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LinkedIn makes it so if you want to see who's viewing you, you have to agree to be viewable, removing a potential information asymmetry and this is somehow a horrible offense?
I like the change, and I'm glad of it. I like that you can't elect to be hypocritical about profile viewing information. I'll continue ramping up my LinkedIn usage, especially as it seems to only get more valuable for me over time (unlike FB, which has never provided me with any measurable utility.)
I think the issue with your presentation is that 'cut' can mean either 'reduced' or 'eliminated'.
Seriously though, I meant what I said about the debt of gratitude. Massive thanks.
I can still remember the exact moment back in 2002 or 2003 where I realized just how much than me better Joe Tall was. We were having a cigarette near the Foxwoods poker room and he reviewed the action on a few hands we'd just played in a 20/40 game, and he remembered them in more detail than me, but he also processed the detail differently to emphasize different aspects of my game.
I was a winning player but after that night I stopped playing for a month, did nothing but study books, analyze hands and sessions, and grind out math to see if some of my assumptions about lines against various hand ranges were correct.
After that I got a lot better, jumped limits, and ended up meeting DeathDonkey in a 100/200 game at Commerce and again realized I was outclassed.
I'd say I owe them a debt of gratitude, but I'm pretty sure I already paid it at the tables.
Entertainment, because professional players are allowing amateurs to pay to meet better players, and test their skills against them. There really aren't many other games where this is the case.
Education, because there are huge numbers of available lessons (in both hard and soft skills) for players who decide to think about the game deeply.
I don't see anything "empty" about it. But then again, I'm a winning poker player who ported lessons from poker into everything from business to my golf game. It's had such a positive impact on my life that I can't view it negatively.
The future is now, man :-)
If nobody else has it on amazon, this guy isn't buying it and putting it up there.
Your stated benefit doesn't exist.
So... consider him a saint all you'd like, but he is not helping you in the way you imagine he is.
All he's doing is going to thrift shops, and ensuring that poor people don't get any of the popular books at below market prices. Nothing saintly about that, IMO.
It won't make purely random reads fast, but it makes my workloads scream.
accounting services and accounting service are different, with substantial gaps in search volume and competitiveness. Do you know which one is worth more? Do you know how much more?
There's an order of magnitude difference between the traffic on nj accounting firms and new jersey account firms. Are you sure you know which is better?
Even if you cultivate a list of hundreds keywords that are relevant, valuable and that you can be competitive in, do you know how to decide which words to try to hit via SEO and which to do via SEM? Do you have a tool that can help you make that decision quickly?
Do you know who your competitors are, what keywords they're winning on, and how strong they are on each, so you can plan an effective attack, leaving them only with the crap you don't want?
Sure, it's pretty easy to say use valid html, use alt tags, use meaningful URLs, have a header, use relevant images, make videos, get links from relevant content with good anchor text, and all the other crap that goes into SEO 101. But when you get into market analysis, competitive analysis, management of link-building campaigns, etc, it gets very involved. I'd expect that it would take smart person a year of working full-time under an expert to be good at it.... and I'd expect it to take them much longer if they're doing a part-time self-guided tour.
Linux is a diverse ecosystem, with tons of experiments driving it forward. Different package managers, different kernel patches, different userland configurations, different means of administration... and that's a great thing.
FreeBSD is not diverse or experimental. FreeBSD is a deliberately moving beast, that adopts technologies and ideas in a more methodical manner, often after other OS's (OpenBSD / NetBSD / DragonflyBSD / Solaris / Linux / OS X) have proved that the ideas are solid, and lasting, and then it integrates them carefully, so it still looks like FreeBSD (but with some new capabilities, or better performance, or whatever), rather than having drastically different administration mechanisms, or performance characteristics, or anything else.
Personally, I like this stability. I like that it's a platform that once learned, can be largely forgotten about. But that said, it does require learning first, and while it's powerful, it's not shiny or sexy. But even excluding the man pages and documentation, zfs, the pf firewall, and many other things I like about FreeBSD, this is the winner for me. I just love that it doesn't change unless the change is a large win.
My wife's favorite spa has also figured out that sending me follow-on ads is a pretty effective sales pitch, as I semi-routinely say 'hey, she deserves another half-day at the spa.' They got my email address from an initial online sale.
I don't get any follow-on advertising from donut places, but there's a local restaurant who uses email to fill out slow nights with some really nice prix fixe dinners. Every now and then one shows up in my inbox, sounds delicious, and I don't feel like cooking, and they make an additional sale. They started doing so after I made a reservation on OpenTable, and our dining frequency jumped substantially.
That said, it's a very short list of what calculators are allowed.
Here's a question to test if you really believe the argument you seem to be making:
You have the idea of your lifetime. It's a billion dollar idea. You are looking for a co-founder, and find two amazing prospects.
They are equal in every way (education, drive, interests, etc) except one: Jim spent the past five years working at a startup that he just sold for $20m. Tim spent the past five years working in an office job.
You can only pick one of them. Do you prefer Tim or Jim?
You are king among the problems in the United States today. You hold opinions on things where you are grossly ignorant.
Title: Dexter - My Bad.
Description: Dexter stands in a dank, dirty, dimly lit public bathroom, gripping a fishing anchor, a malevolent look in his eyes.
Title: Dexter. Description: A likable Miami police forensics expert moonlights as a serial killer of criminals who he believes have escaped justice.
The exact episode also has those attributes:
Title: My Bad. Description: In the aftermath of last season's chilling finale, Rita's death has left Dexter feeling responsible, possibly even...guilty. Unable to deal with the trauma, Dexter makes a drastic decision that will impact everyone around him. Quinn stirs up trouble at the station when he notes that Rita's murder, which is being pinned on the Trinity Killer, doesn't fit his normal murder profile. Things get even more heated when Quinn suggests to LaGuerta that they look at the husband: Dexter Morgan. Meanwhile, Quinn offers Debra much needed support, causing her to see Quinn in a new light.
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Simply put, titles and descriptions are not the same thing. It seems silly to me that somebody would advocate that they should be treated as the same thing just because there is overlap when the content is a 15 second video of a cat.
Just a friendly reminder, you referred to pageviews as "the most important metric", thus my question.
User engagement...
While pageviews can be used as a mediocre proxy for user engagement, I don't think it proves your thesis at all. Which is more valuable, 5x the uniques, or a smaller group who loads more pages? Depend on additional variables, no?
Which pretty much certainly equates to more visits and more unique visitors than digg.
As far as I can tell (using compete pro), pageviews is the only metric where reddit wins, with digg winning handily in the others. Digg seems to have 5x the uniques, and 50% more visits. This strikes me as accurate, since reddit is focused on comments, and digg seems to focus more on links.
that is generating less value to consumers
How are you measuring that?
Are you asserting that reddit creates more value than digg, but they fail to effectively monetize and capture it? Or are you asserting that reddit's value is non-monetary, but still worth paying for?
If you want your founder to swing for a long ball, you have to free him to do so. A partial payout means his utility curve looks a lot more like yours, which is a good thing.
Or perhaps they had more than one idea, and selling a preliminary collection of search algorithms to reduce personal financial pressure made sense to them given the high-risk nature of the market they were playing in.