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by 1va 15y ago
Ok. I'll bite: What problem do you feel Twitter solved?
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by 1va 16y ago
If you have a programmatic way of determining the best match for an arbitrary long tail query, then haven't you already solved your search problem? I suppose if you had a large enough (more or less hand crafted) sample set you could use mac
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by 1va 16y ago
> Well 'Violet Blue' is my girlfriend, I guess that may have been a little predictable from TFA, but I'm regularly surprised by the folks who crop up at HN. I've been reading both your and VB's work for years, it is a funny coincidence
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by 1va 16y ago
Here's how I'd look at it: Is the kind of processing you are doing more like the kind of thing you'd do in a text editor (where you need to move around a lot in the source file) or the kind of thing you'd do with "cat" or "tail" (where the
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by 1va 16y ago
Regarding #1, in my experience this isn't a phenomenon limited to middle-aged women. That's pretty much how "normals" use the Internet (as much as I dislike that term). This is what regular people, and quite a few techies, do.
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by 1va 16y ago
"The right to make limited use of the work" is different from publishing rights. This technology wasn't in common use when I went to school, but it seems really easy for the school to slip in something granting them the right to upload this
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by 1va 16y ago
This is an excellent point. I agree that visitors-to-conversions are is the core underlying metric. But these bounces are a subset, and large one, of the visitors that don't convert. It seems that area of greatest opportunity should be wit
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by 1va 16y ago
Wait, maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but you've found that having people explicitly searching for you increases your bounce rate? Wouldn't those people be less likely to bounce? Your site is literally what they were looking for (even i
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by 1va 16y ago
> That's a 6,000x return on his capital in 5 years. > I'll put it this way--if you made a $250 IRA contribution in 2005, it would have to be worth $1,500,000 today to match that return. If you invested one penny that investment woul
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Ask HN: What bounce rate should my e-commerce site expect from organic search?
2 points by 1va 16y ago|5 comments
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by 1va 16y ago
I'm not a big fan of this business but I take issue with the "Teachable Moment" image seemingly created for this post. How does what TurnItIn is doing constitute an "IP Rights" violation? Surely in the contract that the school signed they g
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by 1va 16y ago
You make this general point (correct me if I'm wrong, but I think your argument is that feminists care more about equality at the top end of the scale than the bottom) a couple of times in this thread. I'm not quite sure what you are tryin
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by 1va 16y ago
> a woman can wear almost whatever she likes in a situation where a man can't I'm not sure that's true. There's a lot more diversity in women's clothing. I think that probably makes it more difficult to dress for the occasion as opposed
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by 1va 16y ago
> women haven't really been discriminated against in any serious, society wide way for a very long time Wow, really? Upvotes even? I'm honestly surprised no one has pushed back on that statement yet. Not to be condescending, but I'll gu
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by 1va 16y ago
That's the saddest thing I've read in a while: a depressing combination of the mundane, touching and tragic. It's like Hemingway's 6 word story, there's so much drama packed into some of those phrases. I wonder why many of the quotes have e