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by murrayh 18y ago
Maybe try for a more blatant voting queue, like "thumbs up" and "thumbs down" (you can just ignore any thumbs down votes if you so choose, but make the button tactile - choosing to either vote something up or not vote at all is rare outside
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by murrayh 18y ago
Maybe we lose some awesome comments. Maybe if people are thinking more about what they write, we might gain an awesome comment instead of a trivial one. Maybe we might get far less comments, making it easier to notice awesome comments. Mayb
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by murrayh 18y ago
Initially this struck me as a counter-productive and elitist measure, but it didn't take me long to swing to a positive reaction. Really, I want less crappy comments and more good ones. I've been skimming comments for months now, for a vari
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Being economical is a sure way to be forgotten.(news.quelsolaar.com)
1 points by murrayh 18y ago|0 comments
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Can games teach ethics?(sirlin.net)
1 points by murrayh 18y ago|0 comments
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by murrayh 18y ago
I actually found that feature made me angry. So the true price is hidden, and I have to mundanely increase my bid until I find the minimum? Why not just give me the minimum and forget about the gimmick? I quit the video and left the website
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by murrayh 18y ago
My OS's have IPv6 enabled by default (10.5 and Vista). My ISP of choice is well on the way to providing native IPv6 access: http://ipv6.internode.on.net/ My hardware manufacturer of choice is now developing IPv6 devices: http://www.billi
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by murrayh 18y ago
> Why would googlebot use a different header to pretend that it is a user in order to recieve a broken page? That would not benefit any party. Well... it would benefit Google (and its users), because they could detect and punish cloakin
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by murrayh 18y ago
Sorry for the late reply; I failed to notice this question until now. I'd really like to see a test suite for an actual javascript application, like that "vi written in javascript". But with the application written using best practice Javas
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by murrayh 18y ago
Bots don't require computer vision or any kind of sensory input; they can extract the native data they need straight out of the application's memory space. Effectively gaming bots have "perfect information". So the bots actually have more t
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by murrayh 18y ago
In Australia, Telstra already does this. They run an On Demand Entertainment business (music, movies, games and sport) where the content is 'unmetered' (when downloaded it does not get attributed to your Usage Allowance). They also have exc
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by murrayh 18y ago
That blog post and the README.markdown displayed by github contain the same information. This framework interests me, but to be honest I am too lazy to figure out how capable it is and how I am supposed to use it. I'd really like to see scr
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by murrayh 18y ago
Don't be disheartened by the lack of response. The product looks extremely impressive, but I suspect many here don't have a use for it. I like to give feedback by thinking "if I were king of the zoo, I would do <this>". In this part
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by murrayh 18y ago
Yep, the response was good natured and curt. I certainly felt... uh... upset? at first, but that quickly faded when I realised the message was quite practical.
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by murrayh 18y ago
Small story: I was investigating wufoo.com one day, and was mightily impressed - so impressed that I sent them an email nitpicking some extremely minor issues (the first and only email of its kind that I've sent). The grammar issue I raised
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by murrayh 18y ago
I find I work more consistently on a day if I have exercised on that day; a jog, or maybe a session of pilates or something. Often I will work quite well in the morning when I know I am going to go for a run at lunch time, so it seems to be
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by murrayh 18y ago
This essay doesn't quite sit right for me. My skeptical side constructs the message "invest 400k in YCombinator startups and you will have a piece of the next Google." I think I see that because I assume that PG is not being hypocritical; i
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by murrayh 18y ago
You're correct in that a better system could be implemented than a manual blacklist, but, as my old boss always used to say, "some progress is better than no progress". Although it is nice, you don't need to get fancy when simple things sat
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by murrayh 19y ago
If that were the reason, couldn't you simply publish a web form where we can enter in all those variables and get an idea of the price? I suspect that you would already be using such a tool internally.
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by murrayh 19y ago
I don't think that undermining the speaker is a valid way of arguing. It is irrelevant who states the argument; an argument is as equally as strong whoever makes it. I can copy and paste another's argument verbatim, and then change all the
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by murrayh 19y ago
I agree in a way; the Ask YC News threads can be repetitive and annoying. But, some of the best contributions, from the view point of myself, have been Ask YC News posts. When an individual challenges me to critically think about a topic, I
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by murrayh 19y ago
It is irrelevant whether or not obscurity is the only kind of protection available; obscurity is temporary and only needs to be defeated once. Furthermore, obscurity is not the only kind of security there is: Benevolent moderation is anothe
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by murrayh 19y ago
Security by obscurity is not really security at all. Perhaps the TechCrunch exposure has hurt the site in the short term, but if Hacker News can get through these growing pains it will be presumably better off in the long run. The problem a
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by murrayh 19y ago
It is pretty easy to level the "Participatory Narcissism" attack at most people with extensive, opinionated writing. Quite often I will look at comments I have made and reflect at how skillful I had been (before being methodically torn to s
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by murrayh 19y ago
If you are worried about your barrier of entry being so high, why don't you try and lower it? You have ruled out doing any hosting yourself, but there are still things you could do. For example, you could try and make your application as ea
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by murrayh 19y ago
Rather cryptic, in both wording and presentation; took me three reads to grasp it :-s. I think some of the words used are made up - "agalmos" only returns 3 results on google. Effectively, this bizarre... article?... proposes that we apply
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by murrayh 19y ago
An interesting analysis. I agree that ideas are valuable, and after considering the issue, probably the only reason they have a market value of zero is because there is no good way to trade them. I think you are on the right track with your
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by murrayh 19y ago
I can't quite tell if you are serious or not. "What I've got: a drawing board at transmuting WordNet <wordnet.princeton.edu> into a virtual spacetime, over which meaning is generated, amalgamated into cosmic structures, rather than
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by murrayh 19y ago
Fantastic, I look forward to seeing this service take off. However, I think you have a major (and seemingly hidden) issue: trust. Don't get me wrong, I don't think you guys are out to swindle me or anything (quite the opposite), but honestl
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by murrayh 19y ago
A nice explanation for someone who has not looked into Arc (me). [0-9a-zA-Z]{10} is what, 840 quadrillion combinations? Just out of curiosity, what happens if we get a 'fnid' collision? I expect to be serving a few hundred trillion pages in

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