davidbnewquist

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by davidbnewquist 17y ago
If the author ever writes a vol. 2, and if karma correlates with startup success, then it looks like you have a good chance to be featured in it:)
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by davidbnewquist 17y ago
Masters of Deception: The Gang That Ruled Cyberspace by Michele Slatalla Story is circa 1990.
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by davidbnewquist 17y ago
Respectfully, you're too quick to dismiss saturation. Unless you have a color very close to either white or black, decreasing saturation makes the color more gray, and increasing saturation makes the hue more vibrant/noticeable. In our ex
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by davidbnewquist 17y ago
Nice observation (and diagram) about the greater value contrast on the right side. Note also there is greater saturation contrast on the left side. (I'm not sure how this effects aesthetics.) You've inspired me to create a corresponding dia
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by davidbnewquist 17y ago
Despite seeming a little jargon heavy, I was able to distill out few useful ideas. For example, say you're considering a cool new CAPTCHA for your registration page. The article would advise doing an "A/B split test" before phasing out the
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by davidbnewquist 17y ago
I signed up to become an expert using my twitter account: nice seemless integration. Next I added some profile info and hit the save button. The save registered, but I was left on the edit profile page. It felt like I was left hanging:
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by davidbnewquist 17y ago
I like how you now have a simplified, functional launchpad/landing page, along with a quick link to the "how it works" page. Overall, the pages are less cluttered: you've cleaned it up and it shows. Nice work.
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by davidbnewquist 17y ago
In addition to TinEye, they another image search for more loosely similar pics: very, very cool. http://labs.ideeinc.com/visual/ On this page, you have to select the query image from a set they provide. On the page linked below, you can
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by davidbnewquist 17y ago
Thanks for responding. Based on the lack of follow up press, I had suspected less than hoped for results. Jens and Cheri were courageous for volunteering, and hopefully their data can be used to someday improve the technology.
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by davidbnewquist 17y ago
After listing useful advice he's received over the years, the author appropriately offers some critial meta-advice: write down (and analyze) advice that you find interesting in order to put it into practice.
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by davidbnewquist 17y ago
The "visual tongue radar" (allows psuedo vision via an electrical impulse grid on the tongue) interface is intriguing. The reporter describes: "Thinking back on it, I don't remember the feeling of the electrodes on my tongue at all during
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Ask HN: best time to submit a story?
14 points by davidbnewquist 17y ago|8 comments
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by davidbnewquist 17y ago
Looks good, but I also experienced unbearable sluggishness on Linux/Firefox when scrolling. Specifically, Xorg and firefox processes use nearly all my CPU when I scroll. It's unusable in its current form (at least on this system). Hopefull
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by davidbnewquist 17y ago
In hindsight, the tone of my comment seems condescending to business and marketing types. This was not intended, and I apologize if any offense was taken. Those are just as important to economic progress as the engineer type. Assuming the
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by davidbnewquist 17y ago
True; although, both have a place in the conversation. Dale Carnegie = Marketeer -He authored the bestseller: "How to Win Friends and Influence People". The book continues to sell today even though it was first published in 1934. I'd recomm
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by davidbnewquist 17y ago
The "Make your mistakes visible" advice seems to have merit based on the offered axion: "Telling the truth even when you don’t have to is good evidence that you’re trustworthy." But I can't think of any marketeers that have taken this advi
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by davidbnewquist 17y ago
You're absolutely right, but I think rabidsnail was trying to say there's currently a glut of business and marketing types.
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by davidbnewquist 17y ago
Amen! Unfortunately, it seems popular "Western" culture is inspiring lots more Carnegies and Barnums than Franklins. But how can a shift in culture be brought about?
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by davidbnewquist 17y ago
"Change the world" is only part of the equation. But what drives the hacker entrepreneur day to day? It's the adrenaline and focus supplied by the promised emotional payoff of a completed mission. Any veteran of a website launch knows wh
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by davidbnewquist 17y ago
7 of the top 25 are about unhumans: zombies, vampires or demi-gods.
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by davidbnewquist 17y ago
5 out of the the top 25 are self-help books on the topic of eating less. 4 of those 5 are targeted to women, 2 have the word 'girl' in the title. 3 of those 5 occupy spots in the top 4.
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by davidbnewquist 17y ago
I'm a little sick of the Mac/PC geek stereotypes. Here's another promo that features a radically different geek type. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgNyoxpENXc
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by davidbnewquist 17y ago
"Currently BBC iPlayer TV programmes are available to play in the UK only".
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Launch win, geek touchdown celebration fail [video](youtube.com)
2 points by davidbnewquist 17y ago|0 comments
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by davidbnewquist 17y ago
Sighs that my quine is so 1999...
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by davidbnewquist 17y ago
#!/usr/bin/perl $x = <<'LOL'; #Meaningless chart/data is meaningless $x =~ s/\x67less/\x67ful/g; $x =~ s/((7less)|(7ful))(.+?)((7ful)|(7less))/$5$4$1/g; print "#!/usr/bin/perl\n\n\$x = <<'LOL';\n${x}LOL\n"; print $x; LOL #Me
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by davidbnewquist 17y ago
To obtain a laugh from the following perl code: 1)run 2)obtain output 3)run output 4)repeat 2-4
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by davidbnewquist 17y ago
The site does imply (and this may not be true) that someone always gets a commission on every purchase through the site. So if I want to buy a new camcorder, maybe I could ask a friend to be an "expert" and we could split the commision? T
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by davidbnewquist 17y ago
If I want to buy a specific new camcorder, can I sign up as an expert and take my own recommendation?:)
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by davidbnewquist 17y ago
I like your "big elephant leads little elephant" logo: it's inviting and representative of your biz.

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