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by emmett 17y ago
No, the reasons explained are perfectly valid. Another way to think about it is: you are risking losing the more expensive tie (50%) and your potential gain is a more expensive tie (50%). Those are obviously of equal and opposite value.
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by emmett 17y ago
Teams of lawyers for every major copyright holder already have a tool that lets them take down any pirated content that they want. What makes you believe giving that same tool to a $6/hour intern would somehow magically fix the problem? The
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by emmett 17y ago
Wikipedia. The best compendium of knowledge in the history of mankind. Google. From a lab project to revolutionize finding information. Youtube. It's now possible to share video with everyone around the world lacking information. iPhone. Re
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by emmett 17y ago
I hate video, and don't mind slides. I prefer the submitted form.
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by emmett 17y ago
Your code does not accomplish the required task. The goal is to return nil when there is no match, or the nth match if there is. >>> re.search('a(x)a', 'axa').group(1) 'x' >>> re.search('a(x)a', 'aya').group(
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by emmett 17y ago
The short answer is just a google search away: http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2009/08/12/justintv-steps-... The long answer: Like any site with UGC, we have to deal with the issue of copyrighted content. We deal with it by going above
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by emmett 17y ago
One of the few startups where my first question when I met them was "when can I buy it"? I hope it's effective as I've heard. Pre-ordered.
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by emmett 17y ago
The real problem is exactly what you say: decreasing monthly expenditures on music. Increasing usage will depress per-song revenue but per-song revenue is irrelevant; what matters is absolute revenue. Artists don't (or shouldn't) care about
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by emmett 17y ago
No, at some companies people really do have the QA department ensure "code quality". After all, it's Quality Assurance, so they must know about code Quality!
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by emmett 17y ago
The hardest part is: if Hibernate came with a license that was not completely open and free, would it ever have been adopted as the standard? Probably not. So you can't really charge developers directly. What if companies that make money
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by emmett 17y ago
Try submitting YouTube comments to the demo. This is shockingly accurate.
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by emmett 17y ago
Justin.tv has about 15 engineers (counting designers who work on product as "engineers") and we have 30 million unique users, so our ratio is almost 2 million to 1. This is definitely possible.
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by emmett 17y ago
Grew up in the same neighborhood and went to elementary school and college together.
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by emmett 17y ago
Which web software startups would you label as technologically disruptive (outside of YC)?
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by emmett 17y ago
Just include screenshots of a few sample sheets as images; there's no need for a screencast.
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by emmett 17y ago
A common quote from balzac, inaccurate though. The real version is: “The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been discovered, because it was properly executed.” http://www.thevalve.org
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by emmett 17y ago
Text files are just a wire protocol. It would be nice to have a standard (similar to http) for what you send over the wire in general. Great post by the way, very thought provoking.
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by emmett 17y ago
Easy. One of the arguments to the create_email call would be a phone number or IM or existing email. The captcha would be mms'ed/im'ed/emailed (along with an explanation of what it's for), and the account would be created when the person re
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by emmett 17y ago
Right, definitely not, but this is leaving aside all the other kinds of data you might want to save, and there's a lot of that too. I'm just pointing out that the quantity of hours we're talking about is not nearly as absurd as you'd thin
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by emmett 17y ago
From 2005 to 2007 to 2009, the largest available hard drive grew from 500 GB to 1 TB to 2 TB. This is the normal historical trend for hard drives[1]. Projecting that trend out a mere 10 years in the future, we anticipate 64 TB drives to be
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by emmett 17y ago
Which is only about 1 billion years of video. Presuming they wanted to video every person in the United States (let alone abroad) you'd fill up that many hours in a little less than 4 years. Now, you do get a nice multiplier from compressio
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by emmett 17y ago
More generally, downvotes exist to provide negative feedback into the system. It's a useful and well understood engineering principle that negative feedback is a useful tool for molding the output of a system. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by emmett 17y ago
Dispute between two sovereign powers vs. a separatist movement. It's a pretty clear and important distinction. Also, I'm not exactly sure how it's any more "part of India" than it is "part of China". Says who?
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by emmett 17y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by this. There's a very real territorial dispute between China and India right now, which are both sovereign nations. The area within the dotted lines is under dispute, as to who it belongs to. It's not clear that
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by emmett 17y ago
You could say the same thing for many separatist movements around the world. Just within the PRC alone there are 6, 3 of which have who have claims that seem equal Tibet's: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_autonomist_and_s... G
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by emmett 17y ago
You need comment moderation :-(
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by emmett 17y ago
Probably because Tibet isn't a country. No one disputes that Tibet is currently part of China, just whether or not it should be.
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by emmett 17y ago
Most software is priced like a disposable commodity item on the iPhone because it is a commodity . You haven't developed your own distribution channel, and you haven't developed in any software 8 other people haven't already made, so your
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by emmett 17y ago
The last time this stupid analogy was used, I wrote this post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499929
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by emmett 17y ago
That's a perfectly legitimate argument for why a race-preference in dating should not be considered racism. I do not object to it now, nor have I ever. What I do object to is conflating sex and race when it comes to questions of sex. The

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