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by donall 12y ago
This has great potential. I plugged in some random numbers and the basic offering seemed to cost around $100, though, which is still significantly more than the cost of a cheap poster. Can you talk a little about the price breakdown here? O
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by donall 12y ago
This was hard to read. I couldn't get the first paragraph to parse right. "the lone hacker building a billion website overnight in his dorm and here about the excitement of building a new product" reads like maybe "dolla
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by donall 12y ago
Makes sense. I didn't realize you had multiple sources, but I'm glad you do!
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by donall 12y ago
But whispering is a deliberate attempt to conceal what you're saying. Speaking to somebody in another language is usually not an attempt at concealment, it's just about people communicating in the way they are most comfortable. I
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by donall 12y ago
I have experienced a group of people laughing and suspected they were laughing at me, but usually when there was some reason for it, like having a bad haircut! I don't assume groups of people laugh at/about me unprovoked. I hope I
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by donall 12y ago
I'm curious about the algorithm. Is there a ceiling for book prices? I seemed to get very similar results for multiple different types of books, including being offered $3.21 for one that sells for $100: http://www.amazon.com
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by donall 12y ago
I don't mean to nitpick, but I have to take exception to the line "don’t talk loudly on their cell phones about you in a foreign language". Obviously talking loudly on a cell phone is an undesirable trait for a driver. No que
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by donall 12y ago
I'm not convinced that it's a choice between innovation in connectivity and innovation in startups. I think, in particular, the connectivity innovation is unlikely to happen. The current monopolies offer _terrible_ connectivity (a
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by donall 12y ago
I think the theory is that the middle lane is only used for overtaking slower-moving cars. Perhaps the Swedes, like the Germans, practice good lane discipline and stick to the right until they need to overtake. I think this 2+1 wouldn&#x2
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by donall 13y ago
Los Angeles, San Francisco, Shanghai Factual is currently hiring engineers and data lovers of all levels in the SF Bay Area, Los Angeles, and Shanghai. Factual’s location platform enriches mobile location signals with definitive global data
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by donall 13y ago
I feel like pre commit is better than pre receive.
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by donall 13y ago
This article ignores the fact that one region in Spain (the Canary Islands) operates on the "correct" time zone. I have lived both in the Canaries and in mainland Spain and I can tell you that there is no appreciable difference in
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by donall 14y ago
You're right in saying that the anti-abortion movement in Ireland correlates with catholicism, but I think the more staunchly catholic groups are fairly right-wing (not in an extreme, goose-stepping fascist sort of way, necessarily, but mor
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by donall 14y ago
The parent observation is really on the money. Hyperlocal recommendations are very interesting, but _paid_ recommendations are a potential gold mine that I think people are only now starting to catch on to. What I find particularly interest
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by donall 14y ago
Without getting into details, there was some significant mismanagement of my user account, resulting in incorrect tax being withheld until I noticed the problem and notified them about it. After an unreasonable amount of time spent resolvin
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by donall 14y ago
I have had a series of bad experiences with Trinet. Not so bad that it's ruined my life, but bad like "I can't believe this is the best we can do for HR". I like the idea of outsourcing that sort of thing so we can focus on the hacking, but
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by donall 14y ago
The picture example in the article is of an Irish terrorist group. Interestingly, supporters of this group are quite likely to flag official UK government, police and armed forces groups as terrorist web sites. Then again, an even greater n
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by donall 14y ago
I think this is probably true. Empirically speaking, a lot of the guys who graduated with their B.Sc. in computer science with me saw their career paths as joining a big consulting company, working on the front lines for a couple of years a
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by donall 14y ago
I hate it* and don't use it with any sort of regularity, but I have an account. Sometimes people tag me in photos and I check them out. Maybe once per month. Also, some people sometimes invite me to events through it. I wish people would us
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by donall 14y ago
Shouldn't there be a vanilla "I hate it" option? Why must the Facebook-haters of the world have the opinion that it is a necessary evil foisted upon them? :)
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by donall 14y ago
If the article had suggested roulette or even blackjack, _that_ would be delusional. The house always wins. Poker, however, is not especially delusional. It is unlike other casino games in that you're not playing against the house, so the o
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by donall 14y ago
This is certainly interesting stuff. Can you recommend an article that deconstructs their motivations and/or comments on whether or not what they're doing is actually legal?
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by donall 14y ago
Security by obscurity is NOT security. If this kind of transparency results in an increased number of successful attacks, then they will be forced to implement more adequate security. This is a Good Thing.
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by donall 14y ago
Java is a useful language if you want to use things like Hadoop.
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by donall 14y ago
I thought the context was abundantly clear from the parent, although adding the title undeniably provided enough information to allow me to skim over the link altogether!
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by donall 14y ago
The obvious answer seems to be that the cost of production needs to come down. I wonder how cheaply today's shows could be made if they didn't have the bureaucracy and bloat of the major content publishers behind them?
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by donall 14y ago
This is an interesting comment. I take it for granted that the majority of readers are pretty comfortable doing that kind of thing. Is there any way of telling what the real distribution is?
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by donall 14y ago
I don't mean to nit-pick, but although I found the content to be very interesting, I also found it difficult to follow because it feels like the author's grasp of English isn't quite where it needs to be (although it's very close). In parti
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by donall 14y ago
There's a lot of back-and-forth in this discussion already and I feel like some people aren't understanding that it's not about _never_ commenting the code; it's about only commenting when it is absolutely necessary (which is actually quite
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by donall 14y ago
Anger is not the only use case for the word "fuck", nor is expressing an emotional state. Really, there's a fuckload of other fucking examples; enough to make one tired as fuck just fucking thinking about them, so I won't enumerate them her

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