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jeffmiller

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talkfast.org 13y ago

Great Team, Great Product, Great Space

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medium.com 13y ago

What I Learned Building Medium (So Far)

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macdilis.tumblr.com 13y ago

First time entrepreneurs are not the problem

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blog.mailchimp.com 14y ago

MailChimp's Tool for Generating Better Smartphone Screenshots

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mashable.com 14y ago

Pulse Partners With WSJ

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designtaxi.com 14y ago

A Vending Machine That Trades A Can Of Tea For Tweets

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github.com 14y ago

Python Punchfork Recipes API

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talkfast.org 14y ago

Traction Role Models

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www.hunterwalk.com 14y ago

To Angel or LP: Investing Guide for New Tech Millionaires

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cdixon.org 14y ago

Growth curves of startups

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cdixon.org 14y ago

"Otherwise do something else"

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techcrunch.com 14y ago

EBay Buys Recommendation Service Hunch To Improve Buying And Selling

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prasanna.posterous.com 14y ago

Unshred: my solution to Instagram's engineering challenge

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graysky.org 14y ago

Caution for Startup Kids

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www.gabrielweinberg.com 14y ago

DuckDuckGo is growing

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blog.thegodfounder.com 14y ago

Apple uses its own iOS symbols to invite people to its iPhone 5 event

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cdixon.org 14y ago

Some lessons learned

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informationarbitrage.com 14y ago

Speed can kill

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marcoullier.com 14y ago

Why your advisor isn’t more helpful (and how to fix it)

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cdixon.org 14y ago

Pivoting into a new corporate structure

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blog.punchfork.com 15y ago

DuckDuckGo adds zero-click recipe search with the Punchfork Recipe API

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online.wsj.com 15y ago

Eat Your Vegetables, and Don't Forget to Tweet

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bashcurescancer.com 15y ago

Everyone should write shell scripts

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www.quora.com 15y ago

Fuck the Accolades. Seek the Criticism.

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codeascraft.etsy.com 15y ago

Pushing: Facebook, Flickr, Etsy

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cdixon.org 15y ago

Stock options

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cdixon.org 15y ago

Inferring intent on mobile devices

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cdixon.org 15y ago

Experiment: blog in Kindle book form

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cdixon.org 15y ago

Apple and the TV industry

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cdixon.org 15y ago

Showing up

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Agreed about mutual funds.

Hedge funds charge high fees, but a subset of them provide a product you can't get anywhere else: returns orthogonal to other investments. Sophisticated investors pay happily for it. What's being stolen?

Bitly News 16 years ago

Yep, just using the plain old Twitter search API via tweepy, with a search term of 'http bit.ly'.

Bitly News 16 years ago

At first I tried indexing all links (not just bitly ones) but the volume of results was too much to keep up with. I'm just using the plain old twitter search API.

And the project was for the Bitly API Contest, so I figured I'd just look at bitly links and leave it at that.

Bitly News 16 years ago

I'm the developer of Bitly News.

One thing I'd like to add to the site is automatic categorization of links, like on Google News. If anyone has suggestions on how to accomplish that, please comment.

I'm also struggling with intermittent 502 proxy errors on the server where Apache has problems proxying to news.arc on localhost.

The filtering approach (taken by Proxlet, for example) is pretty much the only scalable way to raise the signal-to-noise ratio of a Twitter stream. At first it seems hack-y and inelegant, but by using it in the field I've found that it is super effective.

I use a custom filtering script and a long list of regexes I've accumulated over time, expressions like this:

\b#?NFL|NBA|NHL|World Cup|Yankees|Jets|Pats|Redskins|49ers|Steelers|Ravens|Packers|Reds|Phillies|Patriots|\ Seahawks)\b

Another filter that comes in handy is not('http://). Some Twitterers out there share good links, and that's all.

The core problem with having humans identify the best sites is that it doesn't scale. It's probably ok for big topics like travel or healthcare, but it shafts those users who are searching for long tail topics.

Are You A Pirate? 16 years ago

A fun read, but basically another "entrepreneurs are superheroes" article.

It seems unlikely that anyone would get utility out of risk itself, independently of the reward. But many people, given the choice of two scenarios with equal risk/reward ratios, tend to choose the scenario with the higher risk numerator. "Bet big or go home".