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Re:Dell to Buy EMC in Deal Worth About $67B by dang on Monday October 12, 2015 @11:15AM (#10375018)
Url changed from http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-12/dell-said-..., now that the deal is confirmed.

We've also rolled back the time decay on this post as a way not to fragment the threads, since submissions about this are coming in by the dozen.

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Re:Dell to Buy EMC in Deal Worth About $67B by detroitcoder on Monday October 12, 2015 @11:42AM (#10375210)
Out of curiosity how often do you tweak the time decay of a given post? Also do some posts have different time decays based on the content (eg. Who's Hiring? vs YC job post vs standard post)?
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Re:Dell to Buy EMC in Deal Worth About $67B by dang on Monday October 12, 2015 @02:35PM (#10376244)
It's nothing fancy. We just alter an internal timestamp.

Yes: job ads have their own time decay algorithm that starts them out at #6 or so and steadily lowers them over about 3 hours. There are other switches that cause some posts (e.g. stories without URLs) to decline faster, but I think they all work on other variables than time.

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