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JMiao
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I've seen at least 2 Scribd-hosted docs earning popularity on Digg over the past 3 days. Crazy because Scribd went live not too long ago and I distinctly remember a lot of people questioning its use case.
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amichail
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Try comparing its traffic with reddit on alexa.
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paul
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Why can't it really be 5-20x better than your other options?
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Alex3917
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Another site that completely fails to make it clear what they do on the front page. "The best way to capture and share your research." What the heck does that mean?<p>The FAQ is four paragraphs long, of which only two sentences are at all meaningful.<p>How about just having the front page say: "SNiPiTRON is a way to build research projects based on the web pages you capture. Then you can share and discuss your research with friends, colleagues, co-workers, etc." Even this is too wordy and could be cut down.<p>Why even bother building it if 90% of the people who get to the site are going to hit the back button within the first ten seconds? heh.
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reitzensteinm
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Disclaimer: I'm no accountant and maybe I'm not reading the figures correctly, but here goes.<p>It's closer to 61%/37% search/adsense, but look at the profit. It seems to me that for Adsense the revenue of 1,197mm this quarter had a 'Traffic Acquisition Cost' (i.e. what they pay to website owners) of 975mm, so they see very little profit from that. <p>Without search, this quarter, Google would have been 947mm in the red instead of 1030mm in the black. Without Adsense, which is 37% of their revenue, they'd have lost just 222mm from their bottom line.<p>In contrast, Microsoft's biggest earner in 2006, Office, had a revenue of 14,488mm without which they'd still be in the black by 3774mm pre tax. Which is actually far less comfortable than I expected, but Google is under much more threat from Newgle than Micorosft is from any of their competitors, present or future.<p>Links: <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/msft/reports/default.mspx">http://www.microsoft.com/msft/reports/default.mspx</a> <a href="http://investor.google.com/fin_data.html">http://investor.google.com/fin_data.html</a>
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/16/AR2007031602543.html
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Internet as Medium for Political Campaigns
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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/d64c712c-d35c-11db-829f-000b5df10621,_i_rssPage=fce0dcea-3017-11da-ba9f-00000e2511c8.html
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Ex-Livedoor chief gets 2.5-year jail term
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smackaysmith
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http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/003791.html
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get the right culture going, and the tech looks after itself
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Divvio - Sets out to be "the google of audio-visual"
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http://www.darrenherman.com/2007/03/12/the-penny-gap-in-depth/
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The Penny Gap - In-Depth
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Terhorst
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What he said really struck home with me, too. <p>"If you're interested in startups, don't sit around waiting for the perfect opportunity, just go find one that sounds interesting [...] The startup will probably fail, but you will succeed because you have learned a lot more than you otherwise would have."<p>It's exactly what I've heard so many successful people say.<p>The startup path is a scary one for me, but spending my life as a "worker bee" is even more scary somehow...
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domp
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http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2006/09/01/8384349/index.htm?postversion=2006102617
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20 Smartest Companies to Start
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reitzensteinm
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I agree in the sense that you don't want to try to upgrade a lousy experience for the benefit of a few VIPs visiting the site by putting manual effort into it (I think artifically speeding up the sale of their items is borderline in this camp). But I don't think you'll ever get around the fact that sometimes shit just happens when you least want it to, so there's absolutely nothing wrong with ensuring that VIPs are getting the high quality of service that you designed for your customers by manually reviewing their experience. Using the same system that you're using to manually review a random sample of customers to make sure they're getting the full experience.<p>Kind of like taking extra care when you've got a few grand in your wallet, but you wouldn't be careless with it when you're broke.
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http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/mar2007/sb20070315_768885.htm?chan=smallbiz_smallbiz+index+page_today%27s+top+stories
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Ladies who Launched: A look at women entrepreneurs
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dougw
1,174,194,321
Interesting. <p>For the lazy among us: <a href="http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?site0=scribd.com&site1=reddit.com&y=r&z=1&h=300&w=500&range=6m&size=Medium&url=reddit.com">http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?site0=scribd.com&site1=reddit.com&y=r&z=1&h=300&w=500&range=6m&size=Medium&url=reddit.com</a>
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Navin
1,174,195,115
can you like do your H1B through a consultant and "consult/work" for your company through the consultant.
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http://aboutbryan.com
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Thanks to Bryan Kennedy of Likebetter for most of the new look
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http://blogsearch.google.com/?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&q=&tab=ib
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Google blog search is open. Any thoughts?
