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by aheilbut 16y ago
I've also wondered to myself why there isn't a terminal program with a directory tree by the side so you could just click on the directory that you want to be in, instead of ls -cd-tab-blah-^H-tab-^M. It would also a have a list of favorit
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by aheilbut 16y ago
Seth Goldstein and Steve Gillmor tried this more than 5 years ago with AttenTV / Attention Trust. It'll be interesting to see if the idea takes off now.
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Ext JS 4 Developer Preview released(sencha.com)
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by aheilbut 16y ago
CBC != CBS
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by aheilbut 16y ago
Perhaps that's why old-school journalists like Burman would be ready to leave.
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by aheilbut 16y ago
The guy in charge of Al Jazeera English used to run news at - wait for it... the CBC (that's the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation). ( http://english.aljazeera.net/aboutus/2007/12/200861501043226... )
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by aheilbut 16y ago
The iPad is too much fun. It's slightly better geared for single-tasking than a PC, but at any moment you're still three taps from every piece of attention-sucking media in the world. Although reading books works fine on an iPad, reading b
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by aheilbut 16y ago
Schools would do much better to give every student a Kindle.
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by aheilbut 16y ago
.htaccess?
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PhantomJS is a minimalistic, headless, WebKit-based, JavaScript-driven tool(code.google.com)
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by aheilbut 16y ago
The phrases that irked me were: "I have yet to meet a database that isn’t a key/value store" Dimensions that are "somewhat orthogonal" "It suffices to say that MapReduce is all about giving programmers an efficient way to consume data witho
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by aheilbut 16y ago
Terminology is so badly abused in this article that it almost reads like a parody. Also, the tasks could have been accomplished in 3 or 4 lines of SQL.
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by aheilbut 16y ago
Just release it. If you suddenly have to worry about press and having massive traction, then the name wasn't a huge problem. If not, there'll be plenty of time to change it and put a redirect.
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by aheilbut 16y ago
Touché.
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by aheilbut 16y ago
Also - how much more frequently do you check right after you've posted an article or reply?
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by aheilbut 16y ago
Does it really take that much time to create a linux server with rails on EC2? Energy barriers seem to matter.
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by aheilbut 16y ago
1. Hire someone to come in every week or two to help do cleaning. 2. Figure out approximately what bills come to every month, and get everyone to pay that much along with rent. And then don't sweat it.
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by aheilbut 16y ago
I can see the value in native apps, but I fail to understand why I would want to use a powerful computer with a giant screen to run a poor imitation of a product designed for a phone.
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by aheilbut 16y ago
You're right! I'm so terribly sorry for getting my words all confused. It's a great thing that HN has such sharp and savvy editors like you to set shmucks like me straight.
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by aheilbut 16y ago
The sad thing is that for a lot of this sort of propaganda to be effective, it don't have to prove anything; it suffices to just raise the question and spread fear, uncertainty, and doubt.
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by aheilbut 16y ago
Irony is no fun when it is explained.
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by aheilbut 16y ago
The user base is growing at something like 200% a year. In five years, they'll have over 32 billion users. Just figure out a way to make one or two dollars off each user...that can't be so hard, right?
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by aheilbut 16y ago
Cuil, of course!
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by aheilbut 16y ago
I'm not quite sure how it will happen, but at some point I think it will be beneficial to commoditize the underlying crawl and index data, so that there can be more domain specific focus and more diverse sources of innovation applied to sol
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by aheilbut 16y ago
It sounds like he deserved a C+ or perhaps a B-, which would have been fair and wouldn't have done any serious damage.
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by aheilbut 16y ago
Put the initial description en englais.
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by aheilbut 16y ago
This makes a ton of sense. It's incredibly surprising nobody has done this / publicized it already. Win. (I ran into an error trying to connect with fb; second time worked.)
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by aheilbut 16y ago
The same might be said for grad school...
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Touching Your Junk: An Ontological Complaint(eblong.com)
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Haïkuleaks: Cable is poetry 65 haikus in 1830 cables(haikuleaks.tetalab.org)
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