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by arscan 14y ago
Thanks! Sadly, I brought on a volunteer who bought the domain in his name. Not a very smart idea in retrospect... but I was young, and not many people understood the value of a good domain name back in 1996 ;-) We were up to 20k daily uniq
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by arscan 14y ago
Oh, this was back when we were tired of supporting 640x480, hence the message of "best viewed on 800x600" :)
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by arscan 14y ago
Agreed. Back in '96 I was a teenager who spent all his free time running a modest gaming fan website [1]. I dropped it when I went to college a year later, but its nice to know all that hard work will forever be memorialized within the w
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by arscan 14y ago
I don't think we are disagreeing here. When asked the question "how are these maintained", I was providing a technical answer (with similar tools that labs use) and you are providing a business answer (by outsourcing). Both are valid answ
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by arscan 14y ago
Right, I imagine that the WHO is different. But the what/how (i.e. what software they use, how the machines are configured, etc) is probably pretty darn similar. Really, how is it different than a session in a computer lab, except that th
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by arscan 14y ago
This is basically the equivalent of a computer lab (remember those places? me neither)... but you happen to be able to take the computer with you instead of being stuck in a seat. I assume they will use whatever management tools they use i
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by arscan 14y ago
The rational thing to do is to spend money in a way that maximizes happiness. My favorite paper on the topic (actionable and based on science): http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dtg/DUNN%20GILBERT%20&%20WIL...
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by arscan 14y ago
Recommendation: go niche if you have trouble building a critical mass of employers and prospective employees. Be known as the "go to" place for getting jobs in obscure but important technology/programming language <X> (for example)
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by arscan 14y ago
I asked the same question and he replied... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5021896 I think that "to get better at data processing, javascript, and UI Interaction/charting" is a perfectly valid answer. But in general, I tend to be
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by arscan 14y ago
So you parse your credit card statements (or equivalent) for the coffee & travel costs? I thought the travel was by distance (not cost) at first, which is what I was curious about because it would require a more active role in logging
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by arscan 14y ago
What tools do you use to collect this data? Looks great, by the way.
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by arscan 14y ago
Thanks for this post. I expected a fluff lunchtime read here; a quick bulleted list of platitudes that you see over and over again this time of the year. But it really was a very well told, personal and clearly authentic story of your yea
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by arscan 14y ago
Yeah, it was a stupid question in that I should have read the paper ;-) Laziness on my part, sorry. Right, their idea is to basically leverage some protocols that allow unblocked entities forward information from the client to the facilita
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by arscan 14y ago
Time for a stupid question: what prevents the censor from simply blocking the facilitator? It isn't ephemeral like the "flash proxy"... so it seems like you'd have the same problem as you have with the relays.
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by arscan 14y ago
>> Add cartoon style speech bubbles to photos within minutes I think you are underselling here... I don't think you'd be lying if you said "in seconds". I can't imagine any quicker way of doing this. Also, I like how you can drag a
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by arscan 14y ago
I'm frankly surprised that this information is allowed to be distributed. I spent awhile in the financial services industry, and while it was really easy to obtain "public" information like stock quote data, I recall that we weren't allowe
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by arscan 14y ago
This isn't something that only happens in your industry -- you'll see it in most sufficiently large enterprises. Effective software reuse, while certainly a noble goal, is very hard to accomplish.
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by arscan 14y ago
Didn't DHH basically use "your mileage may vary" in his "The Parley Letter" essay? [1] > So yes, the closer your application is to an application like Basecamp -- and I make that net extremely wide, I consider, say, 500px, Github, Shop
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by arscan 14y ago
I've seen a couple of these kinds of visualizations over the years. I think they are really fascinating... here's one that shows how long it will take to travel to the nearest city of 50,000: http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/small-world
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by arscan 14y ago
Don't worry, you got your message across. And blog more, it's a good way to get better :)
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by arscan 14y ago
Did these views actually collect advertising revenue? The article only talks about inflated viewcounts (which would land you on the "trending/top" lists), which is bad, but not nearly as bad as collecting money from advertisers for views t
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by arscan 14y ago
Did you read the article? Somebody Randi shared it with used the tag (or comment) feature, which then caused it to show up in the feed of Randi's friends-of-friends. Those people had no idea that the image wasn't public (because they don't
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by arscan 14y ago
Privacy isn't some obscure feature or an implementation detail, it is one of facebook's major issues from a marketing perspective. The fact that she so publicly got it wrong is a disgrace.
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by arscan 14y ago
I'm not going to comment on the message as a whole, since this whole flat aesthetic thing has been argued up and down on HN over the last few months. But there was one line that stuck out to me as being a little off: > Get rid of all
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by arscan 14y ago
If a service prevents me from signing up with whatever email address I want, I won't be using it. It's one thing to discourage weak passwords, as that's a common mistake for people that don't know any better. It's another thing altogether
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by arscan 14y ago
Interesting idea -- the pen is mightier than the sword after all, right?
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by arscan 14y ago
While we are on the topic of fairly meaningless milestones, congrats on passing the 65536 karma mark earlier this week ;-)
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by arscan 14y ago
> 3558 seconds since YouTube updated the viewCount Based on their sample rate, it looks like YouTube only updates the view count every 3 hours. I know it's hard to pull in that data quickly, but I didn't expect YouTube to be that sl
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by arscan 14y ago
I think this works because the little videos in the breaks actually do a great job of complementing the content of the article (and happen to be pretty). There was a link yesterday on HN that used a similar technique, but the breaks were st
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by arscan 14y ago
Great concept! I was just thinking about how I don't truly master something until I attempt teaching it... and it would be helpful to have a platform that provides a little structure to that process. As an enthusiast (vs. an academic), th

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