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by Revisor 16y ago
On a side note: The guy is outsourcing his core activity - the actual development of the product. That can't end well.
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by Revisor 16y ago
Concentration depends on context, surroundings, motivation. It can be trained and improved. To use a drug as a quick remedy is dangerous and frankly rather sad. Please rethink what you're doing. To put my tin-foil hat on: I consider ADHD an
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by Revisor 16y ago
But it's you who should motivate them and provide structure for the learning, no?
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by Revisor 16y ago
As an abstaining domainer let me sum up what I learned: The shorter the name the better. Don't use hyphens nor digits. Dot com is the king for any international project. In many countries their CCTLD is better than a .com (eg .de in Germany
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by Revisor 16y ago
And it has more than 100 points at HN.
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by Revisor 16y ago
Hello, can you please remove the OSX "dot underscore" meta files from the archive?
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by Revisor 16y ago
I'd also love to see any real-world examples (without spies, maybe in startup/business/management context?).
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by Revisor 16y ago
That's what I meant, thanks.
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by Revisor 16y ago
As for the indebtedness, I was speaking about the key layers of the economy - personal/household debt[1], corporate debt and public (government) debt[2]. We've grown accustomed to the debt as a regular part of our life, of how our household
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by Revisor 16y ago
The crash is not coming, it's just returning. The original one was never over. Its effects were just postponed by pouring money in it (aka bailouts and buy-outs). The real reasons - ultra high debt of all players, errors in the system, for-
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by Revisor 16y ago
I’ve watched him lose his health, sanity, credit and girlfriends again and again for this obsession. “This is literally killing you,” I tell him. “It has to stop.” If she can see he's doing something wrong, she should help him get on tra
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by Revisor 16y ago
And let's not forget the very useful and free Yahoo Pipes. http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/
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by Revisor 16y ago
Let me turn that around: What is a better course for an employer, say an internet startup or a small software / webdesign company? To hire contractors or employees? My first thought would since software/web is the core activity, employ them
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by Revisor 16y ago
Fair enough. I'll explain why I find this article important. The current crisis is not cyclical, it's man-made: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/12697/64796 Some have seen it coming, ie it could be averted. http://www.youtube.co
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by Revisor 16y ago
Even better: Go build something you're interested in. It needn't be important, just fun for you.
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by Revisor 16y ago
This is no mere political news, but an ominous sign of the times - of today's broken system. It might/will directly affect more than half of the hackers and indirectly all of us.
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by Revisor 16y ago
Without appropriate design, yesterday's success is tomorrow's straightjacket, since today's great applications are tomorrow's legacy systems. Bill Buxton in Sketching User Experiences, page 209
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by Revisor 16y ago
None of those settings seem to apply to the case in question: It seems that on first request it query google for unique client ID (getting NID Cookie) Requests to safebrowsing are not anonymous. All of them signed with cookie, getted on th
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by Revisor 16y ago
Looking at the pictures at http://modernistcuisine.com/ , I see a strong sense of precision and symmetry. Reading about the volumes, I see sentences like new ingredients such as gelling and thickening agents, emulsifiers, and foams have
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by Revisor 16y ago
Concentrating the long-tail keyword ads will increase competition => increase bids => increase Google's and decrease advertisers' margins. In the medium run this will only benefit Google.
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by Revisor 16y ago
“No, Apple didn’t license iBooks from me. They just copied me. Ah well,” http://techcrunch.com/2010/01/27/think-ibooks-looks-familiar...
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by Revisor 16y ago
Use Keepass instead and remember just one very strong master password. http://keepass.info/
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by Revisor 16y ago
If you're a man, consider switching to the traditional wet shaving. http://www.youtube.com/user/mantic59 It will make your mornings so much more enjoyable and give you a precious moment of self-care and contemplation every (other) day.
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by Revisor 16y ago
There is a great talk by an (ex-) developer from Reddit about the technical background, scalability problems, caching, storing redundant data, queued offline computing etc. This might shed light on some questions in the comments here. htt
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by Revisor 16y ago
Thank you for the great tip.
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by Revisor 16y ago
The general public cares too little. Period.
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by Revisor 16y ago
What's the purpose? How is this any different from parking the domain (apart from not earning any money)? Or is this meant as a domain marketplace, only for low price? That's a new idea! Oh wait...
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by Revisor 16y ago
Dupe, sorry, I didn't notice the first entry here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1520774
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by Revisor 16y ago
Exactly what occured to me in this context. I've been thinking about an ergonomic sit/stand desk for a long time. A friend of mine, a teacher, has bought one and praised it immensely. Have a look at these products http://www.leuwico.com/we
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by Revisor 16y ago
Two weeks ago someone submitted the Paypal vs. Merchant Account Calculator to HN http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1471371 Are hackers going to post every calculator they come up with?

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