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dfranke
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Becoming an SMS spammer is among the 20 smartest startup ideas? That would be pretty sad if it were true.
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http://gigaom.com/2007/03/17/techcrunch-hardee/
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GigaOM: Fox executive new TechCrunch CEO
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Harj
1,174,196,170
good initiative. well done.
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reitzensteinm
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=0198001674
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Colorado Woman sues the Wayback Machine
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reitzensteinm
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This has serious implications for opt-in versus opt-out on the internet. I wonder if Google will donate some legal help for this since there's the potential for a troubling precendent to be set.
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noisemaker
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http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2007/03/is_twitter_too_.html
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Creating Passionate Users: Is Twitter TOO good?
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Make Way for Copyright Chaos - Lessig on Viacom vs Google
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staunch
1,174,198,446
<a href="http://snapshot.compete.com/reddit.com+scribd.com">http://snapshot.compete.com/reddit.com+scribd.com</a><p>This seems more likely to be the reality. Alexa is pretty broken.
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noisemaker
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http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2007/03/seven_blog_virt.html
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Creating Passionate Users: Seven Blog Virtues (for a Global Microbrand)
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python_kiss
1,174,212,875
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http://money.cnn.com/2007/03/13/smbusiness/smallbiz_developementcenters/index.htm?section=money_topstories
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Where to get business advice - free
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arasakik
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http://www.thinkvitamin.com/interviews/webapps/jason-fried/
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Jason Fried - web apps, cash flow and pricing
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mynameishere
1,174,200,905
Don't feel like reading that. Here is the headline from twitter's website:<p>"A global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: What are you doing?"<p>Okay. This sounds like a bad parody of the worst aspects of Web 2.0. I mean: I'm not sure how such silliness can be "TOO good". Is it good at all? Walk around any college campus and you are likely to hear the following half-conversation coming from somebody talking to his cellphone:<p>Person X: Whuzzu?<p>Person X: Not much. Just leaving class.<p>Person X: Yeah, just going to class.<p>Person X: Whuzzu. [click].<p> How to monetize that? Twitter? Whuzzu?
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staunch
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Sounds exactly like what I would expect from a VC and exactly the opposite of what someone like Larry Page would do. I think my energy is better spent fixing valid critiques and requesting a follow-up review once you have.<p>Better to build something that can stand up to the harshest of reviews than run around spraying perfume on dung.<p>
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http://blog.experiencecurve.com/archives/are-mobile-operators-stifling-mobile-innovation
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Are Mobile Operators stifling Mobile Innovation? at ExperienceCurve
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dougw
1,174,200,762
North Carolina. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to be exact. Yourself?
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17647819/
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Worth Reading: Using the Competition to Boost Your SEO Performance
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danielha
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/16/MNG4GOMH4A1.DTL
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Where Old and New Media Collide
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danielha
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http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9697915-2.html?tag=blog
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Friendster lands a third patent
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dougw
1,174,200,244
I like the wider layout. Much more engaging and consumable. Subtle, still YC, yet well done. Kudos.
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danielha
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http://venturebeat.com/2007/03/15/reputationdefender-helps-you-clean-up-your-reputation/
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ReputationDefender helps you clean up your reputation
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reitzensteinm
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--- LAST week, Viacom asked a federal court to order the video-sharing service YouTube to pay it more than $1 billion in damages for some 150,000 videos that Viacom claims it owns and YouTube users have shared.<p>Over $6600 per video, discounting dupes of which I'm sure there will be masses, I wonder how they worked those figures out. $/view?<p>This could be a nice idea for a startup - something that can determine whether a given audio sample or video clip is pulled from copyrighted content. Of course it depends on sites like Youtube existing and users on it infringing.
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dougw
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Yes, it is. Reddit sure has a nice, strong looking curve.
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Kincafe.com Takes on Geni
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zach
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Much appreciated.
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2007 Web Predictions
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Which startup is most worthy of in-depth study for a budding web 2.0 entrepreneur?
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Iain Lamb: "The New Hacker's Toolkit" [video]
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jamongkad
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http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/voip/the-perfect-voip-softphone-and-im-client.asp
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The Perfect VoIP softphone and IM client
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Alex3917
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Oh wow, I just made an account to check it out. This thing looks evil. I'm staying as far away as possible.
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http://advertising.phpmagazine.net/2007/03/how_will_stumbleupon_hit_the_a.html
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How Will StumbleUpon Hit the Advertising Market?
