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by aston 18y ago
You never noticed before.
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by aston 18y ago
As far as monetization on search goes, more eyeballs = more money, no matter how big or small you are. Not that Live Search is that small.
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by aston 18y ago
Those requirements make it sound like they really just want another Gabor....
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by aston 18y ago
Wow. Wish we knew about this sooner... Are all emails referencing a Dropbox URL filtered out by GoDaddy?
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by aston 18y ago
Actually, I was just kidding. I assume the upmods are people who don't like Valleywag?
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by aston 18y ago
JotSpot got Google Joe Kraus. They're still pretty happy about that one, I think...
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by aston 18y ago
This is like Arrington coming here to upvote Techcrunch. I thought you were better than this, Alaska...
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by aston 18y ago
A whole new generation of people could learn the original meaning of "Your money's no good here."
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by aston 18y ago
Why is MySpace so ugly? Because your tastes are not those of the majority.
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by aston 18y ago
Also, good write-up in next month's WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gaming/gamingreviews/magazine/16-08/pl_...
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by aston 18y ago
http://www.new.facebook.com/profile.php
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by aston 18y ago
Ahh, they misspelled rtm's name...
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by aston 18y ago
If anything, that's demotivation, at least for real hackers. Plenty of Fish is popular because of marketing/SEO techniques and throwing successively larger iron at traffic, not because Markus Frind was a technical genius with a clever idea.
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by aston 18y ago
Steve Jobs probably should not be compared to Henry Ford. Apple, if anything, is a great fast-follower with an incredible sense of design and marketing. Henry Ford, on the other hand, was mainly responsible for the initial commercialization
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by aston 18y ago
If anything, this is more evidence that search is now commoditized, and the difference maker is basically marketing. Your standard consumer probably cares a lot more about saving money than getting whatever incrementally better results Goog
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by aston 18y ago
Probably safe enough for them to always say "male." The hit rate would be pretty high given the type of person hitting that page...
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by aston 18y ago
Simplicity is really easy to charge for. Tons of people want to pay for Dropbox because it makes getting files places easy when it wasn't before. Simple , on the other hand, is very difficult to charge for. If you can't demonstrate a subst
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by aston 18y ago
Seems kinda odd to speculate about what would happen when we could just do it and find out. Especially for something so minor as a change from <i> to <blockquote>. If a post is bad, that's what the downvote arrow's for..
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by aston 18y ago
But at least it wouldn't all be italicized.
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by aston 18y ago
They don't call you wallflower for nothin'...
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by aston 18y ago
Plus one for blockquotes on news.yc
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by aston 18y ago
But your code missed the completely copied rocket? Porque?
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by aston 18y ago
They did drop the price...
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by aston 18y ago
I think OkCupid has a pretty good solution to the question. The book "The Game" classifies personality quizzes as "chick crack," and that's the majority of OkCupid's pull right now. ImInLikeWithYou's approach was not bad either; let the gir
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by aston 18y ago
Congrats, man. OkCupid loves testimonials and was for a period of time collecting and categorizing them for some vague future use as publicity. You should send something their way just in case. As far as using that stuff for algorithmic pur
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by aston 18y ago
Yah, this is too true. The worst thing you can do for your bottom line on a dating site is make a real, long-term match. There go two really happy users, and whatever ad revenue or monthly subscription fee they were making you. But if you d
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by aston 18y ago
I used to work at OkCupid. I could talk to you at length about the ups and downs and ins and outs of online dating, but the moral of the story I gleaned from my time there can be summed up pretty easily: People just want a ton of attracti
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by aston 18y ago
Where's the irony? Matt thinks proprietary software has its place, and he likes free (as in beer) software.
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by aston 18y ago
I have this gut feeling that Google recently acquired some company that was already doing all of this stuff. Although I can't tell who, and TC doesn't hint towards anyone. Regardless, this service isn't all that new. There are lots of chara
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by aston 18y ago
Though I am a lowly Python noob, I'll tell you it's generally very bad practice to use a mutable as a default argument value. The reason is that a function's default is only ever initialized once. Case in point: >>> def f(

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