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by champion 18y ago
Thanks for the reply. Like the idea of making is simple for sites to incorporate a recommendation engine without reinventing the wheel.
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by champion 18y ago
Cool, looks nice. There are several other friend recommenders out there: whoshouldifollow.com (which I helped build), Twubble, MrTweet. I'd be curious to know more about the recommendation engine -- my recommendations skewed toward popular
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Rails i18n Simplifier - Translator(graysky.org)
16 points by champion 18y ago|0 comments
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by champion 18y ago
Are you logged in to twitter? It just puts "follow username" as a tweet, which is a twitter code to start following that person. Not perfect, but doesn't require giving your username/password
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Whoshouldifollow? Twitter recommendation engine(whoshouldifollow.com)
9 points by champion 18y ago|4 comments
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by champion 18y ago
Great reply. We also heavily use S3, and one nice advantage (although not free) was the recent enabling of their CDN named Cloudfront ( http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/ ) helped latency on requests for assests from S3. It was nearly turnke
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by champion 18y ago
The 10-person startup I work for, SnapMyLife, is looking for a Rails developer outside of Boston (Needham). Check it out: http://www.snapmylife.com/static/jobs#rre
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by champion 18y ago
You beat me to it -- I feel like the "is angry" is implied.
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Subversion 1.5 released (now with merge tracking!)(subversion.tigris.org)
1 points by champion 18y ago|0 comments
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by champion 18y ago
Me too, sorta -- we got married this Sunday a year ago, but the date is 2 days off
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Congrats to PG on getting hitched(twitter.com)
228 points by champion 18y ago|95 comments
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by champion 18y ago
> 6 got bought (reddit, infogami ... Didn't reddit "buy" infogami? Seems a little funny to count that as a sale ;-)
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by champion 18y ago
@mosburger Location is found from a user's "location" field on twitter (and geocoded with google) . Only ~50% have geocode-able location fields. And the location is only part of the scoring, so there may not be that many similar people in P
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WhoShouldiFollow? Twitter Friend Suggestions(whoshouldifollow.com)
14 points by champion 18y ago|4 comments
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Grindstone: Greasemonkey script to Stay Focused(graysky.org)
5 points by champion 19y ago|0 comments
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From yay to nay in 16 minutes [Arc](madbean.com)
5 points by champion 19y ago|1 comments
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by champion 19y ago
I remember watching this back when it aired years ago -- jwz in action!
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SE Radio: Richard Gabriel on Lisp(se-radio.net)
4 points by champion 19y ago|0 comments
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by champion 19y ago
In summary: they have computers, several monitors and some stickers. They also may or may not like to party.
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by champion 19y ago
I use Mozy for off-site backup and the free SyncBack to sync to an extenral USB harddrive.
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by champion 19y ago
my short experience with SVN on dreamhost was that it was very slow and a bit flakey.
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by champion 19y ago
Sort of amusing, but I now associate mentions of Ron Paul with the death (to me) of Reddit.
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by champion 19y ago
Man, developers in my office loved this...
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by champion 19y ago
Makes a lot of business sense, but doesn't help poor Gmail users whose Contacts app falls well short of the bar set by the rest of Gmail. Nice that it auto-adds contacts, but other than that it feels like a bastard stepchild feature to date
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by champion 19y ago
Yeah, good point, but _why's idiosyncratic writing is wacky fun.
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The Story Behind ES4 (the next Javascript)(neilmix.com)
2 points by champion 19y ago|0 comments
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by champion 19y ago
What I really want is a link in the feed to the item on news.yc itself -- not just the source link. Part of the value is the discussion and having to find it again on news.yc is a pain.
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by champion 19y ago
Interesting interview, and I love Kay's quote, "Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves
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by champion 19y ago
Take a look at the videos on Yahoo by Douglas Crockford on the Javascript Programming Language, and his "Advanced Javascript". Very well presented. http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/theater/
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by champion 19y ago
Slides are somewhat readable, although in parts a little thin without the presentation. I think the single thing that stuck out was how scalable Sun's Directory Server was -- supporting up to 230 million users in the Sina example he gives.

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