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by nvader 12y ago
You do get a boost to your search-engine result page rankings if your domain name matches the search term, for example. If your customers are searching for "find bee mortgages fast", then owning "findbeemortgagesfast.com&quot
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by nvader 12y ago
I'm not exactly sure about this, and in no way does it detract from your point, but would Uber count as a first mover?
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by nvader 12y ago
Perhaps you may have missed this HN post, which may interest you more: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9104759
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by nvader 12y ago
Fascinating parable about how "Software Movements" get started. Although, even if the initial effect observed is due to some sort of placebo effect, it might be worth it.
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Meditation Driven Development (2009)(ckwop.me.uk)
58 points by nvader 12y ago|16 comments
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by nvader 12y ago
Reminds me of the Stick Bomb. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stick_bomb
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by nvader 12y ago
Another way of parsing the sentence in question. Redbeacon requires none of the following things of its contractors: 1) that they show up in Redbeacon attire. 2) work solely through Redbeacon. 3) charge what Redbeacon dictates. 4) follow Re
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by nvader 12y ago
You're thinking of http://xkcd.com/505/
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by nvader 12y ago
See: spicy food.
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by nvader 12y ago
With respect to emails, where the history of the correspondence is well-known to all participants, isn't it actually more convenient to have the new material up first? The chain of previous letters becomes an appendix that can be refer
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by nvader 12y ago
I agree with you: the playful exploration of an idea space can lead to really creative solutions. However, I think what we need to focus on is hacking at the appropriate level. For example, trying to iterate on regexen to see how well they
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by nvader 12y ago
I'm not seeing the drawback to him. It may have even worked out to his benefit, as over time his knowledge of the craft would grow out of proportion to the rest of his team, say, who were solely focussed on getting things done. I must
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by nvader 12y ago
Why is top-posting still something to avoid? It took me a while to get used to it, but at this point I consider the war to be won in favour of top-posting, due to Gmail embracing it.
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by nvader 12y ago
Heh, I think a far more egregious error is having the word "instance" appended redundantly in a method name. obj.SetUp() or obj.Setup() I'm indifferent to, but (mostly) there's no additional info gained by appending &quo
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by nvader 12y ago
Congrats on front page of Hacker News. I found this article easy to follow and generally well written. You'll probably want to fix the following typos when you have a chance do as not to detract from your message. > The first thing
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by nvader 12y ago
I'm not really sure what the benefit of this is over simply doing: flock -n $lockfile -c "command here" You can put the flock command into your crontab or spinup script.
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by nvader 12y ago
Okay, I found it myself. Apparently the word confused for "eke" is "eek". But their meanings are so different to me that I'm having trouble seeing it!
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by nvader 12y ago
The reason I thought it was a kangaroo was specifically because it was being used as a name for a parsing library. After a library is named "Parsley", the list of meanings for Parsley now includes "A parsing library", a
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by nvader 12y ago
Now I'm curious. I've got 'lede' -> 'lead' and 'champing' -> 'chomping'. What's the "modern" term in "eke out a living"?
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by nvader 12y ago
Oops, looks like I was beaten by cgrand himself. https://github.com/cgrand/parsnip
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by nvader 12y ago
(also replying to siblings) Parsley is just so good a name. It has the word parse as a kangaroo, and it evokes the image of fresh, green, edible. I just ran grep /usr/share/dict/words -e "^pars[^']*[^s]$&
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by nvader 12y ago
I found this a very personal and honest explanation about the limitations of one approach to learning a programming language or framework. Without prejudice, lets call it the "agile approach" to learning-> you want to get start
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by nvader 12y ago
I learned something from this. I'm saving this snippet of advice for future reference.
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by nvader 12y ago
What about a chrome extension that notified you how many points a link in the wild got on hn, reddit or similar? Seems like that would be simple to make, and very resilient to gaming or noise.
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Ask HN: A solution for click bait headlines?
1 points by nvader 12y ago|5 comments
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by nvader 12y ago
Only once? You must be a fast learner! I learned to drive on my parents' then 10-year-old car that never let you forget when it was running. When I started renting cars, it was quite a shock to me to find how quiet modern cars are.
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by nvader 12y ago
His points start out idealistic and abstract, and full of Free Software rhetoric. The list then turns to more concrete and specific objections, whatever their validity may be. Talk about burying the lede :P I think it would resonate with a
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Your waitress, your professor(nytimes.com)
148 points by nvader 12y ago|140 comments
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by nvader 12y ago
From your post I get the sense that you realise that your emotional response to impatience is out of proportion to the cause. If you would like to control that feeling of mental anguish, might I suggest you take up meditation? I've fou
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by nvader 12y ago
> If the device fails, you have exceeded the ragings. Minor typo, or anachronistic use of early 21st Century slang that suggests time traveller activity?

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