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by aaronsw 17y ago
> Microsoft didn't ban other office suite products from working on Windows. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code
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The Truth About the Drug Companies(nybooks.com)
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by aaronsw 17y ago
This is pretty much par for the course for new drugs and goes a long way toward explaining why we're such an overmedicalized society: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17244
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by aaronsw 17y ago
The Obama people, in a much, much bigger test, found that having a video on their splash page decreased signups.
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by aaronsw 17y ago
They totally beat 4.2.2.2, which was my previous go-to server.
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by aaronsw 17y ago
Can someone fix this link to point to the actual page: http://www.studiobriefing.net/studiobriefing.net/FILM_NEWS/E... If it's so annoying that Hacker News won't link to it, why should we be surprised that Google won't?
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by aaronsw 17y ago
It might be worth noting that Krugman won his prize "for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity" while Becker got it for studying "a wide range of human behaviour and interaction, including nonmarket behaviour". In
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by aaronsw 17y ago
In their print work, the artists remove the bevel and drop shadow from the logo and it looks 10x better: http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/flatgooglelogo
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by aaronsw 17y ago
Why don't you think this technique will scale? It asks three questions: Are they smart? Have they done good stuff in the past? Do you think you can work with them? These seem like really simple questions anyone can answer and in my experien
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by aaronsw 17y ago
I've gotten almost that exact txt. Girls really do write like that.
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by aaronsw 17y ago
Man, so much has changed since then.
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by aaronsw 17y ago
1. My apartment was Reddit HQ before we got bought. Where else would we have put the backups? 2. As best I can recall, the only thing on the web nodes was a source code checkout. I don't think that's particularly sensitive. 3. As ig1 notes,
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by aaronsw 17y ago
I'll take aaron.reddit.com. :-) (Ran across a backup of paul in my apartment the other day... Memories.)
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by aaronsw 17y ago
Presumably PG will the full text of his talk on his website in a couple days, as he has with all the others. Is there anything gained by reading this list of bullet points a couple days in advance? This doesn't seem particularly time sensit
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by aaronsw 17y ago
http://portlandactorsconservatory.blogspot.com/2009/10/25-re... "10. Paul Graham doesn’t know (yet) that he’s being portrayed on the stage."
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by aaronsw 17y ago
I'm almost tempted to go to Portland to see this. Is there anyone there who can see it and report back? More: "Wrapping up the evening, a character based on philanthropist Paul Graham instructs the audience on constructive disagreement in H
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by aaronsw 17y ago
Anyone know what Google uses this for?
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by aaronsw 17y ago
I didn't know this, but "GEICO is an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc." As are a surprising number of others: http://www.geico.com/about/corporate/corporate-ownership/
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by aaronsw 17y ago
(Taking this comment seriously...) After spending time with Randall IRL, I'm convinced his feelings on the subject are genuinely empathetic. That said, I don't think the comics are a particularly good expression of this. The male is always
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by aaronsw 17y ago
I had a bad case of survivor's guilt that month. I got over it pretty soon afterward, though.
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by aaronsw 17y ago
This is ridiculous. TimBL has been using identi.ca instead of Twitter for a long time because he supports free network services. No mention of that in the article. http://identi.ca/timbl
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by aaronsw 17y ago
It's hard to claim I'm new to programming. I did it for over a decade and then retired from it. Perhaps it's just nostalgia, then.
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by aaronsw 17y ago
Are you sure he wrote all of it in C? He often talks about higher-level languages he's written.
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by aaronsw 17y ago
Yes, that's true for most domains. All the other servers have to cache responses from those two servers. (For the record, the two yp.to servers are currently djb's machines dancer and forcewall.)
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by aaronsw 17y ago
I much preferred the old title. Can a moderator put it back?
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by aaronsw 17y ago
It's like none of these people have ever used Unix talk. You try that for about five minutes before you go back to using write.
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by aaronsw 17y ago
pg: the scribd link doesn't properly encode this URL and thus breaks. The correct URL is: http://www.scribd.com/vacuum?url=http://wiki.freebsd.org/200...
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by aaronsw 17y ago
My 2008 thoughts on this are here: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/howtolaunch
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by aaronsw 17y ago
I didn't. But when PACER went down they announced they were launching an investigation into who did it.
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by aaronsw 17y ago
It looks to me like the FBI was wondering why exactly this was a crime.

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