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by eavc 15y ago
True, but again, it's about variation from that individual's norm. A groundball pitcher will naturally have a good BABIP relative to others. If one year it's abnormally high for that person's history, though, it doesn't necessarily reflect
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by eavc 15y ago
I'm a big fan of the BABIP against stat for pitchers for the same reason. It's amazing to see how good a pitcher can look when his fielders are getting to everything only to have him fall of the table when the law of averages kicks in the n
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by eavc 15y ago
It does seem problematic that to consumers it seems as though the dev gets a cut.
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by eavc 15y ago
>The story Arrington wrote yesterday about Airbnb not offering to help was bullshit. He asked a company spokesman what Airbnb was doing to help her. The spokesman, who'd been told by their lawyers that he couldn't go into detail about t
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by eavc 15y ago
Great comment. As a 27-year-old who has had several false-starts in my career, I'm already feeling some of that pain. It strikes me that, since there are some important elements of human personality that can change over time, there are some
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by eavc 15y ago
One of my favorite things about reading on a Kindle is the ease with which I can look up words -- "garron" being one of the most recent, in fact.
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by eavc 15y ago
I happened to know that one due to my music degree, but I ticked almost none of the other words of similar difficulty.
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by eavc 15y ago
In the video, they explain it as embracing the conception of the letters as being 3d objects. The added weight in the lower parts would intuitively anchor that letter in that orientation. Perhaps a 'j' should be tilted due to its asymmetry.
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by eavc 15y ago
In the early days of FB, the users were all horny college kids. Of course they were glued to what was essentially an online cocktail party.
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by eavc 15y ago
For me, it's started to. The first days were like you've described, but yesterday, several non-technical people signed on and seemed to attach pretty well. In fact, my friend's mom added me to a circle yesterday, and she's a choir director.
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by eavc 15y ago
First thing I've seen on the internet today to actually make me laugh out loud.
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by eavc 15y ago
What comes to mind for me are the commercials emphasizing the number of 'apps' as a differentiation over the competition rather than simply saying, "Only we have a phone with apps."
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by eavc 15y ago
Primarily for reasons of legibility, in my opinion. Technically, any piece in duple meter could be written in any duple meter and any triple meter piece could be written in triple meter. In fact, you could even write a triple meter piece i
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by eavc 15y ago
I guess it's all I've ever known, really, but now that you point those things out, they are irritating.
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by eavc 15y ago
I think Word has gotten better since the ribbons interface arrived, but I dislike PowerPoint immensely. What's the issue with Word?
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by eavc 15y ago
Google+ will succeed because it's simpler. Everybody wants to control their data and have online relationships that mirror real ones in terms of context. You think mom's don't worry about who can see the pictures of their kids? Or non-techn
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by eavc 15y ago
That's not granular enough an explanation. They were strategic about who they let join and when, and that strategy involved admitting entire social groups at once.
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by eavc 15y ago
I think the problem might be that reddit is already as anonymous as someone wants it to be, so that alone isn't a feature. Where it's a cool idea is when the anonymity is used to nullify influence of prominent users for a community that has
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by eavc 15y ago
Well, best of luck. It's a cool project, and I think marketing is going to be the decisive battle for you guys. FWIW, I wanted to chime in on the issue raised by others. For use in smaller groups, much of the issue of identifiable style cou
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Ask HN: Discussion of books/TV that prevents spoilers?
1 points by eavc 15y ago|0 comments
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by eavc 15y ago
I love this kind of attempt at innovation. I hope you are able to stick with this enough to find a userbase for it.
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by eavc 15y ago
Cud-chewing is the etymology of the psych term, actually. Regurgitating the same thing over and over... Glad you enjoyed the read. It's something I deal with personally as well.
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by eavc 15y ago
The relevant term for what you describe in psychology circles is "rumination" in case you're interested in that kind of thing.
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by eavc 15y ago
Great response. Thanks. Follow-ups: 2. Are some market/language combos more or less saturated than others? I'm willing to tackle less sexy, more difficult stuff if it makes this aspect smoother. 3. Good point. 4. I suppose it's more the "pa
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by eavc 15y ago
Thanks for the good response. I'm somewhat surprised that your answer seems to amount to, "All of it." Would you say there's a way to avoid having customers altogether while only doing part-time work? I'd like to have something closer to an
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by eavc 15y ago
Does that mean you'd recommend Rails for me based on my criteria?
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Ask HN: Part-time money through programming?
11 points by eavc 15y ago|8 comments
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by eavc 15y ago
You're saying one can't lose weight on low-calorie diets that are primarily composed of carbs? In that case, we should send a single rice grain to all starving persons to serve as their only nutrition. I imagine you have a more nuanced poin
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by eavc 15y ago
That's a good question -- I don't know enough about SE to answer it right now. My impression of SE is that it is about asking and answering questions -- for the site I envision, the question is always implied as "Am I wrong?" and you lay ou
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by eavc 15y ago
Since I see 4 votes and one comment, I assume those people are asking the question along with me with those votes. If I'm wrong, voters, let me know.

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