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   by api 14y ago

   Good point. Annual rates are probably good for my idea. But I'm still curious about the state of the art.
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   by api 14y ago

   A little Ask HN that is relevant to this thread: what are peoples' favorite avenues for processing cards these days? Especially for small increments (e.g. a few bucks a month)?
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   by api 14y ago

   The Valley today strikes me as more of a Hollywood North, a media and marketing center, rather than an innovation center. Most new Valley ventures I see (Pinterest anyone?) strike me more as "web media productions" than tech ventures. There
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   by api 14y ago

   Stuck-version disease is a major problem for all these newer interpreted languages.
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   Sibylla Bostoniensis - One Thought on Bullying(siderea.livejournal.com)

   1 points by api 14y ago|0 comments
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   A Reddit for posting ideas you hope someone will steal (everyone has these)(reddit.com)

   2 points by api 14y ago|0 comments
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   by api 14y ago

   The present-day patent office is a joke. They basically just rubber stamp whatever you send them, and do so in priority order of who knows how to play their elaborate and bizarre game of approval queue gaming.
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   by api 14y ago

   I personally hope the patent law abuse gets to the point that it destroys the entire patent system. So go for it. Sue schools, the elderly, whatever.
9. 16029.▲
   by api 14y ago

   I've been of the opinion for a while that static variables of any kind should be avoided except for const data (tables, constants, etc.). They make code very difficult to impossible to port to multi-threaded environments, and make it hard t
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    by api 14y ago

    Combined with the ability to set headers to permit AJAX requests to another site, it would be possible to host a webapp on S3 and have the "live" portion be a JSON API only.
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    by api 14y ago

    I have seen this first hand on both sides of the pond. It's more ridiculous than the article suggests.
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    by api 14y ago

    If they succeed they will simply remove themselves from the discourse and accelerate their obsolescence.
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    by api 14y ago

    The global wage arbitrage bubble depends on huge spreads between "first world" and "third world" wages. That's because there are all kinds of hidden costs to outsourcing: the difficulty of communication and coordination, travel, long-distan
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    by api 14y ago

    Some good points in here, but one thing to keep in mind: The American right hates higher education for reasons that have nothing to do with meritocracy. Higher education takes young people away from their small often rural and suburban cult
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    by api 14y ago

    My impression was that quantum computers were already proof-of-concept, and are now in the technical challenge stage.
16. 16036.▲
    by api 14y ago

    Self-serving bureaucrat defends his niche...
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    by api 14y ago

    This is bad. We now have an x86 chip monopoly.
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    by api 14y ago

    This guy is one of the few actual living heroes, in my opinion. The striking thing about Musk is that he's a visionary who can execute. In my experience these things are usually mutually exclusive. Inventors and visionaries are generally pi
19. 16039.▲
    by api 14y ago

    It seems that to do shenanigans with Bitcoin would require the same care to avoid information leakage that would be required to do similar things with global digital payment networks and banks. The key would be to begin by considering any a
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    by api 14y ago

    This is basically the Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) checklist. Other than that, I wholeheartedly agree.
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    by api 14y ago

    I wonder if you could use this to run lots and lots of small virtualized nodes? I know that's not the intended use case but I wonder if it's possible and would perform well?
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    by api 14y ago

    He brought design sense to the company, making -- in my opinion -- the first computers ever made that did not look like shit.
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    by api 14y ago

    I like Gnome 3. It strikes me as incomplete, but what's there is good and does not look like cluttery crap. KDE is more feature-complete but looks like a clutterbuck 90s desktop. I can't stand it. After using Apple products for a while (I u
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    by api 14y ago

    Linuxers take note: now is probably the best chance for the Linux desktop in all of history. Apple has their niche: luxury laptops and high-priced phones. Android is making inroads in the latter market. But beyond these two, there is a mas
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    Which professions have the most psychopaths?(huffingtonpost.com)

    2 points by api 14y ago|0 comments
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    by api 14y ago

    Lots. I am one. What I've found is that it roughly correlates with education, and not in the inverse sense. More educated and accomplished Americans usually scoff at any and all hint of real not-an-isolated-incident systemic corruption as "
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    by api 14y ago

    Americans tend to have this unbelievably naive idea that there's no high-level organized or institutional crime in their country.
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    by api 14y ago

    EC2 is still kind of expensive.
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    by api 14y ago

    I get the impression it pushed a few peoples' buttons because the startup culture likes to think it's morally superior to Wall Street.
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    by api 14y ago

    I wasn't suggesting that it was conscious con-artistry (though I don't completely rule it out either). I worked in business consulting for a bit. Part of what I learned is that at least some emperors have no clothes. There were really two