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721.
by ed 19y ago
but it's not slowing growth, it's slowing acceleration
722.
by ed 19y ago
Here's the paper: http://www.scribd.com/full/2359066?access_key=key-2ntxn9tb3u...
723.
by ed 19y ago
Good things come out of recessions, but a high valuation is rarely one of them. Anyone want to guess what Flickr's valuation would be today? http://siteanalytics.compete.com/bebo.com+flickr.com/?metric...
724.
by ed 19y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters
725.
by ed 19y ago
It's pretty naive to think that every employee must either be a) unhappy or, b), screwed up
726.
by ed 19y ago
It may come down to personal preference, but you can already cleanly pass the PDF's url as a GET parameter to /slurp. So, your URL would become: http://scribd.com/slurp?url=http://www.janescapital.com/yaron_minsky-cufp_2006.pdf
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Scoble Interviews Scribd CEO(fastcompany.tv)
7 points by ed 19y ago|1 comments
728.
by ed 19y ago
... I don't think you fully understand what Adobe is doing -- they are compiling down to AVM2 bytecode using LLVM. And DirectX is abstracted out of Actionscript, so you gain the benefits of DirectX when it's available, but the AVM will reso
729.
by ed 19y ago
Believe it. http://blip.tv/file/408241 (It gets interesting at 4:50)
730.
by ed 19y ago
This isn't true at all. I receive about as many spam followers for my active twitter account as I do friend requests for my shell myspace account. http://twitter.com/fivedollarwiki , or http://twitter.com/DiningFever are both users which
731.
by ed 19y ago
Exposing voting history strikes me as an obviously bad thing to do given that votes have always been anonymous. Even if you tried to scrub personal information from the data, it'd be fairly easy to match anonymous ID's to HN nicks.
732.
by ed 19y ago
Ugh. Run the following code to make the UI bearable: function makeSlide(src){ return "<br/><img src='"+src+"' style='border: 2px solid white;' /><br/><br/>"; } document.write('<html>&#6
733.
by ed 19y ago
Itching Powder 2.0
734.
by ed 19y ago
Picking a favorite single color seems about as pointless as picking a favorite key on a piano. It's not the color that matters, but how the color interacts with those around it.
735.
by ed 19y ago
Hey may not be a web designer, but he's certainly not an idiot. http://plentyoffish.wordpress.com/2006/08/30/cited-in-the-fi...
736.
by ed 19y ago
We do :) This would be a great feature, guys! Unfortunately the conversion process takes a bit of time, and depending on the processing queue typically means that slurped documents aren't immediately available for viewing. There is, however
737.
by ed 19y ago
Err, a string?
738.
by ed 19y ago
"If something like this were to happen today" Whoops, you accidentally wrote that as if it were hypothetical.
739.
by ed 19y ago
I remember seeing this poster while waiting for my chicken-apples and it struck me as being strangely insightful.
740.
by ed 19y ago
24-bit PNG is vastly superior to GIF. Rather than give up PNG's benefits I'd suggest hacking IE6 into compliance. Check out http://www.twinhelix.com/css/iepngfix/
741.
by ed 19y ago
It seems like they mostly index GPL/LGPL licensed icons
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Icon Search Engine(iconfinder.net)
23 points by ed 19y ago|7 comments
743.
by ed 19y ago
Scribd should just slurp the whole internet... everyone's quality of life would rise dramatically.
744.
by ed 19y ago
"I remember reading something in Jack Schwager's Trading Wizards book where someone talked about successful hedge funds not using more than 5-10x leverage." Leverage doesn't mean much if you don't know the beta (a measure of risk) of the se
745.
by ed 19y ago
I think you may have missed the point. Regardless of what the CEO says, eToro is just a run-around on anti-gaming laws; as such it's not really supposed to be a legitimate tool for forex trading. Far from stupid, I'd say this is actually qu
746.
by ed 19y ago
Who voted this thing out of the crib? If you find this article to be fascinating or new, then I hope to god you're not designing any systems I use...
747.
by ed 19y ago
Absolutely :)
748.
by ed 19y ago
I'm not disagreeing with the premise of the article, but I think the efficiency of a team has a lot more to do with its incentive structure, both social and financial, rather than its size.
749.
by ed 19y ago
Incidentally the author's website, Findory.com, is now defunct. Looks like the answer was "yes." From the linked post: "And this makes me wonder, am I ruthless enough? In Findory Video, for example, the system tries to automatically filter
750.
by ed 19y ago
Yes, Brightcove.com Founded by Jeremy Allaire (JRun); impressive client list

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