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by sgk284 18y ago
Require a credit card and display said information (anonymized to an extent) on the landing page after they log in. People will be very unlikely to purposefully give their credentials to your site to the public. This would work at companies
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by sgk284 18y ago
Thank you pg. I had recommended giving a karma penalty (-1) for every override, but this works too. It seems others are requesting an "override allowed" setting, which could definitely be useful but as it stands I'm really liking the no ove
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by sgk284 18y ago
Managers are not to manage people, they are to manage problems. Most big companies simply get this wrong. Just make sure any oncoming manager understands this.
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by sgk284 18y ago
What if we don't assume every vote is equal. What about weighting a user's vote by some factor of their karma? And/or capping the threshold that a user can vote. i.e A user with 0 karma can vote on comments with 0-3 points. A person with 10
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by sgk284 18y ago
As a former Google employee, I can assure you that there have been far bigger screw ups than that... and it's just part of the learning experience. The bigger the screw up, the more money you've invested in training them :) (i.e. When I was
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by sgk284 18y ago
Unless you have a decent type system like Haskell's, statically typed languages are nothing but an unnecessary burden. I am a huge fan of python, and dynamic typing in general... Haskell was the first experience with a language that made me
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by sgk284 18y ago
I think the more important question is should you? If 10 other people before have expended the mental energy to figure out that this comment isn't worth reading, why should I expend mine to determine the same thing? I like where you're goin
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by sgk284 18y ago
To add to this, it should be stated that downmodding a comment to less than 1 because you simply disagree with it is against the nature of the site. Negative points are for comments that are entirely out of line.
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by sgk284 18y ago
A lot of the comments here seem to be enjoying the joke and having fun, but shouldn't we take the review requests on HN a little more seriously? It's the only resource on the web that allows for this form of quality feedback from such great
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by sgk284 18y ago
He's your co-pilot on earth too, just doesn't let you take any breaks :)
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by sgk284 18y ago
There are pictures of Obama at the beach while he was still president-elect. The dude is ripped. This isn't on the beach, but it's the first I came across: http://www.tmz.com/2008/12/22/barack-hard-abs/
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by sgk284 18y ago
I was working at Google when this was still going down. Pretty much what happened was YouTube came and had a little party at the Googleplex and said "Hey guys, we're growing like crazy and have tons of crazy scalability problems that Google
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by sgk284 18y ago
I'm another hacker in Philly. There seem to be a few of us... we should have a hacker news meetup here.
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by sgk284 18y ago
Be honest. Is this a homework assignment?
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by sgk284 18y ago
I think you may be introducing some bias to your conclusions. The article could also be seen as concluding that giving someone abstract tasks is less efficient then giving someone a concrete task...the former leaves a lot open to decide, th
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by sgk284 18y ago
"noprocast" in the settings has been wonderful for me. The only thing I'd change is add -1 karma when you click override :)
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by sgk284 18y ago
Yes, it's important to note that the only previous way of getting a quote from him was directly contacting him. A lot of people don't want this. Also the forms makes it explicit what his costs are and what he is capable of doing.
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by sgk284 18y ago
There is a large company I used to work for that we all use everyday and most of their services are free, but before I left they were discussing using credit cards as a means to defend against abuse in a free service. (The specific service
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by sgk284 18y ago
I'm american and this is the first I've heard of "waitress" being frowned upon here. My experience draws from Philadelphia, New York, and Silicon Valley (San Fran, Mountain View, and San Jose), but there are so many cultures in America I wo
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by sgk284 18y ago
"I greatly appreciate that the 30-day trial doesn't require a credit card. Bravo! Finally someone gets that right." I'm torn between this. On the one hand, it's less friction for the user to sign up... but then you wind up bugging the user
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by sgk284 18y ago
This concerns me... I've got a ton of friends at Microsoft including my co-founder that is moonlighting with me on a start up (hopefully he won't need msft for much longer). I don't understand why a company that spends so much trying to get
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by sgk284 18y ago
Shamelessly plugging a little site I put together a couple months ago in hopes of inspiring more stories of this form (inspired by a Wired article): http://sixisenough.com
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by sgk284 18y ago
I think this is an interesting experiment worth trying if nothing else. You'll probably see the polls weigh against trying the change, but that's generally because people don't like change. The way I look at it, no one loses anything by try
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by sgk284 18y ago
I was working at Google when lively was still just a one man 20% project. It didn't start in anticipation of anything, it was just a guy having fun and he eventually got enough momentum internally to garner official interest in it. The one
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by sgk284 18y ago
The internet is great at distracting, and for me I can't necessarily disconnect because I rely on the internet for certain aspects of what I do. I find that unplugging the laptop and going to a remote location (maybe a Starbucks or somethin
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by sgk284 18y ago
I don't disagree with "normal sucks", but don't underestimate chasing girls. It can sometimes be more fun than the dating part :) I've personally been fortunate in finding a great balance between hacking and living, and am grateful for it.
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by sgk284 18y ago
It's not really a polling system. It's a system for ranking user submitted entries. Google uses it internally every Friday at their TGIF to prioritize what questions Larry and Sergey should answer first (in addition to the ones asked in per
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by sgk284 18y ago
Yes, every Friday at TGIF people can submit questions using it, or they can just ask them in person at the event.
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by sgk284 18y ago
It's easy: show me the code. Links to quick examples and tutorials that show me what and how this language can do are amazingly useful. Pretty much you want the primary focus to be on using your language, not selling it. You have a navbar a
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by sgk284 18y ago
I'm a big python user, with some lisp coding in the past. I took a look at his code and I'm just wondering if this is any different than xrange() in python? For those that don't know, xrange is a generator of integer sequences... a way of i

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