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by ed 19y ago
Most of this was actually shot on BU's campus. The scene where they're learning how to play was shot in the basement of Mugar (BU's main library). Apparently MIT doesn't look enough like MIT...
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by ed 19y ago
Well the problem with this puzzle wasn't its level of difficulty, just that it was awkward to complete. It seemed more like a test of my Firebug abilities than anything else.
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by ed 19y ago
You need seconds. Also make sure your system clock is accurate and that you're in Weebly's time zone.
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by ed 19y ago
I installed the beta this afternoon and so far it's told me exactly what I knew already: I spend too much time on this site. Noprocrast is handy, but simply being kicked off the web isn't enough. What I /really/ need is a program threatenin
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by ed 19y ago
"The rest of the group was laughing at how the article was focused around me, as if I created the whole site myself." Matt you've got to learn to better appreciate your team, future Steve Jobs or not.
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by ed 19y ago
Very timely post. I was in bed last night trying to visualize how you might go about measuring distance in 4-dimensional space... While the method presented is really simple, it's tricky to think of it as "intuitive" when n>3 without lo
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by ed 19y ago
Dfranke, adhering to the constraints given shouldn't the correct answer should be a very large negative value for n? There's no upside to increasing the value of n; you're only putting yourself further at risk.
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by ed 19y ago
"Our startup spent its entire marketing budget on PR: at a time when we were assembling our own computers to save money, we were paying a PR firm $16,000 a month. And they were worth it. PR is the news equivalent of search engine optimizati
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by ed 19y ago
Please note I'm not saying you guys are unable build a great site; however I am saying this isn't it. Keep chipping away at the idea and I wish you guys the best of luck!
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by ed 19y ago
Guys, no offense, but you're a few years late to the static homepage party. Here's a random idea: how about a service which turns any webpage into an rss feed? It'd basically provide a compiled feed of text delta's, which can be added to an
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by ed 19y ago
Hey guys, this looks great but how about a YC-only meetup? I wish there were some way to coordinate these things. I was planning a Friday meetup and wouldn't mind going through with it if I get a decent response. Waleedka, feel free to drop
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by ed 19y ago
Just a thought, but why not implement a clustering algorithm to disambiguate products in the search results? Suffix tree clustering should get you pretty close... Are there any product search engines which do this yet? I know froogle doesn'
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by ed 19y ago
Well, Flex is not exactly Flash. If you're looking to do true flash development using open source tools, check out the MTASC compiler. And for a specialized (free) ActionScript IDE I suggest SE|PY. It's integrated with MTASC, has better syn
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by ed 19y ago
Great! Just FYI, you have to put the email address in the "about" text area. I guess the email field is only used internally by YC. While I've got you here, I'll just my initial reactions: - 100KB photo limit is waaay too small. Restrict im
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by ed 19y ago
Hey MC, the service sounds pretty cool! I'm in the process of learning as much as possible about recognition techniques. According to the FAQ, you're not performing face detection (you ask users to crop their photos). Did you find that the
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by ed 19y ago
Keep in mind tonight's quake was 20-30x smaller than the one in 89. Now THAT was an earthquake ;)
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by ed 19y ago
Here's what went through my head, in order: 1) Update twitter ("earthquake!") 2) Make post to News.YC 3) Stand in door frame
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Earthquake Strikes Silicon Valley! (5.6 magnitude)(quake.usgs.gov)
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by ed 19y ago
As it affects the short term, that's a good point. I'd make the argument that CPI is a better long-term indicator but over enough time the two indexes should show the same average rate of growth. Timr: just out of curiosity, what start-up
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by ed 19y ago
Along the same lines, "Don't make me think" by Steve Krug provides an awesome Usability foundation. (Better than Nielson, IMO.) http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Make-Me-Think-Usability/dp/078972...
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by ed 19y ago
No, you actually want the _other_ CPI (consumer price index). Historical TTM: http://inflationdata.com/inflation/Inflation_Rate/Historical...
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by ed 19y ago
Clearly those numbers are wrong -- otherwise a $5 loaf of bread today would've cost us about $.95 in 2002 (and about $.18 in 1997). I believe the historic average rate of inflation in the US is closer to 2.5%.
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by ed 19y ago
If anyone is considering building apps in this area, I'd strongly suggest checking out OpenCV. It's _far_ more powerful than Pixcavator, well supported, liberally licensed, and provides some really awesome high-level API's.
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by ed 19y ago
I think Mike's absolutely right. There's nothing inherently better about Mozilla's efforts simply because they're non-profit. You gotta hand it to Mike Chambers though; if there's one thing he's good at, it's spending all day on the interne
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by ed 19y ago
"An insane percentage of those under 25 have fb accts, and the whole next generation will be locked into fb as they follow their older peers. facebook has the internet on lock" Do you still use your friendster account?
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by ed 19y ago
No need to watch the video... the title says it all.
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by ed 19y ago
Yep, that's one of the broken features I mentioned below. The whole script is admittedly over-reliant on YC's markup when finding DOM elements. When I wrote it, the script was nothing more than a dirty hack. I'm beginning to think it might
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by ed 19y ago
That's not that bad. Considerably worse are the people who think dig is actually spelled with two g's.
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by ed 19y ago
Correction: I meant to say _CIC_ in Cambridge (as someone else already pointed out).
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by ed 19y ago
Sounds like you should consider selective style sheets for mobile devices. That way you can accommodate small displays and not at the expense of regular users. While the white background helps, I tried to pay a bit of attention to type size

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