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by 100k 16y ago
Do people really buy source code? I would think raw source code is of limited utility. A lot of the value is in the heads of the people who wrote it. If you sell source code do you have to include some amount of training/consulting to hand
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by 100k 16y ago
I think the open source stack alternative is getting a bad rap here mostly because of MySQL, which has historically not scaled well on multi-CPU systems. C# is certainly faster than a Python or Ruby but you pay a price in development speed
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by 100k 16y ago
For a minute, I thought CodeCon was coming back. Darn! That was a cool conference. I somehow managed to scam my way into speaking at the first one -- I was the least smart person there by far! http://www.codecon.org/2009/
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by 100k 16y ago
I do that too. Double clicking on web page text is sort of a nervous tick for me. On sites like the New York Times (and now TechStars, apparently) odd things happen when you highlight.
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by 100k 16y ago
This is pretty much the idea behind congestion charges (for example in London). New York City tried to institute them, but the State Assembly stopped them (basically suburban interests trumped city interests). It would have made a big diffe
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by 100k 16y ago
Interesting idea, but already the reason we are so concerned about government debt when inflation is so low and the economy is so bad is that inflation hurts the rich, and they control the discourse. I do not think they would go for a super
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by 100k 16y ago
I don't think the rich really get anything out of it, but in the Nordic countries, fines increase in proportion to your wealth. I remember reading about a Nokia exec getting pulled over for speeding. His ticket was like $75,000! http://www
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by 100k 16y ago
> You'll tap your savings, and those will dwindle away. This chart of US contribution to household assets makes that point pretty clearly: http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/01/chart-day-financia... There were no net withdrawals
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by 100k 16y ago
Great idea! Now we just need to find some excellent teachers to train the unemployed. Perhaps we can find a few more retired millionaire MIT graduates willing to volunteer their time? In seriousness, I do think more people should consider p
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by 100k 16y ago
As an American I noticed that when I visited Toronto, Canadians would always compare things to "North America" (as in "Toronto has the 7th largest metro area in North America"). Interestingly, the meaning of this would typically exclude Mex
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by 100k 16y ago
I didn't realize they weren't "open" before! This place is super cool. We showed up late for the Difference Engine demonstration, but the volunteer re-ran it just for us. The collection in impressive, lots of cool stuff to look at ("We went
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by 100k 16y ago
The reason why wealthy retirees get Social Security and why the tax is capped at $106K/year is the same: it's to prevent Social Security from being a welfare program for poor people Since everyone gets Social Security, this makes it much ha
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by 100k 16y ago
On the whole, this is a ridiculous article. No one except rich elites cares about the deficit (including the bond market: 30 year treasury notes are yielding 4.5% right now). Republicans may have made noises about it in the last election, b
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by 100k 16y ago
I love Mercurial, but I agree with this. I tried using the bookmarks extension with a colleague who wanted to use branches this way and we had trouble figuring it out. Definitely not as easy as git (though getting new remote branches with g
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by 100k 16y ago
I know what HEAD^ (and HEAD^^^^^ or whatever) mean. The fact that I have to make aliases for commonly used tasks is not a point in git's favor to me.
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by 100k 16y ago
It is trivial in Mercurial to back out the last commit: hg rollback I use it all the time to fix typos, add a file I forgot to add, or whatever. Once you push, it is more difficult, but I try not to push my code until it works. I also commi
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by 100k 16y ago
> Isn't this a huge reason for people going to blogging platforms? Yes, but that's not what it's lampooning. TONS of ads and websites invite people to "share their story" or try to take advantage of user generated content. It's a cheesy
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by 100k 16y ago
Heh, good ol' issue 214. I get Google issue alerts about it every time someone complains. I don't think this will ever be fixed. If Twitter hasn't officially deprecated the search API in favor of the streaming API, they have de facto, by no
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by 100k 16y ago
Kevin Drum responds to this argument here: http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/01/matt-yglesias Basically, here's arguing from deduction: increasing prosperity from productivity enhancements could have gone to workers, but their wages
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by 100k 16y ago
Very cool. Total "wish I'd thought of that" idea with excellent design.
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by 100k 16y ago
"Some of this junk might actually work, but you’re going to be embarrassed doing it or admitting to your friends that you’re trying it." Truer words, never spoken.
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by 100k 16y ago
Traffic is caused by human error? I suppose flooding is caused by "water error", then? Traffic is caused by too many vehicles attempting to use a limited resource at the same time. Driverless cars may make this more tolerable (certainly rid
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by 100k 16y ago
Obligatory: "Teach for America Chews Up, Spits Out Another Ethnic-Studies Major" http://www.theonion.com/articles/teach-for-america-chews-up-...
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by 100k 16y ago
Congrats to Lingt. Nice to see some exits for YC S09!
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by 100k 16y ago
That brings back memories. I did the ArsDigita "bootcamp" back in 2001. Fun times.
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by 100k 16y ago
I use mine to keep track of tech links mostly. I do refer back when I need to find something I know I've bookmarked, especially if I can't remember how to Google for it.
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by 100k 16y ago
It's a sad day to see an internet icon go down, but congrats to you and the pinboard team. I finally made the leap.
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by 100k 16y ago
It's number of users * $0.001.
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by 100k 16y ago
Hudson is great. It's one of the few open source CI servers (that I know of) which can be configured without mucking about with reams of config files.
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by 100k 16y ago
Indeed. Pre-warmup request, GAE would start sending requests to instances that were started but weren't fully loaded.

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