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by eggbrain 16y ago
Can anyone explain why there would be a limit to contacts? My best guess was to prevent spam: 10,000 contacts is probably in the top 1% of users, but might be much more heavily seen in bots. Side note: Gmail offers a "Most Contacted" featur
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by eggbrain 16y ago
>scrolling now works as it does on iOS devices--drag up on the trackpad to scroll down, drag down to scroll up--complete with "rubber-band" effects at the end of scrollable areas. This doesn't make sense to me from a design sense. With
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by eggbrain 16y ago
Next time you update your add-on, perhaps make it redirect once to your homepage, where you invite the user to make a donation for continued support? You might not get many donations, but I know that adding ads to a Firefox plugin would mak
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by eggbrain 16y ago
Wasn't there just a note a week ago about how they weren't going to attack the site, as they had better things to do?
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by eggbrain 16y ago
Resume is something I've wanted from an operating system for a long time. Nothing is more frustrating than leaving your computer for an hour, only to come back and realize updates demanded that they restart your computer and you need to rel
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by eggbrain 16y ago
This would only work for a distinct set of documents/websites, correct? If an article completely duplicated the content of another article, wouldn't this algorithm treat the same almost identically, if it does not use "links" of some kind?
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by eggbrain 16y ago
Whoops! One sentence. Correcting.
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by eggbrain 16y ago
What do you want, a critique? Input? because it's hard to do anything with simply a one sentence description and a url.
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by eggbrain 16y ago
Well, it's probably a mix of feeling confident in it's ability to answer the Final Jeopardy question (based on previous performances), along with wanting to maximize its score as much as possible, especially considering it has to count tha
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by eggbrain 16y ago
Perhaps I shouldn't be reading HN at work, but that was way more NSFW than I thought it would be.
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by eggbrain 16y ago
Isn't going to be pretty infeasible to take down Amazon? I guess they did take down PayPal, Mastercard, and Visa, but I always assumed people thought that it was pretty hard to saturate Amazon.
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by eggbrain 16y ago
Like I said in the parent, "[I am not] trying to imply that anything is justifiable if you need to catch up to the competition" It is also worth noting that while not paying your rent/employees has an immediate harm, it is not so quite clea
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by eggbrain 16y ago
Like I said in my last sentence, there is a difference between not paying suppliers and lying to customers, and using warez in a start-up. It's like saying that since I think downloading music is ok (I don't), I must also think killing peop
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by eggbrain 16y ago
I actually would not be totally against this (although of course having a paid user would be better). Would you rather have someone use/pirate your product and later possibly buy it (when they can't live without it/have more money/etc), or
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by eggbrain 16y ago
I'm going to go against the grain here because I'd like a discussion, although I'll fully admit I'm not nearly as experienced in start-ups as many of you are. I also know this post and the HN post refers to a fairly large startup doing this
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by eggbrain 16y ago
Alright, I'll be the idiot that asks for those that are quiet: could someone do a step by step guide as to how everything was done? Even reading the comments didn't get me any farther than changing the user agent (and having the form show u
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by eggbrain 16y ago
From my perspective (and it is a very, very small perspective, I'll probably get torn apart), it's very hard to find a co-founder, especially a technical co-founder, without knowing them in person. You need a special set of circumstances fo
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by eggbrain 16y ago
This is a completely wrong analogy. In the original post, I said he should have used his followup to focus on what HE did right/wrong. Why in your comment has it suddenly changed to me improving what YOU did right/wrong? This seems like a s
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by eggbrain 16y ago
I am not denying his success, in fact, I think it was an interesting spin mixed with some good timing that he made successful. That being said, while some of the comments in the original thread were in poor taste, his defense came off sound
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by eggbrain 16y ago
One of the argument he makes is that everyone on the internet is an amateur psychologist, and that anonymity was the only prerequisite for a psych degree. He then used this to assume that people who called him self-centered had no basis for
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by eggbrain 16y ago
Independence Day is not that ridiculous of a hacking scene, as apparently there was a deleted scene that explained that all of our computing technology came from the alien spaceship that crash-landed. It still makes it incredibly unlikely
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by eggbrain 16y ago
He still sounds self-centered, and I do have a psych degree. He took credit for everything that worked ("Look, I got a job!" "Look, my bold daring attempt at being clever worked!") , then dismissed any naysayers almost entirely out of hand
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by eggbrain 16y ago
I thought the same thing when I first upgraded my 3G. "Hmm, performance seems similar to 3.1.3, wonder what people were talking about". Then apps started crashing on a daily basis: -Camera sometimes would take a LONG time to boot up -Phone
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by eggbrain 16y ago
What about my other question, regarding how many consultants you have, and how much work they do? If you go to a bank and ask for a business loan, they are going to want to see that you have sustainable positive cash flow. If they see thing
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by eggbrain 16y ago
IANAL, but I don't think you can have stock as an LLC, You'd need to be a C or S corp. As for wanting to make it something bigger than a "mom and pop shop", that's fine, and you not going out of business last year is great, but you WILL go
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by eggbrain 16y ago
I'll be honest, I am very concerned with this posting. You don't want a loan, and you don't want stock, you want some benevolent businessman to... Give you the money? Those normally don't exist, you know. As for your business, how many con
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by eggbrain 16y ago
I need some clarification on #1: Could you provide easy examples where you would use a pair-wise approach, and a list-wise approach? Like, let's say I wanted to build a recommendation system for college football pick-ems (Ie, will Iowa beat
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by eggbrain 16y ago
Wow, this is exactly what I have been searching for for months! I've got a pretty basic grasp on machine learning and collaborative filtering, so I understand some things, but I'm very confused on others, such as: 1)List-wise vs Pair-wise a
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by eggbrain 16y ago
This article touched somewhat on the biggest problems I have with (bad) entrepreneurs these days: 1)Thinking their idea is god 2)Thinking they are gods The first point was touched upon with the quote "My idea is so good I need you to sign a