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by pmichaud 16y ago
This identical thing happened to me.
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by pmichaud 16y ago
How about writing "the biggest number" on your paper?
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by pmichaud 16y ago
The issue with that is when people post ASk HN stuff anonymously, which I think is valuable. Maybe figure out a way to create anonymous posts that don't have the limitation?
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by pmichaud 16y ago
Nice work, very informative. This is an issue that I feel has the potential to kill HN in the long run. It is steadily growing closer and closer to being impossible to hit the front page without gaming the system. The thing is that these su
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by pmichaud 16y ago
This is kind of true. If you stick with it people eventually come around. I've been doing it for years. Dig it: http://www.petermichaud.com/essays/new-rules-for-christmas/
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by pmichaud 16y ago
I was watching this with interest, actually. I think it would be great to somehow tie threads together. blhack is right when he says that social bookmarking is about finding things interesting, not unique, so dupes aren't evil in themselves
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One Customer at a Time(petermichaud.com)
6 points by pmichaud 16y ago|0 comments
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by pmichaud 16y ago
That kid's going places.
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Weekend project TimeToRank.com-How fast can you rank for given keyword?(timetorank.com)
7 points by pmichaud 16y ago|8 comments
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by pmichaud 16y ago
This doesn't make sense. That's a good argument for things that are compared side by side by TV ads, but landing pages don't have to be unique to be effective. The "difference" you're talking about won't be noticed by anyone but other web m
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by pmichaud 16y ago
Anchoring is a sales and marketing technique in which a marketer "anchors" a prospects expectation about pricing by mentioning a similar or related thing and its price. You anchored at "Free" -- bad move.
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by pmichaud 16y ago
Lots, but it's the PDFs that normally get copied.
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by pmichaud 16y ago
I sell e-books and they almost all get pirated. I don't care, I just focus on the people who want to pay for my stuff. No skin off my nose if they don't.
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by pmichaud 16y ago
Awesome graphs, it's worth it just for that.
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by pmichaud 16y ago
Would it be difficult to simply shape the plastic explosive around a part of your body to make it blend? I don't mean to be crass, but for example, what if you created a penis shaped sheath around your real penis? Wouldn't that just look li
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Backscatter Machines Not Effective at Detecting Plastic Explosives(springerlink.com)
78 points by pmichaud 16y ago|25 comments
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by pmichaud 16y ago
Ditch the "clever" text mouse over stuff. Also, you're wrecking your information hierarchy by putting your right bar vertically level with your big intro blur on the top left. Let that intro blurb sit on its own with nothing to the right of
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by pmichaud 16y ago
You're assuming there will be "justice." You know what they say about assumptions...
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by pmichaud 16y ago
A lot of it is pretty backward and antiquated though. Take its contents with a grain of salt.
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How I turned my painful failure on video into a success(petermichaud.com)
4 points by pmichaud 16y ago|0 comments
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by pmichaud 16y ago
"Finite and Infinite Games" - James Carse http://www.amazon.com/Finite-Infinite-Games-Vision-Possibili... Mindblowing.
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by pmichaud 16y ago
I think some people do have predispositions toward certain classes of activity, but I think the message is right on: you get good by working, and working, and working.
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by pmichaud 16y ago
It's an emotional plea that I can related to, but flag it I must, not HN material.
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Be Consistent To Be Successful(petermichaud.com)
2 points by pmichaud 16y ago|0 comments
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by pmichaud 16y ago
That's actually what the plugin does.
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by pmichaud 16y ago
One of my earlier essays was about the bystander effect: http://www.petermichaud.com/essays/the-bomb-and-the-bystande...
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by pmichaud 16y ago
I think anyone who experiences some success sort of feel like a fraud. I know I do. I think it's a common thing.
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The Art Gallery That Exists(petermichaud.com)
1 points by pmichaud 16y ago|0 comments
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by pmichaud 16y ago
It's not really a fix. It's nothing a convincing fake ID couldn't fix--then everything matches.
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by pmichaud 16y ago
Although this particular experience wasn't physical in nature, I wrote an essay recently that argues the opposite: http://www.petermichaud.com/essays/your-inner-monster/ But I have to say, in an acutely dangerous situation, the right thin

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