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by coolgeek 16y ago
Thanks for pointing out that that post was by Mark Suster. I rarely click through to TC posts - there are far too many of them on HN - but I'll always read his posts.
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by coolgeek 16y ago
woof... upon closer reading, the headline was misleading. the 2.4% rate is for overseas earnings. "Google’s overall effective tax rate [was] 22.2 percent last year". it's not hard, however, to find evidence confirming the upstream point th
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by coolgeek 16y ago
Google paid 2.4% last year http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-21/google-2-4-rate-sho... "Google’s practices are very similar to those at countless other global companies operating across a wide range of industries," said Jane Penner, a
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by coolgeek 16y ago
I hope that he spends some of his time not commenting to fix his js so that it doesn't take 90 seconds to scroll down the page
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by coolgeek 16y ago
Indeed, the OpenPublish Drupal distribution would seem to meet the requirements stated. Not to mention a 2-1/2 year head start on understanding and actually delivering on user needs. And a vastly larger developer base than this project will
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by coolgeek 16y ago
he said the same thing about node.js at the beginning of the previous section... that's what he did there
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by coolgeek 16y ago
I've found people on facebook and freenet using mine... and stealing somebody else's name is definitely not cool
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by coolgeek 16y ago
"Levis said a researcher even told the students their idea was "so simple and effective, it won't work," because something that obvious must have already been tried unsuccessfully." That's going up on the wall above my monitor.
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by coolgeek 16y ago
"To me, the only significant aspects of Web development are data model, SQL queries and transactions, and page flow design. The rest is just glue code that marries HTML templates to information pulled from the database." Philip Greenspun h
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by coolgeek 16y ago
Required feature: notify all of my friends that they were left behind.
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by coolgeek 16y ago
This is done in Philly, too, as well as other PA cities. I'd be very surprised if it was limited to PA though
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by coolgeek 16y ago
Traffic circles (roundabouts) are not the same thing as jughandles.
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by coolgeek 16y ago
er, as someone who did much database access in assembler, I'm going to have to disagree with your analogy. You could argue "between Python and C"... but most certainly NOT assembler
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by coolgeek 16y ago
Hey, I was at the RedSnake meetup where this was presented on Tuesday night! Go Hunter!
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by coolgeek 16y ago
"Give her another chance at life" The "her" you refer to no longer exists, and never will again (at least in this sector of the multiverse). What he would be giving "another chance at life" to would be a wholly distinct organism that happen
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by coolgeek 16y ago
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by coolgeek 16y ago
timanglade - Great idea, and it looks well put together. But I'm trying to watch the map reduce video, and I find your constant interruptions exceedingly annoying. Let the person run through their presentation and then follow up with quest
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by coolgeek 16y ago
Architecture is why we refactor. Just build your vision - especially when you're stretching with unfamiliar tools and languages. Then go back and pay off your technical debt.
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by coolgeek 16y ago
This was an engaging read. But the implication that urbanization causes obesity is not only unsupported by the author, but almost certainly fallacious. (Correlation, after all, does not imply causation) The cause of obesity is quite clear
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by coolgeek 16y ago
"avoid anything that requires a server like MySQL" plonk
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by coolgeek 16y ago
That was a pretty lightweight "article", from a website that doesn't get any better. Awesome self-link, though, lifestylegni!
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by coolgeek 16y ago
moozeek - It's 2010 - link the post, not the blog