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by davi 16y ago
googolplex; the Googleplex is a place :) (Can't resist pedantry in this case; my grandfather taught me what a googol and a googolplex are way back in the dark ages and I have some affection for the terms)
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by davi 16y ago
That's interesting. At what quantity do they stop laughing?
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by davi 16y ago
Would've been much more interesting had some concrete examples been given. Anybody here know of any?
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Hyatt Regency walkway collapse(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by davi 16y ago|1 comments
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by davi 16y ago
It happened to me the first time I tried to look at pinboard today. I'm on a satellite modem out in the middle of nowhere -- maybe a latency bug? Problem was gone when I tried a little later.
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by davi 16y ago
What does she do on the Apple website? I've never thought of that as a 'destination' site on the web, but maybe I'm missing something. Movie trailers?
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by davi 16y ago
Classic example of bad popular science writing. Linkbait title. What is effect size? What was sample size? I wonder if the HN guidelines could use a line or two on criteria to use when deciding whether or not to submit a science story.
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by davi 16y ago
As myspace has shown, when platforms stagnate they can easily fall apart and the decline can be fast and devastating This gave me an image of a large mass of pack ice floating on polar seas -- it occupies a vast area, you don't want to me
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by davi 16y ago
Yeah, bad software is the point Philip Greenspun makes about the incident: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2010/12/11/airbus-a380-en...
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by davi 16y ago
Why do we each have a name? On a website, it is so readers can associate what a commenter is saying to what that person has said before. Any community where people are going to encounter each other more than once has a use for names. Here,
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Qantas QF32 flight from the cockpit (dealing with exploded engine)(aerosocietychannel.com)
39 points by davi 16y ago|16 comments
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How the New York Times comment system works(nytimes.com)
5 points by davi 16y ago|0 comments
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by davi 16y ago
"So we’ve put all these small kind of niche businesses on the map, whether it’s a — whether it’s a helicopter club that’s offering flying lessons, and we sell 2,500 coupons" They're talking about Philip Greenspun's [1] encounter with Groupo
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by davi 16y ago
No, the safe move is to assume that pg is doing as good a job as he can to make the rules line up with the collective behavior he wants to see. If you systematically flag every story by an established user whose comment you just downvoted,
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by davi 16y ago
Sometimes when something really big and good starts to happen, even if it's something you've been working hard to achieve, it can be a bit hard to understand. Getting used to the idea that yes, you really did it, might be a good step to hel
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by davi 16y ago
Semantics of "fighting" vs. "supporting" aside, we agree that it's good to give money to organizations that advance freedom of the press.
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by davi 16y ago
> Be thankful for the freedoms you have and fight for more. (Or at least donate money to others who will do some fighting for you.)
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by davi 16y ago
No, there's a third choice. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1777665 [edit: An idea which I wouldn't know about if I hadn't seen it here. For me, HN still is good enough to spend time with. But it has grown less stringent about humor a
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by davi 16y ago
An answer [1] from a horse's mouth (Floyd Bloom, former editor of Science magazine, originator of the aphorism, "The gain in the brain lies mainly in the stain"[2]): MI: Was it clear to you when you started out at as Editor-in-Chief of Sc
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by davi 16y ago
For a long time I've wanted one of these, to serve as an "interruptility" indicator to others: green = "I'm looking at the internet, please interrupt me so I can possibly do something more useful", amber = "I'm working but okay", red = "onl
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by davi 16y ago
single page: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/05/business/05ge.html?pagewan...
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by davi 16y ago
Dupe, HN discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1953150
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by davi 16y ago
On the face of it this is hard for me to understand. Here's the way I can rationalize it: imagine Google spends $20 million (or whatever) to build underlying technology. Then spends $2 billion to roll out a nationwide sales force sufficient
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College costs, the sequel(opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
10 points by davi 16y ago|0 comments
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"God help you. You're on dialysis."(theatlantic.com)
71 points by davi 16y ago|64 comments
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Resurrecting a Village by Buying Up Main Street(nytimes.com)
59 points by davi 16y ago|13 comments
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by davi 16y ago
Your working definition of "American" seems blinkered. One of the sources of our cultural strength is the diversity of views that make up our intellectual heritage. In my opinion, RMS is a great American. John Muir, Edward Abbey, Wendell Be
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by davi 16y ago
Funny that an article inventorying the effects of alcohol fails to discuss how it addicts some people. [edit: I meant failure to discuss mechanisms of addiction to alcohol, which are at least as interesting the biochemical pathways by which
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Self-healing concrete(citg.tudelft.nl)
2 points by davi 16y ago|0 comments
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Lincoln on the brink(opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
2 points by davi 16y ago|0 comments

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