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by dschobel 17y ago
Not much by way of technical content. Although when the original charge is that the protocol is "fundamentally flawed", I don't know how you can respond specifically beyond saying "it works and people are using it" (which it seems to and wh
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by dschobel 17y ago
I think OP's generalization that most average technology users don't care one iota about the openness of their tech so long as it 'works' is dead on. Have you honestly had a different experience with non-expert users?
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by dschobel 17y ago
found it: How I Ran An Ad on Fox News via Google TV Ads http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1206394 $1300 got them seven airings on Glen Beck reruns.
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by dschobel 17y ago
Interesting, the article mentions that ads from smaller companies have been running in place of the boycotting corps, didn't a HNer get his Google TV ad run on Beck's show a week or so ago?
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by dschobel 17y ago
I'll repost my suggestion from the last "great reads" thread on HN. ---------------------------------------- The Bet by Anton Chekhov You can read it here: http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/Bet.shtml It shouldn't take mor
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by dschobel 17y ago
Reminds me of the program planned by the great Rod Blagojevich here in Illinois (and made famous in Freakonomics ) to send one book each month to the homes of low-income families based on a prior study which found that there was a very hig
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by dschobel 17y ago
The article addresses the market share argument: And that's not just because [Chrome] has small market share (5.6% according to Net Applications) Apple's Safari's market share is actually smaller, around 4.5%, and yet has fallen every year
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by dschobel 17y ago
I think governments only move in one direction though. (Has the American government ever shrunk year over year?)
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by dschobel 17y ago
Whether it is polite to bother them (it's not) is orthogonal to the fact that such a roster of seminal academics and hackers is located in one place.
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by dschobel 17y ago
If you're a CS buff, visiting google is a trip to the holy land. It is borderline obscene the legendary names they have working there who you'll see just wandering the halls. Seriously, it's like nothing I've ever seen before. Think of the
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by dschobel 17y ago
I believe finding a googler to show him around is the precise purpose of this post.
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by dschobel 17y ago
Ah yes, Ryanair, beloved by economists and libertarians all around for charging for every damn service and for seriously contemplating charging its clients for in-flight bathroom use. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/4861505/Ry
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by dschobel 17y ago
I had totally missed Con's return from self-imposed exile. Very exciting. I loved his previous scheduler work. Glad to see him back at it.
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by dschobel 17y ago
+1 for Pro Git. It has beautifully visualized examples which elucidate git like no other guide I've read.
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by dschobel 17y ago
Trading has nothing to do with it. The most notoriously stressful positions in finance are that of analyst and ibanker, neither of which entail any trading.
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by dschobel 17y ago
Sure, he'd only have to trade 80 hours/week on wallstreet to get it. This case is exceptional because the $1M is no-strings attached.
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by dschobel 17y ago
Said to be the world's cleverest man, Dr Grigory Perelman, 44, lives as a recluse... Leave it to the daily mail to add an extra layer of hyperbolic bullshit. As if it weren't a fascinating story already, he now has to be "the world's clev
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by dschobel 17y ago
Set back his work? From every public account available the man has completely given up mathematics.
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by dschobel 17y ago
Not an expose but maybe some information beyond "they have sensible security". Unless you have some reason to care about tbray personally, the post is basically useless.
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by dschobel 17y ago
So would this compete against the likes of notifo (the YC company)?
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by dschobel 17y ago
I don't know if it even needs to be said but if you don't have any luck finding a free couch/floor, check http://www.airbnb.com/ Plenty of couches on there for $20/night in SF
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by dschobel 17y ago
That caught my eye as well, my interpretation was that it was intentional as Perelman has retired from mathematics and is no longer a professional mathematician. I can't imagine any other reason for the odd phrasing and this being the NYT I
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by dschobel 17y ago
Anecdotally, the company for which I work (big financial research company, fortune 500) really likes people with 2-4 years of professional experience and has been having a hard time finding them. Talking to our HR people, the majority of pr
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by dschobel 17y ago
It may be interesting to systems people who have never done front-end work so I wouldn't say it's not interesting to hackers by and large. I'm sure all the Haskell guys want to gripe about the weekly "monads explained by pictogram" posts.
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by dschobel 17y ago
Design Goals: ~10^6 to 10^7 machines, ~10^13 directories, ~10^18 bytes of storage (that's 888 petabytes), spread at 100s to 100s of location around the world, ~10^9 client machines. Simply staggering. I guess now we also have a formal def
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by dschobel 17y ago
And it even builds on cygwin out of the box. All c + minimal dependency, is it the next big fad? (I sure hope so).
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by dschobel 17y ago
If you can convince a jury that you lost business because of someone else's action, then you can get damages. Welcome to civil court.
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by dschobel 17y ago
The subtle but essential difference is what the Viacom marketing team was perpetrating just a small subset of the claimed infringement. To reiterate, I don't think the original claim has any merit, but I'm wondering whether this parallel ac
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by dschobel 17y ago
At a company the size of Viacom it's not hard to imagine that one hand (marketing) was not talking to the other (legal). If it were the legal people uploading content to plant evidence, that's another matter, but I don't think have one depa
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by dschobel 17y ago
dupe of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1200074

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