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xirium
18y ago
Scott Adams recommended that loyal and productive staff be rewarded with additional holiday; that staff can purchase additional holiday and that everyone leaves work at 5PM. He called it the OA5 business process ( http://news.ycombinator.c
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An analysis of the X- headers in spam
(rajshekhar.net)
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xirium
18y ago
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xirium
18y ago
The Iron Man film is astounding; better than expected. It is bursting with comedy. The visual style of the film is similar to The Dark Knight. The gadgetry is amazing. For example, you'll love Tony Stark's multi-monitor desktop. And I've ne
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xirium
18y ago
Your website is down.
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xirium
18y ago
You can nest obfuscated references: http://www.rushy.com/cgi-bin/uggc.cgi?action=link&url=ug...
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xirium
18y ago
Three million messages per day is the same volume as those sent by the population of Bulgaria - which has seven million people and 85% mobile telephone usage.
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Uggc: URL Obfuscation Service Version 1.0 Source Code
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xirium
18y ago
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Uggc: URL Obfuscation Service
(rushy.com)
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xirium
18y ago
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xirium
19y ago
Thank you. You also want to mirror the update utility ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=173354 ).
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Y Combinator Dataset Update Utility Version 1.1 Released
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xirium
19y ago
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xirium
19y ago
Thank you. You may also want to mirror user data ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=173045 ).
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xirium
19y ago
Firstly, that would require installing it :). Secondly, this is being served by a very old server which, from empirical testing, wouldn't cope with this type of protocol. Thirdly, I have to keep borrowed bandwidth to a manageable level duri
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Y Combinator Dataset Of Users
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xirium
19y ago
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xirium
19y ago
To demonstrate that http://y.soho.lt/ is not a wrapper, the dataset has been made available. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=172701 for details. Is this weekend good for a site search bake-off or do you need more time?
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Y Combinator Dataset Of Posts
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xirium
19y ago
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xirium
19y ago
http://y.soho.lt/ is not a wrapper. It is 8KB of web services with data held locally which is a proof-of-concept for a larger search system. http://y.soho.lt/ also runs on limited resources, namely virtual hosting. Furthermore, we were
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xirium
19y ago
Searching searchyc.com for common single-words has improved greatly. Searching for "startup" previously took more than 30 seconds. However, you're still slower than http://y.soho.lt/ for multi-word searches.
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xirium
19y ago
Spam?
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xirium
19y ago
Yes, I've read this in a Bill Bryson book. I'm fairly certain it is from Notes From A Small Island by Bill Bryson on the basis this is the only Bill Bryson book that I've read. Anyhow, this pricing convention has many purposes. Firstly, cus
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Why Is Less Than 99.999% Uptime Acceptable?
(ask.slashdot.org)
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xirium
19y ago
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xirium
19y ago
I use a combination of analog and some custom scripts. analog is written by a profession statistician and is a steadfast tool. The custom scripts look for interesting searches. Classics include "What does the fur on a rat do?" and "How do I
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xirium
19y ago
> can't work with the metals There was an article in Make Magazine about the RepRap and it works with metals which have a low melting point, such as Field's metal ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field's_metal ). This allows the RepRap
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xirium
19y ago
I don't see how this is on topic. Could someone please explain?
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xirium
19y ago
Spam!
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xirium
19y ago
From the article: The fastest way through the project is to do it right Too often, managers want to deploy inappropriate technology, colleagues want to build their CV, you have to integrate with a badly designed cashcow or you have an urgen
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xirium
19y ago
For another US$700 you could buy a cheap RAID card and another six disks. That would quadruple the storage and only cost a total of US$1600.
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Fred Wilson: Time To Stop Spending Money
(valleywag.com)
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xirium
19y ago
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xirium
19y ago
I find it astounding that data input devices cost US$2600 each. I find it astounding that manual processes would add US$3 billion to the US$11 billion cost. That's about US$46 per person. I bet you could do it cheaper with punch cards ( ht
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William Gibson: Disneyland With The Death Penalty
(wired.com)
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xirium
19y ago
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xirium
19y ago
I've been outclassed. You win.
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