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aldabra ([personal profile] aldabra) wrote in [personal profile] simont 2005-11-18 02:11 pm (UTC)

I get this too.

I find a useful handle on the company-competition question, which I'm also bored rigid by but which you sometimes have to interact with as a member of a company, is to think of it in Darwinian survival-of-the-fittest terms, where you can change the question from how can we put one over foo.com to what is the optimal algorithm for a company operating in this market segment? It has the useful effect of making real-world market vagaries into essential constraints on your algorithm, and so adding intrinsic interest to them.

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