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this account is abandoned! i've been unnecessarily snarky via this account so i'm starting fresh with 'j2d2j2d2' instead.

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www.fletcherlives.com 15y ago

The story of Andy Mueller, the creative behind Art Dump, Girl Skateboards

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thegongshow.tumblr.com 16y ago

Microcap Bubble $0.02

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www.slideshare.net 16y ago

Approaching 1 billion documents with MongoDB

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cs.jhu.edu 16y ago

Evaluating Translation Quality Using Amazon's Mechanical Turk

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www.cdc.gov 16y ago

Perceived Insufficient Rest or Sleep Among Adults

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www.spectrum.ieee.org 16y ago

IEEE Spectrum: Augmented Reality in a Contact Lens

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news.ycombinator.com 16y ago

Ask HN: Any robonova users here?

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www.newyorker.com 16y ago

Pirahã defies Chomsky's theory of universal grammar

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news.ycombinator.com 17y ago

Tell Dropbox: Please make $5/mth for 25gb.

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news.ycombinator.com 17y ago

Ask HN: Age preferences for grad school?

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www.facebook.com 17y ago

How we built Facebook Connect (video)

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news.ycombinator.com 17y ago

Ask HN: Black bar?

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bitdrop.st0w.com 17y ago

Solaris + ZFS = The Perfect Home File/Media Server

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burlaciouscode.tumblr.com 17y ago

JRadio.py - SomaFM command line player

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itunes.apple.com 17y ago

Kindle app for iPhone

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news.ycombinator.com 17y ago

Tell HN: The readability bookmarklet works well on iPhone

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code.google.com 17y ago

Django File Browser

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news.ycombinator.com 17y ago

Ask HN: Have you worked with Alfresco?

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juggernautbrew.blogspot.com 17y ago

Music artists your route to market is as easy as A, B, C (part 1)

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news.ycombinator.com 17y ago

Ask HN: Obama likes tech. What ideas can we generate for him?

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news.ycombinator.com 17y ago

Ask YC Startups: How is the economy treating you?

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www.huffingtonpost.com 17y ago

Who is supplying their images?

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news.ycombinator.com 17y ago

Ask PG: What are your thoughts on current YC News community?

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fcmspro.com 18y ago

FCMS: flash editing and submission for authorized users

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news.ycombinator.com 18y ago

Ask NYYC: Help us make a gathering plan.

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news.ycombinator.com 18y ago

Ask YC: negative comments disappear..?

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news.ycombinator.com 18y ago

Ask YC: How does funding actually work?

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www.theskepticsguide.org 18y ago

SGU: Former Bear employee explains skepticism in financial markets and collapse of Bear

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news.ycombinator.com 18y ago

Ask YC: blaming the browser or supporting an argument

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news.ycombinator.com 18y ago

Ask YC: Seeking advice for future unemployee in the context of start-ups.

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Why the condescension? The user's name is clickable and his profile shows he hasn't used the site since March. Instead of being rude, perhaps consider why his experience wasn't sticky.

[dead] 16 years ago

To me, this behavior solidifies further Google's transition into the Microsoft of the 90's role. I guess that puts them at 2020 for being virtually completely removed from innovation and fully in the role of a differentiation defeater.

Microsoft could turn around and so could Google, but it's very hard when they're so established that short-term risk to profits becomes a major concern.

New Mogul was the first I've seen of this and was the best. I think New Mogul's success was also partly due to the intensity of the financial crisis and people's interest in understanding how it all works. Nickb vanished, unfortunately, and New Mogul eventually fell.

No site has been able to replicate the New Mogul community and I don't believe it's the UI's fault entirely, though New Mogul actually did a good job sprucing up the default look. I believe the intense interest along with communal enthusiasm just doesn't exist in that industry under normal circumstances. And certainly not enough for a shared information / aggregation system to prosper.

Consider the nature of the industry. Knowledge is power. If you're not all in a sinking ship together, why would you give up your competitive edge?

Gravity Launches 16 years ago

I'm only a single data point, but you've lost me because I have no idea what gravity is upon first glance at the site and I don't want to watch a stupid animation of stick figures talking gibberish.

Make it really obvious what your site does or keep making inconsequential first impressions.

I'm curious as to what effect Java's crappy tail recursion has I tried running a ruby sudoku solver in jruby that functions basically like an n-queens solver and it couldn't handle it. Not sure I'd expect erjang to do better since the issue is with the jvm.