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by astrec 17y ago
If Google visitors weren't worth the trouble News would have deployed robots.txt long ago. I think Damien Ivereigh said it best: Murdoch wants to be indexed by Google (if he didn't he could just use a robots.txt file). He just wants Google
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by astrec 17y ago
Must be cloud day - my local paragliding club has just been discussing this HG flight soaring the Burketown "Morning Glory": http://news.ninemsn.com.au/glance/869276/surfing-with-a-tsun... For those more generally interested in clouds, "T
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by astrec 17y ago
If the weather obliges I might go paragliding, if not geocaching. Which ever way it pans out there shall be beer.
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by astrec 17y ago
It's a license which confers certain rights to the recipient of the software. In this case it appears the the recipient successfully sued to enforce those rights.
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by astrec 17y ago
I was actually replying to you, not him, with an observation drawn from my experience employing a great many programmers of differing ability, including perhaps half a dozen great programmers. In terms of great programmers, money is often s
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by astrec 17y ago
Actually what you've just described is an expensive programmer, albeit not overly expensive. Great programmers tend to value other things such as working with other great programmers and a stimulating problem domain. The money tends to be a
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by astrec 17y ago
There are a few great Java and C# programmers, quite a number who are good and a great majority who are mediocre or bad. In my experience, those who hack scala/clojure/lisp/ocaml/f#/haskell/lua etc. in their spare time trend towards the gre
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Australia's NBN: Like giving candy to babies(zdnet.com.au)
1 points by astrec 17y ago|0 comments
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by astrec 17y ago
I would have expected a social elevator pitch to be a no brainer for a bunch of entrepreneurial hackers.
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by astrec 17y ago
This specific website? Or just a degree delivered online? In general, the only thing a CS degree tells me is that you had the fortitude to complete a CS degree, and perhaps (it's not a given) you might be able to practically apply some of w
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by astrec 17y ago
The only wrong, I think, in this case is that the tech at Rimuhosting did not respect Aaron's specific wish to not allow him to access his box. Do you think this is more or less wrong than simply halting the instance?
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by astrec 17y ago
If my VPS was on the same host I'd pretty much demand they do exactly that. Actually I'd probably demand they stop the instance, so I reckon he got a free kick if they only stopped the offending service.
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by astrec 17y ago
Reminds me of a quote often attributed to Cicero, Pascal, Twain etc. I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
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Why Indinero isn't "Freemium"(jessicamah.com)
1 points by astrec 17y ago|0 comments
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Ditch binary to make quantum computers more powerful(newscientist.com)
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by astrec 17y ago
Would be un-Australian not to.
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by astrec 17y ago
Do you mean 10% a year over 5 years, or 10% year on year?
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by astrec 17y ago
Interesting. It's after 9pm here, the staff have long since fled, but a quick look around reveals Mr. $47m, Mr. $14m and Mr. $8m are still beavering away and Mr. $150m+ is still answering email (albeit tersely). I've never yet met someone w
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by astrec 17y ago
Me too.
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by astrec 17y ago
I've heard it a quite few times and it's always struck me as an odd turn of phrase, but Pre revenue: before revenue. Post revenue: after [first] revenue. probably makes sense in start up schema. I don't love it though.
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My company is post-revenue.(jessicamah.com)
5 points by astrec 17y ago|4 comments
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by astrec 17y ago
Sounds great - hope you keep a diary blog of your progress.
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by astrec 17y ago
My (a?) typical scribd workflow: a) Interesting document posted somewhere, say HN b) Visit scribd, click download link c) Click pdf d) *Grrrrr* e) Visit bugmetnot, search scribd f) Cut and paste u/p g) Download and read pdf
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by astrec 17y ago
I'm always amazed how many not-so-random people I meet are into Arduino, and how many of them began interested in programming because they cut and pasted a few sketches which they then tweaked. Got any current projects? My non-existent free
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Jim Coudal of Coudal Partners(designglut.com)
2 points by astrec 17y ago|0 comments
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by astrec 17y ago
My boss is an ex programmer, gear freak, award winning CEO, and a very successful entrepreneur. They do exist and can be awesome to work for.
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by astrec 17y ago
Do you realize how much those damages could be? Yes. That Amazon chose to break the Kindle platform to the extent that they can't cease infringing by merely pulling the book from sale is their problem.
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by astrec 17y ago
Your blog, your tweets, your linkedin profile: your personal brand. I'll take a punt and say nearly everyone here (or at least those involved in a startup) is a marketer in some capacity. You've contradicted, not refuted, him. And you're wr
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by astrec 17y ago
Nice one :) A wishlist api/widget might be a good way to promote the site, and you should install the FF SenSEO plug-in as there are a few things you can improve on that front.
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by astrec 17y ago
Allow people to keep their books; pursue the rogue publisher; pay requisite damages to the copyright holder.

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