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by aston 19y ago
I think it was more like certain groups of influential diggers controlling the site vis-a-vis their combined power. Associations with powerful diggers (via friendship) also seemed to be a way to gain influence, which would've encouraged vot
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by aston 19y ago
Interesting mostly in a meta way. Did it ever make sense to have voting circles mean more than diversified voting on the site? If I had to choose an initial bias, I'd choose the latter. News.YC chooses neither, I guess.
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Digg Changes Algorithm: No More Group Voting Up Stories(techcrunch.com)
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by aston 19y ago
Gerry Sussman... Good piece of trivia: In addition to creating the class, he taught the last (ever) offering of 6.001 last term at MIT. Another piece of trivia: Hal Abelson, the co-creator, was one of the big guys being 6.001's replacement
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by aston 19y ago
And to allay fears further down this thread, yes, the accelerometer is way sensitive enough for the game.
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by aston 19y ago
Brunette.
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by aston 19y ago
This is how lies get propogated around the web. Let's wait for an official reddit team member to comment first, Alexis...
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by aston 19y ago
50/50 for MIT at large. Nowhere near that in Course VI, though.
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by aston 19y ago
There aren't any algorithms to find things in an unsorted array in less than worst case linear time. I think you're confusing search (for some value) with select (a value with a given index in the sorted array).
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by aston 19y ago
Just code towards your goal. Most of the theory of computer science that you'll need implemented along the way will be done for you via something low-level that you don't really need to worry about because it'll come for free (in python or
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by aston 19y ago
I'll prefix this reply with the fact that I'm a Scheme fan. But I would never try to code up a large project in anything related to LISP right now. It's awesome that you've put together your own framework, but at the same time kind of unfor
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by aston 19y ago
Just saw a movie. Awesome intravert sport, movie watching. Except for the whole leaving the house thing... Seeing Cloverfield makes me glad I just moved from NYC.
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by aston 19y ago
So, you code only in LISP, I take it?
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by aston 19y ago
"I am amazed I managed to create this program in the first place, I barely barely even understand how it works and I wrote it. This is because the program scans in multiple dimensions is very hard to conceptualize. " He may indeed be a sa
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by aston 19y ago
It's a moot point anyway because most of the time when you make a moral stand in your product you end up making the experience for its audience better. The tricky part is knowing which types of people you'll lose or gain based on those mora
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by aston 19y ago
Funny is, Microsoft's market cap is 30x Intuit's. Facebook's worth $15 billion? Slide's worth $500million. See? Ratios are easy!
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by aston 19y ago
Facebook was anticipating on the order of $30 million in profit, as I recall (serving out billions of pageviews is never cheap). Feel free to multiply all of your time estimates by three.
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by aston 19y ago
$500 million is 4 times as much revenue as Facebook anticipated for last year.
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by aston 19y ago
True. And what about eBay, Amazon, and the other huge internet sites that actually do make a ton of money and actually did have a business plan relatively soon in the game? Chopped liver?
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by aston 19y ago
I'd love to be the founder of a company that exits as big as those two 'loss leaders' did. And there's nothing saying they won't make it up (and more) in a few years.
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by aston 19y ago
Hey, I know that dude. I used to work with him. One of the guys behind SparkNotes/TheSpark, OkCupid, and now CrazyBlindDate.com. Also check out Deliver the Dis [ http://www.chriscoyne.com/dis/index.html ] if you're into Context-Free Grammar
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by aston 19y ago
Upmod for clever Unix joke.
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by aston 19y ago
I need yoooouuu to put down the laptop before you start doing club dances.
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by aston 19y ago
"funded by investors closely linked to YCombinator" And maybe a little from YC partners, too...
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by aston 19y ago
You'll have a new Apple machine in 5 years. Why not buy one now that works with the media we have now?
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by aston 19y ago
Straight c's is where it's at.
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by aston 19y ago
Crazy how the top-selling album this week only moved 125k units. More proof that the record industry is really going to have to find a way to make money outside of CD sales.
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by aston 19y ago
, too?
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by aston 19y ago
Appjet.com's got a great one of these, too (for javascript).
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by aston 19y ago
Awesome how I can't see the site in IE because the author doesn't like the browser. Great way to get people to read your blog. Not to mention the horrid UI even when I fire up the fox...

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