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by wanorris 19y ago
Stories like this are kind of an entrepreneurism Rorschach test. To people who are excited about opportunities and want to build new things themselves, things like this look like opportunities. To people who just want to get a good job they
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by wanorris 19y ago
> To do really great things, you have to seek out questions people didn't even realize were questions. ... You only get one life. Why not do something huge? This one really got me thinking. While tackling big questions is certainly admi
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by wanorris 19y ago
I've heard it argued pretty convincingly that the birth of photography is the root cause of the death of mimesis in art.
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by wanorris 19y ago
As common as virtualization is becoming , that could be a good solution as long as they can keep a ceiling on the memory cost -- true virtualization can be really expensive, memory-wise. On the other hand, if they're simply talking about a
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by wanorris 19y ago
This isn't all that different from the transition from a manufacturing economy to an information economy that's been going on for a long time. It hurt the economy a hell of a lot worse to lose middle class manufacturing job than it's going
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by wanorris 19y ago
If you're trying to compete with Norvig right now , for god's sake don't waste time learning more languages. You have a business to build. If you're willing to bide your time and you hope to develop jedi-level expertise eventually , then
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by wanorris 19y ago
Exactly. Some form of bootstrapping + pursuing a vertical market = doing exactly what he's talking about. This is alive and well. This won't get the same tech media coverage as starting Facebook or Twitter, but if you're pursuing a vertical
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by wanorris 19y ago
Being targeted doesn't necessarily make you unlike media. The whole business model behind most behind magazines is delivering a targeted, valuable audience to the right advertisers.
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by wanorris 19y ago
> If you invoke the collapse of commercial AI to explain Lisp's current state of disfavor, you then have to explain why the collapse of the dotcom bubble didn't have a similar effect on Perl or Java. I'm not saying AI Winter is the defi
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by wanorris 19y ago
If the site contained a strong privacy guarantee on the front page -- basically, no data about individuals' surfing habits will be stored, but aggregate data about overall traffic will be stored unless you opt out -- I would use it if I nee
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by wanorris 19y ago
> The latter are not vertical systems. They're middleware that the client expects to integrate with existing systems (paying huge consulting bills in the process, though they may not know it yet). Agreed. Tools to abstract workflow can
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by wanorris 19y ago
> My idea isn't even that novel or anything - it just isn't available as I envision it. The "secret sauce" reference of the parent comment would seem to be directed specifically at this part. Don't bother to hide that you're making a n
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by wanorris 19y ago
Yes, I believe the claim is that when huge government projects like this were completed, all the Lisp programmers left, and had to retrain to find non-Lisp jobs. This sounds similar to the "AI collapsed and took Lisp with it" argument.
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by wanorris 19y ago
I personally build workflow software. My current employer sells vertical systems to small government and nonprofits, and we built a dynamic workflow engine (along with a dynamic ORM layer and a dynamic presentation layer). This allows us to
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by wanorris 19y ago
It depends what you use it for. If it's for your public Flickr stream or something similar, privacy is irrelevant, right?
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Marc Cuban: "The Internet's dead.. [it's] for old people."(multichannel.com)
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by wanorris 19y ago
> Wikipedia indeed. If you're going to impeach what you believe to a a secondary source of questionable veracity, it might behoove you to use something other than baldfaced assertions yourself.
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by wanorris 19y ago
Well, for starters, the author's baseline claim that there was no factual basis for redlining, which he freely admits is the minority opinion in the matter. More importantly, the claim that the government and the liberals hounded banks into
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by wanorris 19y ago
> The New York Post, like every other New York paper, does its damnedest to appeal to the widest possible spectrum. The Post is a liberal paper. No it's not. It's owned by Rupert Murdoch (also the owner of Fox News), and it's considered
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by wanorris 19y ago
If you have to integrate with all that Windows stuff, you may be better off using Windows-native tools. On the other hand, that doesn't mean you have to use C#. You might want to look into IronPython or IronScheme. You can use all the .Ne
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by wanorris 19y ago
Aside from what appears to be an intentionally combative post, it's interesting that this illustrates how difficult it can be to avoid the trap of responding to the tone of a post, especially if you read the post you're responding to as imp
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by wanorris 19y ago
I thought the essay was quite good. I wasn't trying to say that I thought pg was being redundant. My point was merely that there has been plenty already written on the subjects of rhetoric and logic as ways of expressing ideas, and that the
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by wanorris 19y ago
As mascarenhas already posted, Aristotle spent quite a bit of time on the topic, and his ideas are still studied, though perhaps not as widely as they should be.
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by wanorris 19y ago
Pithy quote, but do you believe the substance of it in this instance?
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by wanorris 19y ago
All excellent points. Thanks for posting this. I agree that 2 months should never be a cause for alarm for something like this. It's only that for so long they had been able to keep building significant continuous improvements in clickthrou
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by wanorris 19y ago
In 2000? Maybe not. It was very different back then. In any case, even if you don't think Broadcast.com or some of his other business ideas are the smartest ever, you can't fault the guy for being smart enough to take the money and run.
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by wanorris 19y ago
Some of the articles' suggestions were good ones. And yes, you should always have some ideas for how to monetize your business. However, one key problem is that if you try to implement a monetization strategy before you build a user base an
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by wanorris 19y ago
I'm curious: what does this buy you over not sending one at all?
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by wanorris 19y ago
Not true. According to the article, they were seeing year-to-year growth of their click-through rate in earlier months of 25-40%, and in the last 2 months it's been 0% and 3%. That's slowing growth. (Unless you mean relative to the aggregat
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by wanorris 19y ago
I agree that it's certainly no cause for them to panic (at least not yet), but on a sales chart, growth slowing to a halt is in fact a flat line, so I wouldn't say the headline is misleading at all.

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