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by coolgeek 15y ago
Okay - how about some criticism? What am I doing wrong here? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3356415 Everything's on the table - the site, the concept, the HN submission, even me. Tear it apart.
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by coolgeek 15y ago
Hey HN - This is my site. I posted a barebones iteration a few months ago. It didn't garner much inerest (perhaps deservedly so). Anyway... GroupsFinder helps you find and track all of the groups near you, and the events that the groups ho
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GroupsFinder Adds Events(groupsfinder.net)
11 points by coolgeek 15y ago|8 comments
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by coolgeek 15y ago
Apparently gpoaccess is no longer being updated and is shutting down in 2012. It looks like the new system is: http://catalog.gpo.gov/fdlpdir/FDLPdir.jsp?mode=-2
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by coolgeek 15y ago
Although you seem to have some content, none of it seems to be newer than 18 days old. That gap seems odd. Also, I would make new content the default, rather than top content Good luck.
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by coolgeek 15y ago
Links need to fade in down-voted comments. As is, the contrast makes them more prominent.
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by coolgeek 15y ago
You misread that - the hourly rate and dev time in hours refer to the buyer (a developer) having to develop a functionally similar product (instead of purchasing it).
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by coolgeek 15y ago
Nobody knows the law anymore. Everyone is guilty of something. This argument is reductio ad absurdum. The corpus of law bearing significant consequences for violators [1][2] is sufficiently small as to be almost intuitively understood by
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by coolgeek 15y ago
(Sorry if this comes across as pedantic, but the dissonance here is striking.) "Revenue" and "earnings" have fairly specific meanings, particularly with regard to each other. "Google earned $2.85B on revenues of $9.03B in Q2" would have bee
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by coolgeek 15y ago
From the Justice Department document you cited: The Justice Department alleged that Chevy Chase violated the federal Fair Housing Act and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act by declaring black areas off-limits for mortgage lending, a practice
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by coolgeek 15y ago
Mergers were denied and anti-redlining probes were launched if you didn't make a certain percentage of ultra high risk loans. Since neither I nor most other readers have access to Morgenson's book, would you please provide links to docume
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by coolgeek 15y ago
Anybody who cites the CRA as a proximal cause of the financial crisis is either a) profoundly ignorant of what the CRA requires of financial institutions, or b) has an agenda, (and that agenda is not truth). "The Act requires the appropriat
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by coolgeek 15y ago
There's a big fat ad in the middle of the page visually and verbally trumpeting the Boston Herald's availability on Blackberry, Android and iPhone. But not Windows Phone 7. (In fairness, "Your phone not listed?" is displayed at the bottom o
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by coolgeek 15y ago
"Ice evaporates" Actually, ice sublimates
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by coolgeek 15y ago
"We live in a period when technology looks very organised. But that’s a fluke, a feature of the history of engineering that reflects what we’ve learned to build. When we start just going out into the computational universe and finding stuff
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by coolgeek 15y ago
Which was already posted 278 days ago... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1643239
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Show HN: GroupsFinder - Find All of the Tech Groups Near You(groupsfinder.net)
6 points by coolgeek 15y ago|0 comments
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by coolgeek 15y ago
There is a big download button at the bottom of the page
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by coolgeek 15y ago
If X was less than 10, you may have had a point. But a 39.8% decrease in size is substantial. So, yes, it does really matter
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by coolgeek 15y ago
http://codeigniter.com/
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by coolgeek 15y ago
Jorn Barger's "Logarithmic timeline of the universe": http://www.robotwisdom.com/science/logarithmic.html
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by coolgeek 15y ago
It's called regulatory capture. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture Also note the closely related concept of intellectual capture, which is why nobody in the government or the media (except Taibbi and a handful of others) is p
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by coolgeek 16y ago
Google shows 62 hits for this link on this site
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by coolgeek 16y ago
Them too. Both involve "selling something you don't own" (the underlying security), a point disputed in the post I was replying to.
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by coolgeek 16y ago
It is in fact how naked puts work http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_put
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by coolgeek 16y ago
hmmm... I have to reboot daily - sometimes more than once a day - on an ASUS Eee 1GB running XP
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by coolgeek 16y ago
Dude - your "th" key is a little flaky
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by coolgeek 16y ago
"We will encourage you to develop the three great virtues of a programmer: laziness, impatience, and hubris." -- Larry Wall Task automation encompasses all three virtues: Laziness - "I don't want to do this task every (other) day" Impatienc
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by coolgeek 16y ago
You're missing the point - it's about proving dedication. Building a prototype, no matter how crappy, tells potential tech cofounders that you're less likely to bail when you see something shinier. That said, raising money (or investing yo
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by coolgeek 16y ago
To be fair, it was only £25 million

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