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by jlees 17y ago
We had the same problem on a WoW site that would frequently end up with gold-selling ads popping up no matter how hard we tried to firefight with blacklisting. We got readers to submit every bad ad they could see, and even pulled the ads at
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by jlees 17y ago
The interesting thing about the boring-looking, old-fashioned, durable Dutch model of bike is it's becoming a luxury brand abroad. I've certainly seen it as having a certain cachet in the UK and US.
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by jlees 17y ago
That video is a little frightening. However I wonder how Scott introduced himself. "I'm from Google, do you know what a browser is?" may be a slightly leading question if the audience is already unsure. We often live in happy little techie
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by jlees 17y ago
It's just behavioural reinforcement. Upvote the positive but on the few occasions someone acts out of line with the spirit of the community, there's got to be a way to deal with them. Imagine a troll running rampant on HN with no downvoting
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by jlees 17y ago
Time spent posting the letter? Or is that wrapped in..
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by jlees 17y ago
[Did you] make a mistake? is kind of valid, no? Casual, but acceptable.
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by jlees 17y ago
I recently bought a power adapter kit for my Mac's charger block, which works as a transformer as well, and it's made my life much easier travelling in the EU and US. (Except that I can't plug the block directly into the wall in some cases
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by jlees 17y ago
Interesting idea, Silicon Valley is probably the only place where the ratio of business guys to coders might be slightly better than 90:10. Are you going to do the TechMeetup style 2-sentence intro round the room? Organising hack-together s
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by jlees 17y ago
I guess that's the thing, if Paul was winging it but has a great deal of experience doing the same thing, that's totally different from Joe Random turning up at a (paid-for) conference without slides or script and saying 'Er, well, I didn
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by jlees 17y ago
Both Scoble's post and this rebuttal really boil down to one thing: different people have different information consumption needs. What suits a power blogger might not suit a social-consumption junkie. Me? I used to be a blogger, reading RS
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by jlees 17y ago
There's also something about the type of risk taken here. Taking art over football isn't exactly a major risk. It's a choice, and perhaps one that went against the prevailing wind, but it seems to me more like this guy is advocating 'do wha
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by jlees 17y ago
This seems pretty useful from a VC-esque point of view. At an earlier stage (say, pitching your startup in 3-5 minutes at some event or other) the biggest thing I see missing is some kind of story beyond the product itself. Why are these gu
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by jlees 17y ago
I'm glad that Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory is not alone in the world. (Edit; Also, if you're going to over-explain the joke, at least over-explain the alt text too!)
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by jlees 17y ago
Show you read the blogs. Show you actually read the blogs. (Comment on them, get to know the different authors, etc.) Identify a writer (someone recently said to pick a junior writer - this is probably a good tip!) and contact them directly
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by jlees 17y ago
Something this article doesn't mention, but was crucial (IMO) to the success of the Weblogs, Inc virtual team I worked in for a long time, was real-world meetups. (I believe Jason Fried alluded to this as well at Startup School.) Campfire,
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by jlees 17y ago
I think your final paragraph is entirely gender neutral and could apply to pretty much any applicant. The point of alums and YC both reading it has already been made, as well. My point, though: sure, running a company is more about the co
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by jlees 17y ago
I can't really think of a better way to follow breaking opinions than real-time search. Sure, if you wait a while you can get news indexing from Google, but it's the bias that you want. Especially if, say, you're at a conference/event and w
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by jlees 17y ago
At my middle school I would help the teacher out by working with the slower students on their spelling or maths. I could vaguely imagine this working on more complicated topics - teaching stuff is a great way to cement your knowledge - but
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by jlees 17y ago
Our internal data is kinda one of the things we curate and I can't really give that away, but I do have access to an academic corpus that might be redistributable. I'll have a look. :)
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by jlees 17y ago
Indeed. If the Ltd company is valid, which it should be, it will have a Certificate of Incorporation and a UK business address - even if said is only a virtual address. Visit England, pop into your bank and set up a business account. Though
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by jlees 17y ago
This isn't the first time I've read the argument for a computer being superior to a woman because of its exactitude and unforgiving nature, yet total acceptance of the correct. It is, however, one of the more eloquent (and concise!) version
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by jlees 17y ago
Oh wow, thank you for pointing out the link. I used to use Arachnophilia and thought CareWare was a fantastic concept.
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by jlees 17y ago
Calling my CS department 'trapped in the 1980s' is an insult to the 1980s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCPL - Appeared in: 1966 Having said that, I enjoyed studying theoretical CS at a hardcore-theoretical institution far , far more t
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by jlees 17y ago
I started sketching out a system very similar to this a while ago - I wouldn't be surprised if plenty of Twitter-using hackers have had the same thought, TBH. The problem is, as you've correctly identified, time! As well as keyword filterin
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by jlees 17y ago
A review-relevance filter was part of the engine I built for http://festbuzz.com - I can't really give you code but if I can be of help, hit me up.
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by jlees 17y ago
Markov? The problem with filtering is that defining interesting is practically NP-complete.
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by jlees 17y ago
Yes. I'm the XX. It just seems a different dynamic than you'd get between two guys or two women. (Obviously I've not directly experienced the former, but I've seen it from the outside enough - it's kind of the model.) I'm a kind of bloke-is
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by jlees 17y ago
I wonder how the rest of us mortals get firehose access. We could do some pretty cool stuff with it, and it'd negate the need to absolutely hammer the Search API (er.. not that we found workarounds that involve hammering the Search API.. oh
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by jlees 17y ago
we're actually doing something similar to this, but have been tracking a number of stocks as well as other things. twitter + sentiment analysis = prediction market; but in most observable cases, we're seeing twitter lag behind the market, n
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by jlees 17y ago
On the flip side, a cover letter that shows the candidate clearly has no idea what job they're applying for or what skills we are after won't get the resume read at all. I'm guessing most hackers are smart enough to avoid this, but be caref

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