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by alexdong 16y ago
I’ve been using delicious since 2004. It’s no surprise to see Yahoo abandon delicious finally but it still hurts to see a promising product failing to get the attention/resource it deserves. Back in 2005/06, when tagging and folksnomies w
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Trunk.ly picks up the torch of del.icio.us(trunk.ly)
98 points by alexdong 16y ago|42 comments
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by alexdong 16y ago
I second this book too although I read several years ago. AND it's relevant in our startup life in a surprising way. I often found myself make much better decision when I'm a bit detached, which is one of 'the' lessons people learned from t
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Punch card data visualization for tracking Customer Happniess Index(startup.alexdong.com)
1 points by alexdong 16y ago|0 comments
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by alexdong 16y ago
One more interesting coverage about this design is on quora: http://www.quora.com/Wikipedia/Is-having-Jimmy-Wales-picture... The one with Jimmy on it has 10 times more "conversion" than others. Impressive! I also like how the fundraising
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Lessons learned from wikipedia's fundraising banner design (meta.wikimedia.org)
94 points by alexdong 16y ago|37 comments
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Why we choose hypertable instead of MongoDB or HBase(blog.hypertable.com)
9 points by alexdong 16y ago|0 comments
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by alexdong 16y ago
Great piece of work. What about using socket.io to provide a real-time collaborative environment? Here is the typical use case: my business partner is in Australia and I'm in China. We often browse the internet "together" to share some desi
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by alexdong 16y ago
Plenty advices on books and urls have been given but I'd like to shed some light over practice. There is no book, people or tip will move you forward faster than design-and-critique. Design, and art in general, is not very different from co
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by alexdong 16y ago
> Of course, equating the Nobel committee with the Norwegian government is as wrong as equating a newspaper editor printing Islamic cartoons with it, then torching down an embassy. This is very western way of seeing thing, which I happe
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How to geo-locate Australian Twitter users and privacy implications. A guide.(blog.tribalytic.com)
3 points by alexdong 16y ago|0 comments
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by alexdong 16y ago
I found this article[1] provides an interesting explanation: Intel is trying to integrate anti-virus software into mobile devices chips so that they can catch the mobilization wave. Feels quite similar to Intel's acquisition of many other
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by alexdong 16y ago
Silverlight is a concern but this does point to an interesting future. Image the main browser engines can expose c-binding of the equivalent javascript method/objects. Then we can have something very interesting like: <script type
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by alexdong 16y ago
I've been looking for a similar app which allows me to display multiple "watch, mytop, htop, dsstat" at the same time on our big screen so that the whole team can see it. It'll be great if the settings are saved in some places so that I don
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MultiTail: monitor multiple log files in the same window(vanheusden.com)
2 points by alexdong 16y ago|2 comments
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by alexdong 16y ago
ok, so PagerDuty's main focus/differentiation is duty and scheduling management? I do see the value of such system, you want to wake only Joe instead the whole team up if he is on duty that night. Maybe you should highlight that? My first i
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by alexdong 16y ago
I hope Google should 'behave' more like AT&T built unix and C rather than like Microsoft built Money. Yes, I am disappointed by this move, not because I worry about the travel industry or the potential monopoly power google is holding i
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by alexdong 16y ago
@geebee not sure where did you get this insight from, but I think you're spot on in pointing out this. Yes, I think PhD is a mechanism the US government has put up to sift through talented non-citizens. Scientific advancement is only a sid
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by alexdong 16y ago
Many friends of mine have asked for my opinions on this. Figured now will be a good time to vent it out. About myself: http://alexdong.com/ . I grow up in China, right now staying in Shanghai, waiting for my australia immigration visa. I
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by alexdong 16y ago
You're right. UTC is within 0.9 sec from GMT. Nowadays, it seems like GMT and UTC are two interchangeable names, who'd expect to think they were actually so difference in terms of how each gets calculated.
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How to write timezone friendly django application using MySQL(notes.alexdong.com)
17 points by alexdong 16y ago|7 comments
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Hypertable's sees HUGE performance boost over HBase: 1060% for sequential read(blog.hypertable.com)
4 points by alexdong 16y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: which features shall we charge for?
4 points by alexdong 17y ago|1 comments
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by alexdong 17y ago
Top 5 from Tokyo, London, Sydney, and "the Tube". I'm wondering is it because people outside of US tends to use twitter to stay contact with friends and family more or yc has gone global.
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Who has tweeted "Y Combinator interview"? Useful twitter people search: twendly(twendly.com)
5 points by alexdong 17y ago|2 comments
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by alexdong 17y ago
This is where I was touched. "Everyone talks about balance. There is no balance. Balance is perfect. There is nothing perfect in work/life balance. It is about compromise, choices and, often, regret. Here is the irony of ambition: The same
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by alexdong 18y ago
hmm, you've raised a good point: "who is your target audience"? So far, all paid customers are using the API as a web service. Two of them are quite famous iPhone applications provider paying the standard $299/mo fee, three of them are vert
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by alexdong 18y ago
How could you get 'personal emails' of the mainstream journalists? I seem to be outside of the 'media circle' at this moment. Also, what would you suggest to do with the bloggers I've already contacted? Maybe I could use the "new version la
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by alexdong 18y ago
> "targeted mails to journalists with intelligent comments about the stories." So you mean "before selling them your service, you should try to setup relationships with them by leaving intelligent comments on their posts"?
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by alexdong 18y ago
Mainly "form emails". > "Choose your words carefully when approaching these guys." That's the hard part. Any examples? Or reference to articles that I could read and improve?

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