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One woman can't have a baby in nine months(gigamonkeys.com)
3 points by brett 19y ago|0 comments
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Entrepreneurs vs. wanna-bes at Sparkplug 9 bizhack(sparkplug9.com)
3 points by brett 19y ago|2 comments
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by brett 19y ago
That's interesting to know. Feel comfortable elaborating any?
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by brett 19y ago
And to my understanding, the best method so far is the statistical (voting-based) method that many large email servers run. That's Bayesian filtering. http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html As to your last point, I know what I consider spa
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by brett 19y ago
Did tlb add a pseudonym? http://tlb.org/whyspamcannotbestopped.html Stop may be a little strong of a word, but people will keep believing that Bayesian filtering helps fight spam a great deal until someone comes up with a better idea
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by brett 19y ago
Fair enough. It's as much about relevancy as it is about the level of discourse around here. And, whatever the value of the post, it's led to to thoughtful and even handed discussion so I'm hard pressed to complain about the latter.
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by brett 19y ago
Or maybe downmods just don't count toward karma. Or count way less.
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by brett 19y ago
Hammer is an advisor to stealth Internet start-up Dance Jam. Whatever that means. What would Arrington be saying if someone else's conference included MC Hammer?
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by brett 19y ago
MC Hammer?
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TechCrunch20 Conference: Caterina Fake, MC Hammer & Rajeev Motwani Join Expert Panel(techcrunch.com)
1 points by brett 19y ago|3 comments
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by brett 19y ago
Trying... to... resist.. arguing pointless stuff... It's hopeless: First, you're clearly not alone in thinking it should not be killed. This is social site and you could make a good argument that that is plenty of reason to leave it up. Reg
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by brett 19y ago
I guess PG didn't entrust his admin duties to anyone while he's on vacation. I expected this to be killed a while ago.
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Red Hat to build 'Global Desktop' - vnunet.com(vnunet.com)
5 points by brett 19y ago|1 comments
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startup 2.0 - european startup competition(startup2.eu)
1 points by brett 19y ago|1 comments
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by brett 19y ago
Oh man, Sun. Anyone have high (or even mediocre) hopes for this?
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James Dyson on living a life of failure - (37signals)(37signals.com)
19 points by brett 19y ago|0 comments
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by brett 19y ago
Solid +1. I think of this the same way.
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by brett 19y ago
Kind of like reading the Little Schemer and using Javascript. Which is precisely what Douglas Crockford advocates ( http://javascript.crockford.com/little.html - he's got an example of the Y Combinator too). Javascript's arguments.callee
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by brett 19y ago
Like I (opaquely?) said last time this came up ( http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=12380 ) you could try giving each <item> a <description> child with an escaped link in it a la reddit ( http://reddit.com/.rss )
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Ask: Is the Algorithm Working?(techcrunch.com)
5 points by brett 19y ago|1 comments
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BBC NEWS | Business | YouTube facing football lawsuit(news.bbc.co.uk)
1 points by brett 19y ago|0 comments
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by brett 19y ago
I tend to agree, but my point is: Spam is spam and good posts are good posts, your own or otherwise. We shouldn't define "good form" based on how we want the morons to behave.
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by brett 19y ago
Yeah, I remember that too. Something like Kiko took ~100k in angel money and the angels got preferred stock so YC ended up with about $0.38 on the dollar.
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by brett 19y ago
I don't know if I buy "posting your own blog is bad form". You still only get one vote.
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Paul Buchheit: Beliefs, intelligence, and failure(paulbuchheit.blogspot.com)
17 points by brett 19y ago|9 comments
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by brett 19y ago
15in mpb 2.0Ghz / 2gb ram. a lot of the time w/ 20in monitor plugged in. I've been ecstatic with it. The 17in seems to big to move around with (though I did not have that option when I bought mine). If I was buying it again today I would t
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by brett 19y ago
I wasn't really aware of what was going on at Microsoft in 1984, but if what is claimed in that is true then if helps contextualizes for me what is currently going on at Google because they've been making similar claims in recent years. If
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GOOGLE: This NDA never existed - Valleywag(valleywag.com)
4 points by brett 19y ago|1 comments
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by brett 19y ago
I really like the way he sums it up: When you get in the way of geeks sharing hacks with each other in a geek community, you've done something big.
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by brett 19y ago
It might be nice it the world worked that way, but I don't think that's it. I think Daniel's use of "careful" is right on. Digg was transparent about what they were doing; the community still did not like it. You have to do what your users

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