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by blogimus 18y ago
Countless articles I've read about Craigslist say they could make a lot more money than they do if they were more business-like, more aggressive. They choose not to. As I understand, they only charge for job ads, nothing else. Also, a small
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MIT engineers work toward cell-sized batteries(web.mit.edu)
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Water Refineries(nsf.gov)
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Why Migraines Strike(sciam.com)
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Jerry Seinfeld to Push Vista for $10 Million(appscout.com)
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WTF?
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Intel's $100,000 challenge.(intelchallenge.com)
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A problem is that there are many of us who work by the billable hour for companies that are legally liable if hours reporting is found not to be accurate.
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Here's today's article by the same journalist (John Markoff), but some additional information: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/13/technology/13cyber.html?em It seems that Georgia has to currently go through Russia for their Internet commun
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by blogimus 18y ago
"The techniques of web ops are being hoarded by some companies" Are these techniques patented? Otherwise how does one "hoard" a technique?
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Along with the business plan: Step 1) Think of something. Step 2) ??? Step 3) Profit!!!
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Doctors Allergic To Electronic Record-Keeping(redorbit.com)
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Net address bug worse than feared(news.bbc.co.uk)
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"What compelled you to post that glib answer?" It might be glib, it might be stereotypical, but I run into BS answers a lot. The article struck a chord with me because I've witnessed this quite often over the years, and its mostly the guy
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Its not stealing because the music label is still being paid. I bought 1 CD from Sony and copied 9 others. Its just that their price per CD is lower.
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by blogimus 18y ago
"What is it about our culture that makes us so resistant to admitting that we don't know something?" I've heard it explained as "Male Answer Syndrome" http://www.wordspy.com/words/maleanswersyndrome.asp
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I'm sorry to say I can't help but think of Blaintology.
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Gee, I suppose no one could learn anything by doing that.
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MaiMed Medical http://www.maimed.de/en/
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by blogimus 18y ago
1) One data point does not a correlation lend. 2) Voting on individual and particular comments on HN is arbitrary and capricious. You win some and you lose some for no fault of your own, or for that matter, for any particular cleverness on
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by blogimus 18y ago
Today was the first day I heard of Cuil. I don't think it is as much of a matter of writing software that never crashes, but rather a matter of protecting your site from crashing on the launch. I'm interested in their reasoning for going wi
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by blogimus 18y ago
To paraphrase from a popular movie: "When everyone is a rock star, no one is."
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Up to now, it has not hurt them in their fuel hedging: http://www.247wallst.com/2007/04/southwest_airli.html
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U.S. Government uncovers oil price manipulation(biz.yahoo.com)
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Or also with the cell phone: "Why do I have to press 'send' to make a call? On a regular phone, I just dial the number. I press 'send' when I send a fax."
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Right,I got that part, I thought I was clear that my question was "HOW?" How does the JVM increase interoperability? What mechanism is special about the JVM that is not available in the native machine that makes the JVM more appropriate/bet
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I got as far as: Virtual Machines are good because they help language interoperability, which is something we need more of on the server side, but I gave up half way through before I could glean "How" VMs actually help language interoperabi
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I see a practice here which I find unhelpful: "bandwagon upvoting" where it appears that people vote up the leading comments. Do we really need to vote the top comments in a post out of the park, please tell me what utility this provides? I
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Weapons of Mass Destruction?
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by blogimus 18y ago
I'm sorry, pardon my ignorance. Why does it amaze you that no one has bested ebay? I'm not in the least surprised, primarily because of the traction/inertia that ebay has now. A bit of an orthogonal take: Chuck-e-Cheese sucks, I mean reall

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