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I think the key is the meaning of the word "distribute." I believe it is generally accepted that using MySQL in a web based application provided as a service doesn't constitute dis…

In some countries (Germany for example), students have been herded into career tracks at a fairly early age. So, some 13 year old may be sent on a path towards becoming an auto mec…

He doesn't learn from mistakes.

As noted, these influences can be very disentangle from any real-world analysis. There was an interesting study a few years back that looked at the "outcomes" of a cohort of people…

The government used to have more involvement in the student loan programs. My father started up a non-profit under the state board of regents to service guaranteed student loans in…

It's a fair outer bound to place. I just like to be really clear about the fact that people don't necessarily pay sticker price at private schools. I've volunteered for my alma mat…

Yeah, I'm glad we haven't formalized that system in the US.

Let me propose the radical idea that a college education is not solely justified by it's monetary value.

You do know that a lot of people going to private schools aren't paying full-price, right? Need based financial aid grants are often available (ie not loans) and sometimes they are…

And I really need to finish doing something with iminuriphone.com

Handy iPhone binaries for Apache & Python 2.5: http://iphone.natetrue.com/

Concerned why? Are you concerned about someone stealing your proprietary code? Or are you worried because you have made unreleased proprietary modifications to GPLed code and you a…

I don't know about data warehousing with spatial data, but two guys I was taking two a couple of months ago were both working on web apps that worked with geospatial data. Both of …

How's it been working with the AppleTV? I know Apple stripped out a bunch of stuff that wasn't needed by their apps in a software update, but people are still installing 3rd party …

Who was it at Google who had the sense to clone Overture's business model, I wonder.

Have you had any content up on the domain before this? Google tries to get news items into the index quickly, but that doesn't mean they are doing it from newly discovered sites. P…

Why is the interesting? Some weak marketing speak (oh, but with attitude ) and no product I can actually try without giving them my contact info and hoping they pick me (please, oh…

Why is that the obvious implication, especially whith the two home-run examples he gives? Starbucks and Microsoft are built on smaller transactions than one would expect from enter…

Nice hyping.

Nice business they've built for themselves, isn't it? On the other hand, you aren't counting all the raw meat they have to feed the goons they use to keep acts and venues from stra…

You can turn it down, but not off, as far as I can tell. Actually, even turning it down didn't make much difference. It looks a bit odd.

I've blogged about this. What most of these commentaries seem to miss is that the material cost of the AppleTV is only going to drop since the hardware requirements aren't going to…

At this point, there are over 150M adults online in the US. I doubt a large % of them will end up installing adblock. Keep in mind too, blocking ads isn't necessarily a rational de…

I don't think your experiment supports your conclusions. I don't think your assumption that it only works for dumb searchers is supported, since nothing in your materials & methods…