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Nature.com blogs:Learn more of the world around you(blogs.nature.com)
1 points by darwinGod 16y ago|0 comments
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by darwinGod 16y ago
That might be true, but the news reference volume should show an increasing trend- or at least, some 'bounces' - which is not the case yet! Also look at the magnitude of drop- from search index volume 25 to just above 0! That's a pretty d
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by darwinGod 16y ago
It's true that mere searches for Google instant might not directly be a measure of it's success. But most certainly, it is a measure of the level of interest sustained. a)Even if the phrase "Google instant" were to be done using Google In
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Is Google Instant a Flop? Google Trends seems to say so(google.com)
2 points by darwinGod 16y ago|6 comments
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by darwinGod 16y ago
Really?? That's some strong opinion, which I disagree with.
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by darwinGod 16y ago
Well,a couple of interesting companies: a)FastSoft - These guys do TCP acceleration Founders were PhD's from Caltech b)Rethinkdb - This is YC funded startup, MySql storage engine for One founder is a PhD Stony Brook on leave.
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by darwinGod 16y ago
Seriously, there might be better things to discuss on HN, than the Ron Conway saga. :( Last I checked there are about 18 comments on Techcrunch on that article. Bound to be a hell lot more soon. The previous one had 411 comments, 2000 F
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Systems/Networking startups
2 points by darwinGod 16y ago|1 comments
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by darwinGod 16y ago
Interesting.. Could you elaborate at which stage in your career did you take 3 years off? How did you deal with family/relationships? So, if your kid comes along and says he does not want to go to school,what do you tell him?
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by darwinGod 16y ago
A related article about NewsTilt's failure was on HN , cant find the link though. Would be great if there was a more descriptive title for your submission!
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by darwinGod 16y ago
The idea and demo videos are cool! Had to google to find out the use cases, and target audience.. http://www.instantfundas.com/2010/07/stackvm-makes-virtual-m... This is an open source project.. Shall be keeping an eye on stackvm's progre
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by darwinGod 16y ago
I bet not many saw that coming though. Is this really Dave Winer, the guy behind RSS?? What do you think their selling point would be? "The socially connected phone" And why would people want that??
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by darwinGod 16y ago
tough luck...have heard quite a bit of unpleasant stuff about Oakland :( But,why would you want tell the whole world(HN), the exact contents of the mail? And if he were to follow HN.. with comments about tracing IP, etc .. he might have got
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by darwinGod 16y ago
I think it would be helpful to have certain information-breakdown made public. From what I have seen,those with karma of 1000+,have been active on HN for more than a year. I am curious to know the number of people with karma 1000+ - (or any
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by darwinGod 16y ago
Wonder why this was downvoted.. Is it bad to hope that Cuil is open sourced??
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by darwinGod 16y ago
Check this out: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/Amy.Bruckman/teaching/6470/spri... Did you know Wikipedia doesn't function as a democracy? I believe the stats are something like top 20 % influence 80% of articles. If HN were to be proper d
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by darwinGod 16y ago
Speaking of legacy, wonder if there would be interest in Cuil as a apache project... who knows what might arise from its ashes! :)
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by darwinGod 16y ago
I hope Cuil is open sourced!! Would love to learn from from Cuil 's cuil code :)
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by darwinGod 16y ago
just google the papers, or look up in google scholar :-) In most cases, the authors would have uploaded it on their webpage.
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by darwinGod 16y ago
Awesome! would have been even better if there were SIGCOMM,SIGMETRICS were included.
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by darwinGod 16y ago
Alex Payne (One of Twitter's earlier employees..) had written a nice article on why he does not work in Infomartion Security, quite a while ago. http://al3x.net/2008/12/31/why-not-infosec.html ..the core point being,about how little atte
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by darwinGod 16y ago
install wireshark, cygwin 0)Get a large packet of lays chips 1)do traceroute to ubutu site, 2) write script to extract IP addresses, number of hops 3) For each IP address(do this recursively) 4) if (sum of IP adresses %2==0) a) Eat
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Web based political campaign management-why no major players yet?
2 points by darwinGod 16y ago|1 comments
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Notion's Adam Tablet- Android -Nice configs(gadgetvenue.com)
1 points by darwinGod 16y ago|0 comments
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by darwinGod 16y ago
I think about 90/140 startups are still alive, read this on some thread at HN. Dont know about exits though