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by andr 18y ago
I admit it's pretty funny, but it has no place on Hacker News.
482.
by andr 18y ago
While I would hate that, Reader's disappearance would strongly boost my productivity :)
483.
by andr 18y ago
Is it implied that a startup has to have comments?
484.
by andr 18y ago
It looks like they are measuring the Levenstein distance - change one more letter and it no longer recognizes it. However, neither Google nor Amazon could understand the query.
485.
by andr 18y ago
Exactly. That's why I found it so interesting.
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IMDB's search is damn smart(i42.tinypic.com)
9 points by andr 18y ago|4 comments
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by andr 18y ago
What does that even mean?
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by andr 18y ago
It takes a few startups to jump in and push Silverlight into popularity. IMHO, it is a better and more open RIA technology than Flash, so I'm happy to see it used! (Although, you don't have to use it everywhere. The signup form didn't need
489.
by andr 18y ago
Cool! I'd buy that as a media center remote more than a phone.
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by andr 18y ago
It actually has less features than Vista, and for me that's a good sign. Microsoft focused on just making sure everything works better and faster. Memory usage is significantly lower, for example, and boot times are shorter. The Control Pan
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by andr 18y ago
65,000. (that's the maximum number of rows in Excel before 2007). I'd like something similar to SPSS, which is more convenient for tables with lots of rows and separates the data from the formulae. A tool for working with streaming data. Al
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by andr 18y ago
Apple fanboys, prepare your weapons!
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by andr 18y ago
So Basecamp runs on a single database server?!
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by andr 18y ago
Hypothetical case study: You want to host a liveblog for the Apple keynote at Macworld. No matter if you are a small site or Engadget, your traffic for that 90 minutes would be 2x to 100x bigger than your daily average. So do you: a) buy or
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by andr 18y ago
They took it offline, but here's a screenshot. http://i39.tinypic.com/apdatw.png May I guess unprotected admin panel, like Tumblr and Twitter?
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by andr 18y ago
Same here. That's a newspaper worthy headline!
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by andr 18y ago
> You can add "to be" back in later once you've mastered E-prime. Like mastering LISP and going back to Visual Basic.
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by andr 18y ago
I would pay $9.99 just to use this instead of iTunes. The interface is brilliantly well thought out and amazingly fast! Now if only I could take this to my car... Edit: Looking at their jobs section, it appears that a Symbian version is in
499.
by andr 18y ago
Since we are not even aiming for plausibility, I say Google will buy Apple and convert the iPhone to Android.
500.
by andr 18y ago
It's still 2008 here, you insensitive clod :)
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by andr 18y ago
101. Write a stupid list with no original ideas and post it on News.YC. Quoth the article: # Do a press release. # Direct (snail) mail. # Run ads in print magazines. # Improve the usability of your software. # Fix bugs
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by andr 18y ago
Is it just me or is Level 3 having a much worse track record than other backbones? Last time a big ISP was down it was Level 3, again. http://www.google.com/search?q=level+3+internet+outage shows at least 3 different outages over the past
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by andr 18y ago
Cool. Can we get some Django news now, please? :)
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by andr 18y ago
Perhaps the next target for terrorism? Are there really only 4 cables that carry all the traffic? I would expect some sort of redundancy.
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by andr 18y ago
For those wondering what SUP is: http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/What_s_SUP_:_FriendFeed_s_Mode...
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by andr 18y ago
The problem is the wide income distribution. One freelancer can make as many as 15 times the other one, so what's a fair price for one would be ridiculous for the other, and what's a fair price for the poor one would be under our break-even
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by andr 18y ago
It would slow down technical innovation. People grow accustomed to their surroundings and find newer technology suspicious and unneeded. That's why leaps in innovation are most easily embraced by the generations born with them (ie., current
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Ask YC: Auction-based pricing?
8 points by andr 18y ago|13 comments
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by andr 18y ago
Startups are just getting less interesting. Blogs in general would not be down, as they are a cheaper form of entertainment, which should be on the rise in a bad economy.
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by andr 18y ago
I've been annoyed by TC lately, but this step is something I applaud. Cutting out bullshit is always good in my book. I remember CNet doing a story an year ago, complaining how they were screwed by blogs that didn't honor embargoes. Big new

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