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by user24 16y ago
That's a really clever idea, I've no idea if it would work, but that's some great sideways thinking you've got there.
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by user24 16y ago
> Is there some other way to show what the most interesting comments in a thread are? a vague indicator instead of discrete values. People enjoy seeing their karma for a comment tick over from 3 to 4, but seeing a little thermometer ris
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by user24 16y ago
Limit us to N upvotes per day. In other words - make votes precious. That way people will think more about how to 'spend' their precious votes. A similar thing works in poker. If you empty out your change jar and give everyone a fixed amoun
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by user24 16y ago
or is it an OEDizm?
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by user24 16y ago
actually some of it looks pretty handy, like the 'startup kit' for £20 including £30 in adwords
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by user24 16y ago
awesome idea, nice execution so far - keep us updated on your progress!
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by user24 16y ago
;) I've never been happier to be downvoted!
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by user24 16y ago
what would this solve? I'd rather see an un-vote option.
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by user24 16y ago
see also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2361683
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by user24 16y ago
chatbots are full of these simple little tricks to make people say "oh wow, lol, it even has typos". To distract people from the fact that the sentence grammar is often bad, let alone the conversation flow.
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by user24 16y ago
I run a few wallpaper sites which make profit on the domain registration fee (eg http://geekwallpapers.com ) and also the adverts on my blog make me some pocket money :) The blog I've been growing for six years, the wallpaper sites are pr
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by user24 16y ago
yeah I think those courses do still exist, mine was a straight-up MSc though.
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by user24 16y ago
It's not so unusual, I was accepted into my Computer Science MSc (at Oxford) without a CS background - I did have a first class BA, but it was a joint honours in IT and Philosophy from a more-or-less unknown university (Lampeter). Anyone wh
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by user24 16y ago
Thanks. It actually means a lot that you said 'hope you do too', it's nice to have someone out there who understands how this feels. Thanks for the link too :)
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by user24 16y ago
It's not about the product, it's about the passion behind it. I'm a classic example of this. I have some great ideas, but so far I always lack the attention span to see them through. And, sadly, it seems as I get older my projects end up de
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by user24 16y ago
> I don't believe PHP's ini_read caches anything. so check if the ini file key is in memcache, if so get it from there, if not, ini_read it and populate the cache. Not hard.
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by user24 16y ago
hehe, I didn't even notice you were the submitter on this! Anyway, Visual Website Optimiser has always struck me as a really great product. I keep pushing to use A/B testing for our stuff work, it's where the future is!
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by user24 16y ago
Hey, a friend of mine from university works there. Hi Sparsh! (It's Howard)
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by user24 16y ago
Your comment and descendants are the only ones of value on this submission, along with one other comment from Stormbringer. Mine was a desperate attempt to provide some kind of substance before the comments descended into the jokes and one-
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by user24 16y ago
http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/ (PS: most of the comments on this item aren't very useful. Try to be useful when commenting, even in the face of stupidity such as this)
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by user24 16y ago
interesting. But, you know, it would still not be good even if the weather wasn't heading for the USA.
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by user24 16y ago
sadly not. I had it running on my own blog for a few weeks, collecting data which I then analysed. I'd have loved to have got a nice plugin put together for it all but I didn't get it that far. Got a distinction for it though! You can read
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by user24 16y ago
My MSc thesis was on exactly this - adaptive web sites. It's a fascinating research topic.
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by user24 16y ago
Am I right in thinking that a use case for this could be: I'm about to leave a friend's house to walk back to my place, so I launch the app and it tracks me until I get home, so my friends can know I've made it back safely or, if anything h
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by user24 16y ago
Microsoft Underground Chiptune Resistance!
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by user24 16y ago
looks like there's a need for a mturk preferred worker aggregation service.
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by user24 16y ago
actually I don't put any work into getting referrals at all, so I don't know. I wrote a blog post about it and put the link on twitter a few times, and the referrals just keep pouring in - I'd love to know where they all come from to be hon
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by user24 16y ago
I'm up to 11GB free, it's possible. I've sent them over 150 referrals, most of whom've completed signup. Plus doing things like taking the tutorial, etc. The referral model by dropbox must be awesome for customer acquisition.
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by user24 16y ago
ahhh, so W is pronouced 'vay' and V is 'vau'. I see. I got the german pronunciation confused with the french (which is double-vay), and assumed that Germans were pronouncing 'w' as 'v' in www. But I was wrong. Thanks!
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by user24 16y ago
I think this is the same in Germany (www.google.de is pronounced vay-vay-vay google de). I could be wrong though, I'm basing this off a net radio advert I heard in german once.

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