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by sagacity 16y ago
From Bessemer Venture Partners site: > Cowan’s college friend rented her garage to Sergey and Larry for their first year. In 1999 and 2000 she tried to introduce Cowan to “these two really smart Stanford students writing a search engine
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by sagacity 16y ago
No, nothing like that. However, it (the primary) project is a technology that can take the current state of the art of information retrieval methodologies just a notch further; something that can have a compelling value proposition for sear
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by sagacity 16y ago
> Please understand, I like it. I'm trying to give you a feedback in light of your original question Thank you, and never suspected any hostility or ill-will in your posts. :-) As a matter of face, RapiDefs is one of the minor by-
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by sagacity 16y ago
> It's a dictionary just like many others. Or have I missed something? Perhaps, you're a very fast typist and typed the whole word before RapiDefs had had a chance to show its thing . :-) Please try typing only a few (beginning) lett
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by sagacity 16y ago
Thanks for the reply, and for taking the trouble to point out the missing dot (now fixed). >I'm just, in general, against patents. Too many ridiculous ones out there, wouldn't you agree? Certainly agree and we're sailing (more or less)
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Ask HN: Torn between product and by-product. What to do?
2 points by sagacity 16y ago|9 comments
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by sagacity 16y ago
Clickable: http://www.scoratic.com
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by sagacity 16y ago
+1. Great find, even though a bit dated, still valid 100% imo. I think every startup, webmaster, marketer, SEO and wannabe SEO should at least read this.
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by sagacity 16y ago
Thanks for sharing. > Also, dropping support for IE6 cut our compatibility testing/fixing time dramatically. This is interesting. We've been thinking about this but haven't done much research on IE6 usage statistics - are you saying it
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by sagacity 16y ago
> change your domain once your product gains traction and you have a proven product. Then you can spend the big bucks on the domain you really want. Makes sense but at the same time, I guess there would be no harm in trying to get (buy)
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by sagacity 16y ago
Yes, we do use (the free version of) this at times. Painfully slow and tedious - you've got to keep clicking the 'keep alive' (or whatever they call it) button etc. Have you (or others) tried their paid service? How good is that? Worth
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Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN?
9 points by sagacity 16y ago|9 comments
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by sagacity 16y ago
> No clear profile is coming up on what they're being replaced with. Do they necessarily have to be replaced with something? What I mean is, could it not be that these 'big' site are give - say a 300+ penalty and that's just about it.
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by sagacity 16y ago
If you have a working website, posting the URL will also probably help. :-)
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by sagacity 16y ago
While loading this URL, my browser gets stuck showing 'connecting to s2.wp.com'. Is it just me?
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Ask HN: Is the current sun spot cycle affecting connectivity?
1 points by sagacity 16y ago|0 comments
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by sagacity 16y ago
That would be me, too. For the last decade or so. Beginning the arrangement was not a problem for the reasons that 1) I own the company and 2) I relocated the offices literally a stone's throw away from home. I chose to do this for lifestyl
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by sagacity 16y ago
Depending on the functionality of your add-ons, you could place a rather tiny ad saying: Sponsored by: <Widgets Co>, obviously with a link to their site. I guess not a lot of people would mind something like this. HTH
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Ask HN: How do you check cross-browser compatibility of CSS/HTML?
12 points by sagacity 16y ago|6 comments
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by sagacity 16y ago
I forgot to mention earlier, the main dictionary database (GCIDE) will contain ~120,000 headwords. An example implementation can be seen here: http://www.TheEnglishDictionary.org
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by sagacity 16y ago
> What else do you suggest that I do? You've already done one of the best things you could; i.e. post here. Now, I suggest the following 3 steps: 1. Put your e-mail in your profile 2. Keep checking your mail and 3. Keep checking this th
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by sagacity 16y ago
Also, as discussed in one of your previous threads, in case the current Geolocation API you're using is slowing things down (at least in part), you might want to try this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2255089 Edit: Or, directly: h
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by sagacity 16y ago
Congrats! You might want to check this (and possibly also the parent thread), quick: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2235994 God speed. :-)
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by sagacity 16y ago
Thanks, but couldn't find add url or any other way to submit - you might want to check/fix that. All the best. BTW, here is one of ours (completely hand-coded), that we built as an experiment a couple of years back, where you can get free
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by sagacity 16y ago
Double cool! One suggestion, though: A quick look through your home page did not reveal this. You might want to revise the copy to mention this (prominently). HTH
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by sagacity 16y ago
Cool! At this price, I'm sure many will go for it. One quick question: Do you check/ensure the .com domain availability of the names you find?
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by sagacity 16y ago
We have several sites where a contact form and direct email address are displayed on the same page. Very few (<20%) use direct email. YMMV - HTH.
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by sagacity 16y ago
Thanks for the feedback. > Where did the initial datasets themselves come from? Public domain. :-) Edit: You can also check dict.org for sources etc.
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Ask HN: Would spellchecker, dictionary definition and thesaurus APIs be useful?
2 points by sagacity 16y ago|3 comments
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by sagacity 16y ago
> the letter proved that I posted myself something on a given date This is where the notary angle kicks in. Notary records will prove the date (2nd proof of date, btw) as well as the content . (Strict legal angle apart, I think this

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