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by jraines 17y ago
Symptoms I'd add: 1) Recency bias 2) Mistaking "Easy to have an interesting debate about" for "interesting". That last one's a fine line, so to clarify, an example might be "Twitter's impact on X" vs. "Friendfeed's use of MySQL to store sch
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by jraines 18y ago
To be fair, they only came out with that post after the virtue of failing had been basically become received wisdom. I'm still not sure what it means -- I hope it's fairly synonymous with "fail cheaply", or to me at least it's useless advic
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by jraines 18y ago
I always thought the W-shaped spike in deaths-by-age from the 1918 pandemic was due to it spreading rapidly in infirmaries and barracks full of already sick and/or stressed out soldiers.
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by jraines 18y ago
It will last a 6-8 hours of fairly heavy surfing (no video, 1 or 2 podcasts) on the cell data network, or a full day of normal use/non-use. I usually leave wifi and GPS off, and haven't really had any problems w/battery life.
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by jraines 18y ago
I've got one and I love it. With a real headphone jack and Flash support, it would be the perfect phone IMHO.
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by jraines 18y ago
This has been my go-to first look in the past, and I've found some good ones that I've used there. But it's a bit limited and some of the links are now outdated (from their Free Fonts of the Week/Month series)
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Ask HN: Where to find good free fonts?
12 points by jraines 18y ago|11 comments
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by jraines 18y ago
Wonder if the results would've been different if the robot had a frown or mean face.
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by jraines 18y ago
It's a trick statement. Summer is beautiful, but is one of 5 seasons, and only lasts from May until mid-June. Basically it goes: Spring, Summer, Hell, Football Season, and Christmas. Football Season is the best time to be in Atlanta.
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by jraines 18y ago
There's a market for keywords, and these employees (we are, I guess, assuming for this discussion) have insider information on those. Like you said, it's worth millions, and like stock trading, it's basically a zero-sum game, so if you beco
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by jraines 18y ago
Camtasia Studio for Linux.
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by jraines 18y ago
Also, as Alex himself alluded in his original piece, why would someone who presumably has a stake in a company that shrugs off half-billion dollar acquisition offers be trying anything devious to promote a technical book ?
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by jraines 18y ago
Karma comes to facebook, society crumbles, film at eleven.
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by jraines 18y ago
I would probably buy the How to Soundproof Your Apartment or House for Cheap, Guaranteed ebook. You could probably find some not too competitive keywords for this, or find people bitching about noisy neighbors on Twitter. How hard/expens
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by jraines 18y ago
Funny -- this got downvoted to 0 and is perfect through 5 games
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by jraines 18y ago
Cool. If you want to enter this one as well, you don't have to share your algorithm. I just think it will be more interesting if at least the winner does share.
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by jraines 18y ago
looks very interesting, i'm definitely going to look into this
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by jraines 18y ago
OK - screw jottit then. It's set to 'anyone can view and edit' and i've changed the password to hackernews like 5 times. Can someone recommend a similar site? In the meantime -- don't even worry about posting the algorithm. If your bracke
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by jraines 18y ago
OK - it's open for anyone now. If not, I've tried again to make the password hackernews
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by jraines 18y ago
password should be fixed. I haven't found a great site for scrapable stats. I'm using http://msn.foxsports.com/cbk/stats which is at least a step up from ESPN's stats. If anyone has a better source, I'd be very interested as well. And i
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by jraines 18y ago
Mine is going to be based on the "Wages of Wins"-emphasized stats of FG%, FT Attempts, Turnovers, and Offensive Rebounds. If you want to get a little more hardcore, check out HN user lance's post about using Logistic Regression Markov Chain
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Invite HN: The Algorithmic NCAA Bracket Challenge(jeremyraines.com)
27 points by jraines 18y ago|25 comments
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by jraines 18y ago
You could also use http://www.slinkset.com for a hosted solution that you could still point your own domain at (assuming you have control over your CNAME records)
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by jraines 18y ago
This is the standard counter-argument, and it is of course valid. However this has got to be a tiny fraction of total searches and total utility derived from search. Also, how often is there breaking news in your neighborhood that's worth f
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by jraines 18y ago
Here's a spammy thing I've seen that I expect to see more of "@JoeBlow is giving away a Widget! Retweet this for a chance to win!"
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by jraines 18y ago
Dear HN, The job posting/search arena in Twitter is wide open, so I built this little app. It's nothing special yet but I think a good foundation. It's human filtered and has full-text search. Where to go from here? I just noticed that
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Ask HN - Please help me improve my app (Twitter job search)(twhired.com)
23 points by jraines 18y ago|9 comments
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by jraines 18y ago
Paying big time, too. And not just for premium memberships that allowed more InMail -- IIRC their recruiter-tailored service runs at $25K a year. I pitched hard for it when I was a recruiter, but we were stuck in the cold-calling age. I
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by jraines 18y ago
I heard that Atlantic Station condos are going for bargain basement prices right now (a friend is hoping to sell for a 60K loss) -- walk to movies, food, and groceries and bike to Tech Square. It's tempting to think of what living in Atl
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by jraines 18y ago
For one consulting project I outsourced logo design to 99designs.com with a $300 "contest" and was absolutely blown away by the quantity and quality of submissions. I got probably a dozen out of 80+ submissions that would've been perfectly

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