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by SiVal 12y ago
According to the article: This new legislation requires every Spanish publication to charge services like Google News for showing even the smallest snippet from their publications, whether they want to or not. This sounds as though it won
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by SiVal 12y ago
This question is interesting enough that I'd like to see it as a partner to the monthly "Who is Hiring" posting. This "What Would You Be Paying For (If Only It Existed)" is a question worth asking again and again...
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by SiVal 12y ago
Apple is a single focus of power. Developers are numberless and spread all over the world. Your suggestion to try to combat that situation by concentrating, essentially "unionizing", developers, would fail for two reasons. One, th
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by SiVal 12y ago
I think this is a good point. After all the claims about how the majority of self-described programmers can't write FizzBuzz, are those of us who can write FizzBuzz already 10x programmers before we even get started on anything har
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by SiVal 12y ago
If you wanted to buy data from Google, how would you email? What is Google's email address?
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by SiVal 12y ago
I don't think it's more powerful in any way than an if-elif-elif-else which, for what it's worth, I consider the Pythonic way. Having said that, just because I consider something more Pythonic doesn't mean I prefer it. I
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by SiVal 12y ago
The u.s. is uniquely mono-lingual. What nonsense. Have you ever been outside Europe?
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by SiVal 12y ago
My interpretation was that these new Web users are likely to come from ethnic groups whose native languages are not much used online and whose educations might not have prepared them very well for content in the foreign languages (foreign t
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by SiVal 12y ago
Well maybe you could do an Ask HN and request those images. And maybe you would get one such selfie from every HNer. And maybe eventually, with therapy and drugs, you would be able to put the horror behind you and get on with your life, but
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by SiVal 12y ago
"Of course"? There is no "of course" when it comes to freedom of the press in China. "It happens that" you can buy it. Someone in a position of authority decided that it, unlike many other things, would be allo
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by SiVal 12y ago
Imagine an airplane at an airshow. It flies past with a smoke generator belching out smoke, leaving a rough trail behind it that churns and deforms. It's roughly a long tube of churning particles. Now take this shape into space and mak
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by SiVal 12y ago
Just yesterday, I was reading about the theory of "Peak App", which is based on surveys of leading app publishers showing that being #N in Apple's App Store (for very high-ranking N) means significantly less money than bein
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by SiVal 12y ago
Let me second this question. I have heard the equivalent of, "It's too early to be talking yet about whether we will or won't open source Swift; let's talk about that later," but I didn't interpret that to mean
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by SiVal 12y ago
Western "society" isn't assigning "cultural" value when some American guy offers me his own money to build something he wants for himself. He's estimating how much money he can net from the deal after paying my
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by SiVal 12y ago
Big Japanese companies are like small communist governments. Once you are in, you get paid the same as everyone else, regardless of your value, because it's not as though you could leave. If you left, nobody would hire you, so your &qu
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by SiVal 12y ago
I've worked on Japanese dev teams, and I've always liked the Japanese geeks I've worked with. They're usually out of the running for "serious" jobs at the company, so they tend to be much more relaxed and fun t
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by SiVal 12y ago
Even as a former janitor, it's obvious to me, as it would be to most janitors, that if I were an employer and could get either janitors or programmers for the same price, I'd hire as many programmers as I could, as few janitors as
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by SiVal 12y ago
As a former janitor myself, I strongly second this. I used to mop floors and clean toilets. I helped a few people a little bit, and they treated me okay. I then learned to program and was surprised at how much more interested business peo
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by SiVal 12y ago
There is this interesting paper titled “A Few Useful Things to Know about Machine Learning”, which basically ... That link leads to the Japanese toilet maker Toto, not to any ML paper. I suspect it was pranksters, not the author.
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by SiVal 12y ago
The sheer amount of time saved won't help you if it goes away, and it could go away in many ways: canceled, poorly maintained until it eventually becomes unreliable, price raised until you can't live with it but can no longer live
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by SiVal 12y ago
I strongly disagree. I like the variety and the experiments. When you try new things, some will work out, some won't, and which do and don't vary depending on who you ask. I'm still sympathetic. There are certainly UI experie
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by SiVal 12y ago
I agree that defaults are powerful, which is why a potential developer who can't figure out how to download a browser and has nobody around to help will either be using IE or Safari anyway. Anyone who can get a copy of Firefox installe
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by SiVal 12y ago
Even if you could measure altitude to centimeter precision, the clock speed would depend on gravity, not altitude, and the Earth is too lumpy (in terms of density) for that centimeter to tell you much when comparing two different locations.
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by SiVal 12y ago
The network effect I'm talking about is the N-squared growth in value of a network of N nodes where each of the N nodes derives most of its value from the number (N-1) of other nodes. The phone system overall has this property, so does
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by SiVal 12y ago
The phone market, ironically, doesn't have network effects, because any phone can talk to any other phone. But it does have scale and timing effects, because developers decide which platform(s) to develop for, in part, by the numbe
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by SiVal 12y ago
Well done. (You have a couple of typos in your last paragraph, where you say "ABC", when you mean "ACE", but your logic makes it clear they are just typos.)
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by SiVal 12y ago
If you're alone in the car, try screaming. It creates an adrenaline rush. But I MUST add that none of these tricks will last for more than a couple of minutes, and after you do them a couple of times, they stop working. Sleepy drivers
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by SiVal 12y ago
Or more. After clearing out more space in your home, and thinking "mindfully" about what you like and don't like, you could just as easily become more interested in acquiring new things than if your home were already "
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by SiVal 12y ago
Why? What are the "incredible" benefits that you imagine? This is about taking things that once brought you enough "joy" that you bought them and moving them from closets to landfills, probably making room to buy some mo
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by SiVal 12y ago
I have yet another perspective. When I try something that sounds too good to be true, and that's how it turns out, I usually drop it rather than investing more in it.

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