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by wensing 19y ago
Digi-Key's strategy obviously diverges from Wal-Mart when we look at profit margins. You make a good point; I don't think I can argue against what Octopart is trying to do from any kind of good vs. evil ethical standpoint. However, I can u
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by wensing 19y ago
Monopoly is a misnomer here. Is Wal-Mart a monopoly? The parts supply industry is not an industry of monopolies. There are a few large names--Grainger, McMaster-Carr, MSC, Digi-Key--that probably account for 25% of the market, and then a
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by wensing 19y ago
_by displaying their public information_ What is public about it?
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by wensing 19y ago
No. Digi-Key and certain other parts companies are suppliers, not manufacturers; hence they are in the information business. Octopart is really an aggregator of aggregators. Should we expect Orbitz to make their content available to MyNe
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by wensing 19y ago
Really? I'm not so sure. Yes, some companies are running about doing things that are obviously good (feeding the hungry, clothing the poor), but for everyone else, I think 'good customer service' is the rarest and best compliment, because
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by wensing 19y ago
Digi-Key is certainly not the only ones in this space that doesn't want price comparisons. What about McMaster-Carr? Not a chance in the world they are going to open up their pricing and availability to an Octopart site. Why? Well, I ca
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by wensing 19y ago
You mean: "If English were written like Chinese". Subjunctive mood, people!
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IBM XT (8088)
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by wensing 19y ago
I love the reference to 'safe-mode'. Subtle! Really subtle!
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by wensing 19y ago
How long do you think it would take to re-write the early version of most startup sites? Most of them aren't doing things that are inherently difficult, but rather new/unique/interesting/right-place-right-time. Twitter?
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by wensing 19y ago
Facebook as a company isn't a fad--with the footing they have, they'll be around as long as they adapt and make what people want. I do see Facebook apps as a cancer on the design, though. If I were in charge of the site, I would probably
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by wensing 19y ago
+1 to "Test-Driven Development: By Example" by Kent Beck. It won me over. Anyone that wants to test in Python should really check out nose (nosetests). I made a slight modification to Django so that it gets run any time a change in code is
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by wensing 19y ago
I like the long o version better, myself. Zahbnee sounds a lot like zombie. Probably not the best association . . .
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Except that + takes two arguments, not three--unless you've altered the definition.
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I find it very strange, and revealing, that neither he nor the interviewer mentioned Christ or the New Testament.
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by wensing 19y ago
I'm very happy with the way things are going. I wouldn't call us a 'winner' (yet), but I don't think YCombinator's "rejection" is going to be the reason we fail, if we do. Plenty of successful technology companies have been started outsi
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Human-consensus hurricane forecasting(stormpulse.wordpress.com)
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Python (pylons) + JavaScript + Flash, and loving it! I used to use PHP, but once I tasted Python I couldn't go back.
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by wensing 19y ago
Excellent article, and the illustrations do a fantastic job of visualizing your points. I agree with your assertion, by the way. However, it does take something 'extra' (the "if you really want to spend money" part at the bottom) to make s
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by wensing 19y ago
Would you please elaborate?
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by wensing 19y ago
If you look at Surowiecki's requirement for a wise crowd (versus a herd), you'll see that he asserts the requirement of a few things (pulled straight from http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisdom_of_crowds ): Diversity of opinion : Each p
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Spatial data warehousing in PostgreSQL
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To know and worship the Creator.
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MySQL.
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We have. http://www.stormpulse.com Python (Pylons framework) + nginx + Ubuntu + S3 + EC2
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by wensing 19y ago
I was a stay-at-home Dad while starting up my startup. Seems relevant to me, as I thought about this stuff constantly. In fact, in PG's top reasons to not start a startup, he lists "I have a family" as an excuse, and says that this is a v
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by wensing 19y ago
That little example will probably save me some misery later. Thanks!
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by wensing 19y ago
So you are asking: "If PG had to engage in an air war today, would he choose an F-16 or a Sopwith Camel?" The point is that he thought at the time, and still (probably) thinks, that Lisp is language superior in power. As far as I know, no
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by wensing 19y ago
Here's a lisp web framework: http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/weblocks-demo.html But the idea is that what you get out of lisp is an order of magnitude more power than other battle-tested ones, right? I ask this in seriousness, not to p
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by wensing 19y ago
Fantastic article . . . I think I'm going to be engrossed in the rest of Norvig's site/articles for a long while now. That article included a link to the video lectures of the Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by A&S the

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