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by aasarava 15y ago
The concept of Thorium-fueled reactors is not new. In 2005, I wrote an article for Wired News about some of the market issues impeding Thorium adoption. TLDR, at the end of the day, it seems the cost is too high when compared to uranium.
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by aasarava 15y ago
It's still possible to make money building web sites, perhaps more so than ever. If you aren't happy with still being in school, why aren't you putting the pieces in place to start your own web development practice?
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by aasarava 15y ago
I should clarify that I ask this during an initial phone screening. (Having HR personnel ask the question never seems to work because they don't know how to evaluate the response, which can vary and still be correct.) What I'm looking for
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by aasarava 15y ago
"Describe the difference between Java and Javascript" is actually one of the first technical questions I ask when hiring developers (or otherwise evaluating the skills of anyone in a technical, Web-related position.) When I first tried it,
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by aasarava 15y ago
>> Drupal has always seemed to have something of an identity crises. Some people think of it as a fully-featured CMS, some think of it as a framework or platform, and then you have a ton of people just trying to use it as a more fle
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by aasarava 15y ago
Buried in this article is an interesting stat: TechCrunch, the mainstay of the online media and technology industry, has shrunk since its purchase by AOL from over 2M monthly visitors to less than 1M (Source: Compete.com)
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AOL Maybe Looking for Buyer; & Techcrunch Losing Readership(technorati.com)
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Russian Soyuz Rocket on Way to ISS Crashes in Siberia(edition.cnn.com)
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by aasarava 15y ago
The project may have been blessed by some official at the Kremlin, but no doubt it would need to be approved -- and even partly financed -- by the US and Alaskan governments to actually happen. It would be nice if reporters even bothered to
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Booklamp launches: Kayak/Pandora for Books(booklamp.org)
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by aasarava 15y ago
I don't know about Discover.com, but Discovercard.com (for credit card account access) seems to cap passwords at 8 characters, which drives me crazy. Other than someone setting a database column to 8 chars and not wanting to deal with alte
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by aasarava 15y ago
While it's done all the time (see Obvious Corp and Twitter), one potential downside for a bootstrapped startup is that you'll need to make an extra effort to protect two names (trademarks, licenses, etc.).
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PayPal Money Market Fund to Close
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by aasarava 15y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER - Berkeley, CA - Remote OK I'm a Drupal contractor in search of a good Drupal themer who can help me on projects. I have one immediate project and others coming down the pipe over the next few months. I would build the
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by aasarava 15y ago
What I don't get is this: With more than 5 Billion people using mobile phones, according to the article, wouldn't we have already seen the first waves of a tumor epidemic? I understand that children are particularly susceptible and the tre
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WHO Panel: 'Limited Evidence' Suggests Cell Phones 'Possibly Carcinogenic'(webmd.com)
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by aasarava 15y ago
Yet several had the expertise to fly commercial airliners. A number of top Al Qaeda leaders went to college in the U.S. It wouldn't be implausible for some terrorists to take courses in computer science.
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by aasarava 15y ago
I suspect that won't happen -- with music labels, at least -- for the same reason Netflix didn't look at Blockbuster and think, "We should buy them up!" The whole music distribution model has been based on top-down control and seems very i
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Ask HN: What to do about laptop batteries?
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Son of Kaspersky Lab Founder Missing in Russia, Kidnapped?(bbc.co.uk)
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by aasarava 16y ago
Not sure about European sports reporting, but the problem I've found with both the US sports reporting and the Indian sports reporting that I've read is that journalists are allowed to -- perhaps even encouraged to -- use sports jargon with
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by aasarava 16y ago
There's no reason your salary at a previous, unaffiliated organization should have an affect on your next salary. Hiring managers would like you to believe so, just so they can peg their offer to that number. If that happens, be sure to p
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by aasarava 16y ago
True, but in fairness to bitskits, the author goes on to talk about paying to use FastMail as an alternative to Gmail. Yet, he doesn't provide any comparative uptime data to show that FastMail is objectively better. As for being able to ow
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by aasarava 16y ago
I just ignore it and use the TLD when I have to relay a URL verbally. Most Web servers (at least for sites that I build or refer others to) are configured to serve pages without the www in the URL.
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Netflix Says Use of Amazon AWS is a Competitive Risk(paidcontent.org)
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Does Playing Hard to Get on Facebook Affect Women's Interest In You?(nbcbayarea.com)
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by aasarava 16y ago
This may be the case, but it might also turn out that the team is no longer checking in rushed and untested code as they hurry to get out of the office and go home for the evening. Instead, the may just hold off on checking in the code unt
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by aasarava 16y ago
What do you do / what do you use to be able to see your screen clearly while outdoors in the sun?
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Scanning Electron Microscope analysis of ground coffee(home-barista.com)
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by aasarava 16y ago
I concede that Cooks Source is a small local mag, not a publishing empire (like, say, Cooks Illustrated.) But I would counter that working "with small food-oriented businesses" is her mission , not her business. She accepts advertising f

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