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by blasdel 15y ago
There's still tidal power
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Network Link Conditioner in Lion(mattgemmell.com)
17 points by blasdel 15y ago|0 comments
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by blasdel 15y ago
You do forget the details — that particular situation with what Microsoft called "Custom XML" was rather less absurd than you remember: http://milan.kupcevic.net/custom-xml-microsoft-office-word-d... It's not at all about just using XML a
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by blasdel 15y ago
duplicate of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2802303
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How not to handle open source feedback(jacquesmattheij.com)
1 points by blasdel 15y ago|1 comments
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by blasdel 15y ago
…and they're usually asked anonymously too! I always just assumed that most of them are rhetorical setups asked using a sockpuppet by the user that made the long and involved answer ranked at the top of the page.
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by blasdel 15y ago
Unfortunately Mozilla is intent on squandering every last advantage they still had by copying what Chrome does. They abandoned XULRunner and Gecko as independent platforms. They're committing to breaking every traditional extension every 6
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Emotional Perils of Mathematics(math.uh.edu)
1 points by blasdel 15y ago|0 comments
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Settings that Social Networks Might Have(learningcurves.blogspot.com)
1 points by blasdel 15y ago|0 comments
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by blasdel 15y ago
So it's nearlyfreespeech.net but with semi-persistent workers like Heroku? I agree that the pricing is too low for you to make money on top of AWS and also deliver decent service, it's hard to imagine that you could stick around — at the ve
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Business Does Business on the Internet (1996)(uniforum.org)
1 points by blasdel 15y ago|0 comments
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Selling Something Other than Ads(noahbrier.com)
7 points by blasdel 15y ago|1 comments
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Flickrgram(blog.movieos.org)
1 points by blasdel 15y ago|0 comments
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by blasdel 15y ago
100x? Add another zero! The main prize in the Friendfeed acquisition was Paul Bucheit, who invented and implemented both AdSense and Gmail, which together now bring Google over $10 billion in annual revenue. If (generously) an average dev
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by blasdel 15y ago
At this point I'm only surprised that the thread for this incident wasn't moderated away by YC (hidden from the front page, [dead], or deleted)
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by blasdel 15y ago
It is not ever better to be Jeff — what poverty of thought! I've enjoyed your blog thoroughly for the last 6 years or so, but I would much rather you be Reg to a smaller audience and Unknown to me than be Jeff to the world.
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Harvard dropouts from the class of 1969, revisited(harvardmagazine.com)
9 points by blasdel 15y ago|0 comments
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Why does modern Perl avoid UTF-8 by default?(stackoverflow.com)
6 points by blasdel 15y ago|0 comments
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by blasdel 15y ago
Of course pg isn't intentionally cruel or capricious — but he does not assume good faith in others I think he sees the naughtiness that he prizes in founders in users here, and that leads him down the path to writing off everyone slightly
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by blasdel 15y ago
You seem to think that the hellbanned masses are all trolls, and that is absolutely not the case. Many of them were just too passionate about a particular issue one day. Quite a few seem to have done nothing untoward at all.
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by blasdel 15y ago
I have sent dozens of those emails over the years. It's only a small fraction of the [dead] productive comments I find, but not that many people have contact info or googleable usernames.
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by blasdel 15y ago
This is notably the first time I've found myself disagreeing with you, in many kilocomments over the past several years. I once thought it was completely terrible, but changed my mind after the losethos guy showed up — secret hellbanning is
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by blasdel 15y ago
The site somehow let me submit a duplicate of an active thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2619641
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Suspension, Ban or Hellban?(codinghorror.com)
9 points by blasdel 15y ago|1 comments
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by blasdel 15y ago
Bingo, Microsoft is not trying to make an iPad. Everything wrong with Gruber's argument is right there in one sentence: "Microsoft is obviously trying to learn from Apple, but they clearly don’t understand why the iPad runs iOS, and not M
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by blasdel 15y ago
Just get their phone number and call ahead for takeout — it's pretty common here in Seattle even for places that don't deliver or even have a counter to order at. There are some terrific sit-down restaurants that have tons of excess kitchen
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by blasdel 15y ago
Terrific idea, force them to answer a question too before continuing. Another good test would be for 'strong' or 'weak' typing, linking to this: http://cdsmith.wordpress.com/2011/01/09/an-old-article-i-wro...
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by blasdel 15y ago
In American English "turning green" means to become envious
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by blasdel 15y ago
Your point about class definitions being frozen is apt — but much of the nomenclature you're using to describe languages is meaningless. Please read the classic What To Know Before Debating Type Systems : http://cdsmith.wordpress.com/2011
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by blasdel 15y ago
HN user daeken has been writing an OS in .NET http://daeken.com/renraku-future-os

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