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by aneth 15y ago
I did not cheat in school. I wanted to prove things to myself and to learn. However the basic premise of opposition to cheating here is incorrect: "habitual plagiarism ... can have very serious consequences in their professional life" This
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by aneth 15y ago
It's not illegal to use dominance in one market to enter another. That's called good business. Antitrust requires monopoly, which google does not have. There are many competitive and successful ad networks and search engines, and there is n
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by aneth 15y ago
I submitted a question, but there was no confirmation screen, just a screen asking for a new question. Hopefully it got submitted because it's important: "Like many, I spend my days logged in to a G Apps for Domains account and all my prima
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by aneth 15y ago
Godaddy is he only place I've found "Extended Validation" certs at a reasonable price - $99 instead of $499+. I hate their website and crosselling, but I do appreciate as the author points out that they have people you can call - how many r
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by aneth 15y ago
On the contrary, I would say their economy is maturing with domestic consumption becoming a dominant portion, their production methods are becoming more efficient as labor costs increase, their production scale is second to none, their educ
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by aneth 15y ago
I suppose 37 Signals and Adobe are ripping off their customers as well because their marginal cost is close to zero and they are charging... more than zero. Actually, I agree SMS is a ripoff, but the marginal cost isn't why. It's a ripoff b
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by aneth 15y ago
The title is actually "Two 11-year-old entrepreneurs learned the hard way what it’s like to be a minority in tech during Startup Weekend" I think it's pretty clear "minority" here means black. By indicating the audience made their decision
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by aneth 15y ago
I'm not suggesting there is no racism, although I do think back has been broken and dwelling on cases where racism remains is counterproductive. The problem now is more within these communities than without. My main point is that presuming
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by aneth 15y ago
Ugh. If an 11 year old black child pitches me an incredible startup idea, I would not join their team. Calling me racist for that is racist in itself. I don't think an 11 year old is competent to run a company or manage a product. This arti
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by aneth 15y ago
Someone tell Steve Ballmer. Before he gets fired.
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by aneth 15y ago
I'm unaware of any HN blacklist. Reference?
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by aneth 15y ago
Your proposed solution involves blanket censorship based on your personal opinions about the nature of a piece of the Internet. There isn't much else to discuss.
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by aneth 15y ago
The most important steps he details require the same extraordinary intelligence that makes one an extraordinary student. The most difficult thing for a genius to understand is what it is like not to be quick minded. Most students could star
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by aneth 15y ago
4chan is a massive massive message forum akin to a common carrier or Google Groups. You are suggesting censoring one of the most active and interesting websites on the internet. Should we avoid linking to Craigslist because human traffickin
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by aneth 15y ago
There is evidence of a sugar link on almost every cancer study - but nobody wants to call this out because of the terribly obvious implications for the modern diet. The fact is, your doctors have been telling you that low-fat diets cause di
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by aneth 15y ago
Both of the examples in this article are about products that contain obvious solutions for core functions of an iPhone. Just because a developer builds a feature before Apple gets around to it doesn't mean Apple is evil for implementing a s
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by aneth 15y ago
There are two diet changes the best doctors in the world will give you the day you are diagnosed with cancer: 1) Eliminate sugar from your diet 2) Eliminate red meat from your diet This improves survival rates by orders of magnitude. The su
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by aneth 15y ago
I agree. Piracy is the best thing that ever happened to Microsoft. If DRM worked, China - unable to afford Windows- would be a massive base of innovation for Linux desktops, and ultimately undermine Microsoft. If copyright were strongly enf
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by aneth 15y ago
> In open source, nobody is entitled to someone else's time and energy. But that's what the word "irresponsible" implies. So, I think you should choose your words more carefully. My words are chosen pretty carefully. Irresponsible impli
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by aneth 15y ago
By extension, Rails is built on a house of cards - a language team that does not intend to support it, and doesn't care if they cause a majority of their international users a great deal of pain. That would be, as I said before, disappointi
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by aneth 15y ago
I find this kind of performance regression and the blasé response extremely frustrating and disappointing. What could the MRI team be working on that's more important than fixing a bug that quadruples startup time for the most popular Ruby
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by aneth 15y ago
"If they wanted a path on easy street, the original investors could have sat around pocketing millions of dollars a month for years" Instead they cashed out for hundreds of millions of dollars with subsequent investor money.
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by aneth 15y ago
Seems like a reasonable deal for a very savvy person, but most people who would use the service probably need more help with understanding product and creating wireframes than with development. I can see lots of wannabe entrepreneurs coming
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by aneth 15y ago
Don't forget that Facebook started as a "tool" - essentially a preseeded online yearbook. Social ideas are fine as part of your vision, but they are essentially impossible to bootstrap without being useful in other ways first.
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by aneth 15y ago
No, that's not projection. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection ) Projection would be when fear of racism within yourself causes you to project that racism onto innocent language and people.
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by aneth 15y ago
I take ghetto to mean substandard, unpolished, incomplete, etc... No racial undertone. An overly sensitive, dare I say politically correct and self righteous person, can read offense into anything. To suggest that Pincus's comment had anyth
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by aneth 15y ago
Well, Jobs is not criticized for failing to break into enterprise software because he has had outrageously, unprecedentedly, massive success breaking into other markets. Failure is perfectly tolerable when you are good at something. Ballmer
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by aneth 15y ago
Even if your screen is sufficiently bright, it's still a waste of power and dimmer than it otherwise would be. But sure, this can be mitigated with a brighter screen.
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by aneth 15y ago
I've used both on a Mac. When Apple started offering both, I agonized but finally opted for glossy and haven't looked back. My preference on most things is matte - I always opted for matte when people printed photos from something called "f
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by aneth 15y ago
Can anyone imagine Apple operating, supporting, maintaining, and upgrading a national or global commodity telecommunications grid? Strikes me a small distraction from Jobs' vision - create great products. The idea is completely contrary to

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