markmccraw

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by markmccraw 15y ago
Some online ads are just general brand awareness ads, in the way that the big Pepsi sign at a baseball stadium isn't talking about a new product or trying to get you to buy a Pepsi right now.
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by markmccraw 15y ago
Given that it costs less than $20 million to run Wikipedia (cite: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/a/ac/FINAL_... ), that seems completely attainable without needing to change the nature of Wikipedia by introducing advertis
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by markmccraw 15y ago
Yeah, I don't really get the big deal either. If the quality is so bad, people will stop crowdsourcing and if the pay is so low for designers, they will stop doing spec work. It seems like there's a lot of designers who want to make a carte
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by markmccraw 15y ago
IANAL, but depending on state law, running the poker games on your campus might be illegal (not a law I'd agree with, but possibly illegal). In a regulated online poker scene in the US, botting would likely be illegal, just like using a com
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by markmccraw 15y ago
Disclaimer: I'm a poker player and small time affiliate. The poker related ones seem to venture well into the unethical or illegal category. That doesn't take away from the difficulty or cleverness of the hacks, but unlike the candy theft s
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by markmccraw 15y ago
I bet some of them find alternative ways to get visitors and that a decent number of people use the bookmark feature. Now, how valuable a visitor is to a page like that is another matter.
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by markmccraw 15y ago
Well, a lot of those webapps fall in the "feature, not a product category" and were pretty clearly living life on the edge. I await the day I can anagram via the search bar.
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by markmccraw 15y ago
Note that the biggest accusation of them all is not addressed: that grouper is a lie, and is just old fashioned human matchmaking. See http://gizmodo.com/5845467/how-i-was-nearly-seduced-by-group...
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by markmccraw 15y ago
If you go through the posts in the google link from marco's post, many of the scraped summaries are <2 paragraphs, (such as http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-02-02/strategy/3001... ) and that would continue to happen regardless
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by markmccraw 15y ago
Given the permissiveness of fair use laws and the low probability that random bloggers will engage in costly and lengthy lawsuits, I imagine that CC license or not, Marco's stuff would get scraped.
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by markmccraw 15y ago
FWIW, the language comes from the DOJ attorney, so I don't think you can blame the headline writers.
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by markmccraw 15y ago
Affiliates (no longer?) don't get paid based on a straight up deposit, but instead need to have their signups play through to earn a certain amount of FTP points, which are correlated to rake paid. The CPA rates start at ~$75 and go up for
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by markmccraw 15y ago
just to clarify, that would mean triple their revenue compared to if those players played normal poker, not an overall measure. also, for the pros who would normally be 16 tabling, there is only a small uptick in hands per hour in NL rush c
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by markmccraw 15y ago
Not speaking from personal experience, but the difference between the kids who go to a community college and a school with a respected <insert field here> program is going to be massive. I'd be figuring out how to transfer to somewh
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by markmccraw 15y ago
The quality of the article is not the issue. It's just that if everyone behaved the way you did, HN would merely be a contest of who can call in the most favors/have the most accounts under their control.
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by markmccraw 15y ago
It seems that this post may have been artificially upvoted by the author of this post. The oldest comments are all at the bottom and are short, trivial and grayed out comments. One of those comments appears to be legit and another appears t
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by markmccraw 15y ago
If it is the kind of thing where people vote up stories, you are going to have to fight very hard to avoid the influx of low calorie news (same goes for crappy comments). Unless that's what you want of course, but people already get that fr
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by markmccraw 15y ago
If I were expedia, orbitz, priceline, travelocity, kayak, hipmunk. etc. I'd be very very afraid. Sure, google won't actually do the sales, but they are linking direct to airline websites for now. Also this doesn't exist for hotels. Yet. The
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Ask HN: Have "tech" job perks spread to other sectors in the Valley?
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by markmccraw 15y ago
I kind of get that feel too, and I think it might be related to the fact that many spammy/scraper news sites and amateur operations use designs off of themeforest or popular free WP themes, which tend to be fairly minimalist and white space
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by markmccraw 15y ago
Just another guy selling hopes and dreams to people who won't achieve them. I'm all for "lifestyle design" and think that it's not unreasonable that some people will be able to willingly create a lifestyle that allows for lots of free time,
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by markmccraw 15y ago
If it's actually a PR plant, being in the top results (or ad I suppose) in Google for related queries might be enough. Unlike the suits example from the essay, people looking for standing desks probably aren't going to go to a local store a
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by markmccraw 15y ago
I know the creator acknowledges this, but the news sites aren't even close to (or trying to) fixing the news. Maybe someday down the road they will morph, but in fact there has been very little to be done to create an online news organizati
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by markmccraw 15y ago
That would be fine if someone posted an article about those things, or even a "Did anyone's server crash due to the earthquake?" But the thread is 95% "I felt it in XX" edit: Thing I was responding to got deleted, but I'll leave this here a
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by markmccraw 15y ago
Not to spoil the fun, but isn't this the sort of stuff that leads down the slippery slope to reddit's front page? I understand that this affects large numbers of HN users, but so do lots of things that are very far from the tech/business/co
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by markmccraw 15y ago
although this probably wouldn't be true for dnacafe.com, if the reg fees were like 25 bucks a year instead of like 7 or whatever people with reseller accounts pay you'd see a lot less of people trying to own every single combination of two
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by markmccraw 15y ago
it seems like it has happened very briefly, http://www.mobileinc.co.uk/2009/12/facebook-app-uses-exploit...
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by markmccraw 15y ago
Top of my list is -3.7312181, bottom is 1.237559. 11 negative numbers, 108 positive. A friends was skewed more to negative numbers, so I'm guessing that maybe you just aren't a heavy/frequent user?
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by markmccraw 15y ago
It seems like there is a lag time between clicking stuff and the value changing, because I'm not getting my dummy to show up at all.
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by markmccraw 15y ago
Well I changed my privacy settings to visible to all, made a dummy account and click raped my profile and my dummy account didn't show up. I'll add the accounts as friends and then make note of the number, then do clicking from the dummy an

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