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by nir 17y ago
Not unlikely..
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by nir 17y ago
I was thinking more as a web service, so JSONP is for cross site XHR. I assume someone would not have a good NL date parser for their environment, or won't be able to run it for some reason, or would simply prefer Chronic. A lot of stuff th
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by nir 17y ago
I know, that's why I was surprised to get 229 followers on that bot :)
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by nir 17y ago
Nothing wrong with that. Can be useful for non-Ruby apps, for example. BTW. A JSONP version could make usable from JavaScript..
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by nir 17y ago
Absolutely. The thing is, if the system rewards frequent posting, by definition this harms the average post quality. (In fairness, I think the same is true for blogs etc. I used to think RSS readers could fix this, but Twitter is basically
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by nir 17y ago
A few months ago, I create 2 Twitter feeds: http://twitter.com/applelinks and http://twitter.com/applestuff Each of these based on an RSS mix of the same 8 or so Apple-centered websites. @applelinks tries to filter them for quality, by
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by nir 17y ago
"We sent a contract, and asked for a deposit. Months went by. A few times they asked when they could stop by to drop off the deposit, but never actually did so." The venue's actions seem pretty reasonable to me. They gave the organizers som
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by nir 17y ago
That's my point - some people got high karma by posting intelligent comments, but many others just got it by posting a lot and echoing popular views. So, karma score in itself is pretty useless, in my opinion.
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by nir 17y ago
The whole idea of "Karma" is silly. It encourages conforming to majority views and rewards people who are talkative rather than insightful - often mutually exclusive groups, since insight is gained by thinking & doing rather than postin
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by nir 17y ago
Wired isn't ambiguous in the way it chooses to package this article: a title like "Why Craigslist Is Such a Mess" and an "Extreme Makeover" section showing how it should look like (at least one of the suggestions resides firmly in Designe
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by nir 17y ago
The thing is, people aren't pissed off. People made Craigslist a huge success. This article is like these "I've been doing LAMP for 2 years now. So, here's what Google should do.." blog posts, except that Wired doesn't have the excuse of be
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by nir 17y ago
Why don't you hire them to work remotely then?
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by nir 17y ago
Great submission. Pretty relevant to Hacker News, since writers and startups work in the similar high odds environment (like NNT's "Extremistan"). Circumstance, timing and luck have at least as much influence on the ultimate result as merit
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by nir 17y ago
So, to summarize, it's useful for people building certain projects with PHP and at the same time a great boon for people making sarcastic comments about PHP. Win win.
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by nir 17y ago
I think it's exactly the right place to discuss it. This is Hacker News, _why is a great hacker. This is the one place in the web where him disappearing is considered important. Those who prefer to read what Julia heard that Scoble said to
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by nir 17y ago
Making money depends on a lot of variables beyond your control. Making art is completely within your control. Every 5 year old does art, very few people make real money. In any case, if money is your goal (absolutely legitimate) you'll have
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by nir 17y ago
Are people here really taking this seriously? You believe Sir Richard will read your tweet and make you a millionaire? The combination of Branson + Twitter + Fast Company should be overloading your hype detectors. Come on.
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by nir 17y ago
Why is he downmodded? Try using the site. It really is horrible. Auto-complete occasionally takes over the text box and most search results seem to lead to missing pages. Looks like the only function of this website is to attract coverage i
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by nir 17y ago
I think he'd probably agree - by definition, his theory means that he's no better at predictions than anyone else, and as I understand his investment strategy, he positions himself so that being right once in a while covers the losses of be
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by nir 17y ago
Absolutely. I was being at least partly sarcastic here ;) The funny thing about bit.ly is that they take this model to the next level - they are actually building to be bought by a specific company which has yet to make any income itself. O
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by nir 17y ago
Bit.ly offers this functionality, for free. I think bit.ly are the only ones that have a chance of making real money. Their model is: 1. Build a very good URL shortening service 2. Have a close relationship with Twitter, get them to choose
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by nir 17y ago
If it is a PR stunt, it's pretty crass. But I doubt it's PR - they don't make any money on links, so a hike in traffic just means more costs. Considering that they did intend to keep the old URLs functioning, and that users can get the same
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by nir 17y ago
Nice one :) I was thinking of adding a downloadable list too - how did you get so many archived URLs? Do you have a cron running on Twitter/etc?
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by nir 17y ago
[Hi, Billy Mays here for..] TheRealUrl does it too, with JSON/P support and returning page titles as well! ;) http://therealurl.appspot.com/ (it runs on Google App Engine, so I expect to keep it up as long as GAE exists. I didn't get TLD
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by nir 17y ago
When they got into the business, Twitter wasn't such a big deal, though. (Personally I believe Twitter will go back to not being a big deal in a few years, but so would URL shortening in general)
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by nir 17y ago
Why not just put a URL shortener on the SMS interface, where it doesn't matter much if the shortener service dies anyway, and leave the original URL on the web interface.
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by nir 17y ago
The Apple/Microsoft comparison ignores the fact that MS has a huge market share which, until the recent switch in user focus from desktop to web apps, had few viable alternatives. This is far from the case with Apple. Avoiding Windows ca. 1
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by nir 17y ago
A little trick from FLOSS Podcast's session with John Resig: instead of serving jQuery from your domain, use the Google hosted one: http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3/jquery.min.j... - you get to benefit from Google's CDN, an
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by nir 17y ago
Sure, he's not really serious about that. But I think it's not improbable that many publications will start charging around the same time. The competition factor is overrated, IMHO - people who really want to read the Times will pay even wh

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