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by drx 15y ago
I have friends who love startups but would never start one. It's not for everyone.
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by drx 15y ago
I'm a bit late to the topic, so quite possibly you've moved on, but > I keep failing and getting frustrated as soon as I hit a wall, I didn't used to be like this but now everything seems too hard > depressed and demotivated Just on
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Quora: What would be a good use of Apple's $86.85+ billion in cash?(quora.com)
2 points by drx 15y ago|0 comments
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by drx 15y ago
Try https://github.com/jcrocholl/pep8 You could show the output of this to the submitter (somewhat bad -- barrier to submission) or flag them yourself so you can correct them occasionally. Examples: $ pep8 optparse.py optparse.py:69
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by drx 15y ago
I would pay money to read this kind of insight on a regular basis.
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Quora: What would be a good use of Apple's $86.85+ billion in cash?(quora.com)
1 points by drx 15y ago|1 comments
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by drx 15y ago
> You, and many others, seem to imply that being "bad math" (mathematically not sound) is the same as being "bad" (in the broad sense). The author never said that the method was useless, nor anything similar. PageRank was an obviously g
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by drx 15y ago
Regardless of whether PageRank is "bad math" (the author being the arbiter of what's bad), it was never about being formally anal, it was about solving a problem -- making search much, much better than the then-competition. PageRank solves
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by drx 15y ago
http://archfinch.com/tags/hn -- HN filtered by tags (all posts with at least 10 points, updated hourly).
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by drx 15y ago
I have found this to be very true. For one venture, I have a wiki (not unlike your spreadsheet) with everyone I've emailed and plan to email, with their data, position, when to email/call them next, their status, etc.
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by drx 15y ago
http://google.com/?q=ununquadium If I was a domain squatter, I would crawl the internet looking for words/ngrams and register .com domains with them. Which is probably what someone did.
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by drx 15y ago
The biggest problem I have with this is the wasted energy by the hellbanned.
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by drx 15y ago
This made me consider the problem relying on shitstorms for feedback. The problem might be unrelated (for example, this might have been engineered in advance as a way of minimizing the negative reception of the decision). That is, in suffic
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by drx 15y ago
Try this: Follow HN ( http://archfinch.com/tag/hn ), block startups, ( http://archfinch.com/tag/startups ), windows8 ( http://archfinch.com/tag/windows8 ), then subscribe to your personal RSS feed. Perhaps I could make it into an extension.
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by drx 15y ago
You can also block the tag 'bitcoin' ( http://archfinch.com/tag/bitcoin ) and follow 'hn' ( http://archfinch.com/tag/hn ) on http://archfinch.com/ and subscribe to your personal RSS.
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by drx 15y ago
Looks like a missed startup opportunity.
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by drx 15y ago
>Am I the only one not seeing the point of these coupon sites? http://www.evanmiller.org/golden-football.html
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by drx 15y ago
Clickables: http://itunes.apple.com/de/app/watchlaterapp/id423572879?mt=... http://9elements.com/io/?p=580 http://watchlaterapp.com/welcome
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by drx 15y ago
Thanks, fixed. Turns out memcached keys can't have spaces in them. At least using python-memcached: for char in key: if ord(char) < 33 or ord(char) == 127: raise Client.MemcachedKeyChara
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by drx 15y ago
No. From brief testing I found such automatic systems to be unreliable. However, perhaps I could add tagging suggestions based on content extraction / keywords.
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by drx 15y ago
For now just HN. Plus users sometimes submit links themselves. I plan to expand on that. Add other sources, perhaps add a way for people to add their own sources. RSS feeds filtered by topics would be cool.
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by drx 15y ago
I'm glad to see it's useful for someone. It's interesting how accurate the tags are and how much more information they give. I've been playing with them for a while and I can sit and browse for hours.
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by drx 15y ago
Ok, I think I've done the feeds. I need to test them for a while to see if they work as they are supposed to before adding them to the site, but you can start using them if you'd like: http://archfinch.com/rss/tags/programming/history/lisp
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by drx 15y ago
I'll try to implement this as soon as I can, so check back later. Seems like a no-brainer but I forgot to do this :)
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by drx 15y ago
Regarding the original submission, yes, I got a ton of very useful feedback. The site differs greatly from what it was then (I wish I had comparison screenshots handy right now), I implemented some of the feedback. I did, however, ignore so
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by drx 15y ago
Right now you have to click 'discuss this' and in the sidebar, a link named 'via HN' pops up. This needs some improvement, but I can't put too much information in the link boxes, so it's a tough one.
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by drx 15y ago
Filter old and new Hacker News link by tags. I've gone through old Hacker News links and tagged them. Also, every hour, new HN posts are synced to Archfinch. Only posts with at least 10 points are shown, and automatic tagging uses the Delic
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Filter Hacker News by tags (70K past URLs and hourly sync)(archfinch.com)
70 points by drx 15y ago|18 comments
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by drx 15y ago
Filter old and new Hacker News link by tags. I've gone through old Hacker News links and tagged them. Also, every hour, new HN posts are synced to Archfinch. Only posts with at least 10 points are shown, and automatic tagging uses the Delic
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Filter Hacker News by tags(archfinch.com)
4 points by drx 15y ago|1 comments

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