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You're on to something here. One of my favorite subjects is 'what happened to 'x'' where 'x' is some discovery or bit of news some time down the line. Most people don't even remember 'x' when asked about it until you jog their memory a bit,
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Five lines down: > Three years. Sometimes a bit less, sometimes a bit more. 3 years is pretty quick in terms of success, in terms of failure it is an eternity. It all depends on what you perceive the trend to be. If the trend 'flatlines
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It's a sad month.
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So, Larry Page wants to own Google and Akamai, he's already got plenty of google stock and a bag of money, and he's decided to buy shares in the other company. Why should he not be allowed to diversify but you would be? Companies can invest
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It's a pity that Daniel Lewin isn't around for this, I'm sure that it would have been a very nice crown on his work. to whoever saw fit to downvote this: I hope that people will still remember your name a decade after you die through no fau
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Besides accessibility being enshrined in law in many places there are lots of people that simply don't like giving their phone number and/or being called. Giving your users multiple options for communication is a no-brainer.
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> AFAIK, there's never been a horizontal gene transfer from a prokaryote/eukaryote/any other kingdom to a mammal or animal. contradicts > The last time may be when we got mitocondria. Also, we seem to have quite a bit of bacterial a
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Posilac. Schmeiser. Basmati. And lots and lots of others. Really, Monsanto is evil, it has been proven way beyond any doubt. In cloudants position I'm not sure I would have taken the money but I would have never ever sent out this press rel
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Monsanto makes Microsoft look pretty good.
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Big Day: Apple Launches iOS 5, iCloud Content Syncing and All(readwriteweb.com)
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Because Steve is very visible. Random googler 'x' giving his opinion is one thing, a guy with the stature of Steve Yegge doing the same is quite another. Especially one where he pretty much writes that Google's #1 is not 'Steve Jobs'. Reall
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Posting a link to a web based copy is one thing, copying the text integral to HN is probably not ok.
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It may have been a case of not wanting to embarrass his former employer, Amazon.
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"grouchy, testy, sullen, grumpy, dissatisfied." All of the above, and I really don't see the ad hominem in there. It's just a description of a state of mind with respect to another entity.
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Benfords Law works as long as those that would mess with numbers aren't too much aware of it. Moore's law works until you hit the limits of physics. Benfords Law also works for the observation of various phenomena totally unrelated to human
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Get a job, any job, now. No matter how low, just get one. Flip burgers, whatever you can do and regain the most important thing that you seem to have lost, which is your self respect. Higher paying jobs will come and at some point you'll be
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Well, the google PR people actually didn't do anything to tell him to withdraw the post, so that is his own decision.
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Until dart suddenly appears in Chrome as a native language to give Chrome a performance boost.
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Steve is a smart guy, and I'm pretty sure he realizes that copies have been made and will be available forever and then a bit longer still. The bit that I don't get: Even if Steve's release was accidental, if you write something like this e
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It's a pity that he chose to withdraw it, it would be great if high profile people like Steve could say stuff like this and stand by it without having to fear for fall-out. After all, the big winners from a piece like this are Google and Am
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> I think, ultimately, it is kind of like an abusive relationship. That is exactly what it is. I hope that your posting here will get read by lots of people at amazon that are treated like you were (or worse?) and that it will open thei
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> "You must be disgruntled" But you are disgruntled. You've got excellent reasons for being so. I always wonder why people will use things like that as stoppers for the discussion, the fact that someone is disgruntled alone should not
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Someone wrote a businessplan around you and cleaned up nicely, check out blacksocks.com and the 'sockscription': http://www.blacksocks.com/g3.cms/lang/us/s_page/79110/s_name...
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When you graduate from /. you move to HN, see http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=CmdrTacoMalda
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http://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt
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Regarding such 'trivia that might come in handy one day', it is possible on some cars to shift gears without using the clutch, but you have to get the timing exactly right . If you time it right the shift will happen from say to 2nd to neu
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Gmail.
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If they get overflow errors then your build process does not have the right warnings enabled/logged. Suggestion: enable -Wall and treat warnings as errors.
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> I agree - the girl's knowledge might be a net win, provided she doesn't go out of her way to use it. It's only a net win if the price is right and the project requires such knowledge (in the case of C, mostly likely the trade-off woul
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Google Iceland has a nice ring to it. Also the economy there could use a boost I believe.

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