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by aston 17y ago
I've been talking about this idea at startup parties for the last two years. Great conversation piece. I'm pretty psyched someone actually did it, and at the same time kind of disappointed you guys aren't looking at a site I made instead. O
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by aston 17y ago
Cash flow positive business are destined to become profitable in the long run. But even if the division weren't cash flow positive, it'd still be a pretty good bet by Microsoft. They've successfully locked down a place in my living room tha
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by aston 17y ago
Apple stole apple name, says McIntosh family.
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by aston 17y ago
@__aston__
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by aston 17y ago
This is pretty awesome, that they got a real linguist to put together the language for the movie. One thing I noticed, both when listening and while reading this description: While the syntax and morphology is nothing at all like English (s
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by aston 17y ago
Is there any explanation for calling Jessica 4 of 4? Is that a Seven of Nine reference or something?
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by aston 17y ago
From his most recent blog post: There’s a good chance the site will crash if this blog post hits the nerd sites, so just ignore Fret War until it’s stable.
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by aston 17y ago
@vidly instead of (or along with) @fliggo
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by aston 17y ago
I mean, they should be able to dodge bureaucracy; they run the company. I'm missing what's so amazing here.
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by aston 17y ago
The previous post and this one both show the same Zodiac chart, which demonstrates basically zero correlation between sign and match score: http://cdn.okcimg.com/blog/races_and_religions/Match-By-Zodi... Hard to write a full on article ab
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by aston 17y ago
Had they just run /etc/init.d/mysql start instead of "restart," their script would have worked fine. The spurious starts when mysqld was already started would have been ignored.
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by aston 17y ago
Just a reminder, "the author" is thinkcomp. No need to speak in the abstract third person.
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by aston 17y ago
Cross-domain ajax technically doesn't exist, and when it does (via hacks), the target domain sorta needs to know it's responding to a hackified remote javascript request. edit: This might've been relevant if we weren't discussing an add-on.
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by aston 17y ago
You missed the joke. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ingenious
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by aston 17y ago
Kiwi Camara has a bit of a controversial past himself: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi_Camara#Racial_controversy_...
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Facebook Crosses 300 Million Users and is Cash Flow Positive(techcrunch.com)
86 points by aston 17y ago|78 comments
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Eight hard truths about online media(brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com)
3 points by aston 17y ago|1 comments
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by aston 17y ago
If you really want to get a nice effect with autotune, you must sing off pitch, and even better if you don't hold the pitch once you get there. Your wavering note paired with the unnaturally fast pitch correction is what makes it sound ro
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by aston 17y ago
Very clever piece of cross-promotion here. I'm a big fan of the "Autotune the News" series on Youtube, and their latest video featured T-Pain and his iPhone app. At the time, I had no clue such an app existed and assumed it was just a gag.
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by aston 17y ago
On that note, everyone here should read the Frequently Asked-For Answers About Questions ( http://okcupid.com/faaaq ). I had to re-implement the algorithm, and along the way decided it's not nearly as BS'y math as you would assume for a gen
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Chris Sacca: You have a pitch for me? Great(whatisleft.org)
1 points by aston 17y ago|0 comments
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by aston 17y ago
Really good stuff. If the rest of the posts in this series are going to be this forthcoming with details and solid analysis, they're all going to be must-reads.
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by aston 17y ago
Just search for "deck."
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by aston 17y ago
Maybe there's some utility in the Accept header as a signal of the capabilities of the browser/client. There's a nice discussion [1] on using the Accept header to suss out whether to send the 'correct' but generally less-usable 'application
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Google Plans to Introduce a PC Operating System (for netbooks)(nytimes.com)
72 points by aston 17y ago|49 comments
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by aston 17y ago
The dorms at MIT all have a very strong cultural component (Do you like German culture? Do you like pyrotechnics? Do you want to avoid living with guys?) As an incoming freshman you're able to rank the dorms you'd like to live in, and you'r
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by aston 17y ago
I'd love to see the results of a similar study done at a school like MIT where self-segregation in living groups is not only allowed but encouraged. On the plus side, by letting students form living situations they're comfortable with, you
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by aston 17y ago
Awesome to hear the announcement. Sucks that this is the first pmarca blog post in nearly a year. I really hope he starts back up again; many of his posts have been absolute gems.
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by aston 17y ago
Lots of MP3 players lately have FM tuners included. It's pretty head-scratching that Apple omitted radio from the iPod line.
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by aston 17y ago
The solution this article references was basically a table with 1x1 cells that had their background colors set via CSS classes. I was on the team with the guy who did the hack when I was an intern. That was about three years ago. At some be

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