daveman

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by daveman 14y ago
That kind of hokey abuse of statistics always gets me riled up. Just because cigar smokers are likely to live longer doesn't mean the habit extends longevity. A more telling study might be to compare success rates of startups with all femal
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by daveman 14y ago
Regarding the topic of internet access, I wonder how many van dwellers resort to piggybacking on nearby homeowners' unsecured wifi networks? Seems like if you're trying to minimize costs, rolling up alongside an open network is a great way
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by daveman 14y ago
The thesis seems fair, but when you go to LayerVault's main landing you get this swirling, vertigo-like background canvas behind the main content. This hardly seems "cut ... down to the bone" nor seeking "the most impact with the fewest el
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by daveman 14y ago
As an analytics professional who was pressured into a MongoDB environment, I feel the OP's pain. If you want to do gymnastics with your data, (aggregations of aggregations, joining result sets back onto data), SQL expressions are a 1000 ti
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by daveman 14y ago
Josh Foer gave a good TED talk about this topic, you can watch it at http://www.ted.com/talks/joshua_foer_feats_of_memory_anyone_... After seeing this I actually was able to use his technique to help remember all the parts of a long weddi
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by daveman 14y ago
Like glasses, it's an interesting disruption opportunity due to the sheer size of demand. Just about 100% of the population sleeps on a mattress. It's hard to find other industries with so much penetration of demand and such inefficient c
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by daveman 14y ago
I also wonder if these folks were handed a brand new 4S, unhampered by apps and months of use. In my experience, the speed, even for activities like homescreen navigation, got slower over time, especially when I load more and more apps. Ne
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by daveman 14y ago
I'm not very familiar with the product, but couldn't they just turn on the watermarking for the beta versions, versus all of production?
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by daveman 14y ago
Absolutely correct. When prices go up, newer tentants end up subsidizing squatters who are paying below-market rates. If rent prices were variable then the market would be more liquid and the total supply would be higher, and thus new renta
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by daveman 14y ago
Our republic was originally designed to work like this, but the federal government has taken so much power that differences in freedom and self-governance no longer vary that much between states. At the same time, there's also a dynamic whe
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by daveman 14y ago
When I tried using the app, for some a reason a car came by and picked me up.
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by daveman 14y ago
When I was looking to buy an Aeron chair, I used it to learn the range of market prices, and even was able to negotiate the seller down with the information from the site. I wouldn't have been able to get such a comprehensive view (in any
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by daveman 14y ago
A few months ago I saw a tweaked-out guy at 6th & Howard in San Francisco (just outside the Techshop) literally trying to saw-off a U-lock in broad daylight. A bunch of other homeless guys were lazily watching with amusement. I really
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by daveman 14y ago
It's particularly annoying that this prohibition is in place even though there are still other ways-- albeit less convenient ones-- to get the video streaming to your TV. For example, you can use a thunderbolt-to-hdmi connector (or VGA) fr
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by daveman 14y ago
I found pipes/YQL very useful for doing some ajaxy things with sites and services that are not on your domain (since most browsers don't allow for cross-domain ajax calls, you can request a JSON version of a site's markup via YQL). However
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by daveman 14y ago
Is it just me, or is it kind of odd that he titles and begins the post with a plea to "Stop Using the Cup of Coffee vs $0.99 Cent App Analogy" but then proceeds to totally use Starbucks as an shining example for how to run your app business
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by daveman 14y ago
It may be true that FB is making more use of the data than you might have anticipated, but you can argue that's also the risk you take when you use a free service (do you ever really know the full extent a service will use your information,
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by daveman 14y ago
It's fascinating to watch how tech companies react to restrictive EU privacy laws. Many of the EU requirements (e.g. 'right to be forgotten', mandatory opt-in for cookies) could become a real hindrance for companies that want to build intel
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by daveman 14y ago
Women have been able to simulate those for a while now.