive advantage, you were bound to have a strong competitor eventually. The benefit you have now is that you can learn from them. The primary goal of a start
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by viscanti 15y ago
Any entrepreneurship reading list without "Four Steps to the Ephphany" or "Crossing the Chasm" is suspect.
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by viscanti 15y ago
In Scheme named functions are simply syntactic sugar for anonymous functions (or Lambda expressions). The same is true in Javascript. http://lpar.ath0.com/2010/10/14/javascript-when-is-a-functio...
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by viscanti 15y ago
They're likely storing everything (a JSON file with all Connection info)in LocalStorage on the mobile device. That info can be viewed/edited without a data connection, then can be sync'd the next time they're online. This is a hybrid app
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by viscanti 15y ago
The interface is a bit confusing. You probably should prevent people from typing in the url and short url field. In fact, they should probably be hidden until the QR Code is created. It's not obvious what they do until a QR Code is gener
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by viscanti 15y ago
There's hundreds of millions of dollars spent each year with people trying to game the system and show up higher in google search results. With the amount of money spent there, it's no wonder that some (a lot of?) worthless results show up
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by viscanti 15y ago
The QR Codes have built in levels of error correction, anywhere from 10% to 30%.
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by viscanti 15y ago
Then learn Haskell. It's the most academic functional language and there's constantly new papers written pushing the frontiers of computer science. It's also one of the most pure functional languages, so if you can grok Haskell you'll "ge
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by viscanti 15y ago
What do you want to do? If you can only learn one "functional" language and you do anything with the web, I'd recommend Javascript (if you don't already know it). It's viable in the front and backends. I'd personally recommend Haskell. I
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by viscanti 15y ago
You can do most things with either language. If you feel that both languages are sufficient for the job, the first tie breaker would probably be library support. What kind of support is there currently for the problem you're trying to sol
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by viscanti 15y ago
A better alternative is to pre-fill the form with a "standard" discount, or have that code somewhere nearby. Coupon codes work wonders for tracking off site promotions. Are people finding you from a blog, a magazine article, a special eve
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Or they never balanced a previous game around that, and they have now. It's possible that gold selling in some games could break the game, because that game wasn't designed with gold selling in mind. If you start with the premise that pla
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by viscanti 15y ago
It seems like they're trying to get rid of the unlimited plans altogether, so I'd bet they'd let you out of your contract if you were one of the people who would be throttled. The people who use that much data aren't nearly as profitable,
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by viscanti 15y ago
Different strategies work for different people. I've found I can't pick up more than an hour or two worth of material a day before I start to hit diminishing returns. The longer I press on, the less productive that time is. I think an hou
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by viscanti 15y ago
Awful post. His example for why NOSQL is "difficult" to start with, is a company with a huge RDBMS trying to transition. Had they started with NOSQL, it would have been easy to architect around that from the beginning, rather than crammin
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by viscanti 15y ago
Would be helpful to have more (easy to find) info about how you're doing the a/b testing.