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by dbul 17y ago
If these articles are thought provoking, they could be written about PASCAL and reasonable HN members would upvote it. Someone can be a language snob, but also a computer scientist; computer scientists keep an open mind.
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by dbul 17y ago
way faster -- sounds subjective to me. What references say this?
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by dbul 17y ago
My friend was just about to get DSL from Verizon and selected the "medium" package for $29.99. I asked what they needed the Internet for, and sure enough 1Mbps down / 368Kbps up would have been fine (this was the "small" package for $19.99)
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by dbul 17y ago
Why do you only buy American cars? Do you only buy clothes made in America, too?
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by dbul 17y ago
Just to be clear, there are other ways of acquiring polio, namely oral-to-oral transmission: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio#Transmission
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by dbul 17y ago
My personal experience: doing without coffee for a day or two has no effect. Also somewhat oddly, there is one particular place I go where I get a `mocha latte' and it wires the hell out of me. (It is a great time for coding.) Not sure why.
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by dbul 17y ago
How about 4) Have companies advertise their products as facebook.com/product At the very least, people will continue to use facebook to check their friends's updates. Some people use it for more than that, but it just depends. Leaving any s
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by dbul 17y ago
Please place [video] in the title.
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by dbul 17y ago
The hypothetical cannot win. This article spelled out what everyone already had some fuzzy idea about. But there are too many variables to draw any valuable conclusions. Many founders share at least one goal: to get rich. To a lot of firs
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by dbul 17y ago
Nice work. I'm glad to see someone went ahead with it. It would still make the front page of the site interesting to eventually tie it to karma.
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by dbul 17y ago
I don't think she was on Mixi -- she's been in USA for the past 6 years. Another one of my Japanese friends is on Mixi, though, and she simply never uses it. Interestingly, she (the girl who uses Mixi) knows the wife of a Japanese official
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by dbul 17y ago
That's the funny thing: he was speaking Japanese but two of the 3 words he used were borrowed from English. I guess in the end not having been to Japan and knowing few, if any, people who have gone there and seriously studied the language,
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by dbul 17y ago
I had a phone call with a Japanese friend the other day, and she told me she also quit (deactivated her account) Facebook. Since their traffic is still on the climb, it seems the birth rate is simply outpacing the death rate as we are start
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by dbul 17y ago
I'm pretty sure YC doesn't have anything to fear. They will likely get the cream of the crop (according to their standards) since the program is well-established, is in the startup capital, and is lead by someone who has provided a wealth o
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by dbul 17y ago
I wonder if this is a growing trend in regions across the country. Last week there was a post about AlphaLab providing $25K, but it too is a subsidiary of InnovationWorks which offers $100K. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=550892
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by dbul 17y ago
I have to agree here. Comments that add no value whatsoever ought to be down voted. At worst, your comment should have been left at 1 point. Personally, I thought it added some intellectual value raising the question "have or has?" And with
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by dbul 17y ago
http://www.flickaday.com from his thread "The Story of My Startup" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=479352 But dailybooth looks superior imho. Good luck!
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by dbul 17y ago
That's not true: I've spoken single sentences and Japanese people would tell me, "when you spoke just now I thought you were Japanese." And for what's it's worth, he spoke more than the above (e.g. when he was imitating the instructor).
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by dbul 17y ago
Would it be too much work to also have a listing of everyone's startup? I've thought about scraping profile pages or simply allowing people to freely add their information. I know TechCrunch has this sort of thing, but there is a lot of clu
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by dbul 17y ago
It's good to get press, but if your product is in "private beta" like tsumobi then maybe it is time to remove the cloak. Or else how can the free press be effective?
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by dbul 17y ago
Could you clarify how you arrived at the numbers for the five year expected return?
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by dbul 17y ago
I think the answer is surprisingly few. This makes it hard because you need to have the ganas enough to a) quit b) devote most of your time. On top of that, you need to have a co-founder who is willing to make the same sacrifice. Having a c
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by dbul 17y ago
It's getting kind of lame being among people who want to divide their attention. I imagine being in the Bay Area I would find at least a few souls willing to spend Friday night programming hard core than carousing.
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by dbul 17y ago
Coffee. I know English well enough to understand the term "ad hominem."
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by dbul 17y ago
My friend Chris at MIT wanted me to make something like this for him and a dozen of his classmates thinking it would be simple. When we specked it out, it turns out it is not simple because you need to account for several circumstances like
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by dbul 17y ago
It was casual. But truthful in sentiment. You can see it as ironical in that I was educated by the Internet and not by being in the Bay Area. Yet, being in the Bay Area, making the right friends, and appropriately asking the right questions
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by dbul 17y ago
Accent? You can't fake an accent easily. You either have it or you don't, and I'm pretty sure he had it even if he spoke 5 sentences. Who knows about the rest of his knowledge about the languages he claims to know -- he talked about Kanji t
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by dbul 17y ago
Blog entries like this make me feel truly educated. I could visit my grandparents in Weston, MA and regurgitate, "the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is, that they set at naught books and traditions" and my grandmother
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by dbul 17y ago
I agree. This may be a sign that either a restricted scope of HN needs to be enforced, or an algorithm needs to be written to correlate the interests of users. Neither is pretty, but the alternative is a saturated Hacker News.
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by dbul 17y ago
My bias is that creativity is something that you develop as a child. Nevertheless, I also think creativity can be emergent: when you are focusing on being creative in one area, draw analogies from other areas (interdisciplinary). I knew som

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