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by relix 15y ago
This comparison is not apt.
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by relix 15y ago
It's not much different than any other recommendation system though. It's also funny how these ads exist because they work - i.e. the user actually does find them interesting, clicks on them, and discovers a product they pay money for becau
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by relix 15y ago
What's wrong with advertising geared towards your interests? Or do you enjoy watching ads on penis enlargements, gambling, whitening teeth and How To Get Rich While Sleeping?
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Crunch Time for Spotify(jacquesmattheij.com)
23 points by relix 16y ago|35 comments
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by relix 16y ago
If I press "submit" without typing anything, I get a big fat nice 404. Might want to change that, maybe have it automatically search for iTunes, as is described in the example?
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by relix 16y ago
The most important piece of info is missing imo. How much did he spent with the PR firm? It seems it was the whole key in this story, and it's a good lesson for us. I personally have no idea how much a PR firm costs, or what the lowest amou
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by relix 16y ago
Great log about how you - dare I say it - pivoted and build a business out of something you did as an aside!
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by relix 16y ago
That's really impressive! The video is a great demonstration and a real eye-opener.
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by relix 16y ago
Ebook marketing: 1) claim an outrageous selling price 2) receive a ton of exposure because of the outrageous price 3) on publish date, take back price to 1/3 of the original price "special deal" 4) the mindshare was set at $99 so when poten
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by relix 16y ago
Using IQ to measure intelligence is like using your penis-length to measure how good you are in bed. Sure, having a penis-size less than half the average might be a strong indicator of being bad in missionary, but anything above average doe
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by relix 16y ago
That is because a game's frame is rendered at one absolute time point, while a movie's frame is like a photograph taken with a shutter speed of 1/24th: it includes the motion data of that whole time interval, it contains motion blur, and it
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by relix 16y ago
When I was in university, the university hospital used to do a lot of medicine trials. Basically, you get paid to be a guinea pig. They did several experiments for HIV drugs. The details are fuzzy, but if I remember correctly, they create a
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by relix 16y ago
I know that in Belgium there is a law where storage which can be used to play pirated media has a surcharge that is used to compensate authors for the possible loss of income because of the potential pirating. Maybe this is a European direc
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by relix 16y ago
You're allowed to jailbreak it and put it on there, no sweat. You're not allowed to put applications that abuse API's that weren't meant to be used by them, in the app store, which is part of the Apple brand and, righteously so, Apple has s
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by relix 16y ago
Great idea. This would be awesome for people who are chronically tardy, and commit themselves to being on time somewhere. Connect this with Facebook events to automate it maybe?
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by relix 16y ago
If there's a huge amount of pageviews, the delay is even longer than 24 hours in GA. For one of my sites, the numbers keep going up until more than 24 hours after that day ended. This is annoying because the interface does show the day as b
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by relix 16y ago
The answer to "why" given in that thread is very interesting: "Many reasons, but two off the top of my head: 1. We do distribution deals with Chrome, where we bundle Chrome with other products. These get difficult when our binary grows. 2
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by relix 16y ago
At this point, it's the best option for our huge energy needs. Like you said, a few decades down the road, solar power might be somewhat interesting. What do we do until then? Burn coal, which is far more polluting? Next, solar and wind ene
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by relix 16y ago
The first three paragraphs are irrelevant fluff that have the opposite effect on me. We use one six thousandth of all the energy the sun currently radiates to earth? That's a lot more than I thought, and it's obvious that we'll never be abl
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by relix 16y ago
Great! Does this also have a fix for the incoming call digit bug? (I notified you guys here http://www.phono.com/forums/1/topics/111 )
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by relix 16y ago
In summary: start a blog. Isn't this pretty much startup 101 by now? I would imagine anyone on Hacker News who founds a startup and has even just an inkling of an idea on what to write about, would start a blog about it as the most basic of
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by relix 16y ago
This is exactly my problem. It took me a while to figure out just exactly what problem it solves. Their frontpage, while humorous, doesn't explain this very well at all. A line or two about what Sinatra does and some examples what to use it
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by relix 16y ago
It's much easier to see what language someone would speak since a browser specifies it in every HTTP request [1]. It's not only more deterministic than guessing where someone's geographical location is based on IP ranges, it also doesn't re
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by relix 16y ago
Some photos are unique due to their location though, so it'd be cool if we could see where exactly they were taken.
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by relix 16y ago
Some time ago I wrote a commandline tool that made a back-up of all the Gmail mails including labels, but using links instead of copies, in a Maildir format that's compatible with any IMAPd. I use it to have a running "clone" of Gmail on my
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by relix 16y ago
As an off-topic, pedantic aside: the Belgian Apple site requires me to select a language every time I visit . They don't store it in a cookie or try to deduce it from the browser locale settings. Just saying your comparison with Apple here
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by relix 16y ago
This is a failed study. He should have removed "Port 22" from the config file to get any significant results. Right now it only says that if an attacker gets an SSH-like answer on port 22, it's very unlikely he'll try on port 24 as well. Th
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by relix 16y ago
Agreed. How does OkCupid achieve the same thing? They use unique tokens in the URL's of their mails, so you are instantly logged in if you visit OkCupid through any URL in their mail. It's safer, and even easier than how PoF does it, becaus
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by relix 16y ago
The article pointed out that a lot of services "deactivate" an account rather than delete it. I would suspect this common sense methodology is as obvious as hashing a password, but apparently, and unfortunately for the artist, it is not. Th
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by relix 16y ago
As the developer of a web app that uses the webcam through flash, I am already mentally preparing myself for the flood of support requests that inevitably will come. Maybe Skype should become classified as malware. This is only the latest i

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