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by glimcat 15y ago
Free is fine, expensive is fine. Cheap is not.
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by glimcat 15y ago
Ah - you're interested in releasing press releases, not generating them. I would start contacting relevant blogs / bloggers directly. If you can get it picked up in a few major channels, it will echo. Posting to HN can also be a good method
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by glimcat 15y ago
It's much the same as writing anything, really. Figure out your core message. List supporting points that you want to make. Draft and revise. Options at that point include "post it" and "hire a professional copyeditor to take over from your
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by glimcat 15y ago
Layout peeve, the vertical fit on your home page is not good on a 1200px high monitor when the browser is spanning the available area. One possible fix - the section with the apply button could afford to scale down a bit and "learn build so
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by glimcat 15y ago
Great anecdote; learning and education are often at odds.
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by glimcat 15y ago
"What a shame you're not that good a teacher." Wow, that student was kind of a dick.
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by glimcat 15y ago
One of the ideas in the theory of government is that it exists to have a monopoly on violence and so forth. It's murder if you do it once, it's not if the state does it a few hundred thousand times. To an extent, police abusing power and in
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by glimcat 15y ago
And the past smells like roses? There is some messed up stuff going on and the potential for more, but that's something to fix and not an excuse for fatalism. Protecting individual freedom and human rights is an ongoing process.
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by glimcat 15y ago
"Programming is the only art form that allows you to create interactive art" Nonsense.
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by glimcat 15y ago
Recognizing levels of interaction is one step. But human relationships are not so one-dimensional. Guy I work with, person from Bible group, AA sponsor, girl I snogged once, sister I send cards to once a year but avoid otherwise because we
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by glimcat 15y ago
I'd just use Weka to train a classifier based on a batch of manually-sorted entries. Check Naive Bayes and K-means to start. The result will be more specific to your content and you'll be more able to refine it later to improve and optimize
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by glimcat 15y ago
I try to avoid working for paranoid gits.
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by glimcat 15y ago
I hear they're loosing it on a few new platforms soon.
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by glimcat 15y ago
Mobile development has been going on a fairly straight course for a while now. Curves are coming. I'm not sure it's possible to make projections that far out at this point since it will depend heavily on how well various groups adapt.
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by glimcat 15y ago
There's always this study, although it's one of those "early results, many possible confounding factors, few samples" cases where the results should be taken with a big pile of salt. http://hbr.org/2011/06/defend-your-research-what-makes-a
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by glimcat 15y ago
Nerds are a lot like religious fundamentalists in this regard. They think they have privileged knowledge and think exposing others to it is a public service. Stereotypes about asocial behavior just feed into this. The fact that nerds are of
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by glimcat 15y ago
Also, for the technical guy, if you're going to be building a prototype by yourself for no present financial consideration - you can do that already on the weekend, and possibly are. "I have an idea, build it for me" almost never works. The
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by glimcat 15y ago
People are used to credit ratings issued by the 'big three,' but the financial crisis has clearly proved them wrong," Guan said. "They can no longer shoulder the responsibility of rating the world." "That's the role we are striving to pl
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by glimcat 15y ago
"Luckily, there’s a way around it!" Which they never adequately explain. Clicking through, the site just offers to "spread viral contents" (sic).
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by glimcat 15y ago
Eventually, you just have to open the box and see whether the cat is dead.
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by glimcat 15y ago
If it's worth my time, no. If it's spam, yes.
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by glimcat 15y ago
There's not really any way to tell from here.
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by glimcat 15y ago
You can rent a DVD. You can rent a DVD player and cables. You can't rent a DVD, a DVD player, and a TCP/IP connection. It seems irrational to me that the length of the cables involved determines the legality of the thing.
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by glimcat 15y ago
He who has the lobbyists gets the reform?
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by glimcat 15y ago
Well that's one way to ensure a burgeoning trade in hacked copies of your software on Bittorrent.
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by glimcat 15y ago
Content discovery is something with loads of room for improvement. You just need to convince me that you've improved it. A major unanswered question is whether it will help at all with discovering people who are not also users of your servi
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by glimcat 15y ago
I checked it with and without JS. All you get is a static image about finding people who like vampire movies. It would appear to be a Facebook for current Facebook users who like vampire movies.
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by glimcat 15y ago
If you have an idea you're interested in working on for several years of your life, it makes sense to start researching it and proofing the concept ASAP.
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by glimcat 15y ago
Of all parties involved, Twitter is best-equipped to try and detect that behavior.
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by glimcat 15y ago
Yeah. It's often a poor value proposition and can cause a lot of negative fallout if you aren't prepared for and planning to exploit the numbers it generates (see also: Groupon). It would be very interesting to see what big-ticket participa

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