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by aaronsw 15y ago
That story originally carried a title like "AirBnB scandal makes front page of the Financial Times". I thought it was interesting from the perspective of "How does bad press about a startup spread and what are the effects of various ways of
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by aaronsw 15y ago
Anyone know what the slides were?
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by aaronsw 15y ago
The reason Branson keeps deferring is that he isn't the CEO; he "founded" the company but he hasn't really been involved with it for decades.
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by aaronsw 15y ago
http://lemonodor.com/archives/000246.html
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by aaronsw 16y ago
You leave out (B) and (C) of that paragraph: (B) by the reproduction or distribution, including by electronic means, during any 180-day period, of 1 or more copies or phonorecords of 1 or more copyrighted wo
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by aaronsw 16y ago
Pretty sure Seibel joined after it got funding.
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Truth or Consequences, New Mexico(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by aaronsw 16y ago|0 comments
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by aaronsw 16y ago
In my defense, it was written 5 years ago, when I was an even younger guy. Technically, I think I was still a teenager.
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by aaronsw 16y ago
The political writing is going into a book, so I don't post it to the blog. That just leaves occasional side projects like the DNS stuff.
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by aaronsw 16y ago
They have a nofollow meta in the head of the page, which according to http://www.seobook.com/robots-txt-vs-rel-nofollow-vs-meta-ro... is as good as rel="nofollow" when it comes to PageRank.
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by aaronsw 16y ago
What would be really cool is if "NokiaPlanB was a hoax" was a hoax -- anybody could register a NokiaPlanB Twitter account and claim this.
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by aaronsw 16y ago
There's a nice one around Boston (much smaller, obviously, but might be more accessible for HN readers): http://www.mos.org/sln/wtu/css.html
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by aaronsw 16y ago
/topic works as well.
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by aaronsw 16y ago
This piece is so bogus. If, as he suggests, Google's query data is accidentally getting caught up in some larger Bing project, then why doesn't Bing just say that in their numerous posts and tweets about the scandal? Instead, they've just t
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by aaronsw 16y ago
"I tell many people that Paul Graham is a genius. He saw the opportunity to start YC." This is a very sly insult and betrays a major misunderstanding of how the market works. Did Facebook succeed because Mark Zuckerberg saw the "opportunity
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by aaronsw 16y ago
I hope Github adds this as well.
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by aaronsw 16y ago
[Since reddit is under severe load, here's the actual text...] ZorbaTHut 319 points 1 day ago > A contract is a two-way agreement, so if you see terms in there that you're uncomfortable about, you can black them out. This isn't even a h
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by aaronsw 16y ago
I support this project. I was hoping stuff like Meraki.net would be a good tool for this, but it doesn't seem to have taken off.
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by aaronsw 16y ago
What are you talking about?
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by aaronsw 16y ago
Wales admitted he was wrong to me through a mutual friend. I don't think he ever publicly recanted, though.
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by aaronsw 16y ago
Previously posted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1539538 (68 comments) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=951095 (1 comment) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=514955 (1 comment) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=492615 (0
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by aaronsw 16y ago
I prefer Otto: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1290293/
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by aaronsw 16y ago
Why don't the Android people work in public like the Chrome team?
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by aaronsw 16y ago
And other browsers could just extract the key and ship it as well.
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by aaronsw 16y ago
Apparently he's an official sponsor (and they took that ridiculous photo for him): http://www.mauricelacroix.com/en/Brand/Ambassadors/Jimmy_Wal... How much is he getting paid and is he donating it to Wikimedia?
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by aaronsw 16y ago
JavaScript apps have been broken for a couple weeks now with links to things like: http://twitter.com/mattyglesias/statuses/7.1157195777E+15
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by aaronsw 16y ago
Do you really think these emails are being intercepted by third parties? Surely the recipients are leaking them and no encryption scheme can prevent that.
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Stephen Fry: What I wish I'd known when I was 18(vimeo.com)
15 points by aaronsw 16y ago|0 comments
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by aaronsw 16y ago
Of course Apple does usability testing and has since the beginning. Here's a full guide on how they do it: http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/UserExp... Obviously they use their own judgment and market feedback as well,
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by aaronsw 16y ago
Are Ken Rockwell and Lew Rockwell related? They seem to share a web designer.

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