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by rwolf 17y ago
Someone chime in here if I'm wrong, but evolution is not a refutation of the claim that an untestable, magical ur-Id skulks about the universe. I'm serious--the theory that we are talking about has absolutely nothing to say about your "firs
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by rwolf 17y ago
Your summary matches what I read. The blog post was rather short, and the only thing the author seems to dislike is the naming scheme. Very odd.
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by rwolf 17y ago
He doesn't have a wiki in my native tongue, so I had to chuck google translate at http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Scheele . The results seem to indicate he is a nobody, but I could be wrong. Also, could anyone provide a better translat
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by rwolf 17y ago
Creative Commons has a fun license called CC0 that you might enjoy: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC0 While I'm not comfortable with the idea myself (I'm a big fan of attribution), it certainly looks attractive.
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by rwolf 17y ago
I didn't mean the title tag--I meant the first story title (the SEO kids talk about google fixating on the first h1 tag of a site, I though it might be a similar idea). I have no idea what this upper limit change would do, but good luck.
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by rwolf 17y ago
The comments so far refer to the "sentiment deducer" aspect of the service. They've brought up some examples of how it's not working right now, but they missed an important question: what in the world is "positive sentiment" abstracted from
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by rwolf 17y ago
They have the same username on flippa: http://flippa.com/auctions/74131/Profitable-3-5-yo-Site-Sell...
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by rwolf 17y ago
I'd like to hear from a company that has done their research and now has interesting results--I don't want to be ping'd everytime a baby company has a wacky, untested theory and a need to generate buzz. Tell me upfront that you will release
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by rwolf 17y ago
I perked my ears at some bizarre method for pagination without PHP, but the title is just wrong here. Actual title: "Pagination with jQuery, MySQL and PHP." Which puts it solidly back in the realm of the boring. Pagination is something ever
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by rwolf 17y ago
Right, there was a HN survey a few days ago using google docs--it had palm trees in the background and everything!
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by rwolf 17y ago
What is up with the tiny icons littering the bottom of that post? I enjoyed the article, but it feels weird to get design advice from a page with such a deficient menu.
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by rwolf 17y ago
I've got to say, I can't handle polldaddy. The whole "multi-page wizard" feel is awfully corporate.
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by rwolf 17y ago
I like it. Or maybe IndieDB?
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by rwolf 17y ago
I love the CLI for this website. I know it's silly, but it warms my heart.
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by rwolf 17y ago
Every last one of the economics courses I've taken was smothered in caveats about the underlying assumptions--you could make a drinking game out of it. Fields like behavioral economics address specific criticisms with new theory, making BE
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by rwolf 17y ago
Multiplying some random functions together caused me to twitch, but I like the "metric of the month". Having got to the end, I think the hand-wavium was an okay way to relate your idea.
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by rwolf 17y ago
Assuming caffeine/cup is linear (2 cups =~ 2x caffeine), the second graph you made shows caffeine consumption vesus age. Since average consumption goes down in the last age group, your sample does not show a steady increase with age. edit:
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by rwolf 17y ago
Thanks for the fast fix! And check out the reversal in apparent trend: the 36-50 group has higher average consumption in your sample.
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by rwolf 17y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=783912
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by rwolf 17y ago
3D graphs, oy vey. Author needs to adjust for the number of respondents in each group. Giving us just the mean for each group would convey more information. If the histogram thing is just too appealing to ditch, they should make two: avg. #
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by rwolf 17y ago
I don't have a copy of the software in question, I was basing my understanding of Time Machine's operation on the blog entry. When the author says things like "There are apparently people out there who have lost all of their backups because
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by rwolf 17y ago
TM would have deleted every backup they had if they didn't stop it in time. Wanting every backup you've ever made is one thing; wanting the last backup you made to be available doesn't sound like archiving.
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by rwolf 17y ago
The title of this story must be wrong. Maybe it's "...how many times you login to..."
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by rwolf 17y ago
Thanks!
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by rwolf 17y ago
I get a Google Groups nag screen when I try to view this page. Can someone stick the one post we're interested in on pastebin or something? It's not that I have any problem with Google Groups, it just interrupts my "open 40 tabs and wallow
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by rwolf 17y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=803964
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by rwolf 17y ago
Radical? We've been hearing the AP rail about this stuff for years. Newsweek and Mark Cuban need to read a little news before they claim something is new.
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by rwolf 17y ago
Yahoo Pipes is yummy for this sort of the thing--the Willy Wonka GUI will make your day. It's what I use to gather my favorite webcomics into a single massive feed.
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by rwolf 17y ago
The sites you will be competing with (at least the ones cc'ing their user content) would probably say something bombastic like "we're better, so go ahead and try to use our content to beat us"--I can certainly imagine the kids at Stack Over
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by rwolf 17y ago
The poster you replied to did not say Go-bots were competitive yet. He said they had shown a lack of progress in the face of increasing resources until recently. The only thing I'm saying here is that your counterexample does not make sense

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