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by canistr 12y ago
Would have been to nice to see some quotes from a woman who was also a minority. But clearly ethnic/racial diversity isn't a problem for this conference. </sarcasm>
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by canistr 12y ago
Does anyone find it weird that a "Show HN" kind of lacks on the "Show" aspect. All the site really has is a beta signup button and one screenshot. I personally don't want to give you any information (including my e
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by canistr 13y ago
This also applies to iOS. So update to 7.1.1.
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by canistr 13y ago
The correct word for "mainstream" is "surface". "Mainstream" is far too surface of a word.
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by canistr 13y ago
What's fascinating about the comments is that, had Condoleezza Rice been appointed Commissioner of the NFL, would people have said "I'm giving up the NFL forever"? Obviously this question should only apply to NFL fans wh
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by canistr 13y ago
Apparently the total value lost in-game was 11 trillion ISK which, according to http://isk.thealphacompany.net/?isk=26000000000000 is roughly $700,000 USD. Edit: updated the ISK value thanks to comments.
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by canistr 13y ago
From the looks of the responses here, looks like you guys should get up a "Notify me when you come to my area" up on your site.
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by canistr 13y ago
I really think HN needs a way to auto-detect sites that have paywalls and ignore those submissions. It's no good if the vast majority of readers can't read it.
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by canistr 13y ago
I suppose you could substitute "risk-takers" for "scrappy" since risk-taking is inherent in starting a company. I would say that scrappy is more indicative of someone who is entrepreneurial without necessarily relying o
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by canistr 13y ago
Thanks for sharing!
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by canistr 13y ago
Don't want to sound like a downer, but I'd also love to see applications where the founders weren't your typical white MIT, Harvard, Yale graduates/PhDs who worked at McKinsey GoogleBookSoft.
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by canistr 13y ago
The TechCrunch article seems to miss a few points. The main point of which is the fact that the executive in question clearly leveraged his position to get a job at Apple to lead Core OS. It's a case of leveraging his position after
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by canistr 13y ago
I don't know where to ask this question. So I'll post this here. It's likely an unpopular theory. Where did Der Spiegel get their information about the NSA (specifically TAO's and ANT) project names and projects? Is it
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by canistr 13y ago
I suppose the pitch for such a service could be: "crowd-sourced bus routes".
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by canistr 13y ago
Perhaps alternatively, this is a test by some hot new, stealth-mode YC startup to test the viability of video interview screening? And simply using interns as a small test subject pool. Furthermore, because interns are the testing pool. T
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by canistr 13y ago
Fascinating game. Would love to see how an AI would tackle this.
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by canistr 13y ago
If you're ever in Seattle, you can also see one at the Museum of Flight. http://www.museumofflight.org/exhibits/blackbird I also highly recommend people book a tour for the Boeing factory in Everett (about an hour
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Behind the stick of the SR-71(sbnation.com)
241 points by canistr 13y ago|91 comments
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by canistr 13y ago
Some of it is from Reddit/Twitter/Bitcoiners who want Nakamoto to be left alone.
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by canistr 13y ago
Honestly, I think it's just as hypocritical to be working for Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, or anyone who works at a company that analyzes email or any amount of user data and still be up in arms about privacy issues.
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by canistr 13y ago
That's precisely what I mean by it being a game of semantics. Any computer/science-related degree gets you through the border. Anecdotally, I've heard numerous friends claim that the distinction at the border was their titl
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by canistr 13y ago
It's a game of semantics for border services. If you have an engineering degree, it doesn't matter. If you get your employer to change your title from "Developer" to "Engineer" it works out.
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by canistr 13y ago
The fascinating part about living in Toronto compared to Vancouver (or even another city, say New York), is how we view foreigners/immigrants. A few weeks ago I randomly spoke with a man from Egypt. My immediate assumption, even thou
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by canistr 13y ago
It's not particularly surprising given that, in a region without stable electricity for 10+ hours/day for 60% of the population, you're not going to rely on electronics to do the work for you. Take for instance the numerous s
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by canistr 13y ago
I was always under the assumption that Gallium Arsenide was the future after silicon. What's the difference between GaAs and CIGS?
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Apple Said to Plan New Set-Top Box Amid Time Warner Cable Talks(bloomberg.com)
1 points by canistr 13y ago|0 comments
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by canistr 13y ago
This is such an odd calculation and application of Moore's law. Without going into any analyses or details, travelling to the moon should be much cheaper and faster (yes I am aware of low-cost orbital space flights -- and even paying i
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by canistr 13y ago
In Canada, we have a campaign to "win" the Olympics called "Own the Podium". I liken this to Gruber's Microsoft strategy as being "Own the pipe". Not in the literal sense of becoming an ISP or backbone, b
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by canistr 13y ago
For a system with a set turnover ratio, you could make a claim that everyone in the company views their own success as a result of someone else's failure. Be it a VP, GPM, Team Lead, etc. Because it happens at every level within the o
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by canistr 13y ago
Stack ranking is largely attributed to Lisa Brummel, Executive VP at MSFT. And it's been stated in many articles that stack ranking caters to the top 10% and nobody else.

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