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by booruguru 12y ago
> I know it's not highly regarded Really? I've only heard good things about it. Would you mind elaborating?
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Why America’s obsession with STEM education is dangerous(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by booruguru 12y ago|0 comments
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by booruguru 12y ago
Well considering the BitCoin hype has died down...that seems unlikely.
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by booruguru 12y ago
Can you share more details? What do you sell? How much time do you spend (and money?) on development? Etc.
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by booruguru 12y ago
> 3% to Stripe (which is criminally high, but there you go) Compared to what? I thought Stripe was famous for offering competitive fees.
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by booruguru 12y ago
> “We worry about people making changes without the knowledge of what those changes mean in terms of the overall genome,” Dr. Baltimore said. “I personally think we are just not smart enough — and won’t be for a very long time — to feel
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by booruguru 12y ago
If you're having difficulty understanding what all the fuss is about, try watching Gattaca. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177/
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by booruguru 12y ago
> I don't pay for my GitHub account so that I can have some goofy ranking, or spend 10 minutes wondering, "Is this site really affiliated with GitHub?" If it keeps up, I'll probably migrate to BitBucket at some point.
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Show HN: Non-fiction.org – a social bookmarking site (essays, memoirs, etc.)(non-fiction.org)
20 points by booruguru 12y ago|0 comments
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by booruguru 12y ago
Why is everyone being downvoted for asking simple, inoffensive questions?
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by booruguru 12y ago
> StackOverflow StackOverflow's community is toxic waste compared to Quora. The site is somehow successful despite the founders/community's best efforts to destroy it.
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by booruguru 12y ago
> Others, like Yahoo and Adobe, get panned for similar moves as trying to eliminate competing products or otherwise flailing capital. Yahoo destroys everything it touches, except Flick (which could have been Instagram before there was In
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by booruguru 12y ago
I've come across rationalwiki.org a few times in my travels. Nice work. Glad to see you are a fellow HNer.
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by booruguru 12y ago
People don't rip CDs anymore? You can't depend on a streaming service to stream your favorite content forever. Also, you don't actually "own" your DRM-riddled digital downloads from Amazon, iTunes, etc. What's
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by booruguru 12y ago
I question the veracity of that statement. Whenever you see a mob of screaming fans surrounding one of the Kardashians they tend to span all age groups. And twentysomethings are always trying to get me to watch the latest E! reality show.
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by booruguru 12y ago
> I don't understand why older people hang on to less optimal way of doing things... I'd imagine they simply don't understand how these things work. I don't think my parents have ever intentionally watched a YouTube v
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by booruguru 12y ago
You should rip your DVDs and store them on a hard drive connected to a Roku/WDTV/whatever...
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by booruguru 12y ago
I don't get it. I thought the main selling point of an iPad is that it's even easier than a Mac. I mean, how much easier could a tablet be?
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by booruguru 12y ago
What exactly is the point of this? I'm seriously asking. What's a scenario in which Curl.io would be useful?
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Show HN: UserPress 2.0 – The Most Advanced Wiki Plugin for WordPress(userpress.org)
2 points by booruguru 12y ago|0 comments
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by booruguru 12y ago
You're forgetting provincial taxes. They were talking about this last night on <strike>The Lang and O'Leary Exchange</strike> The Exchange. Evidently, after considering all levels of government taxation, Burger Ki
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Cloud hosting service shuts down following Expendables 3 lawsuit(torrentfreak.com)
1 points by booruguru 12y ago|0 comments
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by booruguru 12y ago
What on Earth are you talking about? iFixit, Wikia, and many others make money based on people generating high-quality content for free. This is hardly some daring new business model.
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'Expendables 3' Flops: Is Piracy to Blame?(variety.com)
9 points by booruguru 12y ago|26 comments
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Why You Don't Need A Co-Founder(thenextweb.com)
4 points by booruguru 12y ago|0 comments
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by booruguru 12y ago
> It strikes me as a bit of a tone-deaf marketing slogan. They're just telling people what they want to hear, you said so yourself. Asides from techies and designers, most people don't really care about building a highly custom
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Ask HN: How did Stack Exchange succeed despite its awful community?
4 points by booruguru 12y ago|10 comments
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by booruguru 12y ago
Many of these sites have real visitors. Even lesser known sites can dozen around a hundred visitors to your page...which is better than nothing.
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by booruguru 12y ago
Yes. But if you offer nothing different or better than the competition...there's no reason for anybody to care since their needs have already been satisfied. Note: I'm not commenting on the merit of gamedevs.com itself.
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by booruguru 12y ago
> Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. It's astonishing how backwards a seemingly modern country can be.

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