IsaacL

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by IsaacL 17y ago
So why is Facebook trying to trick their users? Simple: search results. Facebook is trying to dupe hundreds of millions of users they’ve spent years attracting into exposing their data for Facebook’s personal gain: pageviews. Yes, Facebook
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Fluff.
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This was an idea I had for a website I while back - basically an aggregator for grouping learning resources by topic then ranking them by skill level and quality. (So you could find the best "beginner's guides to x" or "expert tips for x" a
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The examples the author cites: - a film which was released in 'beta' at Cannes, giving it a bad name - voice-recognition of contact names for mobiles, where the technology became widespread before it was usable - his own experience of demoi
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It was written for the poker community, not a general audience. As with any complex field, you need a specialized vocabulary to communicate effectively. Further to the other reply: - the rail/railbirds - observers to an online poker match -
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I set up this website yesterday. Obviously I'm quite pleased with the TechCrunch and HN coverage, though if anyone knows anyone from the target audience (or anyone from the UK startup community in general) please pass this link on to them.
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Have you read any of the "colloborative fiction" websites out there? They're generally awful.
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You're right, it isn't new. I've read enough propoganda pieces telling me why I should get into open source; it would be interesting to read one telling me how .
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"All software is discovered and not invented." Though this depends on your definition of "discover" and "invent", I would be inclined to disagree. I personally find that the process of writing software has more in common with engineering th
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The article looks like it might have some interesting content, but I don't fancy going through what appears to be a rather long and basic introduction to Computer Science. Can anyone enlighten me as to whether there's anything worth reading
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Oh, so many ideas, if only I could focus. - Slime Volleyball in Clojure - Some text-based game or simulation to take advantage of Ruby's metaprogramming abilities - Improving an existing online game I run with AJAX/Facebook Connect.
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Successful companies such as Oracle Corporation burden their marketing departments with overlapping products rather than stifle programmer initiative. For example, during most of the late 1990s there were at least three different Web serve
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"Sketch a stick figure drawing during dinner with friends, and pass it to her" - that's quite specific advice there.
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A personal peeve is pubs that play music so loud that it becomes difficult to speak. It's not a nightclub - why go to the pub if it's impossible to hold a conversation?
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Three people, all of whom I met in my first year at university. The first was a guy I met on my first weekend, who lived in a house next door to mine on campus, and later became one of my best friends. He was/is working on a social networki
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I look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems. We pride ourselves on strong hacker culture, building things quickly for lots of people. I wouldn't mind working at Facebook.
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I believe Joel Spolsky mentioned in an article that instead of marketing one of your options as the 'premium' one, market the other as the 'discount' one. That depends on what other offerings you have and your market segementation, of cours
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Try googling 'interactive fiction', which seems to be the modern term for old-school text-games. I used to play a few text games as a teenager (I'm 20 now, so this was only a few years ago) and there seemed to be a small but thriving commun
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That site is fun, but too addictive a time-waster. Let's hope it doesn't show up again any time soon.
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Now we need only wait until some enterprising person releases 'Baby Kafka' for expectant mothers.
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One of the reasons I read Hacker News is for the great comments on submissions, and this is one of the best I've seen. Thanks for taking the time to write that.
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It says it contains an evolution simulator? Oddly enough, I was thinking of something like this as a project to learn Clojure. Anyone know what that section of the book was like?
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I think Fran Allen (the only female interviewee in Coders at Work ) made the point that you see more and more women going into Earth Sciences, Biology, Chemistry... Even Engineering and Maths have more balanced gender ratios than CS. Her o
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I find it hard enough to be a student and work on projects on the side - I am much more productive in the holidays. I imagine working for 40+ hours a week would be even worse. It reminds me of the pg essay about looking for funding - when t
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I found this interesting, as I've just started working again on a web app for rating learning resources - I made a previous post on HN asking about the merits of a 5-point system versus a 2-point system (thumbs up / thumbs down). It seemed
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Thanks for your answer. I took another look at that chapter, though I'll definetly need to come back to it and try out some of the excercises for understanding. I should take a closer look at Clojure as well (tried a few Project Euler probl
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Agreed, I'm trying to work out what the story actually is here. Apple said that they hadn't rejected Voice, just they hadn't accepted it yet because of concerns it competed with the iPhone's core functionality. The truth is they had rejecte
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I downloaded a copy of SICP last week, and I was thinking about that chapter as I read this presentation. I haven't had a chance to give that section full attention yet, but have the ideas expressed there had much influence on language desi
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Perhaps a bad choice of title. Although I know that inline styles are bad, I still find myself using them in my own projects out of laziness, and I thought it was cool to see an example of what is possible when style and content are kept to
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CSS is for design, HTML is for content - CSS Zen Garden(csszengarden.com)
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