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Run the following phrases on your thingy and filter by the users who use them: "The point being," ", mind you," "I fully agree with" "highlights a fundament

Run the following phrases on your thingy and filter by the users who use them: "The point being," ", mind you," "I fully agree with" "highlights a fundamental" ":" some text "," some text "." ", etc." " - e.g." "entirely dissimilar" Whatever user has the most instances of these signature phrases is likely your man.

jacquesm 17y ago
That's exactly what I did and failed...
- swombat 17y ago
  How do you know you failed?
  - jacquesm 17y ago
    That's a good one, another poster above suggested something similar. I believe that HN'ers would play fair in something like this. On the other hand that isn't proof of anything, but I think the changes are higher that someone will own up that didn't do it to throw sand in the eyes of the searchers than the reverse. But then again, maybe I'm a sucker and I believe that people in general are honest and trustworthy. So far that seems to me to be a better assumption than the reverse.
    - theblackbox 17y ago
      you heard of this technique? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8404025.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8404025.stm Relies on a person's vocabulary and writing style more than the actual words. [edit: disregard - I hadn't read deep enough to see that this was essentially the approach you had taken]
- pbhjpbhj 17y ago
  There are some short "googlewhacks" (though they are multiple words) in there: * collective pause to think * pure-ad parked These suggest to me a [highly proficient] non-native speaker too. "pause for thought" and "pure ad-parked" are correct versions. * "intimate patterns" is an unusual turn of phrase in this context, would probably be "personal usage patterns" * "high-end criminals" looks like an unusual hyphenation This search gives a name - http://www.google.com/search?q=%22identity+management%22+roi+%22networked+life%22 http://www.google.com/search?q=%22identity+management%22+roi....
  - petercooper 17y ago
    "high-end criminals" isn't unusual. Certainly not to these British eyes. If you Google for "high end criminals" even without the hyphen, about half of the results use the hyphenated version. The other things you point out encourage me to share your opinion, however.
    - pbhjpbhj 17y ago
      Google's regular search doesn't handle hyphenation but Trends appears to: http://www.google.com/trends?q=%22high-end%22%2C%22high+end%22%2C%22highend%22 http://www.google.com/trends?q=%22high-end%22%2C%22high+end%.... Google searches give me results which suspect this Trend search is not sound however. I'm from the UK too.
      - petercooper 17y ago
        The problem is context, a common issue with tracking things with Google Trends in particular. Tracking programming language usage with it, for example, has been a nightmare ("ruby" and "python" having far too many meanings, but few write "ruby programming"). "high end" has more uses than "high-end." For example, "I bought a car at the high end of my budget." In that case, "high-end" wouldn't make sense. In "datacenters have been targeted by high-end criminals," however, "high-end" is a compound adjective. Alternatively, you could drop the hyphen and/or form an entirely new word: "highend." The word "highend" doesn't seem to have caught on yet, though. I suspect that's because "upmarket" covers the same meaning already and is less susceptible to these morphological mishaps. (On seeing what OS X had to suggest as a correction for "highend," it suggested both "high end" and "high-end.")
        pbhjpbhj 17y ago
        It's a blunt tool, agreed. But it was supposed to be a simple indicator only, not a measure.
  - astine 17y ago
    From reading the original post, I think that "intimate patterns" was a stylistic choice, meaning to emphasize the invassivness of this phenomonon

jacquesm 17y ago

That's exactly what I did and failed...

swombat 17y ago
How do you know you failed?
- jacquesm 17y ago
  That's a good one, another poster above suggested something similar. I believe that HN'ers would play fair in something like this. On the other hand that isn't proof of anything, but I think the changes are higher that someone will own up that didn't do it to throw sand in the eyes of the searchers than the reverse. But then again, maybe I'm a sucker and I believe that people in general are honest and trustworthy. So far that seems to me to be a better assumption than the reverse.
  - theblackbox 17y ago
    you heard of this technique? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8404025.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8404025.stm Relies on a person's vocabulary and writing style more than the actual words. [edit: disregard - I hadn't read deep enough to see that this was essentially the approach you had taken]
pbhjpbhj 17y ago
There are some short "googlewhacks" (though they are multiple words) in there: * collective pause to think * pure-ad parked These suggest to me a [highly proficient] non-native speaker too. "pause for thought" and "pure ad-parked" are correct versions. * "intimate patterns" is an unusual turn of phrase in this context, would probably be "personal usage patterns" * "high-end criminals" looks like an unusual hyphenation This search gives a name - http://www.google.com/search?q=%22identity+management%22+roi+%22networked+life%22 http://www.google.com/search?q=%22identity+management%22+roi....
- petercooper 17y ago
  "high-end criminals" isn't unusual. Certainly not to these British eyes. If you Google for "high end criminals" even without the hyphen, about half of the results use the hyphenated version. The other things you point out encourage me to share your opinion, however.
  - pbhjpbhj 17y ago
    Google's regular search doesn't handle hyphenation but Trends appears to: http://www.google.com/trends?q=%22high-end%22%2C%22high+end%22%2C%22highend%22 http://www.google.com/trends?q=%22high-end%22%2C%22high+end%.... Google searches give me results which suspect this Trend search is not sound however. I'm from the UK too.
    - petercooper 17y ago
      The problem is context, a common issue with tracking things with Google Trends in particular. Tracking programming language usage with it, for example, has been a nightmare ("ruby" and "python" having far too many meanings, but few write "ruby programming"). "high end" has more uses than "high-end." For example, "I bought a car at the high end of my budget." In that case, "high-end" wouldn't make sense. In "datacenters have been targeted by high-end criminals," however, "high-end" is a compound adjective. Alternatively, you could drop the hyphen and/or form an entirely new word: "highend." The word "highend" doesn't seem to have caught on yet, though. I suspect that's because "upmarket" covers the same meaning already and is less susceptible to these morphological mishaps. (On seeing what OS X had to suggest as a correction for "highend," it suggested both "high end" and "high-end.")
      - pbhjpbhj 17y ago
        It's a blunt tool, agreed. But it was supposed to be a simple indicator only, not a measure.
- astine 17y ago
  From reading the original post, I think that "intimate patterns" was a stylistic choice, meaning to emphasize the invassivness of this phenomonon