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by groaner 16y ago
The "American Dream" is not white picket fences, 2 and a half children and a dog. It can be, but that is not the only thing it is. While you are absolutely right, there's no denying that there is intense societal pressure against making a
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by groaner 16y ago
From the link: Please don't use this as HTML5 vs Flash firewood. I do it because it's fun. Not because it's HTML5. I hate Flash just as much as the rest of you, and I'm thoroughly impressed with these HTML5 demos, but I think it's prematu
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by groaner 16y ago
It's big in the sense that it exercised power in a way that dwarfs what we currently regard as modern corporate kleptocracy. The Company wasn't just a trading company, it was responsible for exercising political power in India on behalf of
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by groaner 16y ago
If this sort of thing catches your fancy, the Dictionary of Corporate Bullshit ( http://corporatebs.com/ ) is a fine collection of humorous definitions.
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by groaner 16y ago
Yep - logout is broken for me there. Just go to some other Google site (docs, gmail, maps) and logout from there.
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by groaner 16y ago
The one thing that makes this kind of service a no-go for me is the need for me to disclose my password to a third party. What would it take for the financial institution to allow read-only access using a separate set of credentials? All
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by groaner 16y ago
What the heck is NSFW about this?
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by groaner 17y ago
I think fewer people are aware of it these days when you can simply hit up google: http://www.google.com/search?q=.003+light+seconds+in+miles Though it seems they haven't gotten millilightseconds to work.
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by groaner 17y ago
Of course employers influence job hopping. The impression I get everywhere is that bad employers outnumber good ones by far (too much to be attributed to selection bias). The prevalence of job hoppers is probably more of an indictment of
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by groaner 17y ago
10 years ago people were still using Chime. Then Jmol arrived and instead of having to install a proprietary browser plugin, we could wait 30 seconds for the JVM to load. Now we just need some more 3D acceleration for Canvas and we can el
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by groaner 17y ago
Even having pg nuke you from HN isn't enough. Your comments get indexed and archived all over the place: searchyc, backtype, ubervu, ridddlr, etc. Here's a sampling of where I wound up: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Hacker+News%22+%2B
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by groaner 17y ago
Bonus points for when someone asks which computer you are using and you say, "I'm on Pussy." I worked at a place that gave female names to all the computers. It was a little awkward.
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by groaner 17y ago
Finally, a use for Google Sets: http://labs.google.com/sets
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by groaner 17y ago
With the exception of narrowly beating out Safari on cache speed, IE is last in every category. Heh.
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by groaner 17y ago
Nope. I saw this coming on day one and never joined. How else could you have expected Facebook to make money?
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by groaner 17y ago
In light of the recent article about life at BCG [1], I don't think you should have a hard time identifying big, dumb, complacent tech (ok, maybe not strictly tech) companies that happen to pay their staff well. But I don't see them being
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by groaner 17y ago
Somewhat OT, but I got weirded out by the story for a moment. It turns out that Scott McNeely != Scott McNealy ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McNealy -- who almost certainly does not have any money woes whatsoever)
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by groaner 17y ago
The "average person" quite possibly thinks he/she is above average in terms of identifying such opportunities (cf. Lake Wobegon effect). On top of that, there are government initiatives to "encourage home ownership" and to protect "homeowne
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by groaner 17y ago
Sure, but it feels a lot more like the DoJ is backpedaling to avoid the PR fallout (or worse, from their perspective, legislative reform) if they keep charging ahead with this. It's only a temporary victory.
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by groaner 17y ago
Why can't it be both? I, for example, oppose the Patriot Act because: 1. The government can engage in warrantless surveillance, violating my privacy. 2. The government can do so without having to justify it at all, even requiring that the
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by groaner 17y ago
Considering how many of our public figures (and their rabid supporters) would love to crack down on "content that ridicules public figures" while loudly touting how "American" they are, I think you're in for a rude awakening.
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by groaner 17y ago
If you are fussy about audio quality, a 500kbps FLAC isn't that much bigger than a 320kbps MP3.
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by groaner 17y ago
I'm getting some oddball results here with negative contributions: http://transparencydata.com/filter/#YW1vdW50PSUzQyU3QzEmZm9y... Are these misplaced contributions actually "against" the candidate (even though I have "for" selected), or
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by groaner 17y ago
Are you me? I was actually going to post this question myself sometime this week! For the moment, let's say that you've just contributed something valuable to the community that I really wanted to see. I'm still reading through the respo
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by groaner 17y ago
Thanks for the link. When I clicked the submission the first hit on the google search was, um, this page on HN.
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by groaner 17y ago
No idea why you got downmodded there. Rockbox enables you to organize your music this way on lots of different devices now. You aren't required to rebuild the database, though if that's what you prefer you can push a couple of buttons and
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by groaner 17y ago
As far as I'm concerned, this is the iAd: http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/images/iProduct.gif Joking aside, I wonder if Apple will ban ad-blocking apps from the app store. I definitely don't want my mobile bandwidth bill to get artificial
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by groaner 17y ago
Pandora admits to 0.4% of missed searches. That is, Pandora will get stumped 0.4% of the time when you enter a song or artist It's definitely felt a lot more like 40% for me. Pandora seems to struggle with classical music titles that lac
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by groaner 17y ago
Hmm, I think we've been here before: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=60357
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by groaner 17y ago
At the risk of referring to that other site, you're not the only one that's uncomfortable: http://www.reddit.com/r/DoesAnybodyElse/comments/b525v/dae_h...

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