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by spokey 16y ago
I've just started listening to the episode, but on the subject of public-radio-for-developers, I've always thought it would be interesting, or at least possible, to do a "Car Talk" for programmers, where people call in with thorny bugs and
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by spokey 16y ago
I had high hopes on reading the title, but as noted in TFA, this only really works if none of your users ever bookmark a page or follow a link from Google or another website. He's using a very limited definition of "all traffic", namely "al
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by spokey 16y ago
I happen know a lot of HR people from different organizations and have discussed this very question with them. As a class, they seem discourage this sort of background research, and to strongly discourage hiring managers from doing it direc
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by spokey 16y ago
I agree that "hacking" connotes more than simply "coding". I'm not going to venture more complete definition here, but I think a lot of the themes around "unix culture" (e.g., small pieces loosely joined), open source (e.g. bazaar vs. cathe
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by spokey 16y ago
That was disappointing. A nice survey of Oatmeal comics, but there was very little "how to" information in this presentation.
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by spokey 16y ago
I don't disagree with what you're saying, but I think we should be careful that "hacker" doesn't lose meaning altogether. This thread is coming close to defining "hacking" as simply "winning". That is, if it works, it's hackerly, if it doe
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by spokey 16y ago
Omniture is rather expensive and somewhat difficult to use. Scalability won't be a problem with either. A more fundamental decision point is understanding what kinds of information you want to track:what metrics are important to you? You're
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by spokey 16y ago
Neat. Can you explain where each site's tags are coming from?
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by spokey 16y ago
If you are trying to get people to actually use this, I'd suggest letting anonymous visitors create a list immediately (and then register to save it). As a random web user, I'd need a more compelling reason to register, let alone hand over
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by spokey 16y ago
> There's no such equivalent thing going on at Reddit. As far as we know.
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by spokey 16y ago
Yay! I think I can make this one.
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by spokey 16y ago
FWIW, I happen to have worked with and even hired a fairly large number (maybe 5) of folks that once worked for Playboy. As far as I could tell (and certainly as far as I was concerned) there was no stigma associated with this, even at mode
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by spokey 16y ago
Thomas, were you intentionally choosing a bland/generic logo in an effort to prove your point? Just from glancing at the 99 Designs logo store, here's a few logos that, while still generic (in the sense that they have nothing to do with bi
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by spokey 16y ago
> on the old one the text looks squashed If you're just looking the screenshot in the blog (as opposed to clicking thru to a larger view), I think it really is squashed. Try going straight to http://images1.bingocardcreator.com/blog-i
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by spokey 16y ago
Interesting research, link-bait headline. I don't understand what the first paragraph (regarding "metrosexual" men) has to do with the rest of the article or research. Is modesty considered a metrosexual trait? I think I'd associate metro
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by spokey 16y ago
More often than not, it's these sort of comments that sadden me most when reading HN. I actually expected the OP to be about this very topic. Although my account isn't very old, I've lurked at HN off and on for quite a while. It is my impr
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by spokey 16y ago
I actually found the last line: Facebook paid [ConnectU] $65m to go away. to be the most interesting. I don't follow the Facebook story very closely, but I had no idea that much money changed hands over the ConnectU thing.
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by spokey 16y ago
> It's meaningless to argue about 'levels of similarity', in a legal context. The question is whether the second author based himself on the artistic values that the original author put in the work. That's an excellent point, and I unde
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by spokey 16y ago
I'd rather not promote this content by linking to it. Thank you for that link, it's a great overview.
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by spokey 16y ago
Believe me, I won't, but note that the "same content from multiple domains" problem is precisely what spinning sets out to solve. It's not the same content, certainly not at a superficial level.
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by spokey 16y ago
I don't know exactly. What's a tiny bit of link juice worth? What's a tiny edge in Google ranking worth? If it is simply sending an email, then, sure I'll spend two minutes doing that. If I need to engage a lawyer, no it's probably not wort
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by spokey 16y ago
> They have effectively created an entirely new document espousing all of the same ideas as yours, IMO, that describes the situation well > and on which you would not have any copyright claims. That is also my understanding, unless
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Ask HN: I may have been spun. Is there anything I can do about it?
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by spokey 16y ago
In a crude fashion this isn't difficult to do: Simply look for things like emotionally charged words and phrases, certain sentence structures, or maybe even word and sentence length. This is a fairly well studied area, search on the keyword
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by spokey 16y ago
I'll second this feedback, and add one other minor point: I wouldn't use the acronym (or is that an abbreviation since it is not pronounceable?) "IaaS" as part of that signup form. I do a lot of work with SaaS and it took me a minute to fi
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by spokey 16y ago
Hi Mark. You've already covered my startup, a bike reference for cyclists (VenturePimp writeup at at http://venturepimp.com/post/673622703/brightspoke ; my site lives at http://brightspoke.com/ ) but I'd like to thank your for your kind w
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by spokey 16y ago
This is cute and maybe even prescient, but if you recall there were plenty of Apple phone rumors swirling around in 2004. E.g., a quick search found this (December) 2004 article from Forbes that validates some of the rumors that were circul
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by spokey 16y ago
I used to work for a company that produces a well known encyclopedia as well dictionaries and thesauri and other reference works and I can tell you this practice makes for a lot of fun. These sort of textual watermarks make it easy to trac
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by spokey 16y ago
May I recommend that if you're new to Ruby and especially if you're new to programming as a whole you may be better off with web framework like Sinatra rather than Rails. Rails has a lot of "magic" and a fair bit of code generation that is
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by spokey 16y ago
> (also pacifism is neither extreme nor wrong) I think there was a little miscommunication there. DavidW wrote > [My daughter] doesn't have such extremist political views ("pacifiers for all!" is probably the most controversial). I'

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