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Alex3917
1,174,216,373
According to Mizuko Ito and Howard Rheingold's research, we typically don't telecocoon with more than four or five people. Why would you want to telecocoon with strangers? It makes no sense to me.<p>Maybe I'm just getting old.
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http://www.blueflavor.com/blog/mobile/10_things_i_learned_at_mobile_20.php
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Mobile 2.0
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http://www.uvouch.com
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Save and organize videos, clips and links from anywhere all in one place
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agentbleu
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http://startupcrunch.org/do_no_evil_or_do_no_good
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A new business model emerges that could save google video from some further legal threats
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zkinion
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It doesn't seem like so bad of an idea. A tad bit idealistic, and ignores the fact that we divide up and layer our society on purpose. We shell ourselves up with people who we see as similar to ourselves, and shut out the rest. Perhaps if there is a way they could apply some method of connecting "random" people based on a whole series of information such as interests/personality.
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It's not wider. Perhaps it seems wider because the top bar is narrower.
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jamongkad
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Tell me about it....being a technical guy myself it's quite fun and interesting to get into projects that really catch your interest. The hard part is to translate those projects into something that users want. Cuz really do users give a crap about how cool SIP(Session Initialization Protocol) is? and what are it's implications for the mobile telecommunications industry. haha
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University lecture notes in math, computer science and physics
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Scoble: "Microsoft's Internet execution sucks."
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X/HTML 5 Versus XHTML 2
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farmer
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http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/17/goodbye-tello/
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Tello, John Sculley's new startup, dies
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dougw
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"We manage to get back around 1AM and I’m stunned to see that kids are sitting and talking and playing ping-pong. What’s wrong with them?, I wonder. I just came back from an arduous journey and they’re playing like it’s nothing! I head up to my room, but nobody seems to notice a thing. My roommates are also just sitting at their computers, as if everything is normal"<p>I know the feeling. My friends and family do not understand my desire to start a company. The rush of creation that one expereiences when they are working for themselves makes all else seem insignificant and minor. Well put.
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nostrademons
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Depend what your goals are.<p>Are you looking to turn a hobby into a business and grow it with minimal cost? LiveJournal.<p>Do you want to start small and opportunistically grow the business over a long period of time? Microsoft.<p>Do you want to change the world and change it now? Google.<p>Are you looking for examples of what not to do? Value America, or just go work for some startup off the street.<p>Are you looking to bootstrap a company for very little money and the flip it to an acquirer? Reddit, ViaWeb (Yahoo Store), or Vermeer (Microsoft FrontPage). The latter took VC investment, so I wouldn't really call it "very little money".<p>Are you looking to succeed in some business, any business, and do it on a dime? Flickr.
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http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q1.07/9E601E8E-2ACC-4866-A91B-3371D1688E00.html
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volida
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I am wondering which choice is popular among this startup community? Tests showcase PostgreSQL perfomance and scalability on a multicore to be better than MySQL. <p>What are your thoughts and the database of your choice?<p><a href="http://tweakers.net/reviews/657/5">http://tweakers.net/reviews/657/5</a> <a href="http://tweakers.net/reviews/657/6">http://tweakers.net/reviews/657/6</a>
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ntoshev
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Maybe what he does has a side effect on usability. Looking closely at individual users (vs. looking at aggregated statistics) may help really understand what the customers are doing.
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vegashacker
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I'm not sure. I think scoping would screw you up. First off, there's a small reason right away why it wouldn't work. You'd have to quote your argument to debugExpr, as in, say, debugExpr('2 times 3'). I did a little test at the Python prompt and the results didn't look good for faking this macro with eval:<p> def foo(x): return 2 times (x + 3) <p> &gt; foo(1)<p>8<p> (not a full version of debugExpr, but enough to test:)<p> def debugExpr(expr): print "Expr is " + expr return eval(expr)<p><p> def bar(x): return 2 times debugExpr('x + 3')<p> &gt; bar(1)<p>Expr is x + 3<p>Traceback (most recent call last):<p> File "", line 1, in ?<p> File "", line 2, in bar<p> File "", line 3, in debugExpr<p> File "", line 0, in ?<p>NameError: name 'x' is not defined<p><p>PS: I couldn't use the asterisk symbol in the post, so I used 'times' instead.
