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by user24 16y ago
parent deleted the post, presumably because it was downvoted. http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=RiderOfGiraffes Wrote: "Same story submitted three days ago and ignored", with a link to their own submission. My reply: One of the benefits
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by user24 16y ago
I agree with you. If the product is as flaky as you suggest, then by all means get them together for a concept discussion with some slides mocking up the functionality, but when they see the product, they'll need to be very understanding to
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by user24 16y ago
Well hang on now - be clear that Hackernews and ycombinator are two different things. If this[1] is the DC post you're talking about, then that's a DC version of ycombinator , and I fully support that kind of 'fragmentation'. A UK YC would
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by user24 16y ago
if you're trying to train a system for sentiment analysis, it's quite a useful corpus.
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by user24 16y ago
True to a degree, but also you've made it more 'ok' for people to describe themselves as hackers, which has rubbed off into the popular consciousness. Reading Hackers and Painters (the essay not the book) was the first time I'd realised tha
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by user24 16y ago
> Couldn't really find much after googling http://www.google.com/search?q=take+screenshots+of+websites+... http://www.google.com/search?q=webpage+screenshot+script
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by user24 16y ago
context: http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/life/hacks_traditions/ha... (thanks tineye)
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by user24 16y ago
"Cracker" is preferred, but it will take a long time for the media to get that.
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by user24 16y ago
This is worrying then. That's a good argument, that phreaking wasn't constructive. I once started making a Lego robot that could play my gameboy. That's not constructive at all either. But I'd like both of those to be great examples of hack
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by user24 16y ago
maybe they need to reclaim the word Salesperson from the slimeballs then ;)
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by user24 16y ago
I suggest that figuring out how to use PS3s as a supercomputer would be a great hack whether it subverted sony's business or not. There's nothing shameful in being associated with Wozniak or Draper or any of the great technological innovato
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by user24 16y ago
I'm starting to see it breaking into more common usage[1]. I agree that we've a way to go yet, and I agree that it's not hugely important. But I still think there needs to be a word for 'innovative tinkerer', and that 'hacker' is that word,
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by user24 16y ago
fun game! Much more polished than my submission was - http://10k.aneventapart.com/Uploads/243/ - a spatial bookmark manager. I ran out of time to fix the bugs.
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Thank PG: For reclaiming the word 'hacker'
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by user24 16y ago
until you have users, how do you know which parts of your app are going to be the bottlenecks?
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by user24 16y ago
Why would Google buy dropbox? How does it fit with their established advertising business? How does it feed into their other offerings? Your claim seems to be "dropbox is profitable, therefore Google should buy it" - Ben and Jerry's is prof
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by user24 16y ago
remember: "being offered for" != "selling for"
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by user24 16y ago
Better, but imo an even better way would be to avoid the refresh-on-dismiss and simply hide the drill overlay on dismiss. Then ensure that any links in the content point to the original source (eg by adding a base href to the copied content
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by user24 16y ago
Having tried the product out, I understand what it does (which as jeroen rightly says, your homepage doesn't communicate), but I still don't understand why I would want it.
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by user24 16y ago
Bug report: If you drill a page then click a link within that page and click the drill thingie that goes over the scrollbar, you get the drill for the original URL, not the new one. Eg: http://drilll.com/http://www.puremango.co.uk/2010/10/
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by user24 16y ago
see also: http://js1k.com for a more 'grass roots' demoscene-y sort of contest.
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by user24 16y ago
This was a fun contest, but I was disappointed to see the majority of winners were games. In fact only 7 out of the 'top' 16 weren't games. Also there was no discussion about why the winning entries were judged as they were, so the opportun
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by user24 16y ago
Definitely start a blog - I start mine 6 years ago and it's been a huge motivator to create cool software projects, and it's connected me to like-minded people. Just get a wordpress install up on some random domain and start talking about y
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by user24 16y ago
I feel like all my PR efforts are focused on sending one email to one person and hoping to get one link back from it, or writing one blog post and hoping google will pick it up. Surely there are more efficient ways to promote myself than th
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by user24 16y ago
and if, like the vast majority of wikipedia traffic you're not, there's not.
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by user24 16y ago
How to reach your audience without one-at-a-timing. Example: I'm trying to build an audience for my project weddingbudgetbuddy.com, I'm posting on wedding forums, I've been blogging to get some google juice and I plan to start emailing some
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by user24 16y ago
replying in case someone years from now reads this: Gur nafjre vf f. avar va ebzna ahzrenyf vf vk, nqq na f naq lbh trg fvk ;)
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by user24 16y ago
> for many Yes, for many sites with a technical audience. But for sites with an older, less technically sophisticated userbase, IE still has the vast majority over other browsers. I hear what you're saying about the widget. But is that
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by user24 16y ago
Writing style is an important aspect of modern academia. This reply will address the topic of academic style and will consider several ways to approach it, while maintaining a focus on the conciseness generally preferred in this medium. In
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by user24 16y ago
For my undergrad robotics project I created a lego robot which played blackjack - you fed it a card and it moved a light sensor over all possible 'pip' positions on the card to determine which card it was given, then it twisted until it rea

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