grayc

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by grayc 14y ago
From what I can remember of the Steve Jobs biography (and assuming it's accurate) yes, many people at Xerox understood that they had developed something revolutionary.
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by grayc 14y ago
Without getting into politics (too much)... there are a lot of reasons for different responses between this hurricane and Katrina. Parts of New Orleans being below sea level probably matters a lot. Plus, FEMA was pretty clearly mismanaged
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by grayc 14y ago
"However, all your "friends" are on it. Nobody wants to go back through that process on an upstart network. Nobody has the energy or motivation." Another possibility is that the next innovation for social networks will be effortless friend
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by grayc 14y ago
For what it's worth, the basic reasons I use some form of bookmarks are: 1. I want to go back to a website for new content; or 2. I want to store content to read/view later; or 3. I want to share something with someone else who is not sitti
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Statistical graphic/visualization of the college football season so far(pseudotrue.com)
3 points by grayc 14y ago|0 comments
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by grayc 14y ago
"We used only one Sunday afternoon for ours on the second run when we got in and I don't see the point of wasting time except getting few rounds of feedback and spellcheck." I think many of the posters who spent relatively little time on th
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World series predictions(pseudotrue.com)
1 points by grayc 14y ago|0 comments
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by grayc 14y ago
slashdot?
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by grayc 14y ago
That looks nice. You could improve things a lot by using even a simple model to account for opponent quality, home field advantage, etc.: a simple fixed-effects regression model with team-level effects would be one approach and would take
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by grayc 14y ago
Like twitter or facebook but open, decentralized, and unarchivable would be nice. Something along the lines of Off The Record (not google talk's) where users could disavow messages from their account manually or automatically after x number
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by grayc 14y ago
Have you tried: http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_n... from http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2011/06/23/how-to-find-the-rss...