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by SeoxyS 15y ago
Couldn't he have edited the url after posting it?
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by SeoxyS 15y ago
Sure, but that can be done with good layout and typography, or tasteful illustrations (à-la New Yorker). Simply using bad filler stock images is a really bad way to go about this.
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by SeoxyS 15y ago
Maybe they're using it as a filter for smart developers. There's a lot of shitty scripty developers out there, but if you can show you know C you're pretty much guaranteed to be at least decent. But then again, it might be written in C++; s
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by SeoxyS 15y ago
For certain things, thumbnails make sense: online, articles about photography, etc. But for regular articles, instead of figuring out how to extract thumbnails, we should realize that in most cases, the article would be highly improved by a
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We're really nice, so why can't we be nice to our guests?(kswizz.com)
6 points by SeoxyS 15y ago|0 comments
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by SeoxyS 15y ago
These hyperbolic articles about places that are "the best place in the world for a startup" need to stop. For a creative and smart founder, any place in the world will be a fine spot to start up, and might even be better than silicon valley
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by SeoxyS 15y ago
Fantastic read. It's really interesting to hear about how Y Combinator started much like a startup itself. Today we take YC for granted, but 7 years ago that concept must have been extremely novel and easily dismissed. It's hard for me to i
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by SeoxyS 15y ago
It's also similar to the solution I went with for the icon of my markdown editor, Macchiato: http://getmacchiato.com/
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by SeoxyS 15y ago
Ouch, font rendering on Windows/Linux is quite bad. I think that might be also why your headers looks unbalanced. Here's what it looks like on my computer; a lot better. http://akhun.com/seo/skitch/Hacker_News-20120311-110315.png You can
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by SeoxyS 15y ago
I've seen a few of those and I think you've done a fantastic job in making a style that's better looking and more readable without taking away from the functionality. Most of the others I've seen tend to make type HUGE, and tend to lose the
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by SeoxyS 15y ago
This article is ridiculous. I don't understand, either, why people are so afraid of dying… it's a normal part of life. For my part, if I have an accident, I don't care what criteria my death follows, I wouldn't want to live with a broken br
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by SeoxyS 15y ago
I hardly see this as an example of what's great about map/reduce or functional programming… It doesn't illustrate either the core concept of map/reduce, or that of functional programming. I think this is a better basic example (in clojure)
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by SeoxyS 15y ago
I'm not so sure it's all marketing. Apple is the most inflexible, arcane company imaginable when it comes to web software. They're still using a legacy technology (WebObjects w/ Java) that died many years ago, and everything I've heard abou
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by SeoxyS 15y ago
It'd be neat if the jobs could go to Californian robots, rather than Chinese ones. Remember when Jobs built a fully automated robotic assembly line in Fremont for the Next computer.
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by SeoxyS 15y ago
Quick math on the iOS app economy: > The app revolution has added more than 210,000 iOS jobs to the U.S. economy since the introduction of iPhone in 2007 > Apple has paid more than $4 billion in royalties to developers through the A
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by SeoxyS 15y ago
Starting a startup is like going to Vegas: you absolutely need to give yourself a limit before hand of how much you're willing to lose, stick to it, and go in expecting to lose it. If you have a family to feed and a mortgage to pay, you sho
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by SeoxyS 15y ago
I donated some cash because I feel bad, but I hope you've learnt your lesson: Do not base your entire livelyhood at the mercy of anybody but yourself, and especially not a huge corporation. This also goes for anybody who takes out a mortgag
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by SeoxyS 15y ago
Arguing that closures are great because they let you replace for loops is like saying the iPhone is great because it has a better texting interface than a Nokia 3310: it's entirely missing the point. What makes closures is that it opens up
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Table saw senses your finger and stops so fast, it will only scratch you(sawstop.com)
4 points by SeoxyS 15y ago|2 comments
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by SeoxyS 15y ago
For those who want real journalism, here is the original story: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.h... It's much better than Forbes' click-bait re-packaging of it, by the way.
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by SeoxyS 15y ago
I've read the book in its entirety, and while I don't refute the inaccuracies on some of the technical details covered, I don't really this it's all that important. As a reader, I was not interested in the technology aspect and technical de
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by SeoxyS 15y ago
HTML email signatures need to die. There's nothing more annoying than getting an email with a huge, colorful and distracting signature. Signatures should be plain text and a few lines at most. Apple got it 100% right here in limiting the so
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by SeoxyS 15y ago
I'm not sure if you're aware of the [threads] link at the in the HN navigation, but it shows you all your comments and threaded replies. I use that feature to check back on discussions I've participated in.
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by SeoxyS 15y ago
The measure (line-length) on HN comments is pretty damn bad, I agree. I'm purely comparing the homepages here. And I do agree that HN could definitely improve. HN isn't perfect, nor is it beautiful. I think it functions extremely well, but
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by SeoxyS 15y ago
Quick tip: get yourself some prescription sleeping pills, and take one every long flight you take (and only for flights—they're dangerous drugs!) They make the flight a breeze.
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by SeoxyS 15y ago
This submission should really be linked to http://67signals.com/ , not Hackful.
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by SeoxyS 15y ago
This is a perfect example of what's wrong with the shallow approach to design. Sure, it looks nice, but it functions awfully. Compare its homepage with the Hacker News homepage: HN won't be featured on any galleries any time soon, but what
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by SeoxyS 15y ago
Having a luxury brand and affordable products is not mutually exclusive. Many car manufacturers function this way. Just an example: Audi cars are nice, but ultimately nothing special. Anybody can own an Audi, because the cheaper ones aren't
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by SeoxyS 15y ago
That has nothing to do CoffeeScript, most regex parser implementation support this via a flag. I've seen it done in PHP, Ruby, Perl, Objective-C. For languages whose regular expression engine don't support this, it's easy enough to achieve
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by SeoxyS 15y ago
Alternative Step 1.–6.: Do something worthy of attention, instead of spending time following dubious SEO techniques.

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