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by zackzackzack 14y ago
Exception that proves the rule of the quality of Yahoo Answers: Craig Newmark answering a question about how craigslist makes money. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060720194938AA...
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by zackzackzack 14y ago
Ahhhh thank you.
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by zackzackzack 14y ago
Read that entire article. Well worth it. Did it say what year this was in? I think you could infer from the "Think Different" campaign and other tidbits mentioned, but I wasn't really sure.
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by zackzackzack 14y ago
Well, that was fairly depressing.
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by zackzackzack 14y ago
If they signed a legally binding agreement, then I imagine NASDAQ breaking would be part of the game.
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by zackzackzack 14y ago
"Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager: No doubt. But this should have been a blockbuster. This should have traded to $60 or $70. This should have launched a wave of tech IPOs." I think Facebook just deflated the tech IPO bubble for a year or so. No
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by zackzackzack 14y ago
Fun way to generate a bunch at once: for(var i = 0; i< 100; i++) jQuery(".nytg").find("a").click()
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by zackzackzack 14y ago
I am still deeply embedded in undergrad for a year or so, so it's more of "that would be nice someday to do" then a "I hate programming all day long in python" type situation. I'll probably try making a real/useful project with clojure befo
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by zackzackzack 14y ago
Neat. I wish I could find a job that used clojure. To overuse a cliche, I know enough to be dangerous but not enough to be deadly. There is a ton of awesome work being done in the language and it would be fun to really learn it via hard pro
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by zackzackzack 14y ago
Context for those who don't know: jashkenas created backbone.js, a competing library to spine.js.
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by zackzackzack 14y ago
I don't play chess or understand why this matters. What is going on?
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by zackzackzack 14y ago
I wonder how thick the stack of pre nup papers are.
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by zackzackzack 14y ago
X% of college graduates shouldn't have gone to college, where X is some non negative number. Depending on your views, that could be as high as 50% and as low as 1%.
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by zackzackzack 14y ago
To see the video: document.getElementById('likeagsix').style.top="0px"
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by zackzackzack 14y ago
They wouldn't be his projects. They would be the company's.
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by zackzackzack 14y ago
Why is the author still working there?
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by zackzackzack 14y ago
I wish "Positive feedback cycle fuelled by new advertisers' naivete" had a better acronym. PFCFBNAN doesn't have the ring I was hoping it would.
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by zackzackzack 14y ago
It's come out that for a few thousand, you can buy black hat's who will do crappy link building for your competitors. So, possible scenario: Safe Shepard stepped on somebody's toes and they retaliated by hiring (or creating) a ton of crappy
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by zackzackzack 14y ago
Assertion: if somebody comes along and solves a problem that was previously thought solved, then they are solving a new problem. Facebook solved the "How do I share photo's online?" problem. Instagram solved the new problem of "How do I tak
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by zackzackzack 14y ago
I personally don't think Instagram is worth a billion dollars. But the general consensus is that when Zuck saw those numbers and thought of the upcoming IPO, he saw buying Instagram a very good defensive move that would solidify his company
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by zackzackzack 14y ago
That can all be brought back to values though. If you value ${MAX_INT} in your bank account, then working on whatever will get you there is worthwhile to you. Regarding that very last fragment, if you get that money, then somebody is willin
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by zackzackzack 14y ago
It's a shame that all of that talent is working on things the author doesn't think are worthwhile. I mean, everyone should work on what everyone can agree on is worth their time, right? Yet, I don't think everybody can really agree on what
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by zackzackzack 14y ago
^ This may be the hardest I have ever laughed at something from Hacker News. Context: joshu founded Delicious.
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by zackzackzack 14y ago
Fuck, I hate to "actually..." you, but emscripten actually does do a tremendous amount of work with platform libs. Examples: http://syntensity.blogspot.com/2011/05/emscripten-12-doom-on... https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/issues/33
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by zackzackzack 14y ago
It wouldn't. It was more of a realization that I had while I was reading through the kickstarter.
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by zackzackzack 14y ago
Why not just run emacs through emscripten?
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by zackzackzack 14y ago
Rolling with the whole talking to myself thing, I went investigating and implemented some of the suggestions with d3 and pilfered assets: http://cold-mountain-3633.herokuapp.com/ (tested only in chrome) 1. Does "hover and update only one
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by zackzackzack 14y ago
Ahh the data points aren't disjoint sets with respect to netflix/itunes. Interesting.
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by zackzackzack 14y ago
Comments on the data visualization/interface: 1. Differentiate netflix/itunes by color or marker. 2. Find a better way to show density. Messing with the opacity would help, as would contrasting colors. Nothing fancy like 3D, just a way to c
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by zackzackzack 14y ago
I didn't express myself well. What I really meant: Getting out paced by the entire world would be really distressing if I was a media outlet.

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