Hacker News: colinmcdermott

New comment by colinmcdermott in "Vouch"

colinmcdermott — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 20:02:26 +0000

Sounds like you misunderstood. They didn't say they are merging PRs after a few seconds. Just that the difference between a good one and a bad is often obvious after a few seconds. Edit: typos

Introduction to Sentence-Bert (Sbert)

colinmcdermott — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 13:00:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.searchcandy.uk/nlp/sentence-bert/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30415415

Points: 1

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New comment by colinmcdermott in "At Amazon every 100ms latency cost 1% of sales. Here's what we did"

colinmcdermott — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 11:37:30 +0000

Sits well fine with me. Client side rendering is bad for users and bad for Search Engines...

Can Google index text content in CSS pseudo elements?

colinmcdermott — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 11:23:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.searchcandy.uk/seo/technical-seo/css-pseudo-elements/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27881351

Points: 1

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New comment by colinmcdermott in "“YouTube is shutting down dissenting Biology PhDs and MDs”"

colinmcdermott — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 14:11:50 +0000

The only citation is literally his own website LOL. I should make a website saying I invented Oxygen.

New comment by colinmcdermott in "Carmakers want to ditch battery packs, use auto bodies for energy storage"

colinmcdermott — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 17:35:09 +0000

> Lastly this isn't even an Ars article

Gizmodo stylee

Pre-Instagram Photo Sharing Giant Fotolog Now Spam Blog

colinmcdermott — Wed, 26 Feb 2020 15:42:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.searchcandy.uk/blog/pre-instagram-photo-sharing-giant-fotolog-now-spam-blog/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22423957

Points: 1

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