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by thorax 18y ago
That's not very fair. "Worthwhile" can be judged in lots of ways. I agree that math and economics are very practical, but that doesn't mean philosophy is without value. I was a very interested in philosophy in college, and if I had chosen a
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by thorax 18y ago
I use 8aweek.com for a similar benefit.
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by thorax 18y ago
Well, I wouldn't worry about share price so much as their overall worth. It's heavily reflected there, though: Netflix ($1.8 billion) has nearly four times the market capitalization of Blockbuster ($472 million). The fact that the CEO is co
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by thorax 18y ago
As much as I love hearing feedback (thanks!), I don't really want to get a side thread going about our site in this other team's thread. Not really fair to them. As briefly as I can: The Firefox extension allows anonymous search/contributio
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by thorax 18y ago
I like the idea! I like it so much that our startup last year targetted the same general audience with a custom error search engine: http://bug.gd http://bug.gd/info/faq We've only grabbed error codes where we can find/recommend a solut
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by thorax 18y ago
Best. Extension. Ever. (Sorry. Yet, if you challenge that, I absolutely want to know what you think is better so I can install it.)
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by thorax 18y ago
We're actually looking at doing some BOSS-optimized searches on one of our sites, too. Really enjoy using the API so far. Y! gets a lot of points in my book for trying this out. If you can't be the #1 search engine, get a piece of all the l
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by thorax 18y ago
Likewise. Their version of Active Record isn't the same as those from other frameworks, but we use the built-in one from Code Igniter. There's another floating around that's closer to the RoR style.
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by thorax 18y ago
I really do like them. This sort of timeline search view was the first I've been excited about for years: http://www.viewzi.com/search/cronotron/ycombinator
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by thorax 18y ago
I have a feeling a lot of people around here did. We demo'd one of our upcoming products to Jason.
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by thorax 18y ago
There's a ctrl key in the top right of the screen rather than on the keyboard.
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by thorax 18y ago
What version control system are you using?
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by thorax 18y ago
Someone you respect and trust lies to you and you fall for it. Film at 11. Even if these guys aren't falling for it, they're trying not to make the fellow look too dumb on this. I would be more comfortable with this test if it didn't includ
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by thorax 18y ago
Which makes me wonder if we're going to see something crazy: What if Apple's new announcement this year will be a lower-priced Mac notebook with built-in 3G-- price-subsidized by carriers to make it feel more competitive? How many of you wo
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by thorax 18y ago
I disagree a lot on the relevancy of prices. When you're a startup or a family looking to buy a handful of machines, the extra $800 adds up quickly to cut in half (roughly) the number of machines you can afford. Do I get a Mac for me or do
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by thorax 18y ago
Really needs a quick way to get your friends in the room. Should actually be very visible and very easy to get them in that room chatting with you. Perhaps an obviously marked URL to copy/paste or something like that?
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by thorax 18y ago
Well, to be fair, non-blog businesses don't often make exits either. There have been a more interesting blog "exits" lately than I would have expected, so it's harder to write them off for trying.
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by thorax 18y ago
Yeah, that part seemed really odd to me, too. Aside from post office interaction, it doesn't feel like it's much like Netflix at all.
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by thorax 18y ago
If I had to guess, it's because overnight, maybe, it does a lot of indexing that forces pretty much everything to swap out to disk? And maybe with everything paged-out, the whole machine is slow when I need it the most? It just doesn't seem
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by thorax 18y ago
They should have been linking users to Wordscraper at the top of Scrabulous. Or on the taken-down page for Scrabulous.
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by thorax 18y ago
We had simply an amazingly good experience at 99designs. Got 138 different logo revisions (maybe 40-50 different concepts) for ~$400 (we offered first and second prize). There were literally dozens that were good enough to use.
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by thorax 18y ago
Yeah, it gets really bad for me, too. I had to uninstall it. I have like 6 gigs of historical emails, though. Maybe I'm atypical, but it just slowed down Outlook to a crawl after a while.
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by thorax 18y ago
Anecdote: The only THREE people I sent to posterous.com all were somehow totally confused about how to signup. I had to point out to each of them that it says you don't have to signup. Really, it's very strange. People are trained to sign
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by thorax 18y ago
Well, aside from cross-blog publishing, I see a lot of benefit to announcing a blog post on Twitter and also store the photo over on Flickr. Those seem like no-brainer features that would be appealing to a lot of people.
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by thorax 18y ago
I'm a big fan of allowing people to post in multiple places. Especially when you're talking about flickr and/or Twitter which serve different uses than a blog might. I think the primary thing I want to make me feel better about Posterous is
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by thorax 18y ago
If you end up going with raw text, but semi-organized, you might look into something like ELIE. I've never, ever used it, but stumbled upon it today in a different context: http://www.aidanf.net/software/elie-an-adaptive-information-...
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by thorax 18y ago
Sneaky. They released a new variation called Wordscraper: http://apps.facebook.com/wordscraper You can make your own custom boards, it seems, but otherwise it's the same game so far. Screenshot: http://screencast.com/t/Cb1m0kGeVh
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by thorax 18y ago
These were my thoughts, too. Using functions instead of decorators would have many more benefits. I guess they could argue that some of the runtime performance moves to instantiation in the decorator approach. Still, warn the new coders aga
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by thorax 18y ago
You know, my first reaction was the same as yours. But now I'm thinking "nifty hack" now that I've taken my Pythonista hat off. Exploring stuff like that is what hacking is all about. I'd strangle someone who wrote a library like that for m
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by thorax 18y ago
Well, you're pretty much describing "vertical" search engines. There are a lot of those these days, and I think they have good chances of being successful, too. It's like what we're doing over at bug.gd-- building up an error-based search e

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