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by andreyf 16y ago
Just one sub-clause: if the doctor prescribes pills, go to a different doctor.
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by andreyf 16y ago
even when Pakistan's government request them not to do this is perfectly ok While I agree with the sentiment, I'm pretty sure the last WikiLeak clarified that we had the consent of the Pakistani military brass, who took credit for the att
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by andreyf 16y ago
Seems more like a replacement for Interface Builder. And quite a useful one. I'd love to be able to work on an iPad interface on my commute, come into the office, and start hacking away at the actual code at my desk.
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by andreyf 16y ago
Is it just me, or would one expect the dining hall system to be open to use for anyone who is a student (and their facebook friends)?
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by andreyf 16y ago
Sorry, I didn't mean that as a criticism. I wrote my first web apps in PHP/MySQL, as well. If you're serving video, you should probably use YouTube or the like. Try to figure out "the life of a query": when you load a page in the browser, w
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by andreyf 16y ago
Hah, you're going to have to learn to break that down a little more. What is the speed of the average request? How much of that is network delay? How much of it is the server taking to respond? PHP/MySQL don't seem like the optimal tools fo
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by andreyf 16y ago
The system seems slow, or slower than I would expect. Can you be more specific? What's slow?
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How to Disagree(paulgraham.com)
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by andreyf 16y ago
http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
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by andreyf 16y ago
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be accusatory. Best of luck :)
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by andreyf 16y ago
I think I remember my dad telling me of this as theoretically possible in the early 90's (he's a biologist).
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by andreyf 16y ago
Really poor title for the NY Times. I'm pretty sure Dubner posts these without review, so it's really his wording, not anything attributable to the NYT. It's not the government's money to begin with, it's the property of the people who d
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by andreyf 16y ago
I think it's pretty different. - It doesn't have a public application process. Why is this a good thing? It doesn't give you $15-20k for 6%, but instead matches your annual salary with caps at 90k, 140k and 190 if you are a 1, 2 or 3 per
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by andreyf 16y ago
This might be stupid/crazy, but might it make sense to have a DNS for phone numbers? Why not have 6464680751.cell resolve to a public IP address of my phone? If another phone wants to send it a text message or make a phone call, could it ju
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by andreyf 16y ago
But vigilante justice is homicide, and what Julian is doing is equivalent, how? You could call him an anarchist nerd publishing whatever low-level diplomatic snippets fall through the cracks, but surely, the things that are truly classified
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by andreyf 16y ago
You're responding to a summary of a summary of Assanage's essay with a rhetorical (did you mean hypothetical?) suggestion of killing him? I don't think this is the kind of writing I expect on Hacker News...
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by andreyf 16y ago
Googler here. I can raise this on the internal [eng-misc] mailing list, but I can't replicate his results: I have Chrome installed with no unwanted plugins in Firefox, and when I downloaded Google earth, I get: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4049
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by andreyf 16y ago
Copyright infringement happens when I don't follow your artificial scarcity rules Would you agree that an artificially scarce intellectual product is better than nothing?
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by andreyf 16y ago
Tried that, but my preferences have no "advanced" tab: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/404957/no_advanced.png :(
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by andreyf 16y ago
I'm not talking about upload/download, I'm talking about 109 gigs of movies on my 120/160GB SSD drive on both my home/work laptops, respectively. Or is everyone else walking around with multi-TB spinning drives in their laptops?
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by andreyf 16y ago
I think Jobs has been repeatedly clear that iOS supports two platforms: the web, an industry standard Apple tries hard to advance to the best of its ability, and iOS, which Apple keeps proprietary and advances to the best of their ability t
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by andreyf 16y ago
But do you really want to pull down 109GB on every laptop you install Dropbox on? Or would you manage that via multiple Dropbox accounts? From what I can tell, Dropbox hasn't yet tried out the "backup solutions" space, but I'm also hoping t
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by andreyf 16y ago
Hypothesis: Thousands of people around the world mis-flag content for a variety of reasons every day. One of the outsourced content-reviewers working for a consultancy hired by facebook made a mistake in handling the copyright infringement
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by andreyf 16y ago
Why talk in such absolute terms? YC is in it for option of early exists into Facebook (Zuckerberg is frank about his support for acquisition-as-a-hiring-bonus). Facebook sees it as a way of hiring the top talent coming out of universities.
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by andreyf 16y ago
The TSA is obviously staffed by bureaucrats who are simply following bad rules. This should call for a restructuring of the organization, not a lash out against The TSA or (worse) The Government. Let's figure out what is wrong with the proc
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by andreyf 16y ago
Startup idea: let Jason Kincaid submit this story to Facebook with the stipulation that it gets published if they don't fix it in the next 3 days, and they pay him $10k for pointing out what idiots they were if they do. The precise monetary
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by andreyf 16y ago
If you can't convince the majority of a random sampling of 12 people from your target market to try your product in a face-to-face pitch, chances are it isn't solving a very pressing problem.
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by andreyf 16y ago
Connect it to an iPhone and you'll be able to sell it to a new breed of 7 year old techno-hipsters.
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by andreyf 16y ago
Am I the only one who sees the face of a giant clown in that nuclear cloud?
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by andreyf 16y ago
For what it's worth, the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene is running a "education campaign" addressing exactly that: http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/pr2009/pr057-09.shtml We also have one of the highest taxes on nicotine sales

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