wildwood

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by wildwood 16y ago
I wonder if Apple might use this as a way of phasing out BookShelf and making the Kindle app the standard reading software for the iPhone. If the Kindle app shipped on every new iPhone, that might be worth it to Amazon to give Apple a resp
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by wildwood 16y ago
Anyone can sell e-books on-line and email them to your kindle. Baen's Webscriptions ( http://www.webscription.net/ ) has been doing this for years.
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by wildwood 16y ago
there would be an exceptionally easy way to make money: Buy a future or option today based on yesterday's move. Leverage ad infinitum. This kind of co-correlation and general market direction is already baked into the option and futures p
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by wildwood 16y ago
Depending on how they defined success, 73% might be achievable just by looking at co-correlation. Up days and down days tend to run in streaks. If they defined success as predicting 'up' or 'down' for the day for the DJIA, just going with
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by wildwood 16y ago
You can probably start here: http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/01/how-to-steal-and-get-ri...
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by wildwood 16y ago
The only book I ever force on people is "A Deepness in the Sky", by Vernor Vinge. If you haven't read it, please do. I've really been enjoying David Weber's Honor Harrington series, if you're open to military sci-fi. It's not on the Amazo
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by wildwood 16y ago
"Player of Games" is also a good starting point, it has some of the clearest narrative structure of any of the Culture novels. And from what I can remember, it's a little less dark than Phlebas, to ease you into the depths of Banks' mind.
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by wildwood 16y ago
Kissinger do this, too, apparently. http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/coldwar/interviews/episode-15/l... - scroll down to the last paragraph on the page.
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by wildwood 16y ago
I don't think small claims court is usually seen as a setter of precedent... :) Maybe they could sue for 17.50 plus some punitive damages (or emotional distress or something), to push it into civil court. Imagine the briefs and testimony y
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by wildwood 16y ago
Most negotiating techniques will work better when you're negotiating directly with the CEO, instead of HR or the hiring manager... :)
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by wildwood 16y ago
Probably not - Seattle wasn't settled until the Industrial Revolution was effectively over, so I'm not sure this article applies. Its early industries were timber and coal exporting, and supplying the Klondike gold rush. Manufacturing, an
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by wildwood 16y ago
To whatever extent this article had any advice, it was not to ignore the tantrums, but to ignore the attacks. The author responded to "I don't love you any more" with "what can we do to make this better for you?" If you took a similar appr
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by wildwood 17y ago
I enjoyed doing the quests when I first started using thesixtyone, which got me used to the features and the layout pretty easily. I'm a bit surprised that they haven't done 'redesign intro' quests to acclimate people to the new design.
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by wildwood 17y ago
Google got whipped by Yahoo JP for quite a while, as I recall, and they stuck with it. They're still getting their asses handed to them in South Korea. This doesn't seem like a decision that's being based on market share. And Google doesn
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by wildwood 17y ago
If the heating element is thermostat-driven, and not on all the time, then yes.
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by wildwood 17y ago
It's widely accepted that the "two men" letter has made huge amounts of money for the Wall Street Journal. Here's some numbers, and the letter: http://dennyhatch.com/billion/
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by wildwood 17y ago
The demandbase.com landing page is mostly pics, but they do have a lot of alt text for the pics, and decent meta data. They also have their phone number on the page, which Google is supposed to love. The centraldesktop.com and gotomeeting.
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by wildwood 17y ago
Another important argument in favor of a native app over a webapp is the iPod Touch - sales of the Touch are doubling year over year, getting pretty close to the iPhone, in terms of units sold. Requiring iPod Touch owners to connect to wifi
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by wildwood 17y ago
The only example that I can think of here is "damn yankees", which suggests that "damn" is fine here instead of "damned".
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by wildwood 17y ago
Sure, it's Goat-Renter Guy! :) http://www.werealotlikeyou.com/ - click on number 80
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by wildwood 17y ago
What's more, you can even go broke with overall positive expectancy, if your position sizing strategy can't handle losing streaks.
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by wildwood 17y ago
I disagree. People go to the bar when they're ready to socialize and meet people, and they'll value something that makes that easier. Making it more geo-aware makes people have to decide which parts of their day they want to be interrupti
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by wildwood 17y ago
Nothing in his post came anywhere close to talking about 'ethnic cleansing'. He was only talking about letting some other group be the majority, and letting caucasians become a minority in the country. Of course, that projection is for 90+
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by wildwood 17y ago
Plus, if you take articles from the newsletter and archive them on your site, that becomes a great long-term SEO advantage, giving people even more ways to find your site from search engines.
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by wildwood 17y ago
My first guess would be that the admins are using their desktop boxes mostly as dumb terminals to the unix servers, and chose Windows because of easy integration with email and calendaring. As to why Windows 7 instead of XP, maybe it's gett
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by wildwood 17y ago
Absolutely. Emacs, ant, and unix command line tools work just fine for java development.
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by wildwood 17y ago
But all Google can really tell when someone searches on 'widget' is that the user wants to know more about widgets. Isn't Amazon's data, knowing who searches on 'widget', and then buys a widget, substantially more valuable?
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by wildwood 17y ago
Not so odd, really. Building the whole loop requires a fair amount of integration and trust between the search engine and the advertiser, which is often easier said than done. Didn't Google have a CPA beta last year for AdSense? It's inte
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by wildwood 17y ago
Is there any word on whether Yahoo Japan is involved in this? I know that Bing is running in Japan now, but Yahoo Japan has always been a very separate legal entity.
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by wildwood 17y ago
Cursive may make sense if you're right-handed, but for us lefties, I say, good riddance. I need to take my pen off the paper fairly often just to keep from losing track of what I've already written.

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