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by icky 19y ago
Being a thoughtful, rational type, I'll suspend judgment until I've read the whitepaper. Then I'll vote on the article based on whether the conclusion supports my preexisting biases... ;-)
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by icky 19y ago
def icky(should_be_hacking=True): try: while should_be_hacking: yc.news.read() yc.news.post(inane=True) except IOError: grumble() hack()
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by icky 19y ago
> So little imagination is on display nowadays, you could create an algorithm that spews out comparable domain names with the click of a button. pwgen! :-D
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by icky 19y ago
Slice off the ?parameters from the article URL. :)
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by icky 19y ago
Sir, your argument by vivid imagery has succeeded!
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by icky 19y ago
Let's tax the stupid to pay for the time wasted in reading their proposals....
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by icky 19y ago
> and no drive for improvement or automation How necessary is automation in a country with a billion people?
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by icky 19y ago
Fiction: - The Time Machine (still holds up very well, and seems strangely eerie and prescient in places)... (H. G. Wells) - Dune (Frank Herbert) - The Hobbit (and LotR) (Tolkien) - Neuromancer (William Gibson) - Idoru, All Tomorrow's Parti
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by icky 19y ago
University Avenue is much longer than the downtown stretch. From 101 to the actual shopping area is a gorgeous drive through lushly tree-lined streets, and would certainly be a hike!
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by icky 19y ago
> If you are considering further education, seeing the Berkeley and Stanford campuses might be interesting. Drive down University Ave in Palo Alto. Absolutely gorgeous, in a way that you normally don't see on this coast.
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by icky 19y ago
All the scaling you need to know at the very beginning: Shared state is, at best, a necessary evil, and you should always be aware of how much there is, where it's going, and what it's for.
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by icky 19y ago
Hopefully they'll use a well-known bot name that can be easily kickbanned...
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by icky 19y ago
I love the first picture, with the glittering crystal tower behind razor-wire fence, under ominous sky... Damn, now where'd I put those mirrorshades...
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by icky 19y ago
We use twitter for actual work. :-) A cron script monitors site availability. If the site is down, it uses twitter to IM or SMS us. :-)
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by icky 19y ago
> By keeping mum, you also lose the scare effect, though OTOH that might keep the "I'll just create a bunch of accounts" folks down. Exactly: if someone is making consistently bad flaggings on one account, you don't want to tip them of
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by icky 19y ago
So make the subdomain cn.octopart.com, and tell them to suck it! ;-)
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by icky 19y ago
I am reminded of the quote (variously attributed), "Ideas are like assholes. Everybody's got one; no one wants to see YOURS..."
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by icky 19y ago
Maybe a better approach would be to silently gather statistics and find out the degree of correlation between any given user's "inappropriate" rating and the actual (as determined by you) inappropriateness of any given item. Then, if someon
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by icky 19y ago
YUI CSS. I added it into one of my side-project web apps last night (counting the time to actually read the docs). Dead simple, and doesn't require using any of the YUI javascript if you don't want to.
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by icky 19y ago
> You might be able to buy it back! Or just report to ebay and the police that it was stolen, and get it back.
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by icky 19y ago
A good laptop case + sleep mode helps. (I have working sleep mode even in Linux...) Or you can just have a cofounder there to watch your stuff ;-) (See, THIS is why startups need cofounders... :)
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by icky 19y ago
I don't have an answer for you, but I have some variables you might consider: 1) how fast are you growing? 2) how fat is your profit margin? 3) what is the ratio of usage to capacity? peak usage? sustained usage? 4) how quickly and automate
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by icky 19y ago
The security hole I was thinking of is this: it would give an incentive for digg-spammers to set up accounts on news.yc!
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by icky 19y ago
Find the security hole in your plan. :)
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by icky 19y ago
:)
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by icky 19y ago
Quality code is the kind that someone else maintaining it doesn't feel the urge to rewrite...
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by icky 19y ago
1. Get users (done) 2. Get investment money (done) 3. Lure developers on to their platform as sharecroppers (done) 4. Get more investment money (done) 5. Starve existing (and possible) social networks of users through network effects and pl
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by icky 19y ago
The Princess Bride. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093779/ Go watch it right now.
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by icky 19y ago
I'm not alarmed. Are you alarmed? ;-)
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by icky 19y ago
> Java and .NET are both OO functional languages You keep saying that word... I do not think it means what you think it means.

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