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by zach 16y ago
I was alarmed to discover the same a few times -- the contract had wide claims on IP, and then there was a separate part which said "of course, these are the enforceable limits according to this particular California law." It seemed like th
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by zach 16y ago
I discovered tree-style tabs a few months ago and love them. However, I find myself running Chrome for its superior performance on my Mac. Is there a grouping tab manager anyone can recommend for Chrome?
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by zach 16y ago
There was a very clever hack that econ professor Robert Shiller (of housing-market fame) came up with to avoid having to deal with secondary markets like futures trading. It goes like this: there are a pair of ETFs, with equal amounts of ou
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by zach 16y ago
On the contrary. This article is great personal marketing -- who can deny the hook of "from phone to Porsche?" He gets a great anecdote and branding angle for the rest of his life. I'd say the lifetime value of appearing in this article
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by zach 16y ago
Can anyone name this fallacy, where your evidence is that people have been complaining about the same thing for a long time, so complaining is merely the status quo and there isn't a real issue? I know we all enjoy quotes from ancient Greec
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by zach 16y ago
Congrats to Metaweb and Applied Minds. Those guys are uniformly brilliant and it's great to see Google sharing the deep interest Metaweb has in curating a great, accessible repository of semantic data.
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by zach 16y ago
Yeah, I needed to weasel-ify it some more so it was clear I was talking about outright giving instead of giving in an exchange -- I probably should have just called it "donating" consistently. :) The thing that's interesting is that they're
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by zach 16y ago
Yeah, I'm just probably not being imaginative enough. Even if you give someone a tiny bit of status that says they're a member, that's what they're "paying for," even if it costs nothing. And all the psychic benefits just happen to be lur
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by zach 16y ago
I strongly doubt it. I can't see a public-media-style "pledge week" as a primary source of revenue for a for-profit company. I think the best outcome would be that this is a one-time weird thing that happened before they found a real reven
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by zach 16y ago
A very good point -- the characteristics of a website's community is determined usually well before, and only rarely after, its point of big growth. Reddit definitely ended up with, um, less-monetizable DNA, and didn't want to "sell out,"
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by zach 16y ago
I have to say, this looks bad for the whole "users first, revenue later" mantra. Now, admittedly, the founders got paid on the flip. But there are users, and now it's later, so... where is the revenue? I heard this moment described as the
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by zach 16y ago
Yeah, and Barrens chat or the trade channel on a weekend night are pretty awful as well. But are they going to get RealID'd too? If they were only doing this on the general-discussion areas with no gameplay implications, it would be a lot
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by zach 16y ago
This would basically close the WoW forums, which actually serve an important gameplay purpose. Hilariously bad idea. Blizzard doesn't always figure things out the first time, but you can probably trust that this will be worked out. Sure,
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by zach 16y ago
Agreed. I'm guessing they also have a script that tells AppleCare technicians how to handle people complaining that their screen got scratched really easily. That doesn't mean that they are snowing people about screen durability flaws the
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by zach 16y ago
I think it's better to start high and appear generous and in touch with your customers when you release at a new-lowest-price based on a careful gauge of customer reaction. In other words: yeah, definitely, but I think we should stay tuned.
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by zach 16y ago
Because given that context, it's hard to resist seeing this sort of thing as sour grapes. I'm not claiming it is, but that impression is hard to avoid even if they are very gentle about poking fun indirectly as the case is here.
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by zach 16y ago
Really reminds you of the nightmare that was the Old World of mobile development. Especially that pink RAZR story, which really hits home how much developers were at the mercy of fickle handset manufacturers. Of course, if they actually t
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by zach 16y ago
Apple isn't even a Delaware corporation, as maybe 99% of publicly-traded companies are, but is still a California corporation after all these years.
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by zach 16y ago
Seems like a winning strategy. Facebook is the Peter Pan of Silicon Valley right now. The "grownups" don't stand a chance -- you can never go back to being pre-IPO again.
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by zach 16y ago
In the Bible, Proverbs incessantly mocks those who lack wisdom, who are simply called fools. Like an illustration that fools instinctively repeat their mistakes like a dog comes back to lick up his own vomit. Nice. Then comes this thought
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by zach 16y ago
I think there's a very strong argument to be made that Windows nearly killed Apple because Jobs made the same mistakes he is making today with the iPhone platform. Jobs wasn't even at Apple after John Sculley forced him out in 1985, you k
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by zach 16y ago
I see this got into the negative, so let me upvote and point out that this is totally expected. This is exactly how it was with the Danger handsets 5-7 years ago, simply because they were great for power-texters, had a camera and were way,
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by zach 16y ago
In a game design mentality, you would instead switch them with a explicit crossover having unique signage so there would be a memorable moment, and other indicators or challenges that will clearly (and safely) shake them out of the former d
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by zach 16y ago
If it disappears on focus, it's before you start typing (or pasting).
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by zach 16y ago
That's probably better than the typical contestant who simply has categorical weak spots like sports or opera. Although not being able to grok audio or picture clues on top of that would be a real problem. Every season has more clever, non
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by zach 16y ago
Well, naïve Bayesian inference is supercomputer-level when you use it on a huge universe of data. As Peter Norvig often points out, these kind of tasks are highly data dependent. The supercomputers are probably more used for data access as
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by zach 16y ago
"It seems they’re still interested in putting liability onto their members when there’s an accident"? Of course -- they should be! Insuring someone is totally different from assuming liability, is it not? The article totally lost me at thi
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by zach 16y ago
You rarely these stories within a company. Worked for Activision for five years and never heard about how Bobby Kotick got where he was. I always thought he was a VC financier because of the circumstances of the Activision deal.
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by zach 16y ago
Is it wrong that before I even build one of these I'm more interested in making a robot that follows the glider around?
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by zach 16y ago
The connection is actually not very metaphorical; it's being able to chat across the two games. The use case is that you can jump into SC2 and invite your 2v2 teammate to play with you even if they're playing some WoW character you don't kn

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