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by lkozma 16y ago
No, I didn't mean that you were not rooting for him, but that you implied his story was not interesting for bloggers. I said the "david and goliath" aspect of the story was interesting and news-worthy. Reading the TC story, and this discuss
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by lkozma 16y ago
I wonder if personalized news has that much appeal, really. Part of the success of traditional tv, radio and newspapers is the shared experience with some group you identify with. Incidentally, this is why I read news.YC also, it's fascinat
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I made a similar comment about a year ago when in one write-up, PG was saying that in a certain domain former Google employees would be suitable applicants to YC. I said that this creates the same credentials based mentality that they were
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by lkozma 16y ago
That's what I meant also, just my English is twisted sometimes :) I meant "as good as anything else" in the sense of "better or at least equal to any other story"
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If you didn't know either existed and wanted a tool to optimize your website, would you search Google for "wingify" or for "website optimizer" ?
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Whatever happened to rooting for the underdog? I mean a two-person company making it in India with Google as their competitor is as good a story as anything else. You are being unfair.
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There's another "Feynman Algorithm" which someone mentions towards the end of the article: he said he kept a small number of problems constantly in the back of his mind and whenever he heard of a new trick or method, he tested it against hi
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by lkozma 16y ago
also, I was saying it tongue-in-cheek as it matched the pattern of the fallacy superficially, but otherwise I agree with you. This must be a meta-fallacy in itself.
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No true scotsman fallacy ? :)
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I've commented this in another thread: I had this idea a while ago for real events on campuses, themed "Quit Facebook Party". People would get together and delete their accounts, the process being projected on the wall for others to see. Wi
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"isn't really making any constructive or lasting contribution to society" The common argument is that if you are increasing overall efficiency, that means that capital can be more readily available for real businesses which do make lasting
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by lkozma 16y ago
You are absolutely right, I added a correction. What confused me, was the wording on the Google Suggest help page and the num_queries parameter name, as rbrcurtis mentioned. Please see my replies to this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?i
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I added the following correction to the article: CORRECTION: as pointed out by users Adrian and Bones in the comments below and by Mark Fulton and apollo on the HN thread, I made an error in interpreting the data. The numbers given by Googl
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by lkozma 16y ago
You are absolutely right. What confused me was this paragraph from the Google Suggest page: " Google Suggest returns search queries based on other users' search activities. These searches are algorithmically determined based on a number of
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I am curious also, I was just guessing, I hope I didn't insult anyone. For topics where you can expect to find the exact same question on Q&A sites and forums this is a good approach. It seems though that people who are not familiar wit
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I think I mentioned this in the bullet points.
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Very good point, I agree. However, I also meant that even the way the questions are formulated "how can I do a blog", "how can I blog on facebook" betray a lack of basic understanding of these technologies. Perhaps not only simpler platform
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by lkozma 16y ago
I found 94 how can i get my hearing back incredibly sad.
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What people want (according to Google Suggest)(lkozma.net)
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I think this one has less bullet point features and it's cheaper. Tough crowd.
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But you can blame them for sending out "reconnect" messages in the first place.
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"The European Union designated 2009 as the European Year of Creativity and Innovation" ... I wouldn't be too worried about this.
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or as Twain said: "Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth."
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What's interesting is that by looking at how many nested levels are still understandable, we can also make a guess about the stack size of our brain. (short term memory (?))
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"..opens the door to ambiguity but also produces flaccid prose." You wouldn't make friends in Germany :)
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I wonder if people who have training with cold water resist significantly longer. I knew Finns who would go in mid January to swim for ten minutes in a hole cut in the ice of a frozen lake, then sit around for a while, dress up and go on wi
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by lkozma 16y ago
Learn every juggling trick I have seen, heared of or imagined. Roadblock: balls keep falling. EDIT: current status (as of yesterday): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lsuO0tQZaU
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The site http://www.soundsabitlike.com probably it's not visible enough on Google or it's just me who finds song similarities interesting :)
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There are examples of "mangling" which were successful. In Hungarian for example in the late 1700s a few writers have coined tens of thousands of new words. Today some thousands of these are so widely used that it's impossible to guess they
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Speaking with "no accent" is the same like not speaking in a dialect: it means you speak the dialect which has become the "official" one.

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