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by gnosis 14y ago
Most people want to do business with successful companies, because they're under the impression that a successful company is a competent company and can deliver on whatever it is they're promising. Successful companies also usually tend to
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by gnosis 14y ago
Just out of curiosity, what's to stop companies about lying about numbers like these? Obviously, it's very much in their interest to make themselves appear bigger and more successful than they are. After all, who would know? And, if they
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by gnosis 14y ago
"Zapier... has grown to process 100 million API requests per month" How many unique user views is that per month? How many sales? How many customers? For all we know, they could just have an incredibly inefficient system which makes 100
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Why Scheme for Introductory Programming?(home.adelphi.edu)
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by gnosis 14y ago
"Most Vim users start and stop many sessions per day -- considering the editor sessions to be subservient to the longer-running parent command shell" That's not how I use vim. I keep a single gvim session open at all times, and do 99% of
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Why I'm sticking with Vim(schwabcenter.com)
1 points by gnosis 14y ago|1 comments
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by gnosis 14y ago
The only thing that ultimately matters to me as far as recommendators (whether human or algorithmic) are concerned is whether their recommendations turn out to be valuable to me in some way. That's how you build trust: by making good recomm
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by gnosis 14y ago
"Well he can put an Adsense ad on his blog and we'll do exactly that, whether we read/enjoy it or not. That's how most journalism works and has worked." So, in other words you don't want to pay for it. You want someone else to pay for i
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by gnosis 14y ago
I wonder how many relatively wealthy HN users who are outraged about this are going to rush out and pay money to Nate Thayer for this very article. Boycotting The Atlantic is easy (and free). Paying journalists for quality content isn't.
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by gnosis 14y ago
From HN's Guidelines[1]: "Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users wi
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My Experience With Meditating(jhana8.com)
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Why vim(wincent.com)
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by gnosis 14y ago
Tagging has been requested here multiple times, is controversial, and has never been implemented. I, for one, am very much in favor of it. I'd love to be able to filter out topics I don't find interesting. It would also effectively addres
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by gnosis 14y ago
"Is alcohol a dangerous toxin foreign to our bodies? Quite to the contrary. Every living human body continuously produces ethanol (beverage alcohol) 24/7. It's called endogenous ethanol production. Human life does not exist without the pre
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by gnosis 14y ago
Very nice. But, as is common with laws, the devil's in the details. First, you say, "Every able-bodied male at least 17 years of age and less than 45 years of age who is not a member of the regular military is a member of the militia per
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by gnosis 14y ago
Very glad to hear that improvements to HN are still being made. I stand corrected.
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by gnosis 14y ago
To my knowledge, HN hasn't added any new features in years. I think the people who run this site are pretty happy with it the way it is and don't want to change it, despite many suggestions for improvements. So I wouldn't hold my breath w
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by gnosis 14y ago
From HN's Guidelines[1]: "Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users wi
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by gnosis 14y ago
"In contrast, I am energized by going into the office and working side by side with my peers to solve hard problems." Let me know if you still feel that way in 20 years.
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by gnosis 14y ago
"I get the impression that the "inequity" people think we should prefer the 1970s, because at least then, even though we were all sicker, no one was 10,000x healthier." Except that in order to become healthier, you don't have to take some
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by gnosis 14y ago
Thanks. Corrected.
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by gnosis 14y ago
Another version of that joke: A mathematician, a scientist, and a dean were kidnapped. When their university refused to pay the ransom, the kipnappers announced that they would kill them all, but only after each got his last wish. The mathe
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by gnosis 14y ago
The following anecdote about Steve Jobs is from [1]: I was sitting in Steve's office when Lynn Takahashi, Steve's assistant, announced Knuth's arrival. Steve bounced out of his chair, bounded over to the door and extended a welcomin
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by gnosis 14y ago
Did you hear about the computer programmer who died in the shower? He was just following the instructions on the shampoo bottle: 'Lather, rinse, repeat.'
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by gnosis 14y ago
How do you tell an extraverted programmer from an introverted one? An extraverted programmer stares at your shoes when talking to you.
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by gnosis 14y ago
A joke of the first order was told to a Scotchman, who was unable to see it. The person (X) who told this joke told the story of how the joke was received to another Scotchman, thereby making a joke about a joke of the first order, and thus
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by gnosis 14y ago
recursive: (λ damn. damn (damn)) (λ damn. damn (damn))
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Hackers breach Evernote security(bbc.co.uk)
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Four Books on Debugging(blog.regehr.org)
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by gnosis 14y ago
As usual, the art business (like all business) primarily benefits the businessmen. Most of the people profiting from the "art market boom" are collectors and other businessmen who buy art from unknown artists at rock bottom prices and resel

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