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by h84ru3a 14y ago
This author sounds a little naive re: technology. Perhaps he should examine some of the Facebook publicly available scans that have been done by "academic researchers", e.g., in South Korea. It is not rocket science to crawl Facebook. Face
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by h84ru3a 14y ago
Google is really good at seamlessly integrating the companies they acquire to give the appearance to users that Google develops much more than they actually do. The Google brand becomes synonymous with development that they actually did no
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by h84ru3a 14y ago
TOPS-20 Autocomplete.
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by h84ru3a 14y ago
I think what he means is getting funded is commoditized. But that will not continue indefinitely. And that is because eventually someone will want to know how the company plans to make money. When the company cannot tell them, they stop i
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by h84ru3a 14y ago
I'll bet she was thinking of the data mining and analysis possibilities opened up by allowing users to input information in the form of "notes". Of course, that's just a guess.
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by h84ru3a 14y ago
I am afraid I do not understand the question as you have structured it. If you can rephrase it, maybe I can give you an answer. I may have been sloppy in my usage of the term "regulatory environment". Is that want you mean?
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by h84ru3a 14y ago
They made money in the past, as more and more users kept signing up and using the site (more new eyeballs on the display ads). We're looking to the future now. What happens when the number of new users starts to slow down? As a public co
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by h84ru3a 14y ago
If you're with me in spirit, I take that to mean I'm not "wrong", I'm just unrealistic, a dreamer, etc. I think web developers have a lot of power over how the web operates. Much more than marketing departments. In the spirit of making mon
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by h84ru3a 14y ago
Let's look at this in simple terms. Let's look for evidence of a "business model". Website becomes popular. Website gets personal details from users: email, maybe photos, address, etc., plus it gets a list of "friends" for each user. Websi
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by h84ru3a 14y ago
The ideal to strive for is what we call the "Goldielocks effect". Not knowing too little. Not knowing too much. Knowing just enough to get the job done. In computing there will always be multiple solutions, and tradeoffs. What you want t
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by h84ru3a 14y ago
I never said an optional GUI would hurt R. (I think optional GUI's are a smart idea.) I was referring to SAS and SPSS. They have mandatory GUI's.
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by h84ru3a 14y ago
In general, do marketing people know how to create websites? If not, how can they even know what is possible to create using HTML, CSS, etc.? If the answer is "they look at what the competition is doing," then how did the marketers at the c
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by h84ru3a 14y ago
Are we sure that "=" and not "==" is the correct operator? If "==" was appropriate then there would be no problem of ambiguity. And there would be no need for the clarification. Because meanings could never change with context. There coul
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by h84ru3a 14y ago
It's web developers that are responsible. It's a little like advertising perhaps. Advertising has become more of an art form than a tool. Awards given for achievement in creating ads are based on the perceived artistic value of an ad, not
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by h84ru3a 14y ago
Wise words. What's the sense in spewing out endless chunks of code when no one (even the authors later on) can take the time to read it and understand it? Why not review the code that's already been written (like the open source code Appl
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by h84ru3a 14y ago
Maybe price won't be the most important factor, as some commenters have pointed out. Maybe the more important issue is the use of an "open format". I'd like to see "ebooks" that can be converted to plain text (and hence other typesetting f
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by h84ru3a 14y ago
I've sometimes wondered: Is there any country that has "free" dental care?
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by h84ru3a 14y ago
Walled gardens, which are just another annoyance in a long line of progressive manipulation of the computer user for profit, together with an increasing lack of responsiveness (despite ridiculously powerful hardware), drove me back to UNIX,
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by h84ru3a 14y ago
Maybe they do not trust the FPGA's being supplied to Wall St.? Does Wall St. check for backdoors in hardware?
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by h84ru3a 14y ago
"investment community... limited in scope" But how about the regulatory environment? Maybe it might make a good base from which to launch a startup focused on reclaiming some standard expectations privacy for internet users, by using origin
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by h84ru3a 14y ago
"Everything is expensive." Does that include healthcare and education?
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by h84ru3a 14y ago
Given a choice between AAPL and AMZN as a source for purchasing "ebooks", which would you prefer?
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by h84ru3a 14y ago
From the Wire article: "It was run by friendly Canadians who did not want to antagonize partners and customers by suing them." Oh well, the patents have found their way into the right hands now so it's all good. Let the American-style anta
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by h84ru3a 14y ago
"the belief that just because people could be evil, doesn't mean they will be evil" You might attribute the problem to immaturity. Behold the attitude in this thread: finger-pointing. A patent is not a right or an obligation to produce any
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by h84ru3a 14y ago
Patent trolling as a business, which IV has proven is viable, relies on a precondition: patent litigation must remain expensive. In specific, it must be prohibitively expensive to determine whether each and every asserted claim in each and
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by h84ru3a 14y ago
I can remember when SPSS had no GUI. It seemed much more responsive back then, running on a VAX. If we can achieve bigger and better things by teaching a new generation of users how to use the command line again, maybe it's worth considerin
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by h84ru3a 14y ago
But couldn't R have applications in business (industry)? A businessperson once asked me about R after he read a non-technical article about it in a major newspaper. This person has never been in academia. Why was he curious? What could h
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by h84ru3a 14y ago
"programming would mean cooped up in a cube all day" Unfortunately, I think for most programmers, it still does. My guess is Atwood was once of them. When I started to reach some sort "enlightenment" (series of epiphanies, ah-ha moments or
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by h84ru3a 14y ago
I imagine you could use some idiosyncratic scheme; lots of different ways you could do it. Do blog spammers have time to customise their scripts for specific sites? Is it worth it? My guess is they tailor them to different types of popu
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by h84ru3a 14y ago
I'm not an expert on spam, but doesn't almost all blog spam contain a working hyperlink somewhere? So what if you just instruct commenters who want to post links that they should leave off the http:// or break the url some other way. T

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