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by jlees 17y ago
I think "b) If you would only search the top 1,000 newspapers and magazines on Bing, would you use it? How often?" is fairly crucial. I can't imagine my life would be any different if I couldn't search the WSJ on Google. But then I'm not th
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by jlees 17y ago
I'd expect stage one is 'get an introduction to a member'. Interesting to see it's not based out of Silicon Valley. Was at a panel on Saturday about angel investing and the scene is certainly a lot more geographically distributed than I'd r
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How Bing could kill Google(calacanis.com)
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by jlees 17y ago
I guess this was mostly low-intensity aerobic exercise so not so relevant, but the factor of muscle gain isn't to be overlooked either. If I trade 1kg fat for 1kg muscle, my scales are disappointing, but I'm ultimately healthier.
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by jlees 17y ago
There's also the case of short term versus long term energy spikes causing hunger and plenty of other psychological factors. On paper, yes, if you eat 100 calories of sugar a day versus ten apples, you'll lose more weight. But humans are no
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by jlees 17y ago
There's also the option of the way the UK does it. You pay insurance. It's even called that - National Insurance. There is no alternative. Not having a National Insurance number is like not having a SSN. If you are in specific situations
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by jlees 17y ago
The idea of collaboratively editing a session transcript and backchanneling in real-time actually hadn't occurred to me. Genius. I see two major flaws: provision of reliable Internet access at conferences is still Not Done Well; and the dra
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by jlees 17y ago
I like PayPhrase. I stumbled into it today and it suggested I was a genius. (On a more serious note I bet you I can 100% predict exactly what my close family members, and probably close friends too, would use for both phrase and PIN. Egads,
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by jlees 17y ago
I love how, this being Hacker News, everyone is tearing the security flaws and so on apart.. while not grokking the obvious... guys, he implemented a secret knock ! How cool is that!
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by jlees 17y ago
I don't know. I've had some great lecturers deliver stuff via PowerPoint, and because I wasn't concentrating on dotting the is and crossing the ts of the equations, I could make copious notes around them and truly absorb them. My experience
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by jlees 17y ago
I think it'd be difficult to guarantee that someone great at talking in-depth on a technical topic (most technical speakers) could do so for a range of audiences, which could make selling the speakers difficult. Yet, I do see the potential
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by jlees 17y ago
Thanks for the recommendation. Due to this sample chapter and recently getting a Kindle, I now own the book... this is too easy :( (Or not due to 'copyright issues' - WTF. Phew. The point about it being too easy still stands.)
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by jlees 17y ago
Yeah, it seems to me fairly obvious that if someone implied before a test that I would fail, and I had cause to trust their opinion, I'm not likely to do as well as I would have because of the nagging self doubt etc. No change on my innate
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by jlees 17y ago
As one of the above, I found this statistic oddly pleasing, since only one of the above factors was within my control.
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by jlees 17y ago
This is right in line with the three things early stage investors look for in a company: technology, market and team. While we're sharing, we interviewed and didn't get selected for S09 also. Leaving aside any flaws with the idea itself, I
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by jlees 17y ago
I think it seems a problem with the history of his persona too. Originally set up by a PR guy, it's vastly shifted - towards the 'real' him, yeah, but shifted nonetheless. If he'd been shirtless Burning-Man guy from the start, I don't think
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by jlees 17y ago
These are separate use cases for the same technology (and same product). Governmental listening. Media analysis. PR and spin doctor campaign monitoring. Local election candidate passive polling. Local agency (e.g. Scottish NHS) polling. The
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by jlees 17y ago
Taking it further, you could build a vocabulary of issues[...] extract them from Twitter, along with their geo-locations, and do a sentiment-analysis on them [...] OK, so hi. That's my startup. :)
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by jlees 17y ago
This is a nearly week-old post syndicated without credit from TechCrunch: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/01/avoiding-the-cargo-cult... He has a point, sort of. In Europe it's easy to get caught up in the form and function of what one s
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by jlees 17y ago
As well as a printed version, published by O'Reilly, for those of you who prefer dead trees to pixels (like me).
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by jlees 17y ago
The Python NLTK helps a fair bit with some of that, especially at an introductory level. Of course, I hand-wrote a lot of my NLP algorithms in Perl, back in the day. Now that's a good use of a time machine...
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by jlees 17y ago
If you get an interview, unbalance school to get the prototype ready - 'don't worry be crappy' - for the interview.
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by jlees 17y ago
Dashboard isn't a great name for this, but it's probably better than "Google 0wnz0r j00r s0ul", which is what I'd have called it. On a more serious note, this doesn't take into account the shedloads of information stored within a Google a
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by jlees 17y ago
Same problems on my macbook pro as well - but http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ fixes it, of course.
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Alternatively pay select students at the university to be your ambassador for you (minimum wage kind of dealie) and reward the most prolific.
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by jlees 17y ago
The founder's answered, but I can't really imagine someone setting up a site like this who didn't have kids. It screams of 'spotted a niche/problem'.
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by jlees 17y ago
An academic at my university has a ball in his office he goes to sit on when he has something to think about. I think I'd prefer this to sitting on the ball at a computer - I just can't imagine taking myself seriously if I did that.
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by jlees 17y ago
Surely a company like Google, filled with a ton of smart people who deal with the web every day and have a little bit of free rein to go crazy with it, will have some idea of what to do when - or if - the Semantic Web ever takes off. Sure
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by jlees 17y ago
Making a nice place to work can be a great motivation to start a company if you've just finished working somewhere shitty. The new goal, helping customers be awesome, is directly related to maximising customer success - no?
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by jlees 17y ago
What's interesting is how quickly you run up against scam-walls (as someone who doesn't like paying for virtual currency outright, anyway). I can easily see how users fall for it, even the smart ones who try to pick scams that don't require

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