aaronsw

11 ms·

61.
by aaronsw 16y ago
Sorry, but the NYT does not do fact checking for their articles or blog posts. The New York Times Magazine factchecks their long feature stories, but that's it.
62.
by aaronsw 16y ago
I'm curious if pg agrees. He sometimes presents startups as this extraordinarily painful chore, but my experience is more like Branson's.
63.
by aaronsw 16y ago
I found the old version more amusing: "Google does search. Google does not do horoscopes, financial advice or chat. ... Google's entire staff is dedicated to creating the perfect search engine and work tirelessly toward that goal." http://
64.
by aaronsw 16y ago
If you don't care about getting reelected, being a member of Congress is more like running a small company. You're given a million dollar a year budget and allowed to basically do what you want with it. There are no real requirements, altho
65.
by aaronsw 16y ago
There's a lot of truth to this, but the worry about investing it wrong is definitely new. There wasn't anything I really worried about that way before the money. Maybe if I had a family to support, it'd be different, and I would have consta
66.
by aaronsw 16y ago
Yeah, I'm exaggerating. I think that the term happiness really refers to two different things. The first (call it happiness0) is how good you feel on a moment-to-moment basis. This is what I was referring to above (pg is always grinning and
67.
by aaronsw 16y ago
In the short-term, my life was much worse. I spent a lot of really painful time struggling to come to grips with my situation. After that was over, things went pretty much back to normal. There's now a low-level fear all the time of losing
68.
by aaronsw 16y ago
Has anyone seen mjd lately? I haven't heard from him and he hasn't updated his blog since January. I'm starting to get worried. (This PDF was put up long before that.)
69.
by aaronsw 16y ago
Site is down, anyone have a copy? It seems to refer to this article, though: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9178560/FTC_says_scam...
70.
No Sleep 'Til Fusion(gizmodo.com)
7 points by aaronsw 16y ago|1 comments
71.
What, Me Exercise?: The Hacker Exercise Regime(fourmilab.ch)
37 points by aaronsw 16y ago|68 comments
72.
by aaronsw 16y ago
If you read the actual report they're quoting ( http://www.ftc.gov/opp/workshops/news/jun15/docs/new-staff-d... ) you'll see, as usual, that the _Washington Times_ is being totally dishonest. First, the report is simply a list of proposals
73.
by aaronsw 16y ago
What Tim doesn't note is that WIRED was one of the leaders of this pixel-for-pixel web design.
74.
by aaronsw 16y ago
$2000 a month? Find a large quantity of text that isn't on the Web that people might search for, put it online, and put AdSense ads on it.
75.
by aaronsw 16y ago
I posted it here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1034958
76.
by aaronsw 16y ago
Currently the bill requires that the GAO do a study of whether it would be a good idea and report to Congress about it. (That would be the watered down to meaninglessness bit.) Sens. Merkley and Levin proposed an amendment to make it a hard
77.
by aaronsw 16y ago
Currently exists. Has for quite a while now.
78.
by aaronsw 16y ago
Surprised to see this on HN since I've actually been working on it. Basically, the original gave full, permanent audit authority to the Government Accountability Office. This one requires a one-time thorough audit of the bailout-type expend
79.
by aaronsw 17y ago
For those wondering, "There are those in the IETF who refuse to wear anything other than suits. Fortunately, they are well known (for other reasons) so they are forgiven this particular idiosyncrasy." is a reference to Vint Cerf. Though I d
80.
by aaronsw 17y ago
I sent him the missing Y Combinator startups from my round (Firecrawl, Memamp, and Simmery) -- anyone else have the others?
81.
by aaronsw 17y ago
I think you can just use: http://code.google.com/apis/documents/docs/3.0/developers_gu...
82.
by aaronsw 17y ago
$0.02 per GB-month is a lot better than S3 or Cloud Storage, which is $0.15. It looks like you can only purchase 14TB per account[1], but the cost savings are such that I wonder if we'll see people switching. [1]: https://www.google.com/ac
83.
by aaronsw 17y ago
For the record, here's the letter I wrote to Allan that this post is responding to: Subject: what happened to TextMate? When TextMate came out, it was the most fun application I had ever used -- to this day, have ever used, in fact. I subsc
84.
by aaronsw 17y ago
/saved Documentation on what they all mean would be helpful.
85.
by aaronsw 17y ago
For people interested in this stuff, Howard Gardner's book _The Unschooled Mind_ collects similar results from every discipline, from computer science to history. http://books.google.com/books?id=DVB1n_KkYEQC For more on CS, of course, yo
86.
by aaronsw 17y ago
And apparently neither do the universities -- if so many people can do so many important jobs with nobody noticing they never went to a university, what's their "education" good for? I went to Stanford and while it's true, the students did
87.
by aaronsw 17y ago
http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html "Stories on HN don't have to be about hacking, because good hackers aren't only interested in hacking, but they do have to be deeply interesting. "What does "deeply interesting" mean? It means stuff
88.
by aaronsw 17y ago
I'm friends with Philip and I doubt he'd consider himself a libertarian. He's more of a _Slate_-style counterintuitivist, although he'd probably object to any kind of political label.
89.
by aaronsw 17y ago
No.
90.
by aaronsw 17y ago
I trust Wikipedia more than the National Post. The author's thesis is that William Connolley "erase[d] the Little Ice Age [and] the Medieval Warm Period" from Wikipedia. Well, all you have to do is go to the "Medieval Warming Period" articl

More ›