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by d4nt 16y ago
I can't name the architect for the office building I'm sitting in. Or the designer of my (distinctly average) car. Having said that, I know that Tim Berners Lee created the Web, Jon Resig built jQuery and James Dyson designed my vacuum clea
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by d4nt 16y ago
This strikes me as a very good thing. Yes, many of them will fail but they'll learn a huge amount in the process and make themselves more employable at the end of it all. Others will succeed of course. Meanwhile, the state isn't so many eco
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Ask HN: Would anyone like to join me on congratulating the BBC?
7 points by d4nt 16y ago|6 comments
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by d4nt 17y ago
Microsoft have had a "WIN" project one the go in one form or another for years. "Cairo" anyone? For years, Longhorn was going to be an almost complete replacement of the platform. They've never got it to work though, perhaps because it's al
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by d4nt 17y ago
I use http://toodat.com I wrote it myself because, like you, I didn't like the complicated nature of the other tools out there. It's pretty basic but it works.
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by d4nt 17y ago
Solar powered 3D printers that use the carbon in CO2 to make stuff.
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by d4nt 17y ago
I like it! Something that tells me exactly when it's ok to pull out would remove stress from my day and improve traffic flow.
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by d4nt 17y ago
I would have to conceed that point. But if the ruling elite use the promise of expanding prosperity to stay in power then sooner or later they either won't be in power any more or there will be greater prosperity.
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by d4nt 17y ago
I don't buy it. France's middle class already think and behave very differently from America's. The fact is though that in any society, people don't like corruption or being told what to think and the ones with a bit of money will vote with
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by d4nt 17y ago
I'm guessing it's serving up mostly the colours with ambigious names (based on what others have entered), I'm not sure why but I'm sure we'll end up with some sort of graph on XKCD
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by d4nt 17y ago
As a developer I either want complete and utter domination by one browser (so I only have to test on that one) or lots of browsers with reasonable market share (making standards compliance crucial). The current situation is almost the worst
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by d4nt 17y ago
What troubles me about this whole thing is, Apple doesn't NEED to do this. They still have great products, there are still many geniuses who would love to work there, they still have an insanely valuable brand. This sort of thing should be
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by d4nt 17y ago
The article starts with some naive and clearly exaggerated statements about what might happen before finally getting to the real point, which is: > The case will take years to resolve, but that's no bad thing for Apple: manufacturers ar
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by d4nt 17y ago
Well, it uses the RSS feed. What do you mean exactly?
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Tell HN: I've written a script to Tweet all the stories from the HN homepage(twitter.com)
2 points by d4nt 17y ago|5 comments
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by d4nt 17y ago
I've had experience of putting what I'm trying to do on Twitter and having a company send me a message offering their service. I'm not sure if it was a bot or not. It occurred to me that maybe in a few years time we won't be googling for st
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Privacy Is An Anomaly(d4nt.tumblr.com)
1 points by d4nt 17y ago|0 comments
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by d4nt 17y ago
On your second point, I think some people would characterise the current situation as aggressive geo-engineering rather than doing nothing. I don't think there's any such thing as "avoiding any action until we know what's going on".
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by d4nt 17y ago
I see two possible interpretations of this article: 1. It's 100% accurate, balanced and fair portrait of what happened. In which case the scientists have pretty much failed. I mean, I knew about the medieval warm period already and if you d
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by d4nt 17y ago
That may well have been true for a while but I think the information revolution will eventually make it so easy to organise, collaborate and outsource that the managerial overhead of a corporation will put big companies at a disadvantage.
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by d4nt 17y ago
Most people will want to cash in their investments at some point. In order to facilitate that we'd need a secondary market in these instruments so people could sell them on. The price would then vary based on future earnings projections. Ei
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by d4nt 17y ago
Hey. That was an honest question. Seriously, it looks like there's a market for training professionals to do the vocational side of their job.
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by d4nt 17y ago
A graduating structural engineer has no idea how to marshal a design through the building inspector's approval process. A graduating lawyer has no idea how to actually engage in litigation. Why not, looks like a gap in the market.
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by d4nt 17y ago
I think you're being quite charitable there. A lawsuit locking you out of a market like that is only as tough as having a big competitor beating you in that market. At this level you need a CEO to (a) anticipate then work around some of the
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by d4nt 17y ago
Years ago I worked for a startup that built industrial printing machines (I did the touch screen control panel bit) but the guys sitting next to me we're working on circuit board design. We had our circuit boards pressed by an outside compa
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by d4nt 17y ago
I think seth is saying a lot less ads will be placed, which will make the site nicer to use. Combine that added usability with the critical mass it already has and CL stay dominant and will make more money than it does currently.
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by d4nt 17y ago
I agree the free alternatives would be set up, but in the case of Craigslist I think it probably has enough critical mass to keep its dominant position. A free email provider would still let you send and receive messages from anyone. A free
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by d4nt 17y ago
Isn't that exactly the point he's making
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by d4nt 17y ago
s/women/people
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Ask HN: Why isn't Silverlight more popular?
2 points by d4nt 17y ago|7 comments

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