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by zck 16y ago
Ah, interesting. At least in clisp -- the Lisp I fired up to test this -- the hash is syntax for vectors: > (type-of #(+ 1 2)) (SIMPLE-VECTOR 3)
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by zck 16y ago
Arguably, that's not the same, as long as you define "unless" as not having the hash there. I'm not quite familiar with the hash -- is that just making a vector with println "hi" as its elements? How does the unless work with multiple sta
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by zck 16y ago
>What macros? I’m a bit embarrassed to say I’ve not yet written a single macro. Partially I tend to think the function version should exist regardless in most cases and partly I work with three other Clojure gurus that can satisfy my ma
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by zck 16y ago
>I find it strange, for example, that...Clojure is not in the top 100... It isn't included in the search for Lisp ( http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/tpci_d... ). Email them and they'll add it.
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by zck 16y ago
Get minesweeper.el into Emacs. Whether or not that occurs, start contributing to Emacs. Given that minesweeper.el is winding down (I'm just working on mature optimization at this point), come up with one decent-sized useful project to hack
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by zck 16y ago
That's $35 per acquired user , not per CD. So if you figure that the cds cost a buck to make and ship, they acquired one user for every 35 CDs shipped. That seems high, considering how many I had lying around.
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by zck 16y ago
Microsoft Surface sells for $12,500: http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en/us/Pages/HowToBuy/HowToB... . It's only 30 inches, but you're also getting software when you buy it.
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by zck 16y ago
It's interesting how this website, while presumably written by a typography enthusiast, contains text that is almost entirely all-caps.
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by zck 16y ago
It works for me, Firefox 3.6 on Linux. Searching "airbnb" has the shortname shown: http://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&#3... , while searching "vacation rental for the night" has the standard title shown: http://www
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by zck 16y ago
From http://chrome.blogspot.com/2010/12/browse-for-good-cause.htm... : 10 tabs = 1 tree planted 10 tabs = 1 book published and donated 25 tabs = 1 vaccination treatment provided 100 tabs = 1 square foot of shelter built 200 tabs = 1 perso
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by zck 16y ago
Unless the ethos of the site were changed, you'd have to have any features limited to gold members limited because they're computationally expensive, and not just to encourage payment -- the way reddit lets gold members have different sort
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by zck 16y ago
Did you know about http://searchyc.com/ ? It's a good search engine for HN.
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by zck 16y ago
A blogger is a person who writes a blog. What's Zuckerberg's blog? (hint: Facebook is not a blog. Even if it was, Zuckerberg would have to write blog entries on it for even some part of Facebook to count as his blog)
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by zck 16y ago
What have you done to change in-design products, with no benefit to yourself? Remember that we're talking about non-techies, who aren't excited by the latest, shiniest thing around.
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by zck 16y ago
Why would they come here? Why would they come back?
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by zck 16y ago
>Minimalism and simplicity work well for HN, and I don't think there'd be a clear enough benefit here to warrant the added complexity and occasional annoyance to legitimate users. HN is less simple than you think: you can't vote or make
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by zck 16y ago
Ideally, you'd want the users to read and understand the article, if understandable. However, as this is difficult to implement, opening the page is a the minimum you'd have to do to understand it. If users voting on articles without readin
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by zck 16y ago
But people won't stop themselves. From a user's point of view: yes, you should stop yourself, but that takes effort to remember to read the article first. From pg's point of view (as this argument goes): no matter how many times you ask, pe
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by zck 16y ago
>What do you need for verification? Do you want to talk to my surgeon? I think that's the opposite of what people want: it's a matter of authentication -- how do we know the person that put up the website is forwarding the money to the
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by zck 16y ago
And that was said by the US coach. He should know better.
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by zck 16y ago
You should be able to get it at http://news.ycombinator.com/apply . If not, go to http://ycombinator.com/late.html
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by zck 16y ago
From http://news.ycombinator.com/w2011form : >For each founder, please list: YC username; ... personal url, github url, facebook id, twitter id;...
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by zck 16y ago
Pick something small and write it. A firefox extension? An iphone app? A website that randomly picks toppings for nachos? Some task with an Arduino, since you are interested in hardware? Just work on it until you're satisfied with it, or co
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by zck 16y ago
The first link in pg's email that you quote in your post asks to be kept confidential. You might want to redact it.
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by zck 16y ago
The entire source of HN (modulo some antispam stuff) as of last year is available at http://ycombinator.com/arc/arc3.1.tar .
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by zck 16y ago
Two years ago, when dilbert.com was redesigned, Adams talked about the Linux/Unix fast page in a blog post: http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2008/04/dilb... He doesn't explicitly say this, but I think the only way he could
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by zck 16y ago
Ah, good. Arc 3.1 was released sometime before 2009-08-04, since those are the timestamps of my unpacked .jar file. The post you linked is about six months old. Maybe I wasn't as confused as I thought I was.
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by zck 16y ago
Looking at the arc 3.1 source, I'm not sure why that's the case. The real work here is done by * frontpage-rank* . It's implemented as follows: (def frontpage-rank (s (o scorefn realscore) (o gravity gravity* )) (* (/ (let base (- (
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by zck 16y ago
The average is calculated by taking your most recent 50 comments, dropping the first five, dropping the max, and averaging the rest. Yours is currently 7.14 (it's in your profile), a very high average. For comparison, of the 100 people on t
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by zck 16y ago
I can't find anything in the arc source to support that. Can you point me to something?

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