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871.
by fizx 16y ago
Perhaps: The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
872.
by fizx 16y ago
Twitter will likely crawl the final targets of the urls, so that when bit.ly goes out of business, the t.co urls pointing to bit.ly can get redirected to the canonical link. So I don't think it's quite as bad as you're thinking.
873.
by fizx 16y ago
If you can pick startups that well, I suggest a career in venture capital as an alternative to (presumably) engineering. :)
874.
by fizx 16y ago
I'd only recommend doing that once, however. After that you're better off being a founder if you like the risk, or a later employee if you don't. Being a very early employee means you get paid in knowledge and seniority, instead of equity
875.
by fizx 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlons_razor Maybe it hit an automated spam filter. Maybe the algorithm isn't time-sensitive enough. Maybe hashtags are downweighted. Also, I just looked, and "Israeli" is in the trending topics. Much ado a
876.
by fizx 16y ago
I like /pics. Different strokes for different folks.
877.
by fizx 16y ago
For the startup I founded, I prefer Tech Support Lead. It's more reflective of the day-to day. :)
878.
by fizx 16y ago
The answer is highly dependent on your location.
879.
by fizx 16y ago
Yet another time I wish HN had a Batman spotlight we could shine into the sky to get grellas to analyze something. ;)
880.
by fizx 16y ago
I recommend not telling.
881.
by fizx 16y ago
Google spreadsheet: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Ak_L_zLqm09sdGQ0bXBC...
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by fizx 16y ago
Webvia sounds like a member of the pseudo-latin naming scheme still favored by pharmaceutical companies.
883.
by fizx 16y ago
True. The thing I wonder about is whether the development of sentience and culture is swinging evolution's pendulum away from the resource needs of the young, and toward valuing the experience and knowledge of the elders.
884.
by fizx 16y ago
Here's a more detailed simulation that I just wrote in javascript: - I assume an error margin in our ability to evaluate employees. - I assume an applicant pool that isn't necessarily centered on z=0. - I evaluate z-scores, not percentile.
885.
by fizx 16y ago
Yes to both :)
886.
by fizx 16y ago
Here's a start. It's a simple ruby app that runs on heroku and proxies your twitter account, dropping uninteresting things. Extremely raw code. http://github.com/fizx/sometweets http://sometweets.heroku.com/
887.
by fizx 16y ago
What's an "operation" in this context? Reading a boolean value? Incrementing a counter? Loading a 100kb document?
888.
by fizx 16y ago
Quit drinking soda.
889.
by fizx 16y ago
The basic case is that you have some friend overlap to reduce the search space. I have thought about a passphrase/secret handshake to get a confirmed connection.
890.
by fizx 16y ago
Clearly this is poised to then take over from HTTP as the backbone of the internet, but by then I'll have probably started an electric car company or two and invented cold fusion.
891.
by fizx 16y ago
The funny thing about this service is that users might only need a few immediate friends to join. It's not designed to keep track of your 300 acquaintances like facebook.
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Ask HN: Should I build this?
7 points by fizx 16y ago|9 comments
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by fizx 17y ago
For posterity, after re-benchmarking, 1200-1300 req/s.
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by fizx 17y ago
> GM failed because they designed shoddy cars. The Unions had nothing to do with that If the overhead of dealing with unions adds some amount to your marginal costs, and you have to sell your vehicle for a competitive price, then you ha
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by fizx 17y ago
Good to know, thanks! Edit: I feel like I tried that, and a couple other variations, and this was the fastest. But it's worth revisiting, and I'll definitely try it again.
896.
by fizx 17y ago
I benchmarked this a few weeks ago at around ~300req/s on my recent macbook, which was a little disappointing. For kicks, here's my CoffeeScript/Node.js code I used. I did the benchmark with ab entirely on localhost. Normally that's not i
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by fizx 17y ago
It's a good point, but we're all unique, so we all might be part of the "easily categorizable subset of the Long Tail". Take the most average guy you know, and he still has unique qualities, and lives in a targetable location. Add any hobb
898.
by fizx 17y ago
You can target facebook ads amazingly well. I can reach only under-30 single programmers in San Francisco. I have friends who've built businesses targeting exactly who they wanted to reach, in a way that would have been prohibitively expen
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by fizx 17y ago
Wow, that's ugly.
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by fizx 17y ago
I think i want a 1200x300 display above the keys. Split into three tabs, and i could almost edit code and open a terminal to fix a server or two.

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