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Ask HN: Web Frameworks for Perl
29 points by aneesh 18y ago|29 comments
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by aneesh 18y ago
"The user is then asked to read both words. If they solve the one for which the answer is known, the system assumes their answer is correct for the new one."
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by aneesh 18y ago
"The second word is hard to break by hackers because it already failed a machine OCR algorithm" But, from what I understand, the hackers don't have to get that word correct. The system only checks the answer to the known one, right?
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by aneesh 18y ago
I'm certainly no expert on TV advertising, but it seems to be a much harder market to break into than the web. The cost of producing ads is much higher, and the ROI is harder to measure. And there are big, established players who have the
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by aneesh 18y ago
I had some issues on Ubuntu as well (officially Linux isn't supported by RescueTime ... it's just something a user put together). It works great on Windows & Mac.
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by aneesh 18y ago
The only thing facebook requires to join a university's network is an ability to receive emails sent to yourname@university.edu. Nothing is changing there.
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by aneesh 18y ago
Once your karma passes a certain threshold, you will gain the ability to downvote comments.
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by aneesh 18y ago
One sentence summary: Every successful business connects its customers with a solution to their problem. So just make sure you're solving a real problem, and you have a way to reach your customers. Or you can keep reading Seth Godin, maste
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by aneesh 18y ago
Agreed. I have another bone to pick with this article as well. "X is bad. You must do Y to succeed." Absolute statements like this are almost always dangerous to make, and I don't trust the articles that make them. Success or failure at an
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by aneesh 18y ago
Analysis will definitely get easier and easier to automate. However, I am skeptical that it will every be truly commoditized. Technology advances won't drive out human experts, it will just drive them higher up the chain. No longer do hum
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by aneesh 18y ago
And plus, Microsoft actually gets most of its revenues from selling software. Google gets its most of its revenues from selling ads.
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by aneesh 18y ago
As a TC commenter pointed out, the traffic graph for Knol looks just like that of Lively: http://www.google.com/trends?q=lively.com,+knol.google.com&#... Maybe (hopefully?) Knol is next.
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by aneesh 18y ago
SubEthaEdit has been one of the coolest pieces of software I've used, but it's 1) not free, 2) desktop-based, 3) OS X only. Etherpad offers all the functionality without those restrictions. This is a really impressive product.
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by aneesh 18y ago
The end user only cares whether its driving. If it's not moving, the user doesn't really care why.
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Typing is almost never the rate-limiting step when programming.
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by aneesh 18y ago
Congrats Xobni!
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by aneesh 18y ago
This lends credence to Cuban's goal of "demonstrat[ing] that the Commission’s claims are infected by the misconduct of the staff of its Enforcement Division". It doesn't seem to absolve him of insider trading though.
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by aneesh 18y ago
Agreed, it's not much compared to what facebook promises. But that's over 10% of facebook's 2007 revenue ( http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/31/facebook-finances-leake... ), nothing to sneeze at.
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by aneesh 18y ago
The general idea doesn't need to be original at all. There was search before Google, social networks before facebook, video before YouTube, etc. Sometimes the specifics of the idea can be important though. For example, take Google: lets
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Apple Delaying Google's iPhone Voice Search App?(techcrunch.com)
2 points by aneesh 18y ago|0 comments
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by aneesh 18y ago
For what it's worth, '94 was the year he was elected Governor of Texas.
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by aneesh 18y ago
It doesn't seem like the ground was yanked from under his feet. "Wu, a test engineer who worked at SiPort less than two years, was "let go" Friday morning because of his performance, a company spokeswoman said. Early police reports indica
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by aneesh 18y ago
I'm surprised at comments here condoning the murder. Getting fired from your job is no excuse for taking someone's life. I don't care what the economy is like - I don't think this guy deserves sympathy, especially not from an educated, sm
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by aneesh 18y ago
Agreed. > "I can’t save it like the PDF. I can’t print the whole thing. F k, I can’t even copy and paste!" But I can READ it much more easily. And 90% of the time, all I want to do is read it. Take a quick glance at it, maybe skim i
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by aneesh 18y ago
Well, he lists all the variables in the regression he uses, tells you where he gets the polls, how he weights them, how he adjusts for timing, how he incorporates the regression results, etc. The FAQ is anything but brief -- there are LOTS
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by aneesh 18y ago
When you're making predictions based off complex models like he is, transparency gives you more credibility. There's actually a pretty good description here: http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/03/frequently-asked-ques... Go through tha
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by aneesh 18y ago
I used GoToMeeting as the customer (the other party was demoing to me), and it was pretty seamless. Worked out of the box, and was pretty easy to use.
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by aneesh 18y ago
It's interesting that he made the argument about smart people developing exotic financial instruments not having much societal benefit. The same argument could probably be made of most (but not all) tech startups. The next facebook widget
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by aneesh 18y ago
And what part of this post isn't common sense?
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by aneesh 18y ago
> "The researchers also noticed that few of those with the "bad" version lived beyond 85 while those with the "good" form were likely to live to 100. " Without specific numbers, these claims are meaningless. Just how "few" people wi

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