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by amohr 18y ago
What was much more shocking than the main point of the article was the statement "Comcast promised 768 kbps up and 8 Mbits down. That's what they delivered, more or less reliably for several years. It seemed quite fast except when I was upl
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by amohr 18y ago
What struck me about the article was the attribution of the concept of cyberspace to Vernor Vinge instead of Gibson. After some wikipedia investigation, it's clear that my sci-fi history knowledge is lacking - True Names came out a full 3
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by amohr 18y ago
Reflections/Projections is consistently a good time. The year before that one, I saw Yale Patt, the guys from Rooster Teeth (Red vs. Blue), Max Levchin, Jawed Kareem, and Joel Spolsky - that was a pretty exciting weekend. And there's a jo
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by amohr 18y ago
Also learned from this: Startup news is an anagram for Putter Swans ...and swat punters... or pun swatters... and "we rust pants"
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by amohr 18y ago
...macadamia nut coffee... yes. A thousand times, yes. But I do remember reading an essay a while back about what makes SV so popular and a major point was the fact that it was beautiful, but not too beautiful. He contends that the lan
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by amohr 18y ago
You might at least want to get an original logo. I like bluebison.net as much as the next guy, but you should probably have something original if you're going to have a bunch of traffic.
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by amohr 18y ago
While I appreciate the connection with people in a similar situation as myself, I think one of the major advantages of HN, and the hacker community as a whole, is that completely pervasive respect of one another. This community exists almo
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The Economics of "New Media"(mashable.com)
2 points by amohr 18y ago|0 comments
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by amohr 19y ago
I admit it. I read the Character of Physical Law just to pick up chicks.
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What would you dream up if you didn't have to implement it?(mohrslaws.blogspot.com)
2 points by amohr 19y ago|1 comments
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by amohr 19y ago
I think treating karma like currency will only exacerbate the situation. I feel like the underlying problem is that the audience HN targets is a generally outspoken one - we have lots of opinions and little problem expressing them. That b
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by amohr 19y ago
Well as long as we're throwing around rash generalizations, Engineers don't get involved on campus, except occasionally with engineering groups. That is why they don't realize that there are other majors out there that work their asses off
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by amohr 19y ago
There was actually a study at the University of Chicago that Steven Levitt writes about in "Freakonomics." A sociology student got really close with a gang in downtown chicago - and it turned out that the local gang leader had a business d
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by amohr 19y ago
My only complaint - the turning radius on the car is not tight enough to make it through the roundabouts at full speed. You can also drive through malls
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by amohr 19y ago
If they just said they were hiring, they would get the same lookover as everyone else who's hiring. If you're going to take the time to do something different, why not highlight that and use it to draw people in - there wouldn't be nearly
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by amohr 19y ago
alright, we can be the πλ chapter.
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by amohr 19y ago
And that's why I got out of physics! As far as the correlation goes - There's a clear correlation there, though it doesn't seem like they're trying to propose a causality. Though they kind of bill it as a causality at the beginning of the
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by amohr 19y ago
Now I'm just imagining what is essentially a hacker frat house. That would be sweet for some sort of incubator or whatnot to set up a 10-20 bedroom house in SJ or SV or somewhere and get like 5-7 startups to all work out of there. You cou
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by amohr 19y ago
I've never been through this before, but I feel like getting through series A is a milestone and should be treated as such. I think founders who have been busting their asses to get this product up-and-running deserve some sort of bonus, e
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by amohr 19y ago
I think the jump from 10-20 million may have had something to do with lotus being bought by IBM, giving it a big marketing push. Also, if he really wanted to prove his point he could have pointed out that the development could be traced bac
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by amohr 19y ago
The Design of Everyday Things - Don Norman I know he's gotten some flak lately for ripping on 37signals, but this book seriously changed how I look at the world... especially doors. Freakonomics - Steven Levitt Good for understanding the va
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by amohr 19y ago
Midwestern college town? Champaign, IL! I had a place near campus for $230/month with parking. You can probably live on $600 a month. Also, tech guys come through here all the time (UIUC cs students are fairly sought-after, especially b
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by amohr 19y ago
The thing here is - for every social app, people are going to ask a) is it worth my effort to join this social network? or b) can this leverage my existing social network? And so, facebook, being the largest 2.0 social network becomes a co
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by amohr 19y ago
Doesn't say when he posted, but his idea sounds a lot like celestia http://www.shatters.net/celestia/
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by amohr 19y ago
Joao Magueijo has an interesting look into this problem (specifically referring to Nature, too) in his book Faster than the Speed of Light. I read it when I was studying physics and it really intrigued me to see how difficult it is to ch
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by amohr 19y ago
It feels a little too desktoppy, I think I'll stick with Ext
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by amohr 19y ago
Tonight on Rigel News "Distant Planet 'Earth' reduces Milky Way to the size of an atom" more at 11 Has anyone read Our Final Hour by Martin Rees - he talks about this as being one of the possible ways mankind may accidentally destroy itsel
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by amohr 19y ago
that's what plan a (sham marriage) is for. But as long as you find somebody to incorporate with, they can technically be your 'employer' for these purposes, I assume. Bear in mind that this is all a little shady and really the only other w
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by amohr 19y ago
Get a travel visa and a sham marriage. As the spouse of a US citizen, you are entitled to a nonimmigrant visa while you wait to be processed to become a permanent resident. Then, you can apply for citizenship. Actually, your best bet woul
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by amohr 19y ago
Hold on, I'm running outa juice, got to put on my power tie!

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