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by ashleyw 18y ago
That's pretty awesome, simple but does the job well! :-)
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Good idea; though I'd argue 2 is too low, if these aren't "bots" but real humans, it wouldn't be hard for them to adapt by commenting and then upvoting each other. 10+ would be nicer, anyone truly interested in HN would understand why! :)
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Captchas were designed to distinguish bots from humans. But that's no longer the problem[1]. You've just got to assume even a "bot" is human now. Casinos don't spot many cheaters at the door, but rather spot them in the act by monitoring th
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by ashleyw 18y ago
When you create a patent, are you obligated to follow through with the creation of the product/idea to keep the rights to it, and if so, do you have a limit? Or can the creator of this idea just wait for somebody else to create it, and then
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Huh, as I was flicking through the photos, I was thinking how awesome the site was....then I saw the t-shirt photo; Grats guys — how'd the interview go?? :)
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by ashleyw 18y ago
If I see a form, I instantly decide whether it's worth filling in based on how much I want to pass it. And I often press the back button when I'm feeling lazy. …captchas really don't help. Don't fix a problem until it exists, and even then
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Considering users were actively trying to install software which they thought was trusted (so would have entered passwords when prompted), I don't find this surprising — is there even much you can do to prevent this kind of thing, apart fro
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Shared hosting isn't as bad as people make it out to be — very few people use many resources, so your site could have had a massive share of a 8-core box or something. Still don't like it though, but my main requirement is root access. :)
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Kinda, but really the logo at the top left of a page (generally) is the branding of a site. Plus to an unsuspecting user, it seems like the site is endorsing Digg. At first I didn't mind the digg bar, but since working on a project which so
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Facebook, Yahoo, Flickr and Digg all use non-PHP solutions for the back end. Rails can scale fine once you realize it's not magic; you take a hit from using a framework designed to make developers happy, not servers, but you can work around
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by ashleyw 18y ago
http://www.spotify.com/en/ Since using that, iTunes: "Last opened: Thursday, 26 February 2009 11:27" It just feels like I'm browsing for music on iTunes, and listening to the previews....except the previews are the full songs! It rocks! :
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by ashleyw 18y ago
One thing I've always wondered about MapReduce...is what it's used for? I mean what kind of data do you put in, and what do you aim to get out?
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by ashleyw 18y ago
They could just have a list of off-the-shelf components which are fully compatible, pretty much like the OSX86 project has; a good hackintosh with tested components can be as good as the real thing. It wouldn't be perfect, personally I'd st
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Good luck to everyone! And if you don't get in (which lets face it, many wont), don't let it put you down; remember — VCs get stuff wrong all the time, not picking you could be included in that! So go make PG regret not picking you!! :)
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by ashleyw 18y ago
I'd love to see what'd happen if Apple opened OSX up to non-Apple hardware, or competed on a price level with mid-range PCs. Personally I think the biggest thing holding OSX back is the hardware price; even Microsoft know that I think…inste
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Kinda related — does anyone know the best/cheapest online broker in the UK? TradeKing looks awesome at $4.95/trade, but the best I've found so far are around $20/trade! :(
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by ashleyw 18y ago
How about just identifying via their IP and name, and also log their browser user-agent too, then when getting the results, query the database to find IPs which have taken part more than n times, and manually check for the signs that the en
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by ashleyw 18y ago
I'm no expert on marketing, but I think I'd check out StumbleUpon paid ads: http://www.stumbleupon.com/ads/
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by ashleyw 18y ago
I was an avid Firefox user for years, but one thing which always annoyed me is it becomes a complete resource hog. So I ended up switching to Safari upon the first beta of 4. I hated it at first, I love it now — nice and light, fast as hell
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Oh jesus, I actually fell for it...
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by ashleyw 18y ago
There's a 1 in 365 chance the first time-travelers, aliens or some other cool event will happen on April 1st, so it's your loss if you miss it! :P
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Nope, this has been part of Google's plan since day one. Brin and Page didn't like that they couldn't play football like the 'cool guys' (who supposedly attract all the hot collage chicks), so they set out to change the world. That search s
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Balsamiq Mockups recently added iPhone elements, I think I prefer it: http://www.balsamiq.com/blog/?p=957 Nicely made for a webapp though! :)
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Does anyone who knows and uses Ruby or Python and PHP have any thoughts on whether its worth me revisiting PHP? (I currently use Ruby exclusively, after I left PHP when I was pretty much a total amateur.) It does look cool with all these ne
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Not sure about Twitter (I love it, but I don't think its necessarily useful to students), but I'm glad they're rethinking computers in schools. You shouldn't leave school at 16 with pretty advanced knowledge on maths and physics, but not ho
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by ashleyw 18y ago
BrainFuck indeed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck …wow!
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by ashleyw 18y ago
I remember LoadImpact being posted a while back as a "review my app" submission, with a very warm response; I wonder how well the site's doing financially now...
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by ashleyw 18y ago
This isn't DRM; I mean, yes they used something which rendered all earphones useless on their own, but I don't think Apple did it with evil intentions. I for one like the new design, I'd rather they stretched out and gave the shuffle market
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Do sites/pages like this actually work? http://www.parrotsecrets.com/ I've always thought they look too cheap, scammy and desperate for most people to bother with...
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by ashleyw 18y ago
What's low-risk? Just the whole point of selling something to the end-user. There isn't much which can go wrong — you create something, people pay you for it, and you can grow (resource wise) as fast as your user base does. That's

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