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by nc17 15y ago
This is neat, but what is a good use case for this? I would assume most people needing search functionality already run their webapps on a server somewhere.
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by nc17 15y ago
On topic, an old interview with John Scully about Steve Jobs. I believe it's been posted to HN before. http://www.cultofmac.com/john-sculley-on-steve-jobs-the-full...
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A Short-Circuit to Distracted Driving(nytimes.com)
3 points by nc17 16y ago|2 comments
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by nc17 16y ago
Good point, hadn't thought of that. I do wonder if proper search would affect people's time on Twitter. I don't find myself coming back for fear of missing out on something, but I do scroll down a lot when I visit. This must be expensive to
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by nc17 16y ago
Thanks, this is useful. I don't understand why Twitter itself doesn't provide this option. I can search for tweets near me, people, tweets with links, etc. but not what I missed when I wasn't online. Could you combine this with other servic
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by nc17 16y ago
I just tried your app but some of my tweets don't seem to be showing up. Does it have a lag or did it just miss them? Will they show up?
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Amazon acquires LoveFilm, Europe’s Netflix, for approximately $200 million (venturebeat.com)
3 points by nc17 16y ago|0 comments
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by nc17 16y ago
YC ranks 2400 on Alexa, and I'm sure most of the traffic is HN. I bet you'd be hard-pressed to find a top 10k site written in Scheme. Does anyone know of one? http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/ycombinator.com
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by nc17 16y ago
Just checked, they claim to have sold 550,702 so far with 18 hours to go. That is a successful (and expensive) customer acquisition campaign.
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by nc17 16y ago
Thanks for posting this. Here are the slides for those interested: http://www.bsdcan.org/2010/schedule/attachments/135_crypto1h...
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by nc17 16y ago
True, and technology is far from the worst field in that respect. Professional sports or modeling are two professions in which you will lose your value no matter what you do. You have a limited shelf life and you have to make the best out o
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by nc17 16y ago
One problem is that you log in and you have nothing to look at. You really want to have something for new users to get a great "out of the box" experience and they'll be more motivated to come back.
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by nc17 16y ago
Out of six or seven wars, he picks the ones that make his case. This guy (and anyone tempted to draw any conclusions from this chart) should read A Random Walk Down Wall Street. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Random_Walk_Down_Wall_Street
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by nc17 16y ago
An interesting side effect is that copying a dvd is relatively trivial. Saving a streamed movie is harder and you have no motivation to do it.