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by smokinn 16y ago
Quick question: What's the definition of "Top"? Is it the most pageviews? If so, your top list is going to become stagnant since putting something on the homepage is going to give it a disproportionate amount of views. Suggestions would be
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Ah ok that makes sense. I'm a big fan of not cluttering up my codebase with special cases for launches if things will resolve themselves naturally in a couple of days. It's a pretty nice product though. Here's my list: http://www.7bks.com/
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Is it just me or is the main site broken? All the top lists either have outright broken images: http://www.7bks.com/list/196001 or a big 7 Missing Image pic: http://www.7bks.com/list/484001 http://www.7bks.com/list/565001 http://www.
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That "only benefit" is a pretty massive one considering AdSense accounts for nearly all of Google's profit.
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The problem with OKCupid rejection is that rejection is not real. You can easily spam out messages to all the hot girls and "rejection" is really a non-reply. Meaning that "rejection" is invisible. In real life rejection means a "walk of sh
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by smokinn 16y ago
I know this is off-topic and you'll be at -4 soon but beyond comparison? Really? I can easily think of an apt comparison: Windows ME. Though ME was much much worse than Vista.
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It's obviously not a given that you get programmers together and they create value. There's a lot more to a business than coding. What I was arguing is not that bubbles don't pop but rather that you can't call everything a bubble because
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When I needed to get my wisdom teeth removed I googled local dentists and found one that had a decent website with an online contact form. I made my reservation through email. The only reason it isn't more common to do this yet is precisely
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by smokinn 16y ago
Sort of. The problem with calling everything a bubble is the implication that bubbles inevitably pop. In our industry, good programmers tend to create a vastly disproportionate amount of value compared to what they're paid. It's easy to pay
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People will only cease trying to get the maximum out of their batteries once we have wireless power and the phone starts charging itself as soon as you step into your home or office. The technology has been demonstrated to work but it seems
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by smokinn 16y ago
No, it's only exactly the same as the high end Android phones. Here's a list that shows the huge variation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Android_devices I have a phone that's at the same price point as the iPhone (Samsung Galaxy S
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This clip from the british TV show IQ goes into those kinds of numbers. It's staggering. Especially for black men. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E7wgFcCefE
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by smokinn 16y ago
Works great, thanks a lot!
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The gp's post was about risk, not innovation. The path Google is going down now (adding more features and bloat into their results) is risky because a lot of the population likes how simple and easy to use Google is. The more features they
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by smokinn 16y ago
Also, that preview window thing you get when you click in the description text. Personally, it annoys the hell out of me because I'm a compulsive clicker and I really wish there was some way to turn it off permanently but it's definitely an
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by smokinn 16y ago
If you're actually interested in what happened (you may just be venting, can't really tell) there's an excellent talk called "Big Fat Fiasco" on youtube that goes into the history of the lipid hypothesis (fat makes you fat) and how it got h
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by smokinn 16y ago
The problem with pagerank is that it's exceedingly hard to a/b test. There's multiple factors involved in this but here's a few of the obvious ones:s For most sites your pagerank is typically determined by your root. (Unless google detects
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by smokinn 16y ago
The problem with pagerank is that it's exceedingly hard to a/b test. There's multiple factors involved in this but here's a few of the obvious ones: For most sites your pagerank is typically determined by your root. (Unless google detects y
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I have only a little experience here (I realized I very nearly burned out once but only after I narrowly avoided it mostly through luck) but personally I find the best way to ward off burnout is realistic planning. He absolutely nails it wh
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by smokinn 16y ago
If this is what you're talking about http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2020416 it's still on the front page. It never had any comments though. The one thing I really think should be changed on HN is this job posting with no comments non
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That big gap between the two is actually the Thar Desert.
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Whose house is of glasse, must not throw stones at another(gettys.wordpress.com)
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by smokinn 16y ago
Not really. The real reason is 2 letters long: QQ EDIT: To explain and not be snarky, QQ is an IM/portal/social network/web mail/social game platform that is actually larger than Facebook. (Over 600 million active last I checked.) They comp
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Your link only shows a tiny excerpt for me.
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No big revelations? What about DynCorp? US-based private security contractor DynCorp, who was hired by the US to train Afghani police, was apparently supplying drugs and young boys for a sort of sex party. The details are horrifying. The A
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It took about 18 seconds to get a response from the server and about 25 to load the page completely. Montreal, Canada
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Billing these days is very easy if you're willing to pay a little more to outsource all the hard parts. If you can code just download the paypal nvp sample code for something like website payments pro and you can easily have a clean, profes
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They stay in business by not having much of a business to start off with. It's entirely crowdsourced and their core programs/extensions are hosted by other companies and haven't been majorly updated in quite a while as far as I can tell. Ho
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I'm not so sure this is going to be a beneficial partnership for DDG. It might hurt the quality of the search results. When I was looking into this sort of market (website trust metrics/scam+spam defense) WoT was the biggest player but thei
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by smokinn 16y ago
I agree. It would be much clearer if you used a hover css property and put cursor: move;

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