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by JS_startup 15y ago
The technology isn't the hurdle here, it's the prestige. The academic publishing world is all about who you are, what institutes you belong to, etc. To put it bluntly, a Reddit-like journal site just wouldn't have enough "cred" to attract d
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by JS_startup 15y ago
Framing civil rights in a logical or business argument is the smartest avenue of approach, especially in the US. Moral or human rights arguments can easily be dismissed by religion, but an economic or practical argument? Plus Microsoft woul
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by JS_startup 15y ago
Sounds like he means fundamentalist in the religious sense. Believe it or not the evolution of the neo-con and American Christianity's attachment of itself to the GOP is a pretty recent development. Not long ago an average Republican was ma
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by JS_startup 15y ago
A man is being executed because software he wrote was used in a pornographic website. It's pretty reprehensible that you feel the need to try and derail the topic and apologize for Iran by drawing similarities to the US as if that makes it
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by JS_startup 15y ago
In general web developers seem to kowtow to the most to ridiculous compatibility requirements--how many still fret about IE6 and IE7 compatibility? In no other industry do consumers get that kind of luxury. It'd be like the music industry p
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by JS_startup 15y ago
MLK's descendants have turned his speech and legacy into a commodity, sued each other, stolen money from his estate and setup businesses solely for capitalizing on the speech. Something tells me they would not be interested in releasing the
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by JS_startup 15y ago
PO boxes are not a legitimate solution for someone needing total anonymity. Anyone can fill out a request for boxholder information form to find out the identity of the person who registered it. edit: The USPS will provide this info no ques
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by JS_startup 15y ago
If your clients only use your provided libraries then there is no difference between SOAP and REST in this instance as the primary attraction of REST (accessing the methods through HTTP requests) will be abstracted by the library. So eith
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by JS_startup 15y ago
Because the risk isn't worth the money saved, and I imagine if you got deliverability statistics on those e-mails you'd find that many of them don't make it to the recipient. Many web-based companies would effectively be out of business if
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by JS_startup 15y ago
I think Paul over simplified this one. The average hacker is attracted to things like recipe sites because these are solutions which can be accomplished entirely by code and execution. They are driven away by problem spaces which require fo
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by JS_startup 15y ago
To get the drop on an emerging market. Obviously the 200 rupee hosting costs are negligible, but becoming the de facto tech provider in an emerging market like Kenya is worth millions.
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by JS_startup 15y ago
I have a theory that posits that the bulk of HN's subscribership is made up of Google employees who are here to astroturf. Initial test results: inconclusive but promising.
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by JS_startup 15y ago
This needs to be at the top. Google confirms that it was their representatives who pulled off the scam, not someone posing as Google. We can all stop making excuses for them now
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by JS_startup 15y ago
A European Google VP just confirmed that it was not scammers or someone posing as Google, it was Google employees.
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by JS_startup 15y ago
It looks gorgeous. DDG has become my search engine of choice over the past month; clean design, no social media or other things garbaging up results. Use it!
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by JS_startup 15y ago
The boingboing article explicitly states that it is an IP range that Google has used for international business before.
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by JS_startup 15y ago
Shortly after, that IP range stopped visiting Mocality's servers, but another range, this one registered to Google's Mountain View headquarters [edit: this address has previously been used to conduct official Google business in India].. T
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by JS_startup 15y ago
You must not have gotten the memo--HN still has a creepy, starry-eyed obsession with Google and sacrilege like yours will have you burned at the stake :)
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by JS_startup 15y ago
If the statement about the Mountain View IP address is true then it's hard to imagine that these were scammers masquerading as Google. My bet? Google's statement will blame some third party contractors or a miscommunication. Massive damage
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by JS_startup 15y ago
Agreed. From the way the article is written you would think that some Microsoft thugs held a gun to the Queen's head instead of, you know, lobbying for their interests.
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by JS_startup 15y ago
The author certainly didn't make an attempt at being objective or hiding his allegiances. Most humorous is his assertion that businesses should have no voice in the decisions of government because that is "interfering"
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by JS_startup 15y ago
Paul is right on this one. Maybe Spamhaus used to have good intentions but all of my recent dealings with them indicate that they're as unethical as the spammers they claim to fight. Their "shoot first ask questions later" methodology prove
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by JS_startup 15y ago
He is criticizing the ubiquity of cheesy job postings trying to attract top talent with trivial/hackneyed promises of things like bagels and beanbag chairs. His solution is for job postings to stop doing this.
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by JS_startup 15y ago
1) Your developer is way out of his or her league 2) A more popular framework than .NET? Really? .NET has built in membership providers which means the encrypted password should be a non-issue. If your lead developer is rolling their own lo
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by JS_startup 15y ago
Clearly my comments aren't appreciated. No, because they were jingoistic and myopic. IE9 is a decent browser (by all measures superior to Firefox) and IE10 looks to be better. Your blind platform hatred is showing.
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by JS_startup 15y ago
The "stickiness" of Microsoft's products had nothing to do with the anti-trust case, They were leveraging their dominance in one market to exploit another; the permanence of the product has nothing to do with the illegality of their actions
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by JS_startup 15y ago
I'd say pressure is part of any startup and the ability to work under it is much more important than at a larger company. When you work a 9-5 at an established company there are usually several degrees of separation between you and the anxi
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by JS_startup 15y ago
I'd say let the technical people choose and use the tools they are familiar and comfortable with. There isn't a hugely material benefit from jumping on newer, sexier technologies. At the end of the day it's about having a product to sell, n
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by JS_startup 15y ago
HN, Reddit, SomethingAwful, Google Finance
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by JS_startup 15y ago
I don't know of any type of version control that will work like that. You could, of course, add your databases to an SVN repository but you won't be able to branch/merge individual rows in the database. I'd re-examine your requirements on t

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