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Re: Thin slicing and artificial neural networks

listening to intuition — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 03:47:10 -0000

The advantages of Developing
Intuition

1. Unleashes your imagination and creativity

2. Helps identify and address problems

3. Reduce stress more effectively

4. Integrates right and left brain functions and gives you a more comprehensive
perception on issues

Re: Finding new music

Discover New Music — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 05:59:18 -0000

This is a different form of opinion that many people don’t usually talk about. Usually when I find stuff like this I stumble it. Even though this time I’m unsure if this would be best for the users. I will be sure to submit something else though.

Re: holy crap

yaymukund — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:37:17 -0000

Congrats, sounds like an exciting place to be! :)

Re: what else can we learn from git?

Phil — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 02:21:34 -0000

What's the current status of Djangy? I noticed you mentioned it in past tense here, and there have been no updates on the Djangy blog since December.

Re: Bloomberg radio for startup news

Sameer Sundresh — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 03:23:47 -0000

Financial institutions make their livelihood by predicting and quickly reacting to events related to their diverse portfolio of positions. Up to the minute news lets traders perform trades quicker and more accurately, netting larger profits if they're smart.

Startups need to focus on building their product and market share. Ambient intelligence of what's going on can help you improve your business and technical strategy, but up-to-the-minute updates are more distracting than they are useful. A typical startup can't reposition itself in the market fast enough for there to be much difference between news that's a minute, an hour, or a day old.

Re: online conversations

Jason Baker — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:29:50 -0000

I seem to recall this being one of etacts's goals before they got bought up by salesforce.com.

Re: Reverse Engineering the newest Facebook invite virus

Facebook Virus — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 00:50:53 -0000

Yesterday I got a facebook virus, someone sent me a photo in a chat message, clicked on it, and what do you know? I got rid of it though...

Re: Bloomberg radio for startup news

Dave Paola — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 13:00:20 -0000

Yeah, it's definitely possible that the market doesn't exist. I wonder -- what would it take to do this? Bloomberg radio seems to be 24/7, so it may be tough to do without incurring a huge startup cost. Perhaps this is best suited as a podcast, but that would sort of eliminate the "realtime" aspect of it. Hackers would hate to need to tune in at a specific time each day, so that option is out.I wonder how we'd go about trying this out with an MVP. Seems pretty difficult. But there has to be a sweet spot somewhere....doesn't there?

Re: Bloomberg radio for startup news

Gavin — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 09:37:09 -0000

Leo Laporte on TWiT is trying to be the "CNN of Tech" - but not necessarily the "Bloomberg of Startups" - would there be enough of a market for this? Maybe a text-to-speech online radio network could be created to begin (Iow recurring costs)?

Re: My own climbing gym?

Mitchell Hislop — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 21:15:52 -0000

We played add-on all night once. Kept having to redeclare the start because we forgot it so many times.I could go on for hours with the climbing stories. Basically, I think your point on skills kicks ass, and if you have the shot at making your own wall, do it. We did, and it was so key.

Re: My own climbing gym?

Dave Paola — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:44:19 -0000

Sweet, that's a great idea. We used to play the game where each person would add one movement to the route and everyone would build on it.

Re: My own climbing gym?

Mitchell Hislop — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:05:12 -0000

I used to be a professional rock climber. When setting routes, we would cover the wall in holds, then take them off until we could just do it, and then tweak. Spin some around, make the crimps smaller or change them to slopers, that sort of thing. There is more you can do to make it tough. One thing we tried is not cleaning holds. This makes even the same route you just rocked way harder. This is akin to going at your skill a different way - still making a webapp, just not using your favorite framework or language.

Re: Getting exim4 to relay to non standard ports

Daniel Freedman — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 01:50:56 -0000

I had to use this.

Re: Startup idea: running assistant

ashley162010 — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 06:22:58 -0000

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Re: Verified twitter followers script in python

Daniel Freedman — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 18:10:54 -0000

There's a bug I found. Put that `if from_json['next_cursor'] == 0: break;` right after the for loop on followers. Otherwise you skip the last page of followers.

Re: Another view on feature-creep

Sameer Sundresh — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 18:01:21 -0000

Oh, another reason for feature creep: your base feature set isn't quite right or doesn't always work, but people are already using it, so you cobble on new features. The dream is now users can solve more problems but don't have to change any of their existing workflow, but without an overhaul it doesn't quite work out that happily. This happens all the time.

Re: Another view on feature-creep

Sameer Sundresh — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:22:13 -0000

I think it's true that a lot of creative software--a lot of products--are underused by most of their users. This is particularly true with higher end products, which take a lot of effort on the user's part to get the full value out of them.I know of a large enterprise that paid a year's licensing fees for some high-end software and then didn't use it all year (but renewed and plan to get around to using it). It would be interesting to see the numbers on how many purchasers of various things really fully use them.Another, totally different reason for feature creep is you might need a few specific features to make a sale to a particular account. Think of all the obscure stuff in Microsoft Office, for example. If you can check all the boxes, you win.

Re: Verified twitter followers script in python

Daniel Freedman — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 18:09:57 -0000

I see you even kept the variables the same.

Re: Startup idea: Pomodoro technique webapp

Scott Schulthess — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:49:08 -0000

I wrote a very similar posthttp://www.scottschulth... think I could make a rails app that does it pretty quickly. If I do, I'll hit you up.

Re: What I've learned so far

Justin Tulloss — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 20:14:41 -0000

I've gotten ok with asking other people nearby with laptops if they could watch your stuff for a minute. Most people that look like they're doing what you're doing don't want to steal your stuff.

Re: What I've learned so far

Kathleen — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 07:53:36 -0000

Nice picture!!

Re: What I've learned so far

Ari Gordon-Schlosberg — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:57:04 -0000

No one calls it "SF" in speech, but the do in writing. When spoken, "SF" is pronounced "the city".

Re: Reverse Engineering the newest Facebook invite virus

Ian — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 23:45:41 -0000

Wow, lotta people on here seem to need to prove they have bigger H4x0r epeens than you. I thought it was interesting. Good work!

Re: Reverse Engineering the newest Facebook invite virus

Dave Paola — Mon, 31 May 2010 09:59:23 -0000

@Greg: At first glance, that looks extremely similar. It might even be the exact same code, just obfuscated with a different naming scheme. SocialGraphManager is there and the names of the variables are nearly identical to the ones from my original post. When I have time, I'll verify this, but i'm guessing it's the same.

Re: Reverse Engineering the newest Facebook invite virus

Greg — Sat, 29 May 2010 20:51:56 -0000

Here's a new one that just started the rounds on hacked facebook accounts feel like reversing this one as well? It was too screw ball for my attention span:http://pastebin.com/FeEdaz9S