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by edw519 15y ago
The biggest differences: 1. Grouping into chapters. Ranking by score loses context. 2. Sorting and grouping comments together to give it some kind of flow. 3. Eliminating comments I wish I hadn't made. 4. Substituting cuss words. 5. Genera
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by edw519 15y ago
This is excellent! I had envisioned doing something like this but never got around to it. Thank you! A few ideas for enhancements: - the ability to sort comments by a user defined formula using karma points, number of comments in thread,
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If you think breaches are huge now, just wait another year(msnbc.msn.com)
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Archive of Palin emails is rolling out now (1,732 pages now on line)(palinemail.msnbc.msn.com)
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Apple 'spaceship' site is Steve Wozniak's former HP stomping grounds(latimesblogs.latimes.com)
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Why does Europe suck at technological innovation?(slate.com)
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by edw519 15y ago
My typical day working for a Big 5 firm: 7:00 - drive to client in Redlands 8:00 - arrive in Redlands 8:42 - client arrives for 8:00 meeting 8:51 - client leaves for emergency 8:52 - review project with programmer - still 1
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by edw519 15y ago
mattman, I have been through something very similar. I'm a long time developer who has made great sacrifices to put my own plans on the back burner and move back to my hometown to care for my mother with Alzheimer's. It is the most import
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by edw519 15y ago
Nice piece. The title is an instance of the more general case, "Why nobody can convince anybody to invest in anything ." Good executives are primarily concerned about the performance of their organization (whatever that means). Bad ex
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Laptops in class: How distracting are they?(news.yahoo.com)
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by edw519 15y ago
Most code sucks because we have the fluency equivalent of 3 year olds trying to write a novel. Let's get a little more specific... Most code sucks because the programmer: - didn't name his variables what the really were - didn't und
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13 year old invents doorbell that tricks burglars into thinking you're home(dailymail.co.uk)
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The Transcontinental Travesty(slate.com)
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Breakfast With Brian Greene, Renowned String Theorist(post-gazette.com)
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by edw519 15y ago
Was this a failure of process or people? Neither. It was a failure of management... Anyone who conducts a post-mortem with their people would be much better off simply looking in the mirror. Where were the Vice President of Development and
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The Shortest Possible Baseball Road Trip(harvardsportsanalysis.wordpress.com)
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6 reasons not to buy Groupon stock(msnbc.msn.com)
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by edw519 15y ago
Talk to us again in 5 years when you've got some experience under your belt and you find out how woefully unprepared school has left you... Then talk to us in 10 when you figure out that you could have learned all that same knowledge for
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Jack Dorsey: The man with two brains(tech.fortune.cnn.com)
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What kind of logo can you get for $200?(slate.com)
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Eric Schmidt: I screwed up on Facebook(sfgate.com)
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Rover Spirit mission all but over(hosted.ap.org)
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LinkedIn Is Worth $9 Billion? The New Tech Bubble Has Arrived.(slate.com)
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by edw519 15y ago
Thank you hieronymusN. Much prettier than mine. One problem though - you lost most of the paragraph formatting and spacing; you can see the difference on almost every entry if you look closely enough. Fix that and I'll just put your versi
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What the Internet is hiding from you(cnn.com)
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by edw519 15y ago
Cool. Thanks, whimsy. (edw519, alumnus of Theta Chi, Beta Chi Chapter)
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by edw519 15y ago
No problem. I'm kinda curious what it would look like, too. Thanks for the interest and the well wishes, chanux.
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by edw519 15y ago
...it would be nice if titles linked to their comments... I purposely omitted references to the original Hacker News threads because I wanted the book to stand on its own. Hope this helps: http://edweissman.com/index-from-the-best-of-edw
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"The Best of edw519" is now free. Reverse Happy Birthday(edweissman.com)
467 points by edw519 15y ago|62 comments
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10 years later, Apple's 'crazy' retail gamble is a hit(cnn.com)
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