anthonyrubin

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by anthonyrubin 18y ago
This phenomenon is extremely common. Most users seem to either call everything by the product name or by the company name. For example users will refer to Office or Windows as MS or refer to MS as Windows. At my current employer some of our
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by anthonyrubin 18y ago
I think the problem with a domain like charge.37signals.com is that many users don't understand how to type it in the address box (e.g. some will add www before it). If you've watched users try to enter URLs with subdomains in the address b
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by anthonyrubin 18y ago
Being able to add a PO number to the description would probably help at many companies.
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Why do people feel the need to continue voting down a comment like this that is below 0? Clearly mikeyur made a mistake (HN could very easily prevent these types of mistakes). Voting it down to 0 seems sufficient.
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You forgot to add that the US government heavily subsidizes corn (and a few other crops) as well.
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by anthonyrubin 18y ago
Radiolab: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/
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by anthonyrubin 18y ago
Limit the number of submissions per day per user in order to encourage high quality submissions.
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by anthonyrubin 18y ago
People bike in the winter here in Chicago. I can't imagine breathing in the car fumes every day though.
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by anthonyrubin 18y ago
Can we leave these inane issues to reddit?
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by anthonyrubin 18y ago
There doesn't seem to be anything here that wasn't covered in his blog a week ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=429231
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by anthonyrubin 18y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=414298
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by anthonyrubin 18y ago
http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/?biz
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Parabolas (etc.)(blogs.wnyc.org)
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by anthonyrubin 18y ago
What area do you live in? There are many more special interest groups in large cities. For instance there is talk of starting a Scala group here (Chicago) and there is already a Lisp group and a Polyglot Programmers group.
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=416056
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You need to break these problems down further. Let's take Citibank. The government is involved in changing behavior right from the inception of a corporation. It is called limited liability. We as a society accept this as we believe it enco
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by anthonyrubin 18y ago
Why is it that everyone bitched when the iPhone offered a Javascript widget API and now Palm is being praised for it?
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There are numerous Android devices planned for the near future. I own a G1 and I see it as a development platform. The hardware leaves something to be desired, but Android is actually quite nice.
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For those of you that have published a paid app, how long did it take to get through the Apple application process and then the app approval process?
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by anthonyrubin 18y ago
It shouldn't take much imagination to see how ircd might be used to implement Twitter.
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I suppose I use MySpace differently than some. When I hear about a band I do a Google search and their MySpace page is usually near the top. I use MySpace to listen to a few tracks to get a feel for them. I never use MySpace to find new mus
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by anthonyrubin 18y ago
Some ways in which the government helps large corporations: Subsidies, government contracts, regulations designed to increase barrier to entry, a legal system which favors those with more resources, beneficial legislation which can be bough
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by anthonyrubin 18y ago
I think Zed should stick to Ruby rants.
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I agree that a specific lifestyle should not be forced on others. Unfortunately, many of the costs of the average American lifestyle are externalized through our government. We are all forced to pay those costs. Examples: * subsidies which
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by anthonyrubin 18y ago
Large cities do have many benefits. I'm from the Chicago suburbs and I've been living in the city for about 18 months. I think my next move will be to a rural area. Here are some things I enjoy about the city: * museums and art * ethnic foo
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Am I Still Here?(orionmagazine.org)
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There are a few cars that fit that bill other than the "seat at least six" part.
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Some interesting end of semester remarks from a CS professor: http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2008-1... The Postlude section is especially relevant.
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Are there actually people out there who are willing to cook and don't already know this information?
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From a SvN comment by Jason: "We’ve advertised here and there, but all things considered the number would round down to zero. We’re currently advertising Highrise on The Deck, for example. I don’t have anything against advertising, but we’v

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