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by flashman 11y ago
My top five contenders for the author were: @davemcclure - Dave McClure @pt - Parker Thompson @tylerschultz - Tyler Schultz @supernate - Nate Clark @dsboulder I could never narrow it down to one of them. I had a simple theory: in the beginn
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by flashman 11y ago
Before Imgur, it was hit-and-miss as to whether an image would load, either because the Imageshack etc would take it down for bandwidth reasons, or the host would get crushed under traffic load. Think about how many major subreddits exist b
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by flashman 11y ago
Imgur seems to selectively redirect direct links (i.imgur.com/image.jpg) to the full site (imgur.com/image/) based on the referrer. I think they originally only did this for direct images posted on Facebook etc (to avoid piss
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by flashman 11y ago
> It bans nudity, porn, and hate speech Ha! Imgur is awash with pornography. They could automatically remove a large amount of nudity and porn by looking at the contents of /r/nsfw. As a second gate, they could use Microsoft
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by flashman 11y ago
Loading screen minigames were under a Namco patent until last year: http://gamasutra.com/blogs/DavidHoppe/20150109/233806/2015_T...
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Why polling results should be taken with a grain of salt(rocknpoll.graphics)
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by flashman 11y ago
If artificial intelligence is the cake, true AI is the ability to argue about whether cake is a useful analogy.
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by flashman 11y ago
> whatever Russia or China does, especially militarily, is great and shows good leadership. I submit the 'China' category page as a counter-argument: http://www.zerohedge.com/taxonomy/term/139 If you
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by flashman 11y ago
Uber's version of achieving loyalty/lock-in is literally to run the competition into the ground and make sure their customers have no other options. That's a long way from achieving it by offering the best service, and I don&
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by flashman 11y ago
Like digital archaeologists, is more what I'm imagining. Not interpreting the primary sources, discovering them.
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by flashman 11y ago
I have this idea in my head that one of the niche communities in fifty years will be people who trawl through discarded mass storage devices: cobbling together hardware fixes, undeleting files, and scanning them to see whether they contain
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by flashman 11y ago
Well, if nothing else, the coming VR cycle is going to be more psychedelic than the last.
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by flashman 11y ago
I use "HN Special"[1] with the visual theme turned off (it irritates me). It also offers infinite scrolling, although it makes accessing the search box a little tedious. [1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/
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by flashman 11y ago
I'm not certain that any crackdowns that drive up the price of labor, and cost votes from the immigrant community, will get off the ground. Then again, Donald Trump could get elected.
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by flashman 11y ago
Cobalt-60. Here is some more information on the Kaktus gamma-ray altimeter in Soyuz landers: http://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/spaceflight/reentry-desce...
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by flashman 11y ago
This dad used remote power monitoring to bust his daughter throwing a party at home while she was supposed to be staying with family: http://www.rowetel.com/blog/?p=2381
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by flashman 11y ago
Have you thought about collecting basic metrics, such as characters, words and time limit? At a win/fail point, grab those numbers along with the win/fail outcome, then plot them and see if anything interesting pops out.
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by flashman 11y ago
My current company consists primarily of people who got the shits with our previous, much larger organisation. The problem is any new hires will be years behind on organisational culture (clients, history, in-jokes, references, shared adv
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by flashman 11y ago
One of my favourite stories about mysterious signals also involves the Parkes radio telescope: some of the signals detected during this 'fast radio burst' search came from people opening a microwave's door without first waiti
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by flashman 11y ago
You're painting with a broad brush and your characterisation is greatly at odds with many of the functional non-profit organisations I know here in Australia: * the St Vincent de Paul Society * the National Heart Foundation * Cancer Co
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by flashman 11y ago
It's not that weird. I know what content is on my site, but fuzzy matching the vast variety of input strings is non-trivial to do well. (Emphasis on 'to do well' because there are a lot of ways to get it working but poorly.)
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by flashman 11y ago
Sounds like your boss would still make a good reference for future employees to call. "Oh, throw-away-goog? Yeah he consulted with us for a short while. It's a shame he's looking to go full time, we're sorry to lose his
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by flashman 11y ago
Call me cynical but a decentralized alternative to Twitter (or the domain name system for that matter) won't work unless: a) there's a mechanism for brands to get their associated nickname, and b) spammers can't create millio
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by flashman 11y ago
Reddit's not going to want the bother of an image host, with the associated DMCA, abuse and community issues. Its philosophy seems to be "let other people do as much of the work as possible," which makes sense, and I don&#x27
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by flashman 11y ago
Yeah, this has been the workaround for a while. But when you see users doing stuff like this, it's a pretty strong signal that you need to think about supporting their intention with a dedicated feature.
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by flashman 11y ago
> Archival paper is interesting but largely unproven tech. Archival paper is tested by artificially aging it (e.g. exposure to heat and moisture to simulated passage of time.) Some long-term tests are underway to determine whether accele
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by flashman 11y ago
If you are going to put surveillance on potential terrorists, you should also be putting surveillance on people not suspected of being terrorists, so you can judge the rate at which your surveillance personnel falsely accuse people being te
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by flashman 11y ago
In Rocket League it's common to emote "What a save!" after scoring a goal past the defenders, or if the keeper was particularly inept.
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by flashman 11y ago
Our typical client is a retail franchise which has grown its locations on the back of the point-of-sale and recordkeeping system it was using in its first two or three stores. That system hasn't scaled, they're not big enough for
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by flashman 11y ago
Same thing that happens to most side projects with no love, money or support

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