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by frossie 16y ago
You know, I was all riled up at the title, because usually this crops up as "even my mum understand this" which is used to mean "even some computer illiterate dinosaur" can understand it. Which, you know, is stereotyping and fails to descri
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Why income distribution can't be crowd-sourced(slate.com)
3 points by frossie 16y ago|1 comments
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by frossie 16y ago
I never say "No". Really? I expect to hear No (clarification: I am a project manager/ geek herder). That's fine. I don't need my developers to be wasting time working out convincing arguments and workarounds to requests - I trust that
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by frossie 16y ago
I submitted the article - It's not behind a paywall. I even cleared all my cookies and I didn't even hit the registration wall...
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by frossie 16y ago
I got one, it's a popular add-on to last will packages from document mills like http://legalzoom.com Where I am, the local hospital asks for a living will before any kind of surgical procedure (as well admissions that could turn into one,
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by frossie 16y ago
The problem is that pot-stirring, half-wrong stories, and superficial snap judgments bring the eyeballs, inlinks, discussions, and ad revenue. Ars Technica has managed to hold the quality fort quite well, so it's not necessarily a doomed
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How Not to Fight Colds(nytimes.com)
29 points by frossie 16y ago|17 comments
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Laptop Risk: Toasted Skin Syndrome(webmd.com)
6 points by frossie 16y ago|0 comments
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by frossie 16y ago
Correct link: http://geoffreynuval.devhub.com/blog/526362-why-is-virgin-am...
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by frossie 16y ago
"He said, 'Well, I've just been named the finance minister. You know I don’t know economics, so please come to meet me in Brasilia tomorrow,' " Bacha recalls. So, three things had to happen: 1. A politician had to admit his ignorance 2. S
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by frossie 16y ago
I do not necessarily disagree completely, but I am a bit more optimistic about this. It is definitely possible (I've done it) to do agile projects even when all the team members are not self-motivated, provided there are at least one or two
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Living longer not in the genes (that we know about)(arstechnica.com)
3 points by frossie 16y ago|0 comments
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by frossie 16y ago
The thing that makes me a bit sad is that is that some people do try and be helpful and respond to Ask HNs that are languishing unresponded... and yet only have one point of karma on their comment. Which means that even the person who asked
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by frossie 16y ago
Already here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1746832
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by frossie 16y ago
The problem is that only a few decades ago, computer science was a fairly pure branch of mathematics - now you can argue whether mathematics is a science or not in general, but applied mathematics is nearly indistinguishable from physics in
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by frossie 16y ago
I want banksimple.com, or some other kind of 21st century bank that will let me do all this stuff natively from my primary banking....
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by frossie 16y ago
Look at some of the comments in this thread, there seems to be a reference to a platform like that: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1719653
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by frossie 16y ago
I know the dude himself says it wasn't the domain name that killed it, but I was a wesabe user and I too can tell you the founder's assessment was spot on - financial data import was too tricky with wesabe. And I tell you as someone who did
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by frossie 16y ago
I'm surprised this submission doesn't have more upvotes. Possibly because we went through it yesterday, as part of EFF's campaign: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1737715
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by frossie 16y ago
Why is it good that for several days his employee feels unable to talk to him about anything? Who does that benefit? Agreed, I am completely uncomfortable with that. Once you indicate to someone that you do not trust them, why should they
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Memory Holes, Self-Pitying Professors, and Stoic Chinese(theatlantic.com)
1 points by frossie 16y ago|0 comments
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by frossie 16y ago
one also gets a whiff of an ideological scent among hackers Well, that made me laugh. Yeah. Just a whiff :-)
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by frossie 16y ago
I'm sure it is. However that doesn't mean they don't owe their (apparently paying) users information. From what these folks are writing, nobody seems to have told them the service was going to be unsupported.
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by frossie 16y ago
I assume you have seen this: http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/17/buxfers-founders-both-work-... PS. You might get a better response if you retitle your post "Ask HN: is buxfer (YC07) dead?"
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by frossie 16y ago
Oh man. NYT exposure (for http://badnycapartments.com ) and their website can barely handle it and/or has no real content...
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by frossie 16y ago
You want to see something to make you cry? http://feedback.smugmug.com/forums/17723-smugmug/suggestions... I'll summarise... it starts off with happy European users wanting local-to-them photo printing. Because they are so happy! By the e
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Get Involved Developing LibreOffice(documentfoundation.org)
2 points by frossie 16y ago|0 comments
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Common antidepressants can send our moral compasses spinning(arstechnica.com)
1 points by frossie 16y ago|0 comments
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by frossie 16y ago
I think the expression you are looking for is "the proof is in the pudding".
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by frossie 16y ago
Its going to be damn awkward managing someone significantly older than myself. Only if you make it so. There is no reason why it has to be that way. I have often had this "problem" - unfortunately as I am getting older, less and less :-)

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