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by user24 16y ago
it's not about the final score the comment gets, it's about the amount of influence early in the story. edit: Also, I kicked off the downvoting when you were on 1 point, as an experiment. I wonder if the other 3 people who downvoted to get
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by user24 16y ago
very badly phrased, but a filter by gender option would probably be a good feature.
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by user24 16y ago
What about the comments that are on 1 point and you mean to upvote them but then misclick and they go to zero? At the early stages of discussion that kind of thing can have a huge impact.
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by user24 16y ago
> get new crap to users NOW thing is, 'new crap' is also unfamiliar crap. Unfamiliar to developers. 5 browsers, 5 teams of developers, results is 5 different ways of doing things. -moz-border-radius and the like are BAD for the web, bec
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by user24 16y ago
related to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2219294 I don't see this meme lasting more than, oh, the next 15 minutes?
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by user24 16y ago
eggheadcafe (example: http://bit.ly/fxIaKE )
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by user24 16y ago
Looks like Quora could do with reading patio11's myths about names: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-b...
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by user24 16y ago
> saddled...
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by user24 16y ago
> you gave me a better idea than what I am currently implementing ^^ why I comment on HN :)
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by user24 16y ago
they used to be like that, but these days they seem to be morphing more into tech business news. Topics are generally acquisitions, funding, the occasional plucky newcomer and long-time sweethearts like twitter.
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by user24 16y ago
promote a hashtag? either literally by sponsoring a promoted trend, or just by adding a hashtag to the tweets your apps generates. at the moment, you ask users to tweet eg "@betnext 5000 on SomeTeam - Feb 7th 2011" Change that to "5000 on S
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by user24 16y ago
I've only studied CS at the Masters level, so I don't have experience of BSc CS. But I would think that there should be enough room to teach some software engineering, yes.
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by user24 16y ago
You're right, I hadn't noticed that the text was a different colour. If you change it to 222222 that completely masks the karma score.
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by user24 16y ago
I've been doing this for at least 3 months now and haven't looked back or found any negative side-effect.
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A little Hackernews hack
2 points by user24 16y ago|4 comments
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by user24 16y ago
A wordpress cache plugin will probably help. I got 25k visits in one day last week on puremango.co.uk which is hosted on a cheap-as-chips dreamhost shared server and AFAIK it didn't blink. Cache FTW.
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by user24 16y ago
> The Duke Computer Science Department ... taught me almost nothing about how to program in the real world That's because that's not what you learn in CS. You wanted to be doing a software engineering degree.
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by user24 16y ago
Site not responding for me. Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
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by user24 16y ago
> actual people on the graph (not one person scaling) yeah I couldn't find an image which showed exactly what I meant, but yes, that is what I had in mind. Although you seem to be suggesting that you should be able to get a literal exac
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by user24 16y ago
If I own example.com, and you own example.org, how would you resolve this name conflict?
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by user24 16y ago
A bit odd UI-wise that the largest column is the least desirable. At least that's assuming that you'll want to visit at quiet periods. If you expanded to include pubs and clubs, popularity might be more desirable. Perhaps change the graphs
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by user24 16y ago
I just wish you'd found that research right in the beginning! It's still not 100% conclusive, but it adds a lot more weight to your claims. But still, I don't understand why Bing felt it necessary to specifically target you! The generic a
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by user24 16y ago
> they are both trying to rank the same internet. Yeah, this was a point I wanted to make in one of my blog posts. If Google wanted to claim some kind of ownership over SERPs, that would be ridiculous because you could easily argue that
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by user24 16y ago
Yeah, I mean you could make the argument that it's just one piece of MS research among thousands of others, etc etc, but the fact that they've sunk resource into literally spying on Google (et al) is just too much. It could still turn out t
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by user24 16y ago
Oh man. That research paper he quoted strongly indicates that MS is specifically targeting Google. I was totally wrong. Bing are copying Google. I'm sorry (I am the "What on earth are Google thinking" author). I still think the honeypot e
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by user24 16y ago
Nice response. I wrote my own "What Bing should have said" response too - http://www.puremango.co.uk/2011/02/what-bing-should-have-sai... - I think we pretty much agree. > The premise a company's own public relations messaging is more
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by user24 16y ago
noprocrast is a great feature. Wish other sites added it. There's Chrome nanny or Leechblock for Firefox; plugins which take a blacklist and blocks you from visiting those sites for a certain amount of time, or at certain times of day. I us
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by user24 16y ago
touché ;)
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by user24 16y ago
yeah, I saw the vid.... it's not really the same though, is it?
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by user24 16y ago
You can't scribble on an E.

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