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Re:Pair Programming Antipatterns on Sunday March 06, 2022 @07:26PM (#30582707)
Some projects at Google such as MapReduce, Google File System and TensorFlow were written by Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat while pair programming.

More details, in the form of a long form article, here: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/the-friendship...

Re:Atlas robot does parkour on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @12:22PM (#28211600)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EezdinoG4mk&feature=youtu.be

This behind-the-scenes video says it is choreographed and scripted. It also contains instances where things go wrong as well.

Re:Nvidia’s “Kitchen” Keynote was faked (rendered) and nobody noticed on Thursday August 12, 2021 @06:22PM (#28162340)
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Re:Apply HN: Discovery List – Product Hunt for products you can actual... on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @01:04PM (#11582278)
Timothy here, one of the co-founders. A gift idea generator/recommender is definitely in the works. We would use the users upvotes and lists to feed into a collaborative filtering algorithm. Thanks for the pointer!
Re:Show HN: Product Hunt for new products you can buy on Friday April 08, 2016 @11:37AM (#11455421)
I'm Timothy, one of the founders of Discovery List. I'm really excited to be launching our site on Hacker News and over the next 24 hours, I'll be sending out invites immediately to people who request them.

I'd like this to be an Apply HN as well, so I'll be more than happy to answer any questions about the business model.

A few interesting (?) points:

- we want Discovery List to be a detailed directory of everything buyable on the Internet

- we make money when people buy products through links on our site; we're putting aside 30% of this affiliate revenue for users that contribute the most

- every week, we give out $10 each to users that contribute the most; if 30% of our affiliate revenue is $10,000, we’ll give out $10 to the top 1,000 contributors.

- users that invite friends get 10% of their invited friend's Karma points

- everyone can add products and reviews and everyone has commenting access

Re:Show HN: Pinterest for text on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @05:06PM (#5560903)
Thanks for the suggestions and thanks even more for the illustrations too! I totally understand where you're coming from now. From your illustrations it's clear that having a few elements anchored to the bottom of the quote in fixed locations means that quotes are clearly separated. Good point.

As for the tabs, I believe we've stripped them from all the quotes. However, we do indent all paragraphs apart from the first in a similar fashion to books and long articles. Originally, we planned for people to quote much lengthier quotes (in which case it would improve readability), but I take your point that it makes it more unreadable in shorter quotes.

Re:Show HN: Pinterest for text on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @04:48PM (#5560781)
Thanks - I really like the categories your site has for each thing that you post. I think it'll be pretty valuable to know whether you're quoting from a tweet, a book, or a newspaper article, and not only depend on the source domain.
Re:Show HN: Pinterest for text on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @04:39PM (#5560738)
I'll definitely check it out - thanks for the suggestion!
Re:Show HN: Pinterest for text on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @04:17PM (#5560605)
Definitely in the works - part of our vision is to provide an annotation layer over the Internet. Awkward comparison, but something like the Kindle, "N people have also highlighted this passage". But for every webpage on the Internet.
Re:Show HN: Pinterest for text on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @03:06PM (#5560126)
A single click - point taken. Do you find yourself referring much to what you save? Do you search through them much or have the need to categorise them? Just trying to work out the different customer needs! Thanks!
Re:Show HN: Pinterest for text on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @02:50PM (#5560032)
Thanks for the ideas - we're going to implement some Machine-Learning Algorithms to help in clustering similar quotes together. But grouping by article like you said would also prove really useful. The point on bloggers/publishers is also good - we're looking to have Promoted Quotes which are quotes from new book from publishers. Thanks for your input!
Re:Show HN: Pinterest for text on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @02:27PM (#5559875)
Sorry to hear that - we'll work to introduce an alternative to Facebook login in the near future
Re:Show HN: Pinterest for text on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @02:26PM (#5559869)
This is really interesting. Could you go into a little more detail about what you mean by each quote appearing slightly differently. We're trying to use the break provided by the author and the tags on the RHS to separate the quotes - but I guess this isn't really working?
Re:Show HN: Pinterest for text on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @02:21PM (#5559827)
Thanks for your suggestions. We've tried to keep a distinct 2D feel to the website so we are avoiding drop shadows as much as possible. But I agree with you that the quotes themselves need more clearly separated from each other.

For the width of the quotes, we've tried to adhere to the 45 to 75 characters per line as recommended by by Robert Bringhurst in his "The Elements of Typographic Style", although our line lengths are towards the upper limit of that range.

Re:Show HN: Pinterest for text on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @01:38PM (#5559547)
Point taken on the Facebook login - will look to provide other means of logging in! Very cool video on gimmebar.com.

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