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91.
by chengmi 19y ago
The part that often gets overlooked is knowing what you want. Once you've figured that out, don't quit until you get there. Glad you're feeling better.
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by chengmi 19y ago
That depends on the complexity of the bot. A general purpose bot might not get through a complex process, but someone could spend just a few minutes to customize a bot to a particular site. CAPTCHAs are reasonably good at stopping bots.
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by chengmi 19y ago
It's a scribd.com link that redirects you to a PDF on everythingimportant.org.
94.
by chengmi 19y ago
What happens if blog tools include Disqus in their next release?
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by chengmi 19y ago
I think the ice part is better--I doubt any animal would have recovered from that without falling on its side. What I really want to see is a bloopers reel from early in the project.
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by chengmi 19y ago
Henry Ford: "If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they'd have asked for a faster horse."
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Steve Jobs: Flash video not suitable for iPhone(cbc.ca)
19 points by chengmi 19y ago|10 comments
98.
by chengmi 19y ago
More like 5 months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=65566
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by chengmi 19y ago
defamation, libel
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by chengmi 19y ago
Gordon Moore (Intel) and Ed Oates (Oracle) both attended SJSU at some point in their careers. I think they turned out ok...
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by chengmi 19y ago
One subtle but annoying change: Apple rearranged the function keys at the top of the keyboard to match the Macbook Air.
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by chengmi 19y ago
I see karma in the sense of politics. In the case of Hacker News, each person is given a vote on each of the submissions--essentially electing the best stories to appear on the front page. This is a direct democracy, which has some shortcom
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by chengmi 19y ago
http://searchyc.com/askyc - This will help you find some really great discussions when you're in the mood.
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by chengmi 19y ago
I have another idea--why not just give people on the leaderboard the ability to "downmod", except it wouldn't affect the points of the submission, just increase the gravity so it drops off the front page quicker.
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SearchYC Presents: Ask YC Archive & RSS Feed(searchyc.com)
12 points by chengmi 19y ago|3 comments
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by chengmi 19y ago
I've actually used these IR ranging sensors before. They have circuitry built-in, so the interface is really simple (the drawbacks are that the output is non-linear with respect to distance, and the time between outputs is kind of slow ~50m
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by chengmi 19y ago
Now when you search for your username on searchyc.com, you can see your stats: http://searchyc.com/Xichekolas
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by chengmi 19y ago
I'll look into that when I have some time. +-------------+------+-----+--------+ | Xichekolas | pts | ct | avg | +-------------+------+-----+--------+ | Submissions | 64 | 7 | 9.1429 | +-------------+------+-----+----
109.
by chengmi 19y ago
Done. I set a minimum of 10 comments or 10 submissions to get on the list: http://searchyc.com/top/points_per_submission http://searchyc.com/top/points_per_comment
110.
by chengmi 19y ago
I agree that the "most commented threads" isn't exactly a "best of" list--in fact, they're some of the more controversial/ugly threads to appear on YC, but that's why I found it interesting.
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by chengmi 19y ago
If I understand the problem correctly, doesn't this list ( http://searchyc.com/top/submitter ) confirm that? Our data on users' karma is somewhat limited. Turns out that the sum of your points across submissions and comments does not equal
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by chengmi 19y ago
We gave that some consideration, but the queries weren't all that interesting. The vast majority of those lists (something like 80%) consist of people with only one post. To illustrate this, here are the top tens for those queries: Top
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SearchYC Presents: Best of Hacker News(searchyc.com)
50 points by chengmi 19y ago|26 comments
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by chengmi 19y ago
Now all he has to do is compile, link, and load!
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by chengmi 19y ago
Mistake #9: "I'll spend lots of time making it marginally prettier instead of building out features"
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Pownce Launches(pownce.com)
3 points by chengmi 19y ago|0 comments
117.
by chengmi 19y ago
$1200 of SSD goodness... why the hell not?
118.
by chengmi 19y ago
Why don't URLs in Ask YC posts appear as links? e.g. http://hystry.com/newsyc/follow/ in pchristensen's submission?
119.
by chengmi 19y ago
Point taken.
120.
by chengmi 19y ago
I've been hacking since last night, and I found this interesting. My point is, news doesn't have to be about technology, business, or startups to be interesting to hackers.

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