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by david 17y ago
One would hardly think the author of farty farty could stoop so low... also: look at the time of day on this screenshot: http://www.dublinbusapp.com/dbmaps/Dublin_Bus_Maps.html
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by david 17y ago
Nope, because although Dublin Bus provided the data, the author did the work of compiling it into a database.
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by david 17y ago
First thing I do is install Cygwin.
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by david 17y ago
#20515 created: 1067 days ago I guess that's what I get for lurking...
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by david 17y ago
So you can go on web forums and say "Well I really don't see it so you must be cheating with some JS stuff...".
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by david 17y ago
It's nice that the conversion rate went up, but it would be a mistake to attribute the change to removing content, when there were many improvements to the overall design of the landing page as well. I would say this is a lesson in the valu
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by david 17y ago
Makes sense. I think most of the time your body should know what sleep schedule is best for your health better than you do. I tend to just wait until I feel ready to go to sleep, be it 10PM or 2AM, and get up when I feel well rested.
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by david 17y ago
You're right, letting people drown is a much better solution.
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by david 17y ago
We can already talk over the internet, putting it in a website isn't really that revolutionary.
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by david 17y ago
Telling your people your competition sucks isn't unethical, you're just making them aware that you can provide them with more value. If you can't live up to your claims, you'll feel the backlash. I can see that using Mechanical Turk could b
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by david 17y ago
It looks much more natural in fixed-width fonts too, using quotes like that here kind of defeats the purpose.
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by david 17y ago
I think he may have been saying something like "If you pull everything off just right, there's a maximum of 5% of your visitors that can turn into sales". Of course, if the majority of your traffic are coming over to read something interest
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by david 17y ago
Maybe if you were running a service, you'd be better off evaluating how well your prices are doing by selling multiple plans and paying attention to their relative sales behind the scenes. If only your cheapest plan is selling, you're proba
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by david 17y ago
I think that's the biggest challenge with this approach: figuring out how users will react to the price changes. Someone who goes to a site and sees an ebook listed for $8.95 is going to perceive that price a lot differently than someone wh
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by david 17y ago
Well, knowing that you applied to YC in the first place, you must have thought on some level that they are more experienced and/or better at making these kinds of evaluations than yoursel(f|ves). I would at least be interested, then, to hea
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by david 17y ago
I'd say it's a sore spot on the otherwise tasteful ubuntu design.
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Dynamic Pricing: Let your prices rise or fall until you maximize revenue(informationarchitects.jp)
25 points by david 17y ago|14 comments
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by david 17y ago
protip: replace with <table with="35em">
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by david 17y ago
>> Do such systems really not exist today? ext2?
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by david 17y ago
Irk, I've found that freelancers have the exact same problem. The better deal you offer someone, the more demanding they get and the more they are convinced that you're ripping them off.
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Anyone else see "Unknown or expired link." after writing a long comment?
1 points by david 17y ago|1 comments
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by david 17y ago
I just forward *@mydomain.com to gmail. Having web software you can put up on your personal server is nice, but it poses a whole different set of challenges to just hosting it yourself. You have to worry about how to manage copyrights, comi
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by david 17y ago
I don't think one of my favorite (OOPish) flavors was included. I think of it as something like designing an organism out of various independent parts, figuring out how they will work together and respond to input. For me a lot of more comp
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by david 17y ago
I guess that's kind of the dilemma. On the one hand, you could totally re-do these sites to be appealing and useful to their users, but if you're focus is on getting ad revenue more than actually being useful to people, that's doing the opp
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by david 17y ago
You have a bunch of web sites with the same poor-quality layout that are dominated by ads, that's pretty much the definition of a spam ring, and I don't see why it's so surprising that google would want to limit clickthroughs to your sites.
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by david 17y ago
Right, if someone were trying to use this information to, say, cut down on their news.yc surfing, they'd probably be better off not worrying about dopamine and just focusing on the actual net-addiction behaviors and feelings they are actual
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by david 17y ago
As if the cost of carrying out the wrong call isn't too high either? The worst case isn't that soldiers' time is squandered or that they risk their lives over nothing worthy, it's that they kill and destroy needlessly, but I guess we don't
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by david 17y ago
The politicians only exist because of the troops. The republican party isn't going to launch an attack against you themselves just because you didn't follow the rules.
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by david 17y ago
That doesn't really make sense. The only reason Britains involvement in Iraq was possible is because there were a bunch of servicemen ready to go out and murder for the man. What exactly are you thanking the serviceman for if not for carryi
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by david 17y ago
Money is just a medium of exchange. If I'm most productive as a fisherman, and currently I want a new wooden table more than anything else, I'm much better off if I can spend three hours fishing in exchange for enough money to buy a table,

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