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by Lukeas14 14y ago
Regardless of how pissed off he may have been, you don't fight racism with more racism. All that does is exacerbate the situation and hurt your credibility. Calling someone a dumbwhite * might feel good but does nothing for your cause.
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The real story is their ability to condense the page down to just the essentials which was achieved by concentrating the decision power to a small, capable team, as opposed to a committee of stakeholders. Microsoft has more teams than most
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MLB.tv and TNT Overtime(NBA) both allow you to watch games online with your own choice of camera angles. The MLS seems to be lacking this option.
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Another example of 10gen winning a highly technical market not through technical prowess but with superior marketing. I'd rather not argue whether MongoDB is better than other NoSQL solutions or RDBMS. But I do applaud their effort to get
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I never understood the fear of fans wrongly criticizing teams/players/coaches based on the All-22 tape. All other sports make their own equivalent of it available allowing fans to see every mistake made by every player. As far as I know it
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Grado SR80. ($90-100) 1. Best sound I've ever heard from headphones (compared to Bose QC2, Seinnheiser HD-280/202, Audio-Technica ATH-M50). Frequency response sounds flat to my ears but it could use a bit more dynamic range. However, the g
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Unfortunately, this device could run into the same legal issues the segway did. Since it's a motorized vehicle it is technically not allowed on sidewalks in many jurisdictions. But I also wouldn't feel nearly as safe riding this on the side
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The metric that 0.2% of all companies represent a whopping 16% of winners is not a relevant statistic. It's based on the premise that there are 500,000 new startups in the U.S. every year. I'm guessing this number is counting every incorpor
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I'll start. Currently my strategy for discovering apps depends mostly on how much research I've done on the space. For apps I know by name (Facebook, Amazon Kindle) I have no use for anything outside the native app stores (This accounts for
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Ask HN: How do you discover apps?
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The internet still hasn't figured out a way to profitably produce a high quality service or content with ads as the primary revenue source. So far, the only profitable approach is to reach the scale of Facebook/Google which would enable you
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Comparing Google to auto manufacturers that employ mostly union labor is not fair because the supply and demand curve for employees is completely different. When a potential employee goes into an interview at Google he/she knows that they
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It's also very different since our population is now 300+ million as opposed to 3+ million at the inception. Any one of those 300 million could potentially have asked the president a question, not limited by geography or social/financial st
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Could you explain why a trust fund is a net minus for most people, and how college financial aid is affected by it?
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I've taken the opposite route for my project http://iwaat.com . The HTML/CSS is all done from scratch with several elements stolen from Bootstrap (ex. highlighting around form fields). It also uses a background image from subtle patterns w
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At-will employment is the law in California and several other states meaning either side can end the relationship for any reason other than discrimination against a protected class. So it's not Yahoo's choice, their just stating the law.
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Where startups are located is much more important to a VC than it is to a developer. VCs want to be within a reasonable distance to all their portfolio and potential portfolio companies. Developers only need to be close to one company. At
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I love the idea but I don't see how you'll get around Craigslist blocking you the same way they did Pad Mapper and Carsabi. Do you have plans for this?
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http://shrinktheweb.com . Although I'm looking into switching over to a cheaper solution ( http://url2png.com or http://linkpeek.com )
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Case in point: Every time I post my project http://iwaat.com in a relevant HN comment I see a noticeable bump in the analytics graph for that day. Hopefully, I won't be noticing HN comment traffic for very much longer.
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Met Kurt at a few meetups and based on his pitch I have to disagree with the "too niche" criticisms mentioned in the article. The number of people, including myself, who have trouble getting up in the morning is a huge market. I'm not sure
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Next biggest problem is that, in reality, Medieval duels rarely lasted more than a minute before one side was fatally injured. Not nearly long enough for a video game.
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I created "I Want An App That" ( http://www.iwaat.com ), a web app discovery engine. No real business model has been implemented but so far affiliate revenue has been paying for hosting costs and other services.
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The comments on the listing might explain why they haven't gotten any bids. 37Signals seems to be relying on their name to sell Sortfolio as opposed to using best practices for selling sites on flippa. They haven't provided any traffic/rev
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I don't think the problem is that storing passwords is too hard, at least not for the majority of startups not dealing with PCI compliance. Setting up a user system with bcrypt/scrypt is pretty trivial. The problem is you have several apps
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If this is part of the same attack that hit LinkedIn and Last.fm are there any theories on what the exploit was? I'm having a hard time imagining how someone could steal passwords from 3 large, completely independent web services at the sam
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Hopefully Twitter will embrace this form of user communication in the long run. Although, if someone started using their API for this purpose out of the blue I can see them shutting it down as a first course of action. Definitely try to get
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One theory is that cloud hosting providers use memory as a metric to estimate a customer's use of resources that aren't directly paid for (bandwidth, CPU, support, etc). So even though you may be way overpaying for increased memory based o
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Problem is there isn't an efficient enough 'compiler'. To see if a law works it has to be tested in court, a long, expensive process.
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Fiscally I think you're correct as people's views are heavily affected by economic cycles. As the current young generation gets old we'll remember how the recession affected us as we entered the workforce. We'll also have to deal with the

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