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by aidanf 16y ago
Does every feature that posterous releases make it to the front page of HN? I mean, pages, it's not some super innovative new feature. Every friggin blog platform on the planet has the ability to create pages. How is this newsworthy and why
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by aidanf 16y ago
The feature I would really like to see added at Posterous is the ability to opt out of having affiliate links added to my posts. I was looking through the user preferences yesterday to see if they had added this option but couldn't see anyt
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by aidanf 16y ago
You can symlink individual application preference folders rather than the entire preference folder. Also some apps let you specify where their preferences folder is located by holding down the option key when you launch them. Then you can s
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by aidanf 16y ago
Looks like the post has been taken down. Did OP have a change of heart?
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by aidanf 17y ago
"He starts off poorly, losing about $500. But a timely bet on a company called Rackspace Hosting (“I don’t know what they do,” he says), as well as quick investments in Applied Materials, Eagle Bulk Shipping and a few others, have turned t
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by aidanf 17y ago
Sounds interesting, are you by any chance blogging about it?
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by aidanf 17y ago
I find Evernote's free model oddly generous and I suspect their conversion rates could be much higher with some tweaking. I use it every day and I don't come close to reaching my monthly limits. It's actually become one of my most used apps
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by aidanf 17y ago
For SNGs you should get SNGwizard to review your push/shove decisions at the end of each session and Holdem Manager to track your results, record your hands, and track your opponents statistics.
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by aidanf 17y ago
More likely he just took a break to calm himself and get his mind right. Poker is intensely psychologically draining and the biggest enemy of winning poker players is tilt. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilt_%28poker%29 Most good players w
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by aidanf 17y ago
Using statistical tracking software is pretty standard for any serious player. It can help a lot playing full tables against 6 to 9 players as stats are used to get an idea of how opponents play, what their ranges are etc. However I think,
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by aidanf 17y ago
Yes, the alberta HU bot plays limit. No limit is a vastly more complex game and the state-of-the-art in HU poker bots couldn't beat a competent low-stakes player.
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by aidanf 17y ago
"In the World Series of Poker, no professional has won the Main Event in seven years." This just isn't true. Last years winner, Peter Eastgate, was a professional poker player. In fact at last years final table there was 6 professional poke
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by aidanf 17y ago
From the questions part of the video it appears that all the code that it generates is javascript and html.
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by aidanf 17y ago
I assumed from watching the video that the code it generates is objective-j or cappuccino code, and that it would run in the browser. Is this correct?
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by aidanf 17y ago
echo $zeds_blog >> $hacker_news
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by aidanf 17y ago
"Also when did TC move from covering startups to being tabloid central? " When advertising revenues started falling, I suspect.
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by aidanf 17y ago
What was your bot's ROI and over how many games?
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by aidanf 17y ago
"Laconica is built on PHP/MySQL open source software." Given all the hullabaloo about twiter scaling, rewrites, etc, I thought it would be clear by now that a database driven website is not a good architecture for twitter-like messaging sys
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by aidanf 18y ago
Here are some more links. The 60 minutes segment: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4639016n The Washington Post articles: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conten
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by aidanf 18y ago
I found StoxEv to be quite powerful but also quite complex. It took me a while to figure out how to use it. But once I grokked it, it's a powerful program that can facilitate very detailed analysis of a hand. Having said that, I don't actua
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by aidanf 18y ago
Interesting article. I remember reading your announcement on 2p2 at the time. I went to your website and scanned the 2p2 thread. The main reason I didn't buy it was that from what I read it seemed like anything I could do with your program
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by aidanf 18y ago
"But pg did invent the most powerful recent spam fighting technique. " While it may be the case that PGs essay was many peoples first exposure to baysian spam filters, he didn't invent the technique. The first time I heard of it was in a pa
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by aidanf 18y ago
"seamless sync on Linux" I wonder if he's tried unison. I've used it for years to keep several mac and linux boxes in sync. It works beautifully and it's open-source. http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
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by aidanf 18y ago
You should add a link to your main site on your blog. I arrived on the blog from the HN link having no idea what Dropbox is or what it does. I had to manually edit the url to get to the main page to find out what it does. Lots of users woul
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by aidanf 18y ago
Failure would rarely be "catastrophic" in the context of web search as described in the article. If the ML model makes an incorrect prediction on new data you have a bad search result. No big deal - just feed the new data back into the mode
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by aidanf 18y ago
I don't think that this site is going to "increase circulation for the source". If you look at it, it is far from obvious that the content is being aggregated from other sources. Looking at the front page one might easily assume that this
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by aidanf 18y ago
"but with full content on the site" I think that republishing someone else's RSS feed in full on your site is at best bad etiquette, at worst it's just plain stealing. I left a comment about it on the drupal page you linked to.
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by aidanf 18y ago
Version numbers don't measure age. Django and Rails are roughly the same age, having had their first public releases around the same time.
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by aidanf 18y ago
Nope. NL is a much more complex game than limit. This is covered fairly well in the U-of-A literature. Also some of the two plus two NL books describe why NL is more complex. Just because there is a simple strategy (shortstacking push/fold)
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by aidanf 19y ago
I think Auctomatic uses Seaside ( http://www.seaside.st ).

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