hokua

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by hokua 14y ago
Your son is cool.
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by hokua 14y ago
I sense sarcasm
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by hokua 14y ago
Hell yeah!! Time to move to stripe.
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by hokua 14y ago
I do get the feeling that Atwood has become a MS marketing tool. I wonder how much free stuff he is getting for these posts.
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by hokua 14y ago
App Stores are monopolistic on the platform they serve. If I want to build Mac Apps, I have to go through the App Store. Yes, I could make it a web app, but that would limit the types of apps I can create.
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by hokua 14y ago
Before he listed the threats, I immediately thought "App stores" due to my recent debacle with Apple. Bam, there it was listed. Great article.
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by hokua 14y ago
Nice work Chartio team!
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by hokua 14y ago
What would make more money: Paul Graham lunches everyday for a month at a lower price or limiting supply to 1 Paul Graham lunch at the coming auction price?
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by hokua 14y ago
too late =)
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by hokua 14y ago
Similar to what Swivel was trying to do. Great idea, nice execution, but really how will you monetize this? There is no real market for consumer grade "intuitive" statistical software. While this will appeal to casual data analyzers, these
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by hokua 14y ago
Its really all due to the Mac App Store. Having a free lite version helps. My conversion from lite to paid is around 6%
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by hokua 14y ago
What is definitely dead are Java Swing apps. I believe desktop BCC was a Swing app. Swing app installation and updates are a major pain. Native apps on an App Store dont suffer from these issues, and their ability to integrate with special
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by hokua 14y ago
The books by Aaron Hillegass are good. I also like the Cocoa book by David Chisnall.
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by hokua 14y ago
Ah, OK. I need to read slower.
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by hokua 14y ago
> I love the desktop, but that's really not where users are anymore. Depends on the application and the targeted user. There will always be a demand for apps for the "truck" users. But you are right, the desktop is overkill for the vast
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by hokua 14y ago
Im make about $2k/mo off a Mac App
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by hokua 14y ago
Wow. The most wonkish think I remember from high school is learning about the Balmer series (atom spectral emissions)
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by hokua 14y ago
Well he is only 17. Did you know about Markov chains when you were 17?
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by hokua 14y ago
Definitely Bill Gate's Mini-Me
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by hokua 14y ago
Thanks for the laugh
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by hokua 14y ago
whats the license?
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by hokua 14y ago
Totally. In fact, colleges should publish outcome stats -- what percent graduating in degree X got a job in their field within 9 months? And at what median starting salary? Dismal numbers would cause many students to reconsider that Psych d
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by hokua 14y ago
Too many people confuse a college degree with functional skills. College is a good place to gain functional skills, but in the age of grade inflation, a degree does not imply you've gained any.
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by hokua 15y ago
good point, in other words its a bunch of guys without girlfriends.
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by hokua 15y ago
One idea is to put sensitive data into an image (for example the prices), and only serve the image to the user. While images themselves can be scraped, it is much harder than text.
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by hokua 15y ago
Im not sure why scientists are still publishing in Elsevier journals nowadays. Pre-internet, OK, but now I think journals should be following the model used by the Journal of Machine Learning Research, open on the internet.
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by hokua 15y ago
You are correct
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by hokua 15y ago
Im guessing this rant was submitted and upvoted by the developers of Stripe. Paypal works.
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by hokua 15y ago
I think Khan should be a teacher at least for a year. He would realize his stuff is a great for those students who already have access to good mentors (parents, teachers). But for those students with parents who don't value education and ar
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by hokua 15y ago
Someone has to first motivate the students to use the KA resources. My point is that let's not pretend that KA solves the fundamental problem.

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