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by earl 15y ago
From experience (see the NRA in particular), a largish single issue voting block that is willing to support either party can be enormously effective at advancing their issue.
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This isn't some highschool debate wankery. The arrington/jwz/arrington exchange is exactly as jwz characterized it: Arrington plus vcs in general selling a story to engineers that is pretty damn unlikely (a lottery, in fact) in order to en
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There is a useful response: give $50 to your congressman's opponent, attach a receipt, and vote democrat in the next election. Remember, the only people in the us who matter are voters (especially primary voters), donors, and campaign volu
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Thanks. I found estimates of 3.4MM android tablets as of mid October [1]. Pretty dismal figures or Google would be trumpeting them. Still, I think most of my point holds -- if Amazon sells 5MM kindles they won't just have a good slice, t
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Amazon AppStore is, I believe, the biggest android tablet app store. And growing. If you believe numbers that come from Gruber (and his math seems reasonable), as of July there were roughly 1.2MM android tablets [1]. Kindle Fire has sold
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What their recruiters said on linkedin when they contacted me. I didn't respond, but I read this article and thought I'd heard the name somewhere... [snip; about recruiter] We sell software to tier 1 mobile network operators. Our
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I now feel really really bad for fuck@off.com. I owe someone an apology...
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Rand appears to be, or at least to have become, a domain expert in SEO. I think devs, at least those not working on the latest social mobile local photo coupon sharing, tend to be respectful of domain experts. I think non-technical people
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protip: pick keywords for the tech stack you want to work in, whether {.net, java, ios/android, web:{rails,django,node,js,html5}}. Hook up if this then that ( http://ifttt.com ) to your google talk account. Every 15 minutes it will poll
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I skimmed this, but then I saw Madison, WI jump out. Here's a warning: I'd bet $100 the company was Epic Systems. They're a godawful employer [1]. Please please please think multiple times and talk to previous employees before accepting
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They have tried just that: FBI Director Louis Freeh is the most outspoken advocate of encryption restrictions. He argues that the capability to conduct court-authorized electronic surveillance should be built into any technology,
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Yelp seems like another business that would have worked much better for the users as a nonprofit ala craigslist (I know craigslist isn't a nonprofit but it's more or less run as one.) See the sporadic bursts of drama about businesses being
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No, I think the gp is referencing the fact that 75 (seriously, 75!!!) percent of yelps traffic comes in from google [1]. You have to view that as basically a failure of the company and the brand. Instead of going to yelp for a review, peo
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"The problem in his view is that many of the talented engineers and product designers who are now starting their own companies could have a bigger impact at places like Facebook, and they in turn will have a hard time attracting
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if in terminal options you select "use option as meta key" [1], then option-b and option-f move forward / backward on words as normal in bash. You can also remap caps-local to control. [1] http://earlh.com/dump/hn/terminal_settings_meta_k
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Huh, thanks, I had no idea such large discounts were available for lenovo hardware. I used to pay attention to fatwallet but I removed all that stuff from my life because I felt like I was buying a ton of crap I didn't really want or need,
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I'm not hating on your preferences, but mac laptops are competitively priced. There's no way you got equivalent hardware for $1k less. also, cmd-G lets you type a path in finder. That is, btw, on the first result page if you google "finde
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One of Divvy's coolest features is you can build preset window positions and attach them to keyboard chords. So for me, cmd-shift-space brings up divvy then hitting 1 makes the app fill the window, 2 is upper left 2/3 of the screen, 3 is u
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Quantcast's traffic / reach and demographics measurement are free for anyone. I am aware of nobody that pays us for website traffic measurement or website demographics measurement, and I work on the demographics at qc. I think comscore ch
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your analogy is flawed. Employees got these options in exchange for something -- less salary, or risk. Your hypothetical didn't give up anything for that salary -- it's not like the employee turned down $1.1M for $1.0M. I refer you to the
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Employees got these options when they were worth virtually nothing as compensation. Now they're worth something, Pinkus wants to change his mind. This is equivalent to employees taking options for a company that had failed then three years
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These employees were given options for some combination of performance and risk / opportunity cost from taking an early job in an unproven startup. For Pinkus to renegotiate with only the former in mind while ignoring the latter is bs. Th
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There's a quantcast alumnus building a mobile analytics company there -- http://www.sewichi.com . It looks fascinating, and if any of you are looking for a cool young startup, it's probably worth a look. The founder, David, is a stand u
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Mark Pincus, the scum king of lead gen [1:5], is behaving in an unethical manner? I'm shocked. Shocked! Is it rude to think these employees laid down with dogs and are bitching about fleas? [1] http://techcrunch.com/2009/10/31/scamville-
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They seem to have used something called Flexbook from the ck-12 foundation [1] mentioned in the article; here's some tutorial videos [2]. Here's a link to their text [3]. I'm actually not a big fan of the text. I skimmed it a bit and I do
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Obviously the ease of programming any given task in MR corresponds, to invent a word, with how cross-talky the task is. If it is no-communication parallelizable, then it's very easy to do. The more communication or the more data striping y
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The quote from Adria Richards is breathtaking [1]: "The guy he had on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt NYC, he’s known for several years…and he basically called him a clown. Clarence Wooten sold his company, ImageCafe, for $23 million to Network
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Dear jackass, You're a misogynist and a liar. You not only linked to that blog out of the billions of blogs in the world, but you also linked to it with approval that you later edited out of your post (something along the lines of this
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I hesitated to post this, but I'd like to think of HN as a community, so... I had a bad interaction w/ tellapart; Mark (founder) and Amy (head of hr or something like that) are somewhere between flakes and liars. I personally don't work wi
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You're a misogynist. From your link, you oppose female contraception, no fault divorce, and female economic freedom. To pick but one point from your pseudo history: "There was never any organized male opposition to women entering the workf

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