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by vlad 18y ago
They need to make sure they have a very low-power mode. When the tablet is placed in the stand, it should both charge as well as serve as a digital photo frame automatically.
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by vlad 18y ago
And the other comment: "...Where were all these customers in the last 3 to 6 months? Your financial situation is likely not better than it was, but I sold almost $15,000 alone, as did 2 other people in the TV department. As a store, we made
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by vlad 18y ago
Here's an interesting comment (I couldn't find a way to permalink to it), quote: "I once worked for a major electronics chain that closed down... The most heartbreaking experience of the whole ordeal, were the customers that showed up on t
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Interesting comments on the psychology of going out of business sales(news.cnet.com)
1 points by vlad 18y ago|2 comments
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by vlad 18y ago
Great post, though it is hard to follow in some places. For one, the parent's statement that "a lot of modern sites are in PHP, because that's what the best choice was when they started (as far as they could tell), and now are stuck with t
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by vlad 18y ago
I don't think it is. The bleeding edge of Web 1.0 or even Web 2.0 development required a LAMP stack. The author says that compared to programming desktop applications (all of the languages he mentioned), the web based stack of MySQL, PHP,
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by vlad 18y ago
To me, this reads like a self-aggrandizing and content-free PR piece about a business book.
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by vlad 18y ago
Nearly every big company uses a/b splits extensively. Also, by your logic, every time a big revenue increasing optimization is found, one could say "if this were true, (that company) would have already found it had it existed."
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by vlad 18y ago
It's nice of Matt to find counterexamples to your arguments. But you should know that pointing out that you use circular logic is enough to show that your argument is not valid (in other words, no counterexample is really needed). Now, th
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by vlad 18y ago
For two reasons, I agree with the article's premise that YouTube is screwing things up for its users. First, my video actually lost all audio when I tried to use the AudioSwap tool yesterday to reinstate my video after YouTube blocked it fr
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by vlad 18y ago
I'm in!
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by vlad 18y ago
A VC could have one in the office to make sure people are working. ;p
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by vlad 18y ago
Looks the same to me, except that I do not see any stories about New England Patriots post-season results this year.
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by vlad 18y ago
It looks like something broke since the author wrote the article, and he reverted to using Google. Example links lead to blank results, while the search box on top of every page of the web site mentioned in the article leads to Google-powe
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by vlad 18y ago
Regarding possible exemptions to look and feel to computer programs in the U.S. Code, I'm not sure why the author cares to argue this point to minute detail when he's not a lawyer, nor being sued by 37signals; he also did not say he researc
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by vlad 18y ago
We watched this video in class this semester. I had already heard of the problem from reading Marilyn Vos Savant's articles in high school about it. http://math.ucsd.edu/~crypto/Monty/montybg.html
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Monty Hall Problem Explained in Video(youtube.com)
1 points by vlad 18y ago|1 comments
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by vlad 18y ago
CapitalOne sends out offers of 1.9% interest until the balance is paid off (with an initial 3% up to $50 fee) if the owner stops using their credit card for a while. That sounds to be about as good a deal as one can get right now. Of cour
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by vlad 18y ago
I'm not sure what you mean. Is the question still the same? Then why wouldn't the result be 2/3rds in either case?
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by vlad 18y ago
If Google News and mainstream media cover it, as well as all sites that bash Microsoft, is it really hacker news-worthy that a Microsoft product fails at something?
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by vlad 18y ago
What does this have to do with hacker news...
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by vlad 18y ago
Did you get to keep the data as well? Is there a standard practice to this?
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by vlad 18y ago
I hate the idea of starting up. It sounds like a lame egotistical cliche. I'd rather make stuff people might want to pay for that also helps me increase my technical aptitude, channel my creativity, practice self-control, develop a track
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by vlad 18y ago
Two things that are never mentioned that show how a language like Visual Basic 6 or VB.NET (which I believe are still taught in high school or college programming courses) is just backwards for learning computer science. First, at least in
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by vlad 18y ago
Great point! Except that the study of human behavior is used to manipulate humans, such that these successful instincts are actually not optimal or do not benefit the person in many situations. That in itself is part of social evolution,
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by vlad 18y ago
They may have written code at some point, but it isn't what made them successful. They made their fortunes by doing other things that occasionally drew on their technical skills. Like what? Raising horses and starting a petting zoo? The
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If your software needs a how to guide like this... (4 pages)(pcworld.com)
1 points by vlad 18y ago|0 comments
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by vlad 18y ago
I didn't say anything about new technology or marketing hacks, but about publicizing itself to other developers, which are also either the target market or a big part of the initial target market. Plenty of fish used the strategy of bloggi
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by vlad 18y ago
Humans like to believe we can explain everything, so when we cannot predict the success of startups, we look at already successful startups, analyze their history, and create a story for why they became successful while others did not. In
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by vlad 18y ago
The argument the article makes is, literally, "Your idea probably sucks, and it doesn't matter because your business will probably turn out to be something completely different." You are arguing that "there are millions of ideas that keep s

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