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by brent_noorda 12y ago
Very happy to see this effort. Until about 2004 my little company licensed an embeddable javascript engine written in C. For the past decade I've continued to provide free support and advice for the old customers, but haven't been
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by brent_noorda 12y ago
When a Senator's home is seized, THEN something will be done about this.
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by brent_noorda 12y ago
About a half billion pounds per passenger. Whatever liquid fuel is actually in the rocket, it is produced via hydrocarbon.
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by brent_noorda 12y ago
I worked out some quick math estimating 25,000 gallons just for the fuel for each tourist's 2-hour flight. Space tourism seems like the douchebaggiest idea ever created. I hope the in-flight space cocktails are worth it. http:/&#
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by brent_noorda 12y ago
SHORT STORY: A conversation between parent and child, on Mars, sometime in the future: Parent: See that little blue dot in the night sky? That’s Earth. Child: What is Earth? Parent: Earth was the planet of our ancestors, before people came
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by brent_noorda 12y ago
Good point about billions of cars having more impact than a few fuel-hoggy rocket launches. I just hope that space-tourism doesn't catch on, because while you're correct that overproducing rockets to make them slightly more effici
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by brent_noorda 12y ago
It blows my mind that SpaceX’s would think that “fuel costs don’t matter” given that the company is run by Elon Musk, who when he’s not doing SpaceX is running Tesla and being Chairman of SolarCity where fuel costs, in particular the enviro
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by brent_noorda 12y ago
3 levels. 1) time machine. 2) BitTorrent sync to share photo folders. 3) Mozy
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by brent_noorda 12y ago
Good idea. I'll add "fetch files from other domains" to the TODO list, as either it's own call, or maybe do something like allowing " http://" protocols in the SLFSRV.read() method. cross-origin issu
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Slfsrv – Create simple, cross-platform GUI applications(github.com)
19 points by brent_noorda 12y ago|7 comments
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by brent_noorda 12y ago
We need more technology, not less; specifically: more robots. Robots designed to relentlessly shop for items online, and to sleeplessly hail ride-share cars. With enough such robots, all us people will find full time employment shipping pro
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by brent_noorda 12y ago
"Efficient Airport" is an oxymoron, unless it's meant to mean "let's find quicker ways to get people to burn even more jet fuel".
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by brent_noorda 12y ago
Thanks for the thorough description. Could we simplify this by replacing the beacons with a sticker that says "if found email DS7-4BD-62A@lostfound.org" and the rest of the flow begin through email? Much lower barriers with almost
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by brent_noorda 12y ago
Time is a crutch. Eat mandarin oranges.
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by brent_noorda 12y ago
Love love love the concept. Commutes suck. Employees that live nearby are happier and don't leave. Let's all walk to work. In reality, if you aren't tapping into the existing job listings (e.g. linkedin or even craigslist), a
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by brent_noorda 12y ago
Instacart is a lesson of how to do it right. Here's a lesson of how to do it wrong: A partner and I started a grocery delivery business at about the same time as Instacart must have been formulating their plans, based on most of the sa
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Show HN: FuncyTown – generate HTML and CSS from JS(brent-noorda.com)
1 points by brent_noorda 12y ago|0 comments
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by brent_noorda 12y ago
It works! Thank you, rsl7. I retract my DDG hate.
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by brent_noorda 12y ago
I just lost an HN Karma point for my comment pointing out the DDG webpage is seriously broken on the iphone (because it disables the browser's back and close buttons and so is effectively a roach motel). What HN Karma god loves DDG so
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by brent_noorda 12y ago
On my iPhone 4 browser, I don't find any way to close the DuckDuckGo web page. Until I figure that one out, this new DuckDuckGo is YuckYuckNo (ha ha, I made that one up myself, I'm so Ducking funny!)
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by brent_noorda 13y ago
You're to blame. Please don't be uploading files while the rest of us are emailing.
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by brent_noorda 13y ago
Tru dat (I'm feeling more youthful already, saying something like 'tru dat'), most of these networking things will not workout, but most of anything doesn't work out, maybe you have to do 100 for that 1% chance of a chan
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by brent_noorda 13y ago
Let's move those Google employees to Atherton and bring DOWN someone's property values!
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by brent_noorda 13y ago
I'm your age, with a similar story, and completely understand where you're coming from. 25 years ago everybody wanted to hire me. Now it's depressing. I don't have a solution yet to getting hired into today's market
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by brent_noorda 13y ago
Amazon now has it's own delivery fleet. UPS and FedEx are F'ed?
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by brent_noorda 13y ago
It came up for me in the adwords section, either at the top or on the right, for the first two pages. But I scrolled through five pages of results and in never came up as an "organic" result.
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Airbnb Confessions(airbnbconfessions.com)
3 points by brent_noorda 13y ago|0 comments
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by brent_noorda 13y ago
I don't think any security mechanism works if you walk away from your computer and leave the programs running (exception something that relies on a NFC on your wrist). For this reason I don't think your scenarious makes this schem
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by brent_noorda 13y ago
I agree that can be odd. I made this decision to defeat bots that may be trying to fake their way in. Since it's only a 5-digit code it wouldn't take a bot long to guess the right code. By invaliding the code the first time a wron
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by brent_noorda 13y ago
Your link-to-log-in-automatically is a good idea. I've now added that. The email you receive now has two methods of logging in: 1) the 5-digit security code (the method I prefer) and 2) a direct link (the method you prefer). Thanks for

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