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by user24 15y ago
One 'getting things done' tip I've adopted is to catch myself writing "I will" in an email and change it to "I have", then go and do it. It works pretty well.
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Why Design Comes First: True Confessions of a Guilty Coder(silverstripe.org)
2 points by user24 15y ago|0 comments
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by user24 15y ago
This spreadsheet is a great idea! I've added my idea, an idea that I've been thinking about since last november; wedding budget planning software. It's a great niche, the competition is fierce but utterly rubbish; there are results in the t
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by user24 15y ago
I think he means 'real' karma i.e. warm fuzzy feelings, rather than HN points.
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What Being Number One On Google Gets You(puremango.co.uk)
2 points by user24 15y ago|0 comments
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by user24 15y ago
this is why HN needs to show points. I upvoted you, and I imagine many others have too, but OP will never know if you're just a lone voice or if you have the approval of 20 other HNers.
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by user24 15y ago
I did a report during my undergrad (2005) on AI chatterbots and compared various bots; they all had huge distances to go before approaching any kind of real conversation. During my masters (2009) I studied computational linguistics and foun
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Siri meets Eliza(jordanmechner.com)
254 points by user24 15y ago|29 comments
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by user24 15y ago
contact the person who runs the site, I'm sure they'll do their best. From what I've read here, it's just one person doing this because they enjoy doing it. You tend to get excellent customer service from those types of ventures.
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by user24 15y ago
and they acquired that money while they had getdropbox.com. If get was a bad thing, it certainly didn't seem to hurt dropbox is what I'm saying.
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by user24 15y ago
dropbox started with getdropbox.com and it didn't seem to do them any harm. Their customers were techies though so I take your point about lay people not being 'used' to them. It's really a pretty arbitrary decision though, 'google' means n
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by user24 15y ago
it's been know for a long time that Murdoch regrets buying it; here's an article I remember from 2008: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/207876/murdoch-fumes-as-facebook...
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What we don't know (web design)(css-tricks.com)
4 points by user24 15y ago|0 comments
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by user24 15y ago
*feat. But I'd say that 121,000 is pretty amazing feet too...
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by user24 15y ago
This is why I mentioned that it's not all low hanging fruit. Movie listings? Requires feed integration, handling a lot of data, non-trivial presentation. Same with weather. Getting a good weather app is not 10 seconds of coding. Some, like
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by user24 15y ago
This is something that's been going on for a while - Google killing small web apps; Convertors, calculators, movie listings, ip finders, weather stats, stocks. It's not all low-hanging fruit. I'm not saying they shouldn't be doing this, nor
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by user24 15y ago
http://www.takethislollipop.com/assets/takethislollipopv4.mp...
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by user24 15y ago
Yeah, I was taught roulette wheel at university but I think that tournament is a much better way of doing selection.
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by user24 15y ago
yes yes, good UI design helps. I work in an industry where a huge majority of our traffic comes from people typing our domain name into google and clicking the top link. That's not a UI problem, it's a problem with users not being comfortab
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by user24 15y ago
IIRC it's something to do with the fact that lisp can easily be represented as a tree and so crossover is very simple; just swap branches. I don't know lisp so I'm just regurgitating info I picked up at university.
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by user24 15y ago
yeah I think genetic programming is often done with Lisp.
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by user24 15y ago
I did the same in Javascript a while ago with a genetic algorithm. http://www.puremango.co.uk/2010/12/genetic-algorithm-for-hel... (HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2002673 ) Again just evolving a string not a full prog
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by user24 15y ago
users are stupid, they've probably got capslock on, or they're trying to log in via the address bar or some other totally random nonsense behaviour.
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by user24 15y ago
The trouble with these names is that you have things like #7a937d comes up as Xanadu. And there are other weird names in there like "Blanched Almond" and "Bubble gum" which are fine if everyone knows you're talking about a colour, but if yo
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by user24 15y ago
Oh, thanks. I thought maybe there was some reason why this was posted today (esp given that I just read your meta-joke blog post) other than the inherent interestingness of meta-humour. Fair enough; although the comment did look like it, it
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by user24 15y ago
Can someone explain why this link is here? Am I missing something? Genuine question.
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by user24 15y ago
I uploaded a copy to http://puremango.co.uk/sicp.mobi Which you should be able to download directly from the kindle's web browser. For some reason trying to download it directly from github fails when you try to access it directly from th
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by user24 15y ago
The actual JS source is minified which makes it almost impossible to read (but if someone has the time to pick over it and post an 'autopsy of a stickman' blog post I'm sure the karma will flow readily!). Often, a quick right-click will be
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by user24 15y ago
it's certainly not flash, it's canvas/svg/JS, check out the source (View->Source or Tools->Web Developer->Page Source)
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by user24 15y ago
nice ;) I was once going to get this tattooed: <?=phpinfo(); ?> I still think about getting a code tattoo from time to time. I'm not really a PHP developer any more though. I like the meta meaning of yours, it's timeless. Even if th

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