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http://mashable.com/2007/03/18/the-geeks-guide-to-good-and-evil/
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The Geek's Guide to Good and Evil
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dougw
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"Should Google and Youtube be forced instead to add a link to the contents official home (where legal copies can be purchased) and thereby referring potential customers back to the aggrieved party?"<p>Would this mean that the aggrieved party would then share some revenue for sales generated by YouTube? I think this is only fair. Mark Cuban talks about this a little in this post: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=4859">http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=4859</a><p>
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brett
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http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/03/the_web_20_addr_1.html
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O'Reilly Radar The Web 2.0 Address Book May Have Arrived
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danielha
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Reminds me of a quote: "The nice thing about standards is there are so many to choose from."<p>There _are_ cool additions to both, and that's the problem. Two sets of standards that set out to accomplish the same goal. Anyhow, there will be some time to kill before browsers (read: IE) start incorporating the best stuff.
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zkinion
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heh, i remember seeing those business card cartoons on the internet like a LONG time ago, maybe 4-5 years at least.
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python_kiss
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Yeah, in an article, I mentioned this as one of the coincidences that made Google fabulously successful. Have a look,<p><a href="http://shuzak.com/Personal/Article.php?Article-Title=Coincidences-that-made-Google-successful">http://shuzak.com/Personal/Article.php?Article-Title=Coincidences-that-made-Google-successful</a>
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volida
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Who wants to discuss about MySQL vs PostgreSQL?
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sofus
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http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/001760.html
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How to be creative
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mattculbreth
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We're building on PostgreSQL now. I'm not an expert on either platform but the research I did led me to PostgreSQL due to its better performance on larger systems and in more traditional enterprise software categories. Our software will operate with Oracle sometimes and having a similar database will make a few things easier.
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danielha
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All of them. No one success story will be an instruction manual for yours.
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danielha
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According to the article's chart, it seems Good / Evil is also 'Young and edgy' / 'Old and stuffy'
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danielha
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I signed up for GrandCentral some time ago, got a nice 408 number, but I never got around to using it. It's one of the coolest services I've seen offered recently and that's because it passed my litmus test for quality: I see myself using it. That said, I haven't used it _yet_, but I can see it coming in handy very soon.
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http://www.wikio.com/webinfo?id=15004229
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Want Your own Web Portal?
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python_kiss
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This reminds me of a similar situation mentioned in "Founders at Work" about PayPal's original plan to develop applications on the Palm Pilot. <p>In their own words, "..the move of the enterprise to handheld devices was actually not forthcoming...Any minute now (we thought), there'll be millions of people begging for security on their handheld devices. It just wasn't happening. We were correct to change our strategy, since it still hasn't happened."<p>Has anyone considered the possibility that the cellphone might not be the glorious next step forward? Most tech evangelists, including myself, expect mobile devices to eventually diminish our reliance on the desktop. What if that actually never happens at the expected grandeur scale?<p>A friend of mine recently bought a Nokia 8800. It's an expensive phone, so I asked him what he used it for. His answer, "for phone calls and sms". It seems to me that mobile startups are pushing supply ahead of demand.
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danielha
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http://momby.livejournal.com/
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Hackers promise to begin disclosing security bugs in MySpace every day next month
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vegashacker
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"It was noted that the submit button was a long time coming and hitting the RETURN key was the only way to burst Google into life."<p>I was skeptical when I read this, but I tried it and sure enough, if you make a form without a submit button, hitting return submits the form. I didn't know this. Neat! or, something.
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jasonyan
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I had been reading numerous articles comparing MySQL and PostgreSQL and ran across this one. I wish they had mentioned some information about the configuration of the DBMS itself, such as the size of database buffers and query optimization settings.<p>Also, for their MySQL test procedures, I could not find any information regarding which storage engine they were using. InnoDB is fully ACID-compliant, whereas MyISAM has reduced overhead since it does support transactions and foreign key constraints, for example. I found a good article, <a href="http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2007/01/08/innodb-vs-myisam-vs-falcon-benchmarks-part-1/">http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2007/01/08/innodb-vs-myisam-vs-falcon-benchmarks-part-1/</a> , comparing the two storage engines, and the results were pretty surprising to me.<p>It ultimately comes down to your individual usage patterns. Using a database abstraction layer will allow you to test your application against different databases so you can see how your application performs first hand.
