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Re:Company claims to "track exactly who is visiting your website" on Saturday December 08, 2012 @12:19PM (#4892067)
This site's tracking is covered in another thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4891637 I agree with tzaman that there are serious privacy concerns here...
Re:Try R — A new online course, for free on Wednesday December 05, 2012 @10:15PM (#4880091)
Great link, thanks so much for sharing! Looks like a very complete introduction to working with R.
Re:Startup Ideas: a response on Thursday November 22, 2012 @01:04PM (#4819514)
The poker analogy is an interesting one - I believe that it's been said that advertising is the only differentiation among products (or services) of equal value. Paradise Poker had a better interface and a wider variety of poker variations, but Party Poker (along with Ultimate Bet and Poker Stars soon thereafter) became the household names due to advertising.