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by DanI-S 15y ago
As important as this is, I know people whose lives are so consumed by their quest for immortality that they go without much of what makes life worth living. Pursuing the life of an ascetic and munching on supplements in the hope that you'll
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I'd love to see someone like this be the first place to seamlessly incorporate a Bitcoin exchange into personal banking.
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Text is a simple format, but text with intrinsic formatting is most definitely not a simple format.
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Apple, you are astonishingly good at building up consumer excitement. If I were ever to go into politics, I'd know where to look for campaign staff...
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This is true :) The most significant thing made apparent by this nuclear disaster, personally, has been how carefully authorities are forced to step around an uneducated public and a wild, hysterical mass media. How can we ever have transpa
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Potentially 3 meltdowns occurred, after a 'perfect storm' swamped badly-sited and antiquated reactors. The end result: a few people with radiation burns, a local shortage of electricity, and a release of radiation that - while significant -
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I don't disagree with you at all about the kid's behaviour. I just feel that it's odd to be surprised when kids do things like this, given the example provided by us adults.
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So, when are they going to arrest the makers of America's Next Top Model?
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I'd love to be able to see the names of people who have repeatedly upvoted your comments. It'd be a great way of finding people who share the same kind of mindset, enhancing HN as a 'people discovery tool'. It would also work for 'if you th
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The steam engine took hundreds of attempts and at least 2000 years.
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A nice side-effect is that you'll come out of it knowing another language that is useful for more than just web stuff.
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It's just a symptom of this kind of technology reaching critical mass. In a few years, the majority of the world's mobile devices will have out of the box support for an extensible, personal hardware development platform. A generation of ki
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It's a seriously exciting time to be a developer. Or to be alive in general, really. Growing up in the shadow of our failure to colonize space, it was easy to imagine that history had basically stalled and there wasn't much left to hope for
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I'm pretty sure the state should exist to promote the quality of life of its inhabitants, not the other way around.
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According to their facts page[1], USPS process 6761 pieces of mail per second . They had a 2009 revenue of $68 billion. They pay $2.1 billion in salaries every two weeks . Dead tree mail isn't dead just yet; they definitely have enough ti
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HDMI and DVI are interchangeable for this purpose; most computer displays manufactured in the last 5+ years have DVI ports. With a $10 adapter they can use the screen from their parents' crusty old Dell.
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As much as I agree with you about 'disposable computing', he's not really advocating disposing of the computer - he's selling it to somebody else. In the process, he's allowing somebody who couldn't otherwise afford it to buy a long-lasting
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by DanI-S 16y ago
It sounds like you rate previous salary as a pretty important factor. It seems like an odd measure. How exactly does it factor in, and what reason do recruiters have to trust what candidates say?
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I'm not sure we at Hacker News are blissfully uninvolved; we're busy building tomorrow's sinister megacorporations. Or Mr Lee's Greater Hong Kong.
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The article defines punk (in general) as a deviant subculture that parents are afraid of. Perhaps the general decline of punk can be attributed to modern parents being much less afraid than parents in the 70s. Cyberpunk isn't really excit
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Bitcoins are already subdivisable to a whole bunch of decimal places.
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On a slight tangent, modern farming techniques are more akin to the mining he describes than they are to farming. It's not just the software industry that is affected by this short-term thinking; it's the majority of human endeavour. It's h
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Every good startup knows when to pivot.
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I can understand the point, but is it really necessary to express it in a way that evokes the works of L Ron Hubbard? You may not be aware of the dangers of JavaScript — a problem we've deemed The JavaScript Trap — proprietary software run
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Creepy, but I'd pay for this as a service! Would be a nice travel memento, for example.
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Robots are the next revolution, so why isn't anybody acting like it? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2380270 Seems like some people are.
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If $41m is what is needed for this company to generate huge buzz, build a massive user base and make phenomenal amounts of money, it's a completely valid venture. I'm not arguing that it will be a success - it just seems sensible to wait
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This line of thought is perplexing. Wouldn't want someone else's enterprise to succeed , now, would we?
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Interesting idea, but the slider may not be a great interface. It stops the experiment being purely about numbers - I found I picked '5' because it was close to being nice and symmetrical.
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I feel the same way as you do - I like to feel my system is clean and uncluttered. However, I still agree with their thoughts. We may like quitting applications, but realistically, memory/CPU management is something that can and should be h

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