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brett
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Anecdotally:<p>I used to work for "Grand Central Communications". It was really a vision of what not to do with a startup: Enormous development cycle, bleeding money (Hasley Minor, the principle investor and CEO, used to compare it do driving an Audi off the roof of the building every day), way too many people, sales team constantly selling functionality we did not support. <p>In late 2005 after multiple rounds of layoffs they cut their losses and folded. Existing team members willing to stick around formed Swivel (<a href="http://swivel.com)">http://swivel.com)</a> based on what we were working on at the time (which had nothing to do with what Grand Central was doing a year earlier). The name (and I guess trademark) "Grand Central Communications" got inherited by a VOIP company that was also funded by Minor Ventures (<a href="http://minorventures.com/)">http://minorventures.com/)</a> and that's the company O'Reilly is talking about. Good to hear they're turning the name around.
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danielha
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<a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,129933-pg,1/article.html">http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,129933-pg,1/article.html</a>
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chris_l
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That's strange, I was just revising a few of those points myself. I'm a huge fan of that post or whatever you want to call it.<p>"The sovereignty you have over your work will inspire far more people than the actual content ever will. How your own sovereignty inspires other people to find their own sovereignty, their own sense of freedom and possibility, will change the world far more than the the work’s objective merits ever will."<p>Priceless.
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zaidf
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Sure, that's why it's proceeds point #1:)
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socmoth
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http://www.cleancss.com/?lang=en
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CSS sumerize feature. (report back if you get good results)
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socmoth
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http://www.ted.com/tedtalks/
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New ted talks are up. tech/entertain/design
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amichail
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Besides web 2.0, we can see some creativity in the games industry as well. For a more recent example of creativity in games, see:<p><a href="http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=1299927595688205543">http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=1299927595688205543</a><p>Maybe one might even find ideas from computer games that can be adapted to a web 2.0 context.
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davidw
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I've used both and prefer Postgresql. Mysql with MyISAM is "faster" in the same way that bicycling down a hill with no brakes is faster. Mysql 5 with InnoDB is a little bit more serious and is worth considering.
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nickb
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Our Ruby on Rails app uses PostgreSQL (for now but that will change). We started off with MySQL but after growing quickly, we were forced to look into partitioning of the data. PostgreSQL was made to be easy for advanced stuff like that. We tried to do it with MySQL and failed because we're not MySQL experts and we managed to get it working with Postgres. Postgres has better documentation than MySQL so that might be the factor if you don't have a DBA you can readily ask for help. Here's a write-up by someone who went through similar process:<p><a href="http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/archive/2006/11/04/166">http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/archive/2006/11/04/166</a><p>Also, if you use Postgres on multi-CPU machines, it's faster than MySQL. But, make sure you read this:<p><a href="http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/oracle/115560">http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/oracle/115560</a> (comparison of Oracle/MySQL/PostgreSQL)<p>One last word of advice if you end up using PostgreSQL, learn and use this:<p><a href="http://pgreplicator.sourceforge.net/">http://pgreplicator.sourceforge.net/</a><p>Finally, we are moving back to MySQL because we found a really fast replacement for the MyISAM storage engine (a lot faster than Postgres) and our part-time DBA knows MySQL and this new storage engine a lot better than Postgres. We are also moving to VPS architecture and Postgres' performance advantage over MySQL on a VPS doesn't really exist.<p>In the end, go with what your staff/friends know and what your hosting place recommends. If they have an optimized DB stack and provide some kind of a support for it, stick with that DB because you can always go to them for help!
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nickb
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I remember when GrandCentral had some kind of an enterprise web service stack! I still have their CD somewhere from 2001 conference I attended. No wonder that idea went nowhere... you couldn't even describe it in 2 sentences. From what I remember, they went through a mountain of cash.<p><a href="http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid26_gci844506,00.html">http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid26_gci844506,00.html</a><p>I'll probably never use their new service.. I've got enough bills relating to phones/internet/cell-data services.<p>
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http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/03/high_school_stu.html
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High school student builds fusion reactor
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sharpshoot
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http://mashable.com/2006/08/25/facebook-profile/
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Facebook - the complete biography
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lupin_sansei
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Exactly. If you can't afford office space why not do your programming in a university library? Lot's of good reference materials at hand and places to hang out too.
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lupin_sansei
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The essence of Ajax is getting Javascript to communicate with the server without reloading the page. Although XmlHttpRequest is most convenient, there were other methods of doing this before XmlHttpRequest such as <p>- loading a 1 pixel image and sending data in the image's cookie<p>- loading server data through a tiny frame which contained XML or javascipt data<p>- Using a java applet to fetch the data on behalf of javascript
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jward
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http://pyweek.org/
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Pyweek 4 - Registration Open. Great coding challenge.
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