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by dood 19y ago
Heh, I had the same idea, probably because I enjoy arguing and finding flaws in arguements so much. If anyone does start this up, let me know, I'll help! However, I suspect the market for telling people what they want to hear is much bigger
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by dood 19y ago
Thats one of the really interesting things about the OLPC - most of the programs are written in Python, and it has a 'source' button on the keyboard, so users can view and modify stuff [ http://www.olpcnews.com/hardware/keyboard/children_v
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by dood 19y ago
Tayyabs == awesome
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by dood 19y ago
Lack of monetization of Youtube is almost irrelevent, Google have the time and money to concentrate on establishing it as the dominant video site. They can afford to let someone else figure out how to make money, while the small fry try to
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Jerry Kaplan talk at Stanford's Entrepreneurial Speaker Series(edcorner.stanford.edu)
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by dood 19y ago
A solution that takes around 12 years [ http://www.algonet.se/~ug/projects/lightbulb/double.html ] I couldn't resist peeking ;)
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by dood 19y ago
Hi David, probably won't make Oxford, and I didn't know about Minibar, but if possible it sounds like fun. If not, guess it'll have to be the upcoming YC london meetup, if you can make it.
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by dood 19y ago
I had a look around the artists pages; the recommendations are good, each set seems fairly solid with mostly nothing too irrelevant, the main associations I would expect are generally there, the results seem fairly consistent across genres,
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by dood 19y ago
Huh, I hadn't seen Songkick before, it looks great! I had the same frustration with finding shows from bands I like, and wanted to make something similar. I'm sure it'll be a hit if you get the data and some half-decent recommendations.
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by dood 19y ago
Probably a good idea to start a new thread for that sometime. Its about time for a UK meetup so thanks for taking the initiative!
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by dood 19y ago
Pretty much summed up on the second page of the link, the market is much more competitive here: people are used to 3G, cheap contracts and discounted handsets, and there are established competing devices. Basically, the US mobile market is
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by dood 19y ago
I read about that event somewhere, but isn't it for Oxford students only?
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by dood 19y ago
I'm in London, working on a web app for helping people share and organise stuff.
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Ask YC: are you a UK-based hacker, or working on a startup in the UK?
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by dood 19y ago
Great, now I've got crazy ideas about wordnet and markov chains and such nonsense swimming in my head, when I should really be thinking about useful things.
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by dood 19y ago
Yoga, meditation and all those are great, but for simple quick fix I recommend breathing deeply, slowly and comfortably. When you get tense, or feel like relaxing, focus for a moment on your heartbeat and breathing, and give a little part o
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by dood 19y ago
Some more info and a link to the original from Michael's Optical Illusions & Visual Phenomena [ http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/sze_silhouette/index.html ]. Check out the 'eyes' on the enhansed version. Freaky. Also, Michael provides a lit
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by dood 19y ago
I confess the first time I heard this (a while ago), it drove me so nuts I ended up writing a program to confirm the solution.
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by dood 19y ago
I'm becoming convinced that vote-oriented threaded commenting is harmful to discussion, except of a more limited, conversational kind. I haven't had time to properly think it through, so forgive the sketchiness of the rest of this comment,
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by dood 19y ago
Probably because opinions without explanations aren't very interesting.
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by dood 19y ago
Just having a little link to the news post next to the noprocrast dropdown would pretty much clear this up.
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by dood 19y ago
it seems that multiple founders correlates more highly with success than single founders I keep hearing this stated, but I don't think I've ever seen the stats. Anyone got a cite? However, assuming there is a correlation, this doesn't tel
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by dood 19y ago
I wonder if it's not so much primness as a desire to steer threads away from the sort of boring/crude one-liners that reddit can often devolve into.
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by dood 19y ago
Concurrency in todays web darlings, Ruby, PHP, and Python will be challenging. Heard of stackless python? [ http://www.stackless.com/ ]. Eve Online is the highest profile app using it I know of. Introduction to Concurrent Programming wit
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by dood 19y ago
What about Radiohead?
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by dood 19y ago
Exactly what I meant to say but somehow missed, thanks!
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by dood 19y ago
I'm not assuming everyone will pay, just a large enough fraction to be significant for moderately popular sites. I think (hope?) you underestimate human nature, or at least the powers of fandom, guilt, and some occasional generosity. If th
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by dood 19y ago
I would argue that micropayments will work one day: people are ready and willing to make micropayments, the barrier is the cognitive cost of making the payment. If there were some well-established way to give money with a couple of clicks a
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by dood 19y ago
What if you specialize in generality? I guess that explains those mood swings.
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by dood 19y ago
Ah yes, somehow integrating scattered networks of conversation around distinct, emerging topics, that's a good angle (though at its simplest, a lot like a meta-techmeme?). Sounds like a lot of hard work to get it right, I too wish I had tim

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