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by waitwhat 14y ago
1KB of GET data is ~25 UUIDs. That doesn't seem excessive.
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by waitwhat 14y ago
More than use Gmail -- http://www.campaignmonitor.com/resources/will-it-work/email-...
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by waitwhat 14y ago
Of course taligent can speak for himself, but I think the argument is not that this is a bad game plan, but that it is not a "brilliant" one (but merely obvious.)
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by waitwhat 14y ago
See my response above. This was originally submitted with a title similar to "This 16 year-old from Eastern Europe has a better sales page than you". I was responding to this title by pointing out that this is not obviously or demonstrably
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by waitwhat 14y ago
You are correct as far as you go, but gaming that heavily is often caused by (and hence a symptom of) other problems, such as depression. If you simply force the gamer to quit, the underlying problems persist, and may continue to manifest t
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by waitwhat 14y ago
I wouldn't be a failure, but I certainly wouldn't be claiming (as the original submission title did, now thankfully fixed by the mods) that I was a better yacht salesman than you if I had never even sold a yacht .
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by waitwhat 14y ago
He appears to have made zero sales. By most metrics, this is not a "better sales page".
38.
by waitwhat 14y ago
(Belize is not in South America)
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by waitwhat 14y ago
It's not at all clear that having exactly the same content on G+ as on Facebook is a winning strategy for Google. The twitter-clones tried this approach, encouraging content-"seeding" with a full r/w API. What actually happened is that they
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by waitwhat 14y ago
(Belize and Guatemala aren't in South America.)
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by waitwhat 14y ago
Vayable launched with 70 guides in April 2011 [...] Since then, the company's been growing at a rate of 30 percent each week. 30% growth every week for 18 months would mean total growth by nearly a factor of a trillion. This doesn't seem
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by waitwhat 14y ago
I can confirm the translating-names-of-currencies issue, but something even worse is that the names of languages can also be similarly converted. For example, the word "Eesti" will often get Google-Translated to "English" rather than "Est
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by waitwhat 14y ago
And as someone living in Estonia, Apple Maps lists just one restaurant for the entire country (a McDonald's) and no hotels at all. For me, that's not just a showstopper, it's barely even a minimum viable product.
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by waitwhat 14y ago
The article says that arrests doubled, not that the costs associated with theft doubled. I wasn't discussing the article, but correcting errors in someone else's post. I also like how you think that they should be happy with your model,
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by waitwhat 15y ago
And very few retail shops operate at 100% margins such that a doubling of revenue would exactly compensate for a doubling in theft. They don't need 100% margins to come out on top if they sell more units than are stolen. So if a shop was
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Free apps eat up your phone battery just sending ads (newscientist.com)
10 points by waitwhat 15y ago|4 comments
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by waitwhat 15y ago
their ToS says you need to be either the copyright holder or have consent from the copyright holder. I've seen warez sites with exactly the same disclaimer. It didn't work for them either.
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by waitwhat 15y ago
I really don't want or need all my devices to have seperate data contracts -- one contract (for the phone) and hotspot capability is just fine.
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LulzSec boss turns on associates, leading to arrests(news.cnet.com)
2 points by waitwhat 15y ago|0 comments
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by waitwhat 15y ago
That list does not show where the money is being spent by each organization. This is irrelevant to the claim I was debunking. True, the great grand-parent post appears to be conflating where the research was done with the nationality of t
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by waitwhat 15y ago
In the past 30 years have you heard of any medical innovation or drugs coming from anywhere other than the US? Of course the MRI machine was itself invented in the US I have no way of judging the value of their respective contributions
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by waitwhat 15y ago
the entire world is dependent on the biomedical R&D of US companies Inasmuch as it is possible for companies of this size to be from any one particularly country, large American pharmaceutical companies spent $27bn on R&D in 2009,
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by waitwhat 15y ago
I am reminded of the classic "not here to make friends" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w536Alnon24
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by waitwhat 15y ago
I doubt that sending a mimetype which the client has said it can't accept would be on anyone's list of best practices. This is a good point, though, not sure why it escaped me: Accept: application/*+json I think you're using a bad
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by waitwhat 15y ago
Two reasons that I can see... If the server generates custom mimetypes, clients have to ensure they "Accept:" the correct mimetype for every request. And if you have multiple data types (and you will have multiple data types), then this "
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by waitwhat 15y ago
My guess is that the current batch will stay exclusive to the current distributors, but this mess will encourage the Foundation to add new distributors for all future product. So the distributors will have some consequences: a smaller share
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by waitwhat 15y ago
They weren't doing a master-master sync.
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by waitwhat 15y ago
Not according to your own website. ChronicDB is a combination of a software engineer and a hosted database: You run your database in our datacenters -- http://chronicdb.com/how_it_works Your database will be hosted in our datacenters
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by waitwhat 15y ago
After 25 minutes on hold with RS, I spoke to an agent. She was (understandably) a bit flustered, so this might not be correct, but what I gathered was: * She couldn't take an order * They weren't going to be able to take an order
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by waitwhat 15y ago
The Farnell product page came up briefly for me: http://uk.farnell.com/raspberry-pi/raspbrry-pcba/sbc-raspber... (but the servers are still melting, so the buy links weren't working)

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