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by antitrust 13y ago
> I am told that my technical competence is undeniable but I'm way too introverted to be hired My sympathy, because I can imagine this must be puzzling. From experience, my analysis tree would go like this: 1. Is this a euphemism or
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by antitrust 13y ago
I think it's a problem if we think of him as a scientist. At his previous job, he might have been. Now? Now he's an entertainer. That's what media figures are. Like Ann Coulter or Rachel Maddow, or even John Stewart or Matt D
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Apple’s ebook penalties may kill iTunes’ iOS app monopoly(gomonews.com)
2 points by antitrust 13y ago|0 comments
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by antitrust 13y ago
This message has affected me emotionally. I don't know why. Something about the urgency of it, and the humanity. I suppose my guess is that something will grow organically out of what we have. I don't think it will be ideological.
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If Amazon is the future of work, then be afraid(pro.gigaom.com)
73 points by antitrust 13y ago|106 comments
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by antitrust 13y ago
I don't think he'd be against moving into a new generic office space. He's against letting the new building define who the company is, and take away time and energy. Just moving to another strip mall might not cause that prob
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by antitrust 13y ago
This is one of the best articles I've read on HN. How to stay hungry, in other words. Or, why opulence can crush you. I wonder how these lessons apply to us personally and as a society. Does getting rich make us fat and lazy? Or decade
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by antitrust 13y ago
Reminds me of Matt's Scripts Archive: http://www.scriptarchive.com/ For a long time, it seemed like everyone was using his form mail and web forum scripts.
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by antitrust 13y ago
I like Perl. It's usually the fastest way to get stuff done. It also brings out the programmer within the programmer. Any jerk can write obfuscated Perl. A good Perl programmer writes clean, easily re-used and modified code. It's
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by antitrust 13y ago
I like the idea of being able to be a carnivore without being a killer. However, there is a trap in this. Right now, there are cows and pigs wherever there are humans. Fast forward 200 years when we can grow our own meat in the lab. Who&#x2
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by antitrust 13y ago
> The same thing happened to Reddit: success leads to growth leads to lower average user IQ. Are you sure it's IQ, or as another user suggested, some kind of mass hysteria? The mainstream news exploded with the whole NSA thing, and
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by antitrust 13y ago
> HN is starting to feel like a place where activists hang out. Activism? The political topics do kind of have a "let's all get along" and "do the right thing" feeling to them. It reminds me of going to the store
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by antitrust 13y ago
While I will freely admit many parts of this industry, and many of the people hailed in heroes within it, are basically bogus "right place, right time" cases who are just as blockheaded as the MBAs in suits that came before them,
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by antitrust 13y ago
What's your /. username?
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by antitrust 13y ago
It seems clear that most of what needs to be done (to "save Yahoo") involves ceasing to do certain things so that core competencies can rise. That she's gearing it toward the mobile age is astute, but not necessarily out of s
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by antitrust 13y ago
Weirdly, the part I find hard to believe is that the agents hadn't heard of "quinoa." Until recently, I hadn't heard of quinoa because I am not hip or a foodie, but then I googled it. All became clear. I imagine that law
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by antitrust 13y ago
I think this misunderstands the nature of statistics. Those are individuals. I want to do everything we can to prevent the death of anyone who doesn't deserve it (Justin Bieber is off the list). Now, our debate turns to "everythin
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by antitrust 13y ago
I think his point was that the writing was fine, but control over the web publishing portion was not. As far as writing goes, I think a lot of us work in text editors. They're more responsive and stable than word processors.
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by antitrust 13y ago
Not to be that annoying guy but: "Ferrari S.p.A. is 90% owned by the Fiat Group." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat I don't know what this means.
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by antitrust 13y ago
This actually makes law accessible to the technologically-savvy out there, and is going to launch a thousand apps giving specialized legal advice. This could in turn mean a reduction in the cost of litigation, which would hopefully be passe
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by antitrust 13y ago
A few thoughts: Trends come and go, but it's the general purpose languages that remain. Perl seems to fit in that space that was occupied by the various BASICs in the 1980s, meaning that it was the best glue for everyday tasks. It&#x27
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by antitrust 13y ago
I realize that it isn't morally right, but I think such data storage is inevitable. With the rise of instant communications, the amounts of data people generate are massive, and old school law enforcement can't keep up. Thus with
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by antitrust 13y ago
I regularly volunteer computer time to non-profit organizations who are doing good things in a non-partisan sense. Once you do one, you'll get calls for more. Often it's nothing more than a few hours on a weekend to set up a websi
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GPS data are vital—but the signal is surprisingly easy to disrupt(economist.com)
8 points by antitrust 13y ago|2 comments
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Texas students fake GPS signals and take control of an $80 million yacht(blog.chron.com)
151 points by antitrust 13y ago|97 comments
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by antitrust 13y ago
I think what he's saying is that all seven billion of us benefited from the PC revolution, where the bottom one billion may benefit (or may not) from Gates' efforts. It's an interesting ethical question. As with most question
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by antitrust 13y ago
> But to just put up a big fuck you, to what is the second most popular or most popular browser as a whole isn't helpful. I'm glad you said this. I think you're stepping out from a trend/trope, which is to make fun of
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by antitrust 13y ago
> Maybe thats why most non-technical / non-design founders I have known seem to really just be about the money. Not to pick nits, but I think the dichotomy you're setting up here is silly. Business administration or leadership
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by antitrust 13y ago
What among the "web 3.0" series of sites/applications do you think is really changing the world? I think what we do in development is cool and all, and most importantly profitable, but I don't know if it changes the worl
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by antitrust 13y ago
This question fascinates me. Everyone seems to hate politicians, yet we rely on them. And in theory, they're acting as our proxies. Why does this seemingly good situation turn out so badly? (I don't know, per se. I know a number o

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