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by RK 18y ago
A technical note about his note [1]. pg says, When that happens, it tends to happen fast, like a core going critical , but he probably means "like a core going super critical", which is when a chain reaction goes on at an increasing rate
812.
by RK 18y ago
You can do a lot for 2) with Slinkys or other long springs and a stopwatch to help understand waves, frequency, etc. There's also a cool outdoor experiment you can do to measure the speed of sound by clapping pieces of wood/books together
813.
by RK 18y ago
Yeah, I thought, "Shit, that guy looks like he's at my house!"
814.
by RK 18y ago
Yes, but at what age do they move out of their parents' homes?
815.
by RK 18y ago
More mobile browsing = automatic market share loss for IE.
816.
by RK 18y ago
That usually requires your signing password, which, done securely, shouldn't stay in memory for more than a few minutes. Of course a lot of people probably just check the "remember indefinitely" box.
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Ask HN: Why don't you use email encryption?
17 points by RK 18y ago|20 comments
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by RK 18y ago
You can encrypt Gmail with something like FireGPG, a Firefox plugin: http://getfiregpg.org I use Enigmail with Thunderbird, but the number of people I use it with is very small. The desire to have ubiquitous email access makes the imple
819.
by RK 18y ago
This does get posted a lot, but I still like it.
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by RK 18y ago
Now imagine if an email service/client actually got a large number of people to start using encryption. That would be an impressive feat.
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OLPC XO-2 to be open source hardware(heise.de)
4 points by RK 18y ago|2 comments
822.
by RK 18y ago
You can have Google host your mail with Apps (for free for basic Gmail level email). And later if you decide you hate Google/Gmail or the next Gmail comes along, you can always switch, but keep your same addresses...
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by RK 18y ago
3) Many people getting a college, medical, or law degree should realize that if they're not at the top of their class, it's not necessarily guaranteed for them to get a great job. For a less prestigious university, it's even more so the ca
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by RK 18y ago
The US has different levels of degrees. Most of the colleges and universities that you hear about offer bachelors degrees as the first degree (generally a four year degree). Other colleges, especially so-called community and junior colleg
825.
by RK 18y ago
One of my college friends has an MA in creative writing and a PhD in physics. So send all your work his way :)
826.
by RK 18y ago
His page seems much more relevant to humanities grad school. Dropping out after two years of engineering/CS/science is called a masters and you go get a job in industry.
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Ubuntu Pocket Guide Available as a Free Download(lifehacker.com)
8 points by RK 18y ago|1 comments
828.
by RK 18y ago
How about work for a year, save as much money as possible while working on your idea. Then quit to start your startup. If that tanks, go for the PhD.
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by RK 18y ago
I think the definition of "later in life" makes a big difference. Five years is probably not a big deal in my experience (I worked and traveled for 3 years before grad school). As far as startups, I think you are probably in a much better
830.
by RK 18y ago
I'm not sure I agree with your assessment about which is a faster route to failure. A startup can definitely be a fast route to failure. Working in an established corporation can be a startling experience though. Sometimes people seem to
831.
by RK 18y ago
It probably doesn't make a huge difference, but I don't think the OP is in the US.
832.
by RK 18y ago
Optimize for Lynx and it will probably look OK everywhere, even the worst mobile browsers.
833.
by RK 18y ago
Not if ever carrier did the same, which is the case in the US of course.
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by RK 18y ago
Interesting, I was worried about that the last time I was in Europe (Sept. 2008). When I got my bill from my American provider, I had no extra charges for data. It looks like, for now things might work better as a non-European phone user i
835.
by RK 18y ago
As a side question, what is the current roaming situation in Europe? The last time I had a European phone (a number of years ago), it was very frustrating to have to pay very high roaming fees as I was traveling in different countries. I
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by RK 18y ago
I even get a little mad when my friends send me SMS :) You can imagine how pissed off you'd be when you receive spam. My wife once received the same spammy message about 5 days in a row. I didn't think too much of it until we got the bil
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by RK 18y ago
I was just looking around and was thinking that the money was probably to be made in (gulp) enabling junk mailers. But it looks like the US Postal service already has that down: http://www.click2mail.com/how_it_works In any event, good l
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by RK 18y ago
This looks like a pretty decent site. Are you planning to compete with it? I was recently looking for something related: an online fax service. Most of those sites seemed to ooze sleeze and required a subscription. I finally decided on
839.
by RK 18y ago
Text messaging was all the rage here 5 or 6 years ago. What are they using now? Or have people simply stopped texting?
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by RK 18y ago
I hope SMS dies a swift, painful death. I have gmail access on my (non-iphone/android/blackberry/etc) phone. I just wish it had SMS style notification for new messages. Maybe a notification whitelist or something would be nice. How does

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