tigerthink

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by tigerthink 11y ago
Krugman used to think like a typical economist, but abandoned this approach and subsequently became a celebrated columnist. Ironically this was years after he wrote an essay complaining how the economists who became popular were rarely the
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by tigerthink 15y ago
"The main difference is that eventlet can’t influence the Python runtime, but actors are built into Erlang at a language level, so the Erlang VM can do some cool stuff like mapping actors to kernel threads (one per core) and preemption. We
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by tigerthink 16y ago
Here are some Hacker News threads related to client side testing: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2038663 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2142104 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2055867
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by tigerthink 16y ago
Some days you want to smoke weed, other days you want to take modafanil.
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by tigerthink 16y ago
Some hobbies are more dangerous than others. I think it makes sense for us to discourage people from getting started on the more dangerous hobbies. Also, people do blame alcohol.
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by tigerthink 16y ago
How's that, exactly?
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by tigerthink 16y ago
Possible justification for HN being biased: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1074079
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by tigerthink 16y ago
Does anyone know what kind of money MegaUpload makes? How profitable are internet businesses in general? Would anyone be willing to share the site they run and the amount it makes?
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by tigerthink 16y ago
"In 2001 Schmitz pulled off a huge stock market bluff which netted him a small fortune. After buying shares worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in the almost bankrupt LetsBuyIt.com, he announced that he would invest 50 million euros in t
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by tigerthink 16y ago
Most of the private universities that actually have to market themselves cater to less intelligent folks who will take much longer to catch on to the fact that degrees are overpriced.
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by tigerthink 16y ago
Since education can't be resold, there isn't going to be the sort of bursting bubble you see in markets for other goods. Let's say what the article predicts comes to pass and the demand for degrees goes down. If degrees could be resold, th
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by tigerthink 16y ago
http://yudkowsky.net/singularity/
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by tigerthink 16y ago
Your brain makes you good at the things you do. So if the internet really is the best way to get the information you're looking for, it makes sense to practice internet surfing instead of book reading. That said, it still makes sense to ma
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by tigerthink 16y ago
This seems close enough: >Last year, researchers at Stanford found signs that this shift may already be well under way. They gave a battery of cognitive tests to a group of heavy media multitaskers as well as a group of relatively light
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by tigerthink 16y ago
It's basically true. You only have so many hours in the day.
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by tigerthink 16y ago
Even the life he describes is pretty damn good by historical standards.
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by tigerthink 16y ago
Doesn't work with Vim as well though.
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by tigerthink 16y ago
Holy shit.
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by tigerthink 16y ago
"Yours is a beautiful site, I'm impressed!" Thanks. Actually I did everything but the design :-P "1. Going off on many, many tangents before buckling down and focusing on the core product." Yeah, if I had counted those tangents it would
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by tigerthink 16y ago
So at what point did you know the publicity software was going to be a failure? What was the proximate cause of your doom?
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by tigerthink 16y ago
Of course.
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by tigerthink 16y ago
"I seem to remember an article claiming a similar thing on HN just a couple of days or weeks ago (by one of the Guru bloggers). They pop up every now and then." Thanks! Is Guru a blogging network of some sort?
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by tigerthink 16y ago
OK, well it might be fast and powerful, but I don't much like how the code looks.
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by tigerthink 16y ago
Are great products also greatly profitable? To be honest I am mostly interested in making a profit. Edit: If you're trying to give Microsoft as an example of a company that fails to make great products because it fails to use them, think ag
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by tigerthink 16y ago
"The current consensus seems to be that asking people what they want doesn't really work." Who besides you and Henry Ford is participating in this consensus? I'm not trying to be mean or confrontational. The fact that you're speaking of a
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by tigerthink 16y ago
OK, but I still want to hear what their strategy was. If I can't think of obvious ways to improve it then maybe organic really is the way to go.
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by tigerthink 16y ago
Unrelated point, but this sort of evolution is expensive--you often have to throw away software and marketing efforts, and all you got in return was some knowledge about what users want. Might not it be possible to figure out more about wh
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by tigerthink 16y ago
"We were trying to make SaaS for PR professionals because it seemed like a good opportunity." What was your strategy for figuring out what PR professionals wanted?
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by tigerthink 16y ago
"It takes experience to predict what other people will want." I'm pretty young. Will asking people what they want work? Has there been any scientific research on the effectiveness of focus groups?
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by tigerthink 16y ago
Hm, I'm inclined to think it would have taken me somewhat less time than that. I made this site in about one month: http://deanza.campuseagle.com/books/ Then again, Django is an awesome web framework, I copied someone else's recaptcha in

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