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by dotBen 15y ago
My familiarity with the terms is not from porn but from celebrities who, whoops, get caught flashing their panties inadvertently in public. So to my mind this was relatively innocent activity Famous female celebrity gets out of car, inadv
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MiniDisplay Port to HDMI Cables 'Unlicensed' and Cannot Be Sold(macrumors.com)
1 points by dotBen 15y ago|0 comments
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by dotBen 15y ago
In addition to the observations of this article, I can say from first hand experience the Dept Homeland Security jumps on the term "hacker" when they are reviewing your visa situation upon arriving (back) into the USA from a foreign visit.
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by dotBen 15y ago
From what I can see, this is just for AdSense based PPC. Is AdWords analysis in the pipeline? Also, can anyone tell me the attraction of AdSense (for the advertiser) over just using AdWords as I've never found the former to perform as well
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by dotBen 15y ago
Is Bugherd pronounced "buggered" (as in the British saying for something that is f*cked up?)
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by dotBen 15y ago
Weren't Google IO attendees supposed to be getting one of these on/before launch? I've heard nothing. Anyone else?
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by dotBen 15y ago
Don't forget with AWS offering GPU instances, this stuff is also becoming close to "cracking-as-a-service". While unethical (perhaps, to be debated) you could even create a startup in this arena just to do this.
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Tell HN: Amazon spammed the popular "Hacker News Contractors" spreadsheet
10 points by dotBen 15y ago|1 comments
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by dotBen 15y ago
I guess I'm like Fred Wilson who said "Why would anyone want to rent someone's couch" - I'm probably out of touch or just mildly privileged. But the idea of sleeping on some stranger's couch doesn't appeal at all (plus the unknowns like cle
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by dotBen 15y ago
Coupon codes. You see them around, although when I signed up I found a 'hack' that showed a list of the possible corporate coupon codes you could use and I iterated through to find the ones with the best terms (this was a few years ago) Y
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by dotBen 15y ago
Owners will charge what they are comfortable to cover all these prospective costs. It is a market. Too many unknowns to calculate a risk premium - a burned out clutch might cost me $1000 to replace. What about the time the car is out of
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by dotBen 15y ago
This is one of those ideas which wins hearts at a conference like TC but I don't get in terms of practicality. Aside from the issues already stated, let's consider: Keeping the key in the car (if you want to use their preferred auto-key-bo
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by dotBen 15y ago
The whole idea of the "eG8" is offensive both on the one hand to the concept of the real G8, and on the other hand to the accordance by which matters pertaining to the politics of the Internet should be debated. The G8 is a group of elected
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by dotBen 15y ago
I've not up or down voted you but it's pretty obvious to me why you are being down-voted: As you can see from the debate at the top of this page, it's disrupting the regulation of the cab industry which is about creating artificial scarcity
915.
by dotBen 15y ago
Indeed there's no addressable need here for cab companies to find passengers when there are not enough cabs to begin with.
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by dotBen 15y ago
Why would Heroku let you be an add-on provider in order to under-cut their pricing model? Makes no sense.
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by dotBen 15y ago
What happens when Heroku bans requests coming in from your IP address? I actually think it would be reasonable and justifiable for them to do it too, given that you are preventing a revenue aspect of their business model. Heroku's pricing h
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by dotBen 15y ago
As I said elsewhere, if they gave up the trademark, someone else would probably register it and do the same. Thus hate the game.
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by dotBen 15y ago
Unless someone else was threatening to trademark it instead. I have personal experience of someone having to trademark something simply because if they didn't the other party was going to and then they'd have no choice but to lose all right
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by dotBen 15y ago
Here's a sideways look at this: If you have a trademark you are legally required and compelled to go after anyone who is infringing on it. Otherwise it is deemed that you have let it lapse into the public domain. enter debate on tradema
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by dotBen 15y ago
I read your comment here. I read your entire post again. I read your comment for a second time. I'm sorry, I still have the same conclusion. If international students competing for places is a factor, it certainly isn't the major one. I wo
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by dotBen 15y ago
Whether CNN has "confirmed it" or just reported it, CNN Money is certainly an unusual source to break a startup story like this.
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by dotBen 15y ago
This blog post reads like a thinly veiled anti-immigration rant to me. The reason why most American kids won't be attending Ivy League schools (which the author focuses on) despite having the appropriate grades is because their parents don'
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by dotBen 15y ago
Video and computer games arguably look better on a glossy screen. A lot of people play games on their computers. Even in the mac world, I can see why Apple have gone glossy even though for the HN-type crowd matte makes more sense.
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by dotBen 15y ago
hi-res version is TOTALLY worth it, however. Best $150 I spent, seriously, was the matte+hires screen
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by dotBen 15y ago
This year all teams are supposed to have it. Williams, who experimented with a fly-wheel design two years ago, switched to electrical system this year - which means all teams that use KERS now have battery-orientated systems.
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by dotBen 15y ago
I was going to say the exact same thing. This is nothing like NASCAR, or even rival open-wheel racing like Indie Car. The amount of cloud computing the teams use is staggering too - during race weekends they'll compute the model of changin
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by dotBen 15y ago
You've missed my point - re-read my comment.
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by dotBen 15y ago
I agree this happens - a lot. But if it's a matter of supply/demand and engineers being worth "$0.5m - $1m" then why are we not seeing salaries for developers a lot higher? It would be a lot cheaper for Facebook to offer good developers $5
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by dotBen 15y ago
This whole policy assumes that attacks would only occur at a national level - ie government initiated/sponsored attack towards US assets. Aside from the issue of it being hard it is to be able to successfully geographically locate the sourc

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