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by gabrielroth 16y ago
Scores high on chutzpah, obviously, but it lacks the element of self-interest that I think was part of what Sam Altman was going for.
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by gabrielroth 16y ago
I agree that the Facebook idea is implausible. I think dividends are unlikely too. There's no reason anyone at the company would be worrying about the stock price right now, so the question is whether Steve Jobs thinks he might be able to f
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Large study shows females are equal to males in math skills(news.wisc.edu)
29 points by gabrielroth 16y ago|39 comments
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by gabrielroth 16y ago
The speculation should be pretty easy to avoid, if that's what you want to do.
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by gabrielroth 16y ago
Whatever you do, don't take sex advice from them. A female friend of mine was hanging out with a bunch of guys who had a lot of Maxims in their bathroom. She wound up reading an article along the lines of "Seven Ways to Drive Her Wild in Be
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by gabrielroth 16y ago
I don't know enough about the specifics of the case to assess the new policy on the merits, but I will say that as a piece of writing this is a model of how to change policy gracefully: clear, forthright, and non-defensive.
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by gabrielroth 16y ago
We can't know what was in the guy's head, but it doesn't make sense to me that you'd feel like shit. You suggested he change the copy a little. Someone else asked if he'd consulted a lawyer. Someone else pointed him to the Wikipedia page fo
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by gabrielroth 16y ago
Gotham has been used so much in the past couple years that I'd be very wary of using it for anything. In ten years it'll immediately scream '2009'.
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by gabrielroth 16y ago
Why 'COLOURlovers' with a 'u' in the British or Canadian style, rather than 'COLORlovers'? They've got the colorlovers.com URL ...
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by gabrielroth 16y ago
Am I the only one who was struck by the unqualified use, in a general-audience publication, of 'hacker' to mean 'programmer' rather than 'one who breaks into other people's computers over a network'?
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by gabrielroth 16y ago
>In fact, it gives me a startup idea: the OPPOSITE of Groupon. People pay extra for a limited number of guaranteed spots at exclusive establishments. If exclusive restaurants wanted to do this, they could easily do it themselves. (The f
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by gabrielroth 16y ago
I think the poster above is suggesting that the new things, though extant, are not sufficiently many/various/innovative/useful/delightful to constitute satisfying progress.
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Does the money have to come from somewhere?(yglesias.thinkprogress.org)
9 points by gabrielroth 16y ago|0 comments
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by gabrielroth 16y ago
Obviously, it's a bribe because it's pocketed by the employee rather than passed up to the employer.
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by gabrielroth 16y ago
The title should say: "Reminder: Kindly (re)read and follow the HN guidelines." Describing one's own reminder as "kind" is presumptuous.
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by gabrielroth 16y ago
I've dealt with RSI too, so I have a few years experience trying to minimize mouse use. Other people have talked about the main keyboard shortcuts -- Command-Tab, Command-Tilde, and Control-F2. Make these second nature. Also, of course, lea
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by gabrielroth 16y ago
It should be "If I had known just one thing." http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/grammar_subjunctive.html Too bad to see so much attention paid to design and so little to grammar ...
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by gabrielroth 16y ago
OmniGraffle is also a great tool for wireframing and simple web graphics. Every time I complete a task without opening Photoshop, I want to give OmniGraffle a high five.
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by gabrielroth 16y ago
He got less than a quarter of that from MacArthur ( http://tech.mit.edu/V110/N30/rms.30n.html ) and not quite a million from Takeda either ( http://tech.mit.edu/V121/N59/59stallman.59n.html ).
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by gabrielroth 16y ago
I don't think CSS and images were a sticking point. If my recollection holds, when Matt asked the Software Freedom Law Center for an opinion on Thesis, they said that the PHP would have to be GPL'd and the other elements wouldn't have to be
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by gabrielroth 16y ago
Recursion!
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by gabrielroth 16y ago
The closest record of his current predictions would presumably be the YC roster.
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by gabrielroth 16y ago
By two decades these guys anticipated mashups and the Rickroll. No. The people who bought the single in 1987 were responding to the song very differently from the people who turned it into an internet meme 20 years later. The passage you
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Useful WordPress Security Tweaks(smashingmagazine.com)
1 points by gabrielroth 16y ago|0 comments
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by gabrielroth 16y ago
Some of them ('Crèches,' for example) are from French, but perhaps you're thinking of others (e.g. 'nascent') that come to both English and French from Latin.
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by gabrielroth 16y ago
Remember: the book's users are by definition your users. Your goal is to make them happy. Here's someone else offering to provide them a valuable support resource. This is good news. Offer to review a draft before publication. You'll catch
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What if political journalism was written by political scientists?(slate.com)
4 points by gabrielroth 16y ago|0 comments
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by gabrielroth 16y ago
The concept of the 'uncanny valley' may be relevant here. (For those unfamiliar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley ) Here's my unexamined hypothesis: Objects in programming are unintuitive because they aspire to resemble real-wor
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by gabrielroth 16y ago
Like all prominent bloggers, Gruber could use some insightful criticism. Too bad this post doesn't offer any. A thousand words that add up to "I can't really put my finger on it or name any specifics, but Daring Fireball seems more uncritic
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by gabrielroth 16y ago
Seems more likely that any discounts would go the other way. Facebook provides Zynga with a massive installed and networked user base. What does Zynga offer Facebook that couldn't be replaced? If I were Zynga, my biggest fear would be that

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