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by falicon 11y ago
This is neat. (but when using it, it kinda feels like I could get as good or better results with just Math.random & a large collection of words each assigned a random value)
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The Deployment Age(reactionwheel.net)
3 points by falicon 11y ago|0 comments
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by falicon 11y ago
Language comparisons are equiv. to religion comparisons...you aren't going to find a universal answer or truth, it's an individual/faith sort of thing. That being said - all the serious math/data people I know love bot
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by falicon 11y ago
A couple of people I trust with inside knowledge of the deal (sorry can't provide specifics, been awhile and I didn't realize that the selling price was not public knowledge when I posted this).
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by falicon 11y ago
Cool - but do you feel like you are paying for the content or are you paying for the experience/environment that you listen to the podcast within? My point was just that when people do pay, in their mind I think they are paying for the
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by falicon 11y ago
He also made close to a million on the sale of instapaperfeed to Betaworks...so yeah, he's def. not in the same boat as many independent devs...
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by falicon 11y ago
Gotta respect Marco for all the success he's had with Tumblr, InstaPaper, (briefly) Peace, and of course Overcast so far...but I kinda feel like he is worried about the wrong thing/people here. Who cares if other devs. or companie
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by falicon 12y ago
I just released an update to the UI...would love to know if it's more pleasing for you. Thanks!
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by falicon 12y ago
Sorry ;-)
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by falicon 12y ago
Thanks - very valid points...but the idea of the service is to make sure I can quickly/easily know about the things people are recently talking about (regardless of quality). The quality journalism that alerts us to the big breakth
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by falicon 12y ago
To move through archives just add the date to the overall url...example for Aug 21st -> http://knowabout.it/08-21-2014
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by falicon 12y ago
Good point - my orig. motivation was just to get a quick list of stuff I'm too busy to catch (because I'm off coding during the day)...so I cared more about things making the list than I did about the actual position on the list
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by falicon 12y ago
Good point - I'll work on getting better context into each link. Thanks!
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by falicon 12y ago
love it - will def. work on better grouping. Thanks!
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by falicon 12y ago
awesome ideas - will work on implementing. Thanks!
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by falicon 12y ago
That is a great suggestion...I think I can probably do at least some basic parsing to determine how many different people are commenting (vs. total comment count)...and I can probably do some basic keyword filtering counts too (checking f
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by falicon 12y ago
Great suggestion...I'll think about the best way to implement this (without driving up the costs/processing too much). Thanks!
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by falicon 12y ago
At the moment the site mostly just monitors HN and reddit for new (tech related) posts that are getting a lot of comments in the past 24 hours...but if people find it useful, I may expand to monitor more sources (and offer a daily email dig
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Show HN: Tech stories with lots of conversation in past 24 hours(knowabout.it)
51 points by falicon 12y ago|28 comments
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Reverse engineering design(falicon.com)
1 points by falicon 13y ago|0 comments
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by falicon 13y ago
...and confidence gained...confidence that you have what it takes to track down and acquire the knowledge you seek. Confidence, cultural exposure, and life experience are probably the most important 'soft skills' hopefully every
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by falicon 13y ago
I believe the intent of college is simply to help you figure out 'how you learn' and expose you to more options and more of the world than your "high school life" did. No college is going to give you a magic bullet of kn
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by falicon 13y ago
I think it depends on your intent behind the API. Are you trying to create something that makes the developer/user/world easier and better or are you trying to keep your system perfect, clean, and done the right way? If it's
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by falicon 13y ago
It's the combination of idea + you that creates the value for a given idea...and that value is always relative to how valuable the 'you' in that equation really is (and keep in mind that value is always relative)
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by falicon 13y ago
I agree that the HTTP methods, when used properly, express the action...the problem is A. not everyone actually follows that properly and B. the HTTP method isn't always immediately obvious to people working with the service (i.e. newb
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by falicon 13y ago
Most people prefer what they already know (learning any new system or process is always frustrating because you are attempting to map concept rather than learn concepts - square peg, round hole). I prefer (and use) git myself, but it too
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by falicon 13y ago
Do you have any pre-existing experience or connections into the estates agent business? If possible, I would start there and with them. If you don't have any pre-existing experience or connections into that market, it's still pos
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by falicon 13y ago
In the PDF he points out it says "Resource names should be nouns—avoid verbs as resource names. It makes things more clear. Use the HTTP methods to specify the verb portion of the request." However the same PDF, in the very same s
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Here's what I know about mobile so far(falicon.com)
1 points by falicon 13y ago|0 comments
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by falicon 13y ago
I do a rolling daily list of the ones that have the most active comments at http://knowabout.it in case anyone is interested (it's how this thread caught my attention)

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