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by sidsavara 18y ago
It sounds like they've done some research to back up their 5 second logic. I had my own method of "undo" that I've been using - I simply put GMail in offline mode when I am batch replying to emails. Then before I send, I do a quick glance
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by sidsavara 18y ago
I read one study that showed having eyeballs (e.g., a picture of someone looking at you) next to the cash box increased deposits by some N% (I don't want to spout facts as I can't recall the number, but it was n > 10 - double digit perc
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by sidsavara 18y ago
I'm not sure I like this. Let's suppose that this does become standard practice. Now we could end up in a situation where users and corporations disagree on the wording in the terms of service, or about definitions of terms. As a simple ex
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by sidsavara 18y ago
Can someone who is good with greasemonkey please hide the very right hand column, and perhaps expand the middle one ;) I have to get back to work, but if someone else manages to do it I will gladly tweet and update my facebook and spread th
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by sidsavara 18y ago
This is interesting, why an iPhone application rather than something that can be perhaps web-based? I am working on (and by "working on" I mean, I created some messy code 5 months ago and then abandoned it but cling to the dream that I may
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by sidsavara 18y ago
[Edit] I just realized this reads as if I think we should only save people who are worthwhile hackers. That is not what I meant. What I mean is that I think it is appropriate to post to HN, because based on his CV, many of his peers would l
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by sidsavara 18y ago
Why this matters to Hacker News: http://cv.tmorris.net/ A small sampling from that page reads as follows: Tony actively participates and contributes to the open source software community. * Scala core libraries § * ScalaCheck §
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by sidsavara 18y ago
I reposted your submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512587 I think your original is too old, so it's fallen off the new page - which means not in front of enough eyeballs to get voted up and likely won't make the front page at
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by sidsavara 18y ago
It appears the original submission was lost in the mounds of Erlang submissions. I do not know much about it, but it looks legitimate to me, and I don't mind looking foolish if I'm wrong: but I would feel terrible if I did nothing when som
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by sidsavara 18y ago
PG's statement may or may not have caused the flood of Erlang submissions, but I did see a strong positive correlation ;) http://xkcd.com/552/
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by sidsavara 18y ago
It was fun while it lasted ;) Or, incredibly confusing if you had no idea where it came from. PG's actual words are hilarious: "Ok, ok, enough Erlang submissions. You guys are like the crowdsourced version of one of those troublesome overl
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by sidsavara 18y ago
On average you are correct For an individual click it varies. http://www.mydigitallife.info/2006/10/21/google-adsense-givi...
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by sidsavara 18y ago
Actually, Google has an Adwords tools which allow you to estimate what it would cost you to run an ad. IIRC, that has estimated Cost Per Click (CPC) and Cost Per Thousand (CPM) columnns, along with estimated impressions and a sweet API to
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by sidsavara 18y ago
Yeah, but DISQUS is a YC startup ;) Also, I think it would probably help - I'm friends with many people on Facebook who are also on HN. If I could see what they were saying, upvoting, etc, while I am on Facebook, it would probably lead to m
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by sidsavara 18y ago
This is cool, but I believe we saw this on HN a long time ago
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by sidsavara 18y ago
I think the bigger story is (if true) why it was rejected. Apps being rejected or put on hold no longer surprises me, but if the tweet is accurate, that is a pretty dumb reason to reject the app
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by sidsavara 18y ago
One thing that jumps out at me is that #1 is youtube (which I don't know if that is "mass produced" content being linked to, or individuals) Also, #2 is NYT. NYT has some solid blogs, like the Freakonomics blog, and many of their better ar
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by sidsavara 18y ago
And what of the person who correctly guessed, or perhaps had a program misgraded slightly in his favor and made the A? I agree with the sentiment, which is why I liked some of my professors who graded in statistical clusters (of course, eco
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by sidsavara 18y ago
I don't suppose you have a write up or bullet points of what you expanded on for each quote? I recognize this may sound negative, but if this was a list of 12 quotes and not embedded in slides, I don't think it would be worth putting on the
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by sidsavara 18y ago
There's a really nice Gizmodo hands on too: http://i.gizmodo.com/5162584/always-innovating-touch-book-is... Curious, is this the fabled TC tablet? or is this just another company who decides to make this? I really like this concept of a d
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by sidsavara 18y ago
This is good, but old =)
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The Pursuit of Knowledge - in reply to The Paradox of Self-Education(blog.raamdev.com)
2 points by sidsavara 18y ago|0 comments
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by sidsavara 18y ago
I am not a big fan of the article, though I can understand others may enjoy it. I don't like especially off topic posts on HN though. Just my 2 cents. I won't flag it, but I am surprised it was voted to the front page.
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by sidsavara 18y ago
I actually love screencasts. The rubycasts (or whatever they were called) were excellent, and are only a few minutes long. He provided text as well so I could play the screencast on our television while I copied and followed along locally
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by sidsavara 18y ago
I had the same issue which I think is, you don't want to waste time standing in line shopping. I found this (shopping for food) was a huge waste of time in my cooking workflow, so I hired someone to cook for me (won't spam it here, it was
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by sidsavara 18y ago
Agreed, but requiring karma be wagered on a submission I think turns it into even more of a game
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by sidsavara 18y ago
I think we are both on the same page as to what the issue is, but we disagree about the solution =)
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by sidsavara 18y ago
There are two issues with that. One is it makes karma into even more of a competition: 1) Keynesian beauty contest http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_beauty_contest 2) I don't think most spammers care about karma anyway, and will
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by sidsavara 18y ago
If I may briefly interject, one really nice resource for this is the greasemonkey hacker news toolkit script http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039 It can add the 5 newest submissions to the bottom of the front page. This is not a perf
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Browsing the Web with only a Keyboard(blog.raamdev.com)
3 points by sidsavara 18y ago|0 comments

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