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by drp 17y ago
Seems like a rather sensationalist headline. Craigslist is not the competitor, these guys: http://www.google.com/search?q=no+fee+rentals+nyc are.
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by drp 17y ago
How are these complaints really different from developing desktop software? Remember those little "system requirements" blurbs that use to be on the sides of software boxes when people actually went to stores to buy physical media with sof
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by drp 17y ago
Cancer death rate goes down to zero when everyone dies from other illnesses.
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by drp 17y ago
The article didn't mention this, but in my experience, the person who most negatively affects the team's chemistry is the first one out. Producing bad code (or not enough/none at all) or breaking things is sure to destroy your connection t
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by drp 17y ago
Maybe "brag" is too strong of a word, but it all depends on what kind of company you work for. Keeping quiet pretty much ensures that only your peers and possibly your tech lead will know what quality and quantity of work you're churning o
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by drp 17y ago
The eye-tracker used in the HCI lab at Rice is actually used in experiments and implemented in CL. http://chil.rice.edu/facilities/eyelab.html
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by drp 17y ago
Depending on the keyword and the title/description of each result, those numbers entirely possible. I've seen exponential traffic differences between 1st and 3rd results for a few keywords, so I'd have to guess that the 2nd result would beh
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Google Sitebricks(code.google.com)
3 points by drp 17y ago|0 comments
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QR Codes via Google Charts API(chart.apis.google.com)
1 points by drp 17y ago|1 comments
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by drp 17y ago
I agree. You can't have a rectangle with a null width, so why should you be able to instantiate one?
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by drp 17y ago
This is straight out of Rainbow's End by Vernor Vinge http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End
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by drp 17y ago
The other style guides are worth a look too: http://code.google.com/p/google-styleguide/ Does anyone know if Google has a Java style guide?
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by drp 17y ago
I'm not saying the poster is necessarily faking, but how should we know that someone who chose the name MattCutts is the Matt Cutts he claims to be? Do we assume he's not an impersonator because we like his answer? This comment is the very
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by drp 17y ago
There's a company called AggData that scrapes and sells location datasets: http://aggdata.com Geocommons Finder http://finder.geocommons.com/ has quite a lot of free location data.
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by drp 17y ago
I'm speaking of impressions, not uniques.
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by drp 17y ago
In my experience, CPM from AdSense does not scale by itself. When you're only serving up a few thousand impressions per day, all it takes are a few good advertisers on your keywords for you to get a pretty nice daily payoff, but as soon as
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by drp 17y ago
Oh, good point. I read Charlotte's web so long ago that I forgot to think of what pigs ate. Still, hopefully the slop she's making is from scraps that never made it to the dumpster, otherwise the same concern about contaminants applies.
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by drp 17y ago
Amen. I can't count the number of times I've solved a problem while walking somewhere or doing something completely unrelated to work. There was an article about marketing on the front page of HN yesterday that said 'think smarter, not loud
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by drp 17y ago
Along that vein, I'm curious about the inflection of this quote regarding her homemade prosciutto: "It proves you can make really good pork off of dumpster scraps." I hope it's sarcastic, or saying that she would have thrown the pork away
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by drp 17y ago
http://hotpads.com has about 350k rental listings spread all over the US, and none are from craigslist.
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Verizon DSL lost half the Internet today(wonkette.com)
3 points by drp 17y ago|0 comments
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by drp 17y ago
From http://blog.freescreencast.com/2008/08/28/update-on-the-stat... "8000 downloads, over 2500 accounts"
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by drp 17y ago
The article says the standard rate is $20-40, but Hulu is raking in $60.
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Offline Processing on Google App Engine(dl.google.com)
17 points by drp 17y ago|5 comments
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Approaching the limit on recommender systems(glinden.blogspot.com)
2 points by drp 17y ago|0 comments
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by drp 17y ago
That's a really good solution. Many sites don't need user accounts at all, and often a cookie would suffice. Showing the user what they gain from an account before requiring one is a smart move.
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by drp 17y ago
This is great, but I felt like my mental comparison weighted each individual result more equally than I normally would in a routine search. Another interesting comparison would be to show only the top result, top 3, etc. from each search e
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HotPads shows the true cost of hosting on Amazon (AWS)(highscalability.com)
6 points by drp 17y ago|0 comments
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by drp 17y ago
This was the text to my intro CS class in college. It's a really neat approach to introducing a range of students to software design that doesn't leave out more experienced programmers. It can feel like brainwashing at times, but it reall
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AWS usage by HotPads, including costs(daily.hotpads.com)
4 points by drp 17y ago|0 comments

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