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by dstein 16y ago
Facebook lawsuit coming in 3.. 2.. 1...
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by dstein 16y ago
Yeah I know what you mean. I'm not terribly experienced with screencasts, and I did this one mainly for practice before a live presentation. I posted it for people who weren't in attendance, but thought perhaps others might be interested.
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by dstein 16y ago
I'll probably get downvoted (again) for tooting my own horn, but I am developing a JavaScript framework to definitively solve the JavaScript templating problem. http://www.jaxscript.com Here's a screencast version of a presentation I did
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by dstein 16y ago
A lot of people here seem to be calling foul. But whenever I read a list of startups that YCombinator has funded the formula in every case is: Clone of (X) Targeted For Audience (Y) The article is correct about a lot of things. Angel inve
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by dstein 16y ago
What you are describing is the combination of a fifth generation programming language, a universal semantic/ontology data layer, and an intelligent search engine with insight into the information you want, where it is, and how you want it c
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by dstein 16y ago
"Given the amount of hardware on this new chip, it's complete overkill for a smartphone. " No it's not! I can't wait to have a killer smartphone with HD graphics on a high-resolution 5" screen. That would really rock. Smartphones this po
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by dstein 16y ago
You wanna know the exact reason that Perl is dead? It all boils down to PHP had informative and pretty inline debug statements when doing web programming, and Perl did not. So Perl lost, and now everyone codes in PHP.
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by dstein 16y ago
I imagine somewhere between 100 and 6000 million dollars the value of money becomes such an abstract concept that it really doesn't matter at all.
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by dstein 16y ago
Ya it's a pretty dick move, especially given your immigration situation. I'd out em... politely.
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by dstein 16y ago
A more interesting way to ask this question to the HN crowd might be: "Is our universe a computer simulation inside another universe?"
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Screencast: Introduction to JaxScript, a new JavaScript library(vimeo.com)
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Well, for that matter HN has a fixed minimum width defined which makes it unable to display properly on an iPad (ie. without scrolling back and forth to read comments).
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by dstein 16y ago
Google Android is just begging to get forked, and splintered. Manufacturers like Motorola and Samsung might have to bend to Google's will, but I doubt carriers will sit tightly while Google's fangs sink deeper into their industry.
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by dstein 16y ago
Microsoft absolutely needs to completely drop the whole "do it our way, or hit the highway" attitude. It may have worked to build MS into the giant it is, but it will absolutely be their eventual undoing. It is because of this attitude th
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by dstein 16y ago
I have found that communicating with people in extremely precise ways improves the speed at which they can comprehend and respond properly. Here's an example: Problem: When you visit McDonald's they won't supply you with any ketchup unless
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by dstein 16y ago
Cool, no I didn't know about these. But I'm on MacOSX and use Parallels. I'm not sure if Parallels supports these types of images.
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by dstein 16y ago
I'm still trying to decide how I want to install it. Being able to test all versions of IE on a single machine is getting impossible. I have a Windows 7 virtual machine for testing IE8, a Vista vm for IE7, and an Windows XP for testing IE6
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by dstein 16y ago
Sigh, looks like I'll be installing another virtual Windows machine specifically to test another version of a web browser that doesn't run on my operating system.
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by dstein 16y ago
Yes credit cards are more prevalent in the US, but they have a 3% overhead, retailers eat the cost. With value points and clubs you can recover 1-2% of those fees. I think a fee-free anonymous electronic cash system like Suica would be a
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by dstein 16y ago
People always use this as an example, but I don't think it's true. Next time you're in line at a retail store, or even a coffee shop, pay attention to how many people use cash. It's probably down to 50% or less these days, people already
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by dstein 16y ago
Why go to the effort of eliminating small coins? Why not just go ahead and switch to an electronic currency? Or at least an electronic replacement for coins and bills like they do in Japan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suica
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by dstein 16y ago
>This would make it even less consistent, wouldn't it? Microsoft Word does not have a back button. What operation should a back button perform in Google Docs? >"Back" and "Up" are virtually indistinguishable for an average user. So
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by dstein 16y ago
Step 1) copy & paste a JQuery snippet that you don't understand Step 2) call yourself a ninja
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The problem with the back button is it should not be the sole way to navigate. It really needs to be split into 2 buttons: "Back" and "Parent" (or "Up"). People use the back button for both purposes. And when you involve Iframes and Ajax-
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I would just eliminate the URL bar and the back button entirely. These concepts are relics from the Internet 1.0 age and no longer have the correct meaning. Some sort of bookmark/search/wiki replacement navigation system needs to be devel
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by dstein 16y ago
I think Diaspora and others will fail because it is tackling the problem from the wrong angle. I don't think people really want to micromanage things like that. Think about it. Every time you post a tweet, picture, blog post etc, do you w
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by dstein 16y ago
Facebook's "Open Graph" is in reality a "closed" Semantic Web implementation. It is named so to precisely obscure this fact. Logically, Facebook's downfall will be an open Semantic Web.
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I think Google is past the point where it can attract talent on reputation alone. They're already public AND their stock has probably peaked which makes stock options worthless. I imagine Google, like other companies, are having trouble a
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Ask HN: Why aren't you applying to Y Combinator?
38 points by dstein 16y ago|50 comments
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Common stock only grants you a claim on the equity of a company. As a shareholder you usually get to vote who becomes a member of the board of directors and that's about it. To gain decision control of a public company the OP will need to

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