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by ljd 14y ago
From Wikipedia: "Opinions vary among writers and editors on the usage or avoidance of the serial comma. In American English, the serial comma is standard usage in non-journalistic writing that follows the Chicago Manual of Style. Journalist
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Lost in cyberspace(economist.com)
1 points by ljd 14y ago|1 comments
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I had the exact opposite reaction. I know that not many people interact with their community outside of a tweet so it could seem like a rare problem but this API makes it easier to interact which should make interacting on this level less
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Yes, I'm in love with their sorting algorithm. That's why I was particularly interested in seeing what appears to be deviations in it. However, I'm probably just seeing things.
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You can configure beanstalk to scale your database out as well.
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I'm looking at the sort rank of questions on reddit and they don't exactly feel right. I can't pin point it except to say that a question with 59 upvotes posted 58 minutes ago is ranking higher than a question with 620 upvotes posted 60 mi
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AWS Elastic Beanstalk will do the same thing.
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There is much ado in the REST world about whether one API is more restful than another. For us, our REST API was designed from our experience as consumers of other REST API's. Our whole philosophy wasn't about what was true-rest but rat
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It's hard to believe that those crazy stories will happen to you and I know I didn't expect GoDaddy to burn me when I used them in 2009 for the red balloon DARPA challenge. I had been out ranking the official DARPA site for weeks on every m
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Just a guess but if I were to write it, I would create a table of points that map to a qwerty keyboard then map to a word. Then I would prerender as many words as I can to seed this table. The algorithm would be about probability of sha
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Throughout history, there seems to be a number of personalities willing to claim that there are, "not that many ideas left." I can't find it within myself to ever agree with them. There are so many things left to do that no one has done b
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That's totally fair. Here, have an upvote. :) EDIT: I changed the evaluation to not make the avg karma relative to total karma but instead to the median value of average karma of all users. The downside to this is that Median(AvgKarma)
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This is true, but it is a problem that currently exists. For orthogonality's sake, I would suggest that if most of your posts come from 1:1 conversations, post by post, then perhaps there is a better medium to communicate with that person t
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Then this will reduce the amount of impact they have on the community as a whole. They will be doing us a favor by starting out ruining their karma. Also, to state the obvious, every member here was a new member at one time and I'm not rea
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Actually, karma is very good market indicator for any board and filter bubbles tend to be specific to filtering out certain types of content. This won't be filtering anything by content.
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You're right but because it's logarithmic, the difference is nominal and evaporates as a new member makes more posts. Plus, what is the downside to encouraging new members to post?
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Good point, I adjusted it to reward "New" threads.
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How about a mathematical reward system for new threads? Something like: Vote Value = (Log[base:Median(AvgUserKarma)](AvgUserKarma)) * (Log[base:(25)](ThreadTop50Rank + 1)) That way if you contribute something great in a new thread and some
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I'm an algorithm designer, so I don't know about all of these changes but I do have a mathematical solution to PG's vote value problem: before edit: Value of vote = Log[base:TotalUserKarma](UserAvgKarmaPerComment) after edit: Vote Value =
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I like your site but I would love to also use your site as a reference point for setting up my own station. I imagine you can monetize this lead generation process in some way as well.
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"It is also limiting the rate on its API per end-point, meaning that most individual clients will be limited to 60 calls per hour instead of 350 calls per hour. " If you can't raise revenue, reduce expenses. That cut is significant enough
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Google Fiber is a very recent example of a company commoditizing a complement. The more people on the internet (their free tier) the more people that can use their ad generating products. The more people on high-bandwidth connections me
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I'm not disagreeing that variables are meant to be variable. However, it's important to teach context behind variables before asking an 11 year old to solve them or else it becomes a point of confusion. They are asked to use rote memorizat
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I recently had the experience of helping a young algebra student with her homework. She is very bright and is in an accelerated math program that teaches algebra in the 7th grade. However, it was so disappointing to see the curriculum. I
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A/B testing your prices to find your most profitable price point over time can help you remove guessing from your pricing strategy. The author mentions that A/B testing among concurrent visitors can get you bad PR but forgets to mention tha
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Good luck, I'm excited for you!
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"I don't care enough about money to run a startup business." It sound like you don't have to worry about connecting a job/business with your desire to create. Build a great workshop at your home and work on projects that you are passionate
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Fragmentation of providers in markets can indicate that consumers see the product as a commodity. Storage is becoming more and more of a commodity. It's not a good or bad thing, it just means that storage providers might benefit by adopti
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I'm also a bit confused by their statements about Facebook v Amazon. I think it stems from people thinking Amazon is the same old ecommerce shop it used to be in 2000. I doubt Facebook will get into the SVOD, publishing, mobile device and
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I agree with many of the comments in this thread about how an acquisition offer isn't a bad alternative to just getting ran over by the platform. However, I can see your point. They should not have encouraged you to build it on your own i

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