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by akamaka 17y ago
For a good example of a succesful online news pay site, check out Stratfor.com. They've picked out a good niche area (international political, military, and economic news), and have a team of writers who scan and filter down news sources fr
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by akamaka 17y ago
Cool title, but completely misleading. I thought this paper would be about writing software on top of an untrusted hardware architecture (an increasingly important national security concern, considering that so many chips are produced in fo
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by akamaka 17y ago
Agreed. I thought Ferguson's book would be interesting when I saw it at the bookstore last year, but quickly decided that it wasn't worth it after checking out reviews. I don't have links to specific reviews I read, but my impression of th
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by akamaka 17y ago
Thanks for posting, this is very interesting. I wish they included more details. The realm of realtime computer graphics has been totally dominated by the SGI+Renderman line of thinking, and realtime raytracing has only made occassional ap
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by akamaka 17y ago
Among the reasons others have already mentioned, I also regularly google through old HN articles for advice on which tools are the best. Searches like "hosting provider" or "server monitoring" will bring up lots of useful comments from the
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by akamaka 17y ago
Joost sounds like one of those companies that's created just to get VC money and get sold to someone gullible. If the founders had truly wanted to build something that helped their customers, they could have done it without $45 million in f
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by akamaka 17y ago
My figures: 100.5 million unique viewers in Oct 2008. Average of 53.5 views per user that month. (source: http://www.businessinsider.com/2008/12/youtube-hits-100-mill... ) Average video size, 10mb. 100.5m * 53.5 * 10 / 1024 = 52m GB ser
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by akamaka 17y ago
Fantastic, thanks so much for posting!
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by akamaka 17y ago
This is interssting because there was an article in yesterday's NYT talking about liver transplant wait times, and how the rich could travel to places where they could avoid line ups. It mentioned this very hospital as having one of the sho
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by akamaka 17y ago
Yes, absolutely the best keyboard ever. I'm still using mine to this day, and it works as well as it did in 1991 when my older brother bought it with his 286. Nothing I've tried comes close (although I have tried those high end M-inspired
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by akamaka 17y ago
Looks very nice overall. Ditto on the currency point, I initially thought 10/15 meant two different price plans. Also, I'd be eager to see a bit more info about how the monitoring script works, and exactly what data is being retained.
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by akamaka 17y ago
Thanks for posting. There's a lot of advice from experienced entrepreneurs that makes it onto this site, but I don't enjoy reading any of it as much as I enjoy Steve's stories. There's so many bloggers out there who just seem to want to le
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by akamaka 17y ago
Thanks for posting this summary!
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by akamaka 17y ago
I can't agree more about learning the correct pronunciation first. I spent some time tutoring students learning English, and many of them had spent years learning to read without any training on pronunciation. They end up speaking English
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by akamaka 17y ago
Edit: whoops. this is supposed to be a response to the first comment. I would guess that the 1% figure is the average loss for each 100ms of latency. So if it took 5 seconds longer to load each page, 50% less people would ultimately make a
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by akamaka 17y ago
Summary: "I don't get postmodernism, and I'm not capable of understanding it." His attitude here reminds me of people who proudly say "I suck at math!" The next time a Chomsky article shows up here, I really hope that it's in an area that
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by akamaka 17y ago
Yes, I specifically said books, because the three writers I mentioned are all smart guys who did important work early on in their careers, but then went on to write a lot of junk on other subjects. The problem is that it's not Dawkins' or C
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by akamaka 17y ago
This article is not either of the things you suggested. It's not jargon and babble, and the argument is pretty clear: cinsumerist society is on the brink of collapse. The problem is that AdBusters has been saying this over and over in ever
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by akamaka 17y ago
Memetics was influenced by him, since he coined the term, but it's hardly a "field" in the same sense as Computer Science! In writing his book, Dawkins ignored the last 2000+ years of scholarship on the nature of ideas, and influenced a tin
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by akamaka 17y ago
I'm embarrassed every time an article like this gets posted to Hacker News. I don't think anyone here would take Ray Kurzweil's books seriously, but quite a few people would upvote an article by Dawkins or Chomsky, whose books have contribu
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by akamaka 17y ago
Aside from being a good hack, I really enjoyed reading your write-up!
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by akamaka 17y ago
A platform is nothing without a killer app, so this indeed may be more of a beginning than an end for AppJet. Good luck, guys!
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by akamaka 17y ago
Andy Grove's biography tells the story how he had Bill Gates over for dinner to discuss the relationship between Intel and Microsoft. Upon hearing one if Andy's proposals, an excitable Gates said that it would "be actionable" (meaning the
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by akamaka 17y ago
Thanks for pointing me to this plugin.
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by akamaka 17y ago
Thanks for the helpful response, I haven't worked with ASP.net, and wasn't aware of this!
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by akamaka 17y ago
Neat, thanks for the link.
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by akamaka 17y ago
I should have been more clear, sorry. Yes, validation always needs to be done on the server side. What I'm wondering is if tools exist for automatically generating the client-side validation from the same rules that have been specified on
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by akamaka 17y ago
100% right, and what I'm curious about how the validation requirements are specified. Surely you wouldn't want to do it twice, once for the server and again for the client. Has anyone looked into this?
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by akamaka 17y ago
Cool idea, but there's no validation if JavaScript is disabled! Shouldn't a complete solution automatically fall back to server-side validation?
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by akamaka 17y ago
Bad article title. I thought this would be about immediate business opportunities in the current economic climate. A better title would be "Best Industries to get if you want long-term potential regardless of economic ups and downs".

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