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by dminor 16y ago
This seriously drives me nuts. I know as web people we're sensitive to comment spam, but if you're commenting on topic then for the love of god promote yourself a little. At the very least, put your game/webapp in your profile.
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by dminor 16y ago
I love it, but pretty much just use it as a searchable repository for paper bills/letters. Scanner scans to a directory that's monitored by Evernote, then the bill gets shredded.
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by dminor 16y ago
> We should endeavor to improve the lives of as many people as possible in a lasting and significant way, making the most of our own skills in the process. Why the qualifier?
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by dminor 16y ago
It doesn't look like a bubble on the scale of previous bubbles because the general public is largely uninvolved (from an investing standpoint). If it popped now, the burned VCs and angels wouldn't even make the local news. On the other hand
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by dminor 16y ago
I'm not claiming it as truth - just letting people know that there's a history here and opinions on both sides.
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by dminor 16y ago
How not to get snookered by claims of "proof" of copyright infringement: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20110122054409107
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by dminor 16y ago
There are two separate algorithms - the first one is recursive.
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by dminor 16y ago
Headline is a bit ambiguous: there will be Chrome OS devices this summer (according to Google).
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by dminor 16y ago
I think this is only the beginning of good news due to this algo change. There are many legitimate businesses that have been positively impacted by traffic gains and we'll probably see more hiring and raises.
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by dminor 16y ago
I think you're confusing web apps with extensions for Chrome. Chrome extensions are used to modify the behavior of the browser, not for implementing a web app.
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by dminor 16y ago
I'm starting to think there's some sort of conspiracy to keep jacquesm from leaving through daily submissions from his blog.
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by dminor 16y ago
> Also, the moment anything serious comes up, they can cleverly drop me Actually they can't any more, as the "no rescission" part of the health care law came into effect in September of 2010: http://www.healthcare.gov/law/timeline/inde
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by dminor 16y ago
Very first site I blocked. (Would have been eFreedom, but I haven't seen them in the results for awhile. Thanks Google!)
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by dminor 16y ago
What I really need is a stylish women's watch so my wife can know when her phone is buzzing in her purse!
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by dminor 16y ago
See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2207972
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by dminor 16y ago
I think what he's saying is if your CSRF protection is based on a nonce, this vulnerability doesn't break it.
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by dminor 16y ago
Google has likely indexed links to Bing found on other pages , rather than on Bing itself. That doesn't mean it followed the links (and it wouldn't, if excluded by robots.txt).
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by dminor 16y ago
Previous discussion of a more in-depth Wired article here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2166555
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by dminor 16y ago
Sure, but I'm hard pressed to think of a technique that the spammers wouldn't attempt to game. Search engines and spammers will probably always be in a perpetual arms race no matter what the methodology.
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by dminor 16y ago
This article is a good read on pricing: http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/37737/Secrets-Of-Freemi... Per-device pricing means your users need to make a pricing decision every time they add another device, which they may hate and try to
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by dminor 16y ago
> Why do you say that the author knows what he's doing? Jeremie Miller wrote a popular open source IM server and created a specification for the protocol which has been widely implemented in several different languages (Erlang, C, Pytho
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by dminor 16y ago
I believe this is a decentralized social media platform - "Diaspora" but by someone who knows what they are doing.
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by dminor 16y ago
Seems like Bing is having trouble explaining exactly what they are doing, and Google is having trouble explaining why they should stop. Is it illegal? If not, why should Bing stop doing it? > I think Bing’s engineers deserve to know tha
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by dminor 16y ago
What's the best way to get these to you (after this article has dropped off the front page)?
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by dminor 16y ago
We used Robin Hanson's logarithmic market scoring rule ( http://hanson.gmu.edu/mktscore.pdf ). The combinatorial aspect allowed us to try to answer questions about the correlation between different securities in the market - hopefully more
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by dminor 16y ago
Haha, amused to see this pop up on HN. I was the lead programmer on it. Nothing quite makes you feel quite so connected to the national legislative process as seeing your project roundly condemned on the floor of Congress ;)
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by dminor 16y ago
It's not overly difficult to adjust your mental model of what a good rating is, and read the reviews people leave to see what the common complaints are. It probably also depends on the area - my complex hovers around 70% and I didn't bother
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by dminor 16y ago
> Just doesn't work like that in renting. Maybe not, but with more information available online now your next potential tenant will be able to take that into account. (And don't think I didn't notice you dodged the ratings question). Pl
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by dminor 16y ago
My current apartment complex has a portal where one can pay via eCheck and it's pretty awesome. Do you have a "convenience fee" for paying by credit card? How well do you advertise it? > I think the last thing we would want is to make i
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by dminor 16y ago
They aren't moving to a curated model, just beefing up the team that enforces the Terms and Conditions. Probably overdue given the growth of the market.

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