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by dmnd 17y ago
Being less specific gives you a pretty decent result, though. Try plain old Zelda, then shopping: http://www.bing.com/shopping/search?q=zelda&mkt=en-US&#3...
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by dmnd 17y ago
Getting people to seriously try a new search engine does take some work. The $100 million is probably an attempt to overcome the branding effect described in this article a week ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=626960
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by dmnd 17y ago
What do you like about the Wikipedia integration? I don't see the value in republishing Wikipedia: http://www.bing.com/reference/semhtml/Melbourne?q=melbourne&...
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by dmnd 17y ago
With market set to Australia, the logo says 'bing Beta'. It says 'bing preview' for the US. I guess it's not fully baked for non-US markets. I wonder if the advertising campaign is restricted to the US?
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by dmnd 17y ago
The core algorithm is the same as Live's, but there is more to a search engine than ten blue links. Did the marketing actually say it was a whole new algorithm/indexer? It'll be interesting to see if the extraneous features catch on or not.
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by dmnd 17y ago
A sidebar does not make the UI terribly more complex. Google even added one, but it's hidden behind a 'Show options' link by default. And a pretty photo versus the occasional Google Doodle is just a matter of taste. I like the photo myself.
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by dmnd 17y ago
I see freesound.org as the #1 for both engines.
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by dmnd 17y ago
The background images are different for different markets. http://www.bing.com/?mkt=en-us http://www.bing.com/?mkt=en-uk
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by dmnd 17y ago
Ok, but using the previous version of the language to demonstrate your point is much less interesting. Additionally, there is the issue of clarity: when I read "C#" I tend to assume that means the language as it exists today, not some previ
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by dmnd 17y ago
> Unlike with LINQ, if these operators did not exist in Smalltalk, it would be trivial to add them. False. The SQL-like snippet of LINQ in the article is just syntactic sugar for people.Where(person => person.Type == PersonTyp
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by dmnd 18y ago
Delete your nytimes.com cookies.
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by dmnd 18y ago
Your logo and red and yellow colour scheme make me think of fast food. You should add Javascript to make my browser display the URL in the status bar when my mouse hovers over a result.
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by dmnd 18y ago
BoardGameGeek, although it's more of a donation.
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by dmnd 18y ago
I really like the idea. A few things I noticed: Tagging a conversation with a pronoun like "I" will probably means it sticks around forever. Can you join multiple conversations at once? What happens if two conversations share a tag? Are the
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by dmnd 18y ago
Thanks for your input. I might try to remove the implicit expectations that are placed on him. Even though since he withdrew I am careful not to pressure him, I'm sure he still feels there are expectations upon him.
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by dmnd 18y ago
Yes, it is. I'm going to talk to the school about that since it must be a pretty widespread problem. Maybe next year he can be placed with other students in his core classes.
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by dmnd 18y ago
I'll do some thinking about who I know that can show him things in various other fields.
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by dmnd 18y ago
Part of the reason for getting into his school was so that he could be exposed to better influences. As I said, the problem with our mother is complicated, but I have tried to talk to her about this. Her problem is that she never sticks at
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by dmnd 18y ago
He has tried a couple of electives in school, and seems to be somewhat interested psychology, which is good because it's enthusiasm for something . There are only limited opportunities to try new things at school, though. What would be goo
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by dmnd 18y ago
I agree about the competition. A problem is he seems to be afraid to ask for help now that he is struggling, but when I offer help he declines. I often try to let him know which things lead to my own success and which were distractions, but
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by dmnd 18y ago
I do talk with him about things I am building and even hint that he could be involved if he wanted to be. He doesn't enjoy coding though. I bought a beginner's guide to Python a while ago and gave it to him being careful not to pressure him
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Ask YC: How can I guide my brother towards success in school/life?
2 points by dmnd 18y ago|19 comments
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by dmnd 18y ago
Perhaps not quite grandiose or revolutionary enough to meet the description at the top of this page, but here's my dead-in-the-water project: http://ploya.com It's supposed to be a community for finding out about and then getting into int
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by dmnd 18y ago
It is a great UI, but I would suggest having the site turn off my browser's autocomplete so the results are not obscured.
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by dmnd 18y ago
I thought of this last time I moved. It took hours to change my address in all the various organisations that need to know it. Obviously the problem with getting it off the ground. Who is big enough to start this off, short of the Governmen
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by dmnd 18y ago
80k to start in 2009 at MSFT. Makes me think I should've thought more about inflation before signing.
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It's official: HD-DVD is dead(toshiba.co.jp)
4 points by dmnd 19y ago|0 comments
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by dmnd 19y ago
I remember doing this when all my friends were on prepaid phones. We called it 'pranking', though: "Just prank me when you want me to pick you up."
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by dmnd 19y ago
Didn't work for me either, but this comment thread did. ~ Melb, Aus.
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by dmnd 19y ago
When loading the flash demo, the loading bar does not convey any information. It just keeps growing with no indication of when it will complete. Also, during pageloads your little "loading" popup seems to have horizontal and vertical scroll

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