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by markerdmann 15y ago
It's so easy for great links to come and go on the new page without even getting a single vote. Everyone, make sure to browse the new page and vote up good links! It's your civic duty.
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by markerdmann 15y ago
It's interesting to see that they're sticking with Cassandra, and that they're having a much better experience with 0.8. I've been hearing so many fellow coders in SF hate on Cassandra that I had stopped considering it for projects. Has any
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by markerdmann 15y ago
Great work on putting the site together. The design is beautiful. I was able to find the theme on themeforest, but it looks like you customized it in a really nice way. May I ask who designed the logo and background? By the way, if anyone e
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by markerdmann 15y ago
Wow, why did this story suddenly go from rank 1 to rank 35 in just a few minutes?
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by markerdmann 15y ago
Glad to hear it. I've been using Intercom in a web app for the past 6 months, and it's awesome. Definitely makes it much easier to track activity and communicate with users through the site. I wish Olark had some of the Intercom features, o
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by markerdmann 15y ago
It would be awesome if you could share some of those discoveries.
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by markerdmann 15y ago
In case you're wondering why we need another programming language, this short audio clip from Brendan Eich is great: http://www.aminutewithbrendan.com/pages/20101206 "With Rust, what Graydon has been trying to do is focus on safety and al
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by markerdmann 15y ago
This is also a great reference: http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/javascript...
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by markerdmann 15y ago
This is from 2005, but it looks like his firm, Hogan & Hartson, is the counsel for the MPAA (scroll to the bottom of the PDF): http://www.ftc.gov/os/comments/canspam3/516736-00114.pdf
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by markerdmann 15y ago
Ok, changes are up.
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by markerdmann 15y ago
Thanks for the feedback, guys. I added a bit of code that displays the GitHub links when you hover over each startup. I'm just waiting for the database to finish updating, then I'll push the changes.
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by markerdmann 15y ago
By the way, thanks to Academia.edu for hosting a great hack night every other Tuesday. Their beer and pizza helped make this possible. :-)
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by markerdmann 15y ago
We search for a GitHub account that matches the startup name and a GitHub account for each LinkedIn username of the startup's team members. So, to use demand analytics as an example, we found these GitHub accounts: https://github.com/jossc
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by markerdmann 15y ago
Great idea, I'll add that in as soon as I can. Keep an eye out for the update.
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Show HN: A GitHub + AngelList API mashup that ranks startups(startup-score.com)
28 points by markerdmann 15y ago|7 comments
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by markerdmann 15y ago
You can also try using Google's filetype operator, for example: filetype:pdf "Maximizing the spread of influence through a social network" And if it's not available online, many researchers will send you a copy of the pdf if you send them a
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Easy to read tutorial on control theory by a leader in the field(math.berkeley.edu)
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by markerdmann 15y ago
That's helpful, thanks. I haven't kept a record of those searches (they were mostly programming-related queries), but I'd be happy to submit reports in the future. Is there a URL or email address for this purpose?
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by markerdmann 15y ago
Has Google been making significant changes to the search ranking algorithms in the past couple months? I've noticed a significant decline in the quality of results, to the point that (for the first time in years), I've bounced over to DuckD
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PopTech popcasts (TED-style videos about technology)(poptech.org)
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by markerdmann 15y ago
This brings to mind a blog post published by Darryl Jonckheere in January that argued for making Jony Ive CEO: http://www.darryljonckheere.com/2011/01/24/why-jonathan-ive-...
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Facebook Profile Pics Predict Future Happiness(miller-mccune.com)
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Mean time to pretty chart - DevOps meets data porn(gigaom.com)
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Given n items, finding the “best” k of them(altdevblogaday.com)
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by markerdmann 15y ago
Drew Houston, the founder of Dropbox, applied as a single founder. You can read his application here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/27532820/app.html
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by markerdmann 15y ago
Here's the result of running the same script for that thread: https://s3.amazonaws.com/markerdmann.com/algenpfleger.mov http://vimeo.com/29565241 https://s3.amazonaws.com/markerdmann.com/algenplfeger.tar
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by markerdmann 15y ago
Sure. I'm running out the door, but I'll take a look this evening and post an update here.
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by markerdmann 15y ago
Definitely. Here's the script: http://markerdmann.com/blog/2011/09/24/image-scraping-exampl... Just let me know if there's anything I need to clarify.
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by markerdmann 15y ago
The site seems to be under a lot of load. In case anyone (like me) is having trouble viewing the images, I wrote a quick script to scrape the images: https://s3.amazonaws.com/markerdmann.com/paintings.tar The naming format is "page_X_imag
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Opportunities in Mobile Health(ssireview.org)
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