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FaceBook on TechCrunch - 2005(techcrunch.com)
28 points by _grrr 16y ago|10 comments
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by _grrr 16y ago
I think the browns is ugly and the fonts need some work. Seems like a bit of a waste getting the HN community to review some colours and fonts though. If you told us a little more about the idea maybe we could give you feedback on that inst
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by _grrr 16y ago
What do you want us to review?
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Conway's Game of Life(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by _grrr 16y ago|0 comments
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by _grrr 16y ago
If you are supplying the developer with algorithms that are specific (critical/unique) to your business, then for the avoidance of doubt you should make explicit in the contract that you own the IP for any work the developer does for you. I
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by _grrr 16y ago
The usual rule is to keep in-house anything that gives your business a real competitive advantage, often this will be your IP.
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by _grrr 16y ago
The same trait occurs in Iran & Afghanistan too. Not sure why this link's on HN though?
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by _grrr 16y ago
The UK spends ~£6 Billion/yr on EU. Total UK Budget is £620 Billion. Sources: UK Budget: http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/may/17/uk-publi... EU Contributions: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8036096.stm Afraid I don't have figure
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by _grrr 16y ago
There's one feature I wish Google would add - the ability to manually blacklist sites from the search results.
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by _grrr 16y ago
> Europe is redistributing enormous amount of money from rich to poor countries within EU Yes, they are, but it's a political hot potato, arguably without mandate, and I doubt that it's on the scale of national regional development fun
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by _grrr 16y ago
Agreed, I generally cann't hear the speakers either unless I'm right at the front, but that's sort of by the by. The main reason to is to meet people in the crowd.
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by _grrr 16y ago
>But you could make the same argument against any US state that remains cost competitive due to the currency True, but, there is a policial union of states in the US that doesn't exist in the EU. The EU is a monetary union without a pol
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WP7 vs Android: a struggle for supremacy(theregister.co.uk)
1 points by _grrr 16y ago|0 comments
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Wikileaks releases secret US embassy cables(bbc.co.uk)
40 points by _grrr 16y ago|1 comments
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by _grrr 16y ago
The MiniBar meetup - last Friday of every month - is for internet professionals and entrepreneurs (nr. Brick Lane / Liverpool St) http://www.meetup.com/minibar/ They are well attended, have guest speakers, and best of all - free beer ;-)
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Lisp for the Web - Tutorial(adampetersen.se)
69 points by _grrr 16y ago|12 comments
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by _grrr 16y ago
Aha - I am still sane after all. Yes, I'd like to know how it got updated too, is Arc that smart?!
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by _grrr 16y ago
Student fees should not put someone off starting a start-up in the UK because you don't have to pay anything back until you're earning > £21k, so a founder wouldn't have to pay anything until the business could afford to pay them. Howev
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by _grrr 16y ago
And, importantly, in the case of email, companies can host their own mail servers & thus better protect their data. Can you really imagine companies allowing facebook to host sensitive corporate communications?
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by _grrr 16y ago
For serious HFT development you need to have order book data too. This costs.
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Miracle patch set to turbocharge Linux kernel(linuxfordevices.com)
2 points by _grrr 16y ago|0 comments
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by _grrr 16y ago
My bad, sorry.
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by _grrr 16y ago
OK, that's weird, when I first visited the OPs link I could swear it was to a page on the Telegraph newspapers website that had no image ( http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8109291... ) clearly now though it's not. Maybe
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by _grrr 16y ago
Challenges: * The need for speed, at every level of the architecture (network, tcp/ip, hardware, app) * Reducing order (send/ack) round-trip times, this generally means putting your servers in a data cetre as close to the exchange as possib
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by _grrr 16y ago
Here it is... http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20101105a1.html
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by _grrr 16y ago
Was anyone else expecting to see the photo on that page?
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Cosmos may show echoes of events before Big Bang(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by _grrr 16y ago|0 comments
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by _grrr 16y ago
In his book "ANSI Common Lisp" PG gives an account of designing reusable software from the bottom up i.e. "changing the language to suit the problem. In Lisp, you don't just write your program down toward the language, you also build the la
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by _grrr 16y ago
When you install the extension it warns you that it needs access to "Your browsing history". I can understand why it needs your HN data, but why your browsing history? (or is that message simply misleading)
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by _grrr 16y ago
That's exactly what the problem was, the building was an old Victorian printing press, with some desks and an internet connection thrown in. Half the windows weren't flush when closed, and there was a big steel door entrance which conducted

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