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by chjohasbrouck 11y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but my understanding of patent trolls is that they make all their threats and legal actions through shell companies they can light up and shut down for a few hundred dollars. How much good does it do to go after them?
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by chjohasbrouck 11y ago
Restricting users to 140 characters wasn't just a good idea because of SMS character limits, it also forced users to create content that had a far greater chance of being shareable. The traditional blogging platforms that came before T
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by chjohasbrouck 11y ago
I agree, and I wish more JS projects in general would embrace SQL. I think part of the problem is the Meteor team's reluctance to have Meteor thought of or even used as a traditional web framework. Their vision is a framework for real-
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by chjohasbrouck 11y ago
I'm not a marketer so correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm not sure I agree that it's even possible for advertising to bubble in the traditional sense. The biggest budgets are all pretty tightly regulated. They have surprisi
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by chjohasbrouck 11y ago
What is Valeant doing that is illegal/unethical? After reading the article and your comment I still don't really understand what they did. All I know for sure is that Valeant buys a lot of pharmacies, and one of them accused them
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Rent is so high in San Francisco that Im a software engineer and I live in a van(qz.com)
23 points by chjohasbrouck 11y ago|11 comments
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by chjohasbrouck 11y ago
The problem with studies like this is, ironically, the most self-interested response you can give when somebody asks you the kinds of questions these studies ask, is to misrepresent yourself as being more altruistic than you really are, and
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by chjohasbrouck 11y ago
Good explanation. I don't know if it'd be worthwhile to track logged-out users though. Lumping it in with the same data that came from the last logged-in user would make the data less valuable, because there's far less of a g
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by chjohasbrouck 11y ago
I was able to read the article just fine.
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by chjohasbrouck 11y ago
I tried Mechanical Turk years and years ago. At that time there were really no tasks available that paid an amount that could consistently get you anywhere close to minimum wage. The only ones that seemed appealing on the surface were these
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by chjohasbrouck 11y ago
Pollution has a cost associated with it. Is regulation that makes the polluter liable for those costs a pro-human thing to do? Isn't that more equitable?
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by chjohasbrouck 11y ago
I think searching for things on the internet should be taught as a core competency, like reading, writing, and arithmetic. I feel like way too much of formal education is focused on memorization. Especially now that we have this ubiquitous
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by chjohasbrouck 11y ago
I've seen dozens of articles with similar headlines. I don't think anyone should be concerned with how much Spotify pays, for 2 reasons: 1. The people who made the music sold the rights to the music to the people who own the music
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by chjohasbrouck 11y ago
Sorry, deaths per trillionkWhr: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-de...
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by chjohasbrouck 11y ago
I never really understood the arguments against nuclear. From the data I'm able to find, coal energy results in about 170,000 deaths per trillion kilowatt-hours globally, compared to about 90 deaths per trillion kilowatt-hours generate
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by chjohasbrouck 11y ago
I just don't think putting screens in front of a person's eyes is going to be the solution for VR. The technology needs more direct access to our biology to truly deliver on the expectations it creates.
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by chjohasbrouck 11y ago
There are always outliers, but I believe that in America today, academic achievement is almost entirely determined by parental involvement (whether it's time or money). > How do you respond to the criticism that the problems you&#x2
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by chjohasbrouck 11y ago
I've long suspected that that the vast majority of activity on Twitter is famous people, brands/marketers, and people trying to win free sub sandwiches.
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by chjohasbrouck 11y ago
That's interesting. I already have a lot of experience with Javascript so it might not be so painful. What do you think about Rails vs Node/Express/etc when it comes to startups? Are more choosing Node lately, or is Rails sti
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by chjohasbrouck 11y ago
I'm a PHP developer, can I ask how you made the transition to Node? Did you just start hacking away at personal projects with Node? Any advice on resources?
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by chjohasbrouck 11y ago
The analogy doesn't really make sense to me. Twitter isn't a news service, it's a communications platform, and Twitter users aren't necessarily politicians.
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by chjohasbrouck 11y ago
I don't think the steps to making a 3-way call are common knowledge. If it's simple enough, you should probably include the instructions in your pitch.
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by chjohasbrouck 11y ago
That's not what Twitter is doing. If that was their goal they'd be suing Gawker and TMZ. The point isn't to stop deleted tweets from being disseminated at all - that's impossible and I'm sure they're smart enou
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by chjohasbrouck 11y ago
If they wanted to create a general "politician public statement archive" that included deleted tweets, I think that would be acceptable. Where they cross the line is in only doing deleted tweets, and marketing themselves that way.
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by chjohasbrouck 11y ago
Ok, I looked it up and apparently it was an April Fool's Day joke: http://www.npr.org/2012/04/01/149804404/n-y-preschool-starts... I've assumed this was true for the last 3+ years. I'm not
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by chjohasbrouck 11y ago
I've always thought the two most important pieces of the book are: 1. Talk in terms of the other person’s interest. 2. Make people feel important. And if you're Bill Gates, you've covered both of those things in spades simply
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by chjohasbrouck 11y ago
There are some (very private, very exclusive) preschools that start teaching kids C++ at 3 years old. I'm not sure how much success they have, or if it's just a vanity thing, but there you go.
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Ask HN: If we had to start over, would computers be fundamentally different?
4 points by chjohasbrouck 11y ago|1 comments
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by chjohasbrouck 11y ago
This might be a weird compliment but I really like your font color choices.
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by chjohasbrouck 11y ago
I've been that person, and that's exactly how I felt while I was doing it. I don't try anymore, the hours were for nothing and it's a complete waste of time. A cofounder needs a very strong skillset, a life circumstance

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