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by mtrimpe 13y ago
True, but I don't think that applies equally strongly to ranking highly on low competition long tail results.
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Good thing they also cracked down on Expedia after that disgruntled black-hat SEO outed some of his colleagues working for Expedia. /s
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
If you're a company and you get to the #1 spot organically you can stop buying AdWords clicks for the same keywords.
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
A friend of mine ran a long tail content generation service, much like HitTail, and recently had all his clients penalized regardless of the quality of the content they wrote for those long tail keywords. Apparently they already anticipated
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Oh wow; that might explain why Javelin hasn't taken off nearly as quickly as I thought it would. I was talking about https://github.com/tailrecursion/javelin introduced in the talk http://www.infoq.com&
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
From the perspective of the advice-giver you can still choose how to phrase your hard-learned lessons though. Over the past few years I've learned to never try to shoot down someone's passion. At most I'll acknowledge that wh
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
You should also take a look at Javelin then. It's still more of a proof of concept, but if you love functional programming then it (seems promising to be) even more fun than React for building web apps.
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
There is some middle ground between opening up all of UniCode and just Latin characters. It seems that generally a subset of sufficiently distinct characters should mostly suffice. I don't think e.g. Latin, Hebrew and Chinese hav
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Or even ZCode32 to help with readability for when you need to copy written hashes. :)
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
The worst thing that could happen is not being rejected. Just one hypothetical worse case scenario is: 1. Being accepted, signing over equity and giving up on the chance to move to another accelerator. 2. Getting to YCombinator and realisin
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
I don't think the line between cultural and systemic bias (as used in the article's context) is as clear cut as you interpret it as. They heavily influence each other at the least and depending on your definition either could even
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Except that flame war is code for 'heated discussion' and it's a conscious choice by YCombinator not to let heated discussions, whether positive or negative take place. There are numerous ways to deal with the issue of flam
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
No; it's going to fall off the front page because 10% of readers were irked by the story. That is taking a stance on how to approach discussions on sensitive topics and is exactly what I was talking about. What would happen if that
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Yup; and they're all flagged off the front page in no time. My favourite one is the article about one of the problems with women in tech being that Silicon Valley believes it's more meritocratic than it is, on which PG comments th
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
One of the things that's always bothered me about HN is how quickly articles about women in tech get flagged off the front page. It took me a while to realize that this is actually a feature and not a bug as HN exists as a promotional
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
I don't know if it's universal (Dutch freelance IT); but I would loooove to have a tool that would: * broadcast my availability to a group of approved (company) recruiters * let recruiters propose companies to me (and have me list
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
I'm pretty sure the EU is itching to start regulating Google in Europe, but to do that they'll need to find a point of leverage somewhere and so far that's been hard to find. Put another way: exactly what about Google could t
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Different DB drivers and connection pool setups for example. Taken to extremes I've also used Spring to configure a rudimentary ETL framework for example, where the entire pipeline could be (re-)configured post release.
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Because there are millions of developers who can use the DOM and CSS to create their design and only a handful who can do the same with Canvas.
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
I'll be diving into the source code soon to figure it out, but are you then using core.async only to handle incoming user events or also to coordinate the rendering of the UI?
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
I've been expecting this after seeing a few of your teaser tweets and as expected I absolute love it! I've been waiting for something like this ever since I read up on persistent data structures and functional reactive programming
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
From my previous encounters with China related requirements their main policy seems to be 'our data never leaves the country.' It's an interestingly prescient decision with the Snowden revelations as a backdrop. If that was
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
It's so cool to see you going the emotional roller coaster of your first big investment mistake. And it's even for an amount you can afford to lose in the long run! You're a lucky man. That's much better than betting the
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
That seems besides the point in this case though since the author himself describes these as 'shenanigans that had rarely earned my own classmates anything more than raised eyebrows and scoldings.'
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Wasn't there some parser other than Nokogiri which was focused more on being lenient than correct?
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
As one of my old (properly self-deprecating) managers used to say "If you're a lightweight you'll float to the top eventually."
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
It's not perfect either but Prague is definitely better than St. Petersburg. I'm pretty sure blinding people by shooting BB-guns at an LGBT meetup [1] would still be considered a crime by Prague's police department. P.S. It&#
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
He's referring to St. Petersburg's (and Russia's in general) horrendous treatment of it's non-heterosexual inhabitants: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/01/russia-rise-hom...
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Too bad you can't put a rainbow on it.
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
If you want to promote an alternate paradigm you might want to learn to directly argue in favor of your alternative, tather than randomly attacking things that don't fit your personal aesthetics. I'm also not particularly enamore

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