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by c1sc0 16y ago
"Snake" in Dutch ... how appropriate.
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by c1sc0 16y ago
Most people in the West are way higher up on Maslow's pyramid than people in the developing world. There's no arguing with basics like availability of clean water, food, clothing, healthcare. After your basics are covered it's up to you to
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by c1sc0 16y ago
An extra upvote because you bring up irrational fears, which I believe are destroying the very fabric of our society. This is the same mechanism that justifies, CCTV camera, body scanners & co. I worry more about how fear is changing so
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by c1sc0 16y ago
If you care about life or death situations, get them a SPOT. Even better: consciously bring them in contact with life or death situations & teach them how to deal with it. Go camping or something. But don't project your fears onto these
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by c1sc0 16y ago
Who else thought 'cute, typical for Americans' when reading this? Somehow I have a hard time imagining families around me in Europe using such a service. The fact that there is a market for these kinds of apps is telling about US society an
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by c1sc0 16y ago
I have one of those but never used it for securing laptops, for scaring the shit out of wannabe thieves trying to access my expensive stuff in my beaten old clunker of a car however ... cheapest car alarm ever.
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by c1sc0 16y ago
I don't get why you are being downvoted. I know game mechanics are hot right now but you are making a valid point. If we're not careful we're going to turn the whole internet in a giant skinner box.
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by c1sc0 16y ago
In which part of the world?
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by c1sc0 16y ago
I wish more people responded to this, that curve starts to look very interesting.
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by c1sc0 16y ago
I agree, but will most people care?
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by c1sc0 16y ago
As the crisis moves forward we will probably see a fraction of every profession moved to developing countries. Either by Western professionals who move there to enjoy the lower cost of living or outright replacement by outsourced profess
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by c1sc0 16y ago
"The only way to manage this is true transparency and no anonymity. In a world of asynchronous threats, it is too dangerous for there not to be some way to identify you. We need a [verified] name service for people. Governments will demand
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by c1sc0 16y ago
French, German, Dutch, English. My fluency varies from year-to-year depending on which language I use most in daily life. I remember the first time I came back 'home' and found out that I had trouble adapting to speaking my mother tongue. S
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by c1sc0 16y ago
I'm sorry, but it is a low standard. I'd say that almost anyone in Europe with a little education is bilingual. Don't hold the rest of the world to your own low standards.
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by c1sc0 16y ago
It's not just the devices that are US-centric, it's the whole iTunes experience. I find the selection of Movies & Books available through iTunes Germany to be sub-par insofar that I've bought all of my eBooks in Amazon Kindle format.
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by c1sc0 16y ago
I love it for reading, I never expected to spend more money on books than on apps. And I'm using the Kindle app, not the iBooks one (not enough selection in Germany). I'm swapping my WiFi one for a 3G version in 2 weeks. Love it love it lov
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by c1sc0 16y ago
Maybe because then the user is more likely to put their credit-card on file with Apple?
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by c1sc0 16y ago
This makes me feel a little better about the time when I sat on tons of invites & never really got around to using Wave. I'm one of those who never grokked wave.
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by c1sc0 16y ago
Good!
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by c1sc0 16y ago
You don't need to listen to a random blogger now, go find your first user instead! After you talk to your first potential users & have adjusted plans, go back & talk to that blogger.
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by c1sc0 16y ago
Funny you ask, going through the middle of an organization where ProjM is turned into ProdM right now. As far as I can tell very little changes except the titles on business cards ;-)
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by c1sc0 16y ago
A scary thought. I'd expect there to be more interest in the HN community. Are we really too busy building stupid Facebook apps & crappy 'social' startups to stop caring when something like this happens? http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/0
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by c1sc0 16y ago
This story and an oft-used TOS clause like this one should make you think: "Further, you acknowledge and agree that INSERT COMPANY is free to preserve and disclose any and all Personal Information to law enforcement agencies or others if re
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by c1sc0 16y ago
So the Oracle was right all along: there never has been any privacy
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Ask HN: has anyone published their 23andme data? Would you?
2 points by c1sc0 16y ago|0 comments
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by c1sc0 16y ago
I'll see your Flaubert and raise you an "Eugénie Grandet" by Balzac. Classical storytelling genius.
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by c1sc0 16y ago
"East of Eden" or anything Steinbeck. The art of storytelling is vastly underestimated in the startup world. If you know how to tell a good story, writing blog posts, doing marketing copywriting etc ... suddenly becomes much easier. Reading
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by c1sc0 16y ago
I wonder how many people install this just to get rid of the Google ads. I did.
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Ask HN: Is stealth mode passé?
3 points by c1sc0 16y ago|1 comments
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by c1sc0 16y ago
I'd say that getting out of web development for a few days, weeks, even months is not such a big deal. Being a rapid learner is a re-requisite for getting anywhere in a cutting edge field. So as long as your learning ability follows a Malth

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