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by Jd 13y ago
If that's what it means, it is a bit misleading since it is combining two other services (Rhapsody and Napster) against one (Apple).
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by Jd 13y ago
"They had 300,000 songs while Rhapsody and Napster had over 2 million songs. (Over 500,000 of those were from CD Baby.)" Something about this does not compute.
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by Jd 13y ago
My impression is that "hacker" is a word that used to have a fairly specific meaning that has become more general over time, to the point that the differentiation between "software engineer" and "hacker" is mor
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by Jd 13y ago
Generally agree. I've actually been quite surprised by myself the more I make inroads into "hacker" culture. Many software engineers I know seem far more concerned about the precise incoming dollar volume than very many peopl
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by Jd 13y ago
I agree "if it is true," but the interview makes him look like a fairly smart sort of fellow and he has obviously been considering this for a long time (5+ years), so at the very least he's probably thought through the detail
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by Jd 13y ago
A bizarre play by Snowden, who seems to have gone to Hong Kong in order to be in the strange space that currently exists between the US and China right now, where despite the normal standard of extradition from HK to the US, there exists th
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How our company complies with secret governmental requests(sundancer.eu)
2 points by Jd 13y ago|0 comments
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by Jd 13y ago
This hilarious comment makes up for a lot of the NSA related garbage I've had the misfortune to read recently. Thanks!
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by Jd 13y ago
Completely agree. Every so often I promote hacker news through twitter, such that my own "brand image" is associated with Hacker News. Today I am completely ashamed to be associated with this twaddle. A couple of days ago a long d
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by Jd 13y ago
Exactly. Note that despite the plethora of articles, there is virtually no new content . The issue is an important one, both the breaking story and the details, but layers of political discourse on top of them don't strike me as parti
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by Jd 13y ago
Yep, we are seeing exactly the same things and have more or less the same response. I've long been a huge Github fan so to think of moving away makes me quite sad, but the frequent chunkiness (even exhibited in things as simple as switching
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by Jd 13y ago
Thanks for the suggestion. I've also used Jira in the past and wasn't super impressed with it at the time for just the reasons you mentioned -- lots of features but not integrated seamlessly and often overloading the user with options and n
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by Jd 13y ago
Sadly doesn't provide any filtering on tags, which is the only way to assign priority. In fact, all I really get is a list of all open issues.
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by Jd 13y ago
This is a huge problem for us also, and I've considered moving things over to Jira several times over the past couple weeks because of it. The only quasi-solution I've found is to feed multiple repos into a single chat room in Hipchat so pe
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by Jd 13y ago
Here's some perspective from someone deep within the Salesforce ecosystem: Salesforce has very concretely and deliberately pursued the "imperial" approach in the B2B/Enterprise market, which is to do a careful survey of existing products in
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by Jd 13y ago
To a certain extent I wish that the Paypal mafia had been more successful since I think if they had been able to launch a their own currency it would have shaken up the industry even further, and moved a lot more of it towards productive ve
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by Jd 13y ago
I can understand why pg sees this as a problem that needs to be solved, but personally I see it as a natural extension of the point / counter-point dynamic, in which the obvious counterarguments or oversights of a particular article are bro
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by Jd 13y ago
Should have been titled "Andrew Mason arrives at YC... in order to sell his hawt business music album"
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by Jd 13y ago
Even though I'm not a huge Greenspan fan (are there any?), I find this money transmitter stuff incredibly fascinating. I haven't reviewed the relevant legal code, but I strongly suspect that Greenspan is right in that: (1) there are lots of
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by Jd 13y ago
One word: finally!
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by Jd 13y ago
I thought it was an "undisclosed" amount
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by Jd 13y ago
Andreessen Horowitz just put a lot of money into OpenCoin/Ripple, I guarantee you they are going to knit the two services together. Dwolla w/ happy PR buzz, back end provided by OpenCoin.
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by Jd 13y ago
I guarantee you that part of PMarca and co's game plan here is to integrate the OpenCoin/Ripple technology with the Dwolla network.
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by Jd 13y ago
Long-term Salesforce consultant here. Can't speak to the specifics in this case, but mixups of this nature are sadly quite common in the Enterprise world. In the Salesforce ecosystem particularly the fast pace of growth in customers with co
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by Jd 14y ago
I think if you can't find a job and you are aspiring to have other skills but don't have them yet your best bet is a focused job with manual labor as the core component. You might think I'm joking, but manual labor has the benefit of focusi
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Quora answers the YC question "When have you hacked a system to your advantage?"(quora.com)
1 points by Jd 14y ago|0 comments
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by Jd 14y ago
JRRT, in fact, loathed airplanes and forbade his son from flying in one. Numerous quotations on the horrors of modern technology (airplanes foremost among them) can be found in his letters to Christopher.
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by Jd 14y ago
Somewhat curiously, the "deus ex machina," usually referred to as cheap trick in contemporary commentary on literature/theatre/film, was an expected and appropriate resolution in classical theatre. One might find in Fortinbras Shakespeare'
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by Jd 14y ago
Never thought of this, but I like the idea a lot. Are there any iOS apps that allow you to speed up the play speed of your music library?
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by Jd 14y ago
Yes, but I don't like it. It is too slow. I only do it when I am forcibly on a long car-ride and driving and can't do something else.

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