codyrobbins

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by codyrobbins 16y ago
Why would you not assume it’s a guy? Most of the people in this business are men—if you’re going to make an assumption aren’t numbers a good basis for doing so?
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by codyrobbins 16y ago
I think you, and a lot of other people in our generation, have misinterpreted the generalization ‘You need to go to college to get a good job’ as ‘You will get a good job if you go to college.’ These two are not the same thing. College may
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by codyrobbins 16y ago
Ugh. I can’t wrap my head around the concept of expecting some mechanical path to success and subsequently being flabbergasted at the realization that, even if it ever did exist at one point, it doesn’t anymore. Who cares if anyone told you
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by codyrobbins 16y ago
Specifically, it’s called telegraphese. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegraphese My guess is that laying a newspaper out on paper is essentially a 2D packing problem—which is an NP-hard optimization problem. I assume removing unnecessary
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by codyrobbins 16y ago
It’s basically a custom Linux distro maintained by Amazon that’s based on CentOS 5. One of the biggest problems with EC2 until recently is that the official AMIs provided by Amazon are ridiculously out of date. For example, the standard Fed
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by codyrobbins 16y ago
There’s no cookie so I assume you’re restricting it to one entry per day based on IP. Could somebody ruin the whole thing by flooding the server with requests with spoofed IP addresses?
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by codyrobbins 16y ago
In addition to the point skoob makes, there are also the considerable economic and societal costs of an epidemic. These costs are borne by the society as a whole, and therefore the society as a whole has a prerogative to minimize contagious
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by codyrobbins 16y ago
I seriously can’t understand how these vaccinations aren’t mandated by law without exception. The point of vaccination is to protect public health from devastating communicable diseases, just like the point of fire codes are to protect the
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by codyrobbins 16y ago
It was just pointed out that the data show that this problem is affecting a vanishingly small proportion of users in practice. Your counterpoint is an anecdotal pronouncement that it happens to you. That’s great—but it still doesn’t happen
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by codyrobbins 16y ago
You’re right: it is indeed fraud. The OP is wrong saying it’s legal. It’s called false billing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_billing
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by codyrobbins 16y ago
Probably because he’s not a robot and there’s such a thing as rhetoric. The fact that such euphemisms exist means they have a communicative purpose.
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by codyrobbins 16y ago
Yeah, you can run an authorization transaction which only checks for sufficient funds. It's what happens in a restaurant when you pay with a credit card, get a receipt to sign, but can then add a tip to the total: a pre-auth is done on the
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by codyrobbins 16y ago
Your example of a BMW vs. a Toyota only emphasizes my original point. A BMW is fundamentally the same thing as a Toyota, but worth 3× as much. An iPad is not the same thing as a Kindle—for my purposes, the iPad does what the Kindle does exc
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by codyrobbins 16y ago
OP is talking about a Kindle DX, which is only $40 cheaper than the cheapest iPad.
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by codyrobbins 16y ago
But at that point, you’re spending as much as an iPad for something that has a fiftieth the functionality, and not to mention no color screen. I still just don’t get it.
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by codyrobbins 16y ago
I’ve read my iPad at the beach for hours, and I have no complaint whatsoever. It’s actually superior to a book, because the pages of a book reflect too much sunlight for me to look at it comfortably.
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by codyrobbins 16y ago
I saw a Kindle 2 for the first time last week, and I was seriously underwhelmed. I can’t imagine how it has gained any traction. The screen is slightly larger than a post-it note, and the best comparison I can come up with is of reading a b
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by codyrobbins 16y ago
I wasn't going to say anything further on this thread, but I just checked out your site: http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/6032/wwcom.png I'm sorry dude, but Posterous found a way to finance their site without plastering their homepage w
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by codyrobbins 16y ago
Hear, hear! Thank you, Silhouette, for putting that so well.
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by codyrobbins 16y ago
Unfortunately I think people have a tendency here to downvote comments they disagree with rather than weighing them on their merits. Although I concede that perhaps it had something to do with the Nazi stripper comment ;) I completely and u
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by codyrobbins 16y ago
You’re absolutely right, that’s all it is—a courtesy. They are being uncourteous at worse; but being uncourteous does not equate, in my mind, to being ‘not right’ in a moral sense. Again, it is entirely their prerogative to make this change
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by codyrobbins 16y ago
When did Posterous promise that they would never add affiliate links to your blog posts? Or that they would tell you about it if they did?
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by codyrobbins 16y ago
The legal angle most certainly has something to do with it. Many of the comments on this thread seem to imply that there should be something legal barring Posterous from doing such a thing. Silhouette has been trying to point out, and quite
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by codyrobbins 16y ago
Just being blunt, but if you got pissed off at your aunt like that, I would call you an ungrateful spoiled brat. Doesn’t matter how much you paid to move your stuff in. I don’t actually think you’re a spoiled brat, because it’s just an anal
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by codyrobbins 16y ago
The answer to your first question is unequivocally yes (within the confines of the law, of course). Unfortunately for you, and fortunately for the rest of us, you don't get to dictate the terms under which people offer free services. I don'
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by codyrobbins 16y ago
You're using their service completely free, so I don't think you are really entitled to any say on the matter. If you were paying for it you might have some reasonable expectation that they leave your content intact, but you're not. It's li
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Ask HN: Law and accounting firms for starting a Web business in NYC
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by codyrobbins 16y ago
If you're on OS X, check out Concentrate: http://getconcentrating.com/
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by codyrobbins 16y ago
It's possible that they do not even realize that they are like a Ponzi scheme. That's right, they may not even realize that their ad platform is completely useless because they always get new clients signing up and giving up their offering
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by codyrobbins 16y ago
Wow, thanks for posting that link. I’m really glad the ‘learning by doing’ methodology is under some scrutiny, because it’s not the way I learn at all. For what it’s worth, if I had come across the draft of Zed’s book when I was first learn

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