thomson

I decided one day to spend all my time refactoring code and ended up writing -200 lines. That was probably one of my most productive days ever.

Machine learning in particular is hugely important for startups--for example, given a rich training dataset of deals you've bought from a deal site (with predictors such as type of deal, location, price, datetime, number of friends who've bought them, etc), can we train a model that'll rank deals by likelihood that'll you'll purchase them?

This is a nonexistent battle as a developer, isn't it? Applications that sell on one platform will sell on the other, and Amazon's licensing agreement is non-exclusive. This is like Coke vs. Pepsi and we're selling the ice cubes.

Milk used to be home-delivered in Britain--the act of companies touring universities to attract recent grads to apply is known informally as a milkround.

On a pedantic note, is there a reason why large corporations 'regret' mistakes rather than apologize for them? Is it just so they don't want to go on the record as being wrong?

Sony's statement for reference: http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011/04/26/update-on-playstat...

I'm reminded of dhh's talk at Startup School 2008 where he talks about the 'revolutionary idea' of charging for your products for a profit:

http://www.justin.tv/hackertv/b/259414909

This is a pretty cool service! The link to your own service sign-up page is broken though (the link right before the offer code).