diego

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by diego 19y ago
My answer would be a resounding no. Some things just cannot be bought. Everyone knows what things they would never do regardless of the money involved. If I could not do anything productive ever again, I'd be depressed. Also, I think there
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by diego 19y ago
Thanks for the feedback. The 200 limit is ours, we could (and should) increase it. We don't have all the results from day one (we'd have to ask Twitter for the full archive), but we could easily display up to 1000 results without a signific
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by diego 19y ago
The easy way around this problem is to be aware of the value of your time. If it takes you another ten minutes to save 1-2 dollars and it feels like a chore, then it's obviously a bad deal. Of course, your time isn't always worth the same.
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by diego 19y ago
For Twitter, try our tools: http://twist.flaptor.com http://twittersearch.flaptor.com And please let us know if you have any feature suggestions. We are trying to build a useful tool so we are all ears.
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by diego 19y ago
The first comment says "Techcrunch only shows startups in the US or startups from the insiders - people who know Mike Arrington personally." I know this is not the case. My company is not in the US and I don't know Mike Arrington. I just co
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by diego 19y ago
Twitter has a lot of useful information in it. It's not popular enough yet, but the application does have a lot of appeal. The tool we built (shameless plug again) made me realize how interesting it is to see what people are doing in real t
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Hillary caught up with Obama... on Twitter(twist.flaptor.com)
3 points by diego 19y ago|3 comments
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by diego 19y ago
Why not solve the real problem and set up a search engine for News.YC? This has other advantages such as controlling what shows up in the results, different ways to sort them, etc. It's easy to do with open-source software such as Solr (luc
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by diego 19y ago
I agree. If you look at the frequency of posts containing "I like" or "I hate", for example: http://twist.flaptor.com/freq?gram=i+love%2C+i+hate or http://twist.flaptor.com/freq?gram=great%2C+sucks http://twist.flaptor.com/freq?gram=aw
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by diego 19y ago
Spam makes its way into anything (search engines, social networks, blogs, twitter, you name it). In essence it's just low-quality advertising at an extremely low cost. Whatever makes it possible for people to communicate cheaply also enable
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by diego 19y ago
My guess would be that (many, most) manhole covers are round because it is the obvious shape for most lids. There are so many poorly designed urban objects that I tend to believe that the feature of not falling into the hole was a lucky acc
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by diego 19y ago
Check out our tool, http://tagger.flaptor.com It's based on a Bayesian algorithm plus a bunch of other heuristics for fine-tuning. In our case, the classification algorithm is not nearly as important as how we select documents for the tra
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by diego 19y ago
They could use our beta tool: http://twist.flaptor.com/freq?gram=comcast&submit=Show+t... (Running on a desktop machine right now, please be gentle)
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by diego 19y ago
I agree with the sentiment of the article, although the title is a bit misleading. It's not like you were meant to be a boss either, which is running a company is about once you get past the startup stage. I'd say the message is that if yo