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by btucker 15y ago
I suspect Ze has some form of corporate entity. But that is unlikely to change the taxable nature of the income unless it's a designated non-profit organization.
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by btucker 15y ago
I don't think you're giving the modern population enough credit. I'd argue that most people understand that there are cases where you can take something, and the original owner still has it. What's ingrained, rather, is a respect for the
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by btucker 15y ago
> "Intellectual property" is an oxymoron. Do you also disagree with the other types of intellectual property rights such as trademarks & copyrights, or are you just talking in the context of patents?
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by btucker 15y ago
This does seem like a bit of a problem, but I'd imagine the idea is you "re-sell" anything you no-longer want-- which may mean it didn't fit you right. What it strikes me this business needs are small pre-paid boxes which will fit in US mai
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by btucker 15y ago
Perhaps the real question is does allowing the patenting of UI innovation encourage greater innovation, or stifle it?
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by btucker 15y ago
It strikes me that Loren's "pull to refresh" really was an invention of a new UI concept. Do we see no place for patents in true UI innovation? On a side-note, is it ironic that this post is from a guy who was recently upset when someone e
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by btucker 15y ago
I'd be fascinated to hear this story too. I'd think that domain would be worth more than most ycombinator startups could afford.
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by btucker 15y ago
I'm in the 0%! But in all seriousness, I think the problem here is that these were actually introduced back in the early 80s on high-end cars. So it took a lot longer than 7 years to become widely adopted.
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by btucker 15y ago
Most of HN shares the same opinion, but what does this have to do with bootstrap-wysihtml5?
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by btucker 15y ago
In the context of speech recognition at least, those are indeed very different languages.
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by btucker 15y ago
we've had this conversation before: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2420648
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by btucker 15y ago
I truly hope local businesses will come to accept that a $5 for $10 deal, where the customer has to jump through some hoops to get it[1], is almost surly a terrible way of attracting new customers. Why would anyone want a customer who is w
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by btucker 15y ago
"Tell HN: Our experience with Groupon": http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2654788
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by btucker 15y ago
That could allow them to swipe the business model out from under StackExchange.
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by btucker 15y ago
I wonder if http://lanyrd.com/ is next? I'd think github would love to have simonw on the team as well.
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by btucker 15y ago
I'm all for avoiding running things as root, but what does it being written in Ruby have to do with it?
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by btucker 15y ago
http://pages.github.com/#using_jekyll_for_complex_layouts So while it is just serving static files, it's static files pre-processed by Jekyll.
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by btucker 15y ago
Which is all well and good unless users don't have a choice. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_screen_readers
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by btucker 15y ago
or in some cases: data uris.
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by btucker 15y ago
It's fun! Nice work.
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Great programmers don't stay blocked(codeulate.com)
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by btucker 15y ago
It would also be cool if there was some documentation on how you might use validate.js in concert with server-side validations.
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by btucker 15y ago
Here's the table on contents in case anyone wants to get a better idea what they're buying: http://i.imgur.com/pzjj7.png The eBook is around 20 pages long. In other news, Kindle.app only allows copy & pasting 33 words at a time... hen
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by btucker 15y ago
According to the video, he said that Siri knew his wife's name from "a previous conversation". Which seems to indicate that Siri has some learning capability built in.
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by btucker 15y ago
Out of curiosity, what "Apple Columnists" out there would you not consider to be "Apple evangelists/advocates"?
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by btucker 15y ago
Right. This was something I remember was discussed quite a bit while I was a student there. CMU has a small endowment compared to the more established private colleges it is increasingly competing against. Harvard: 27.4 billion Stan
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by btucker 15y ago
I have a feeling the pricing on this is going to get revised pretty quickly. Since memcached is so easy to run & cluster, I'm not seeing a reason to rationalize the added expense to have amazon do it.
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by btucker 15y ago
"the wildly popular self-help guru for young men." This strikes me as a rather bizarre characterization and somewhat sexist. I haven't read his second book, but the first one was in no way geared to men only & I'm pretty sure the secon
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by btucker 15y ago
So is this basically a relaunch of PicWing? It seems like pretty much the same thing, just more expensive? One other point. Isn't it a little odd to use a testimonial from the lead investor of the service in such a prominent way without d
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by btucker 15y ago
Here are my take-aways from this whole fiasco: 1) If you're in a business where your customers' lives could be seriously impacted 24/7, you must be reachable 24/7. 2) When something goes horribly wrong and far outside any predetermined poli

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