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by hallmark 17y ago
It is not just a matter of trusting the source, such as pg. A full URL also helps me decide whether to spend the time to visit and load the new page. User experience. I'd vote to ban shortened URLs from HN posts and comments (edit: when f
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by hallmark 17y ago
That does not seem to make sense here. BitTorrent is good for distributing many copies of a file to many clients. The large number of BitTorrent clients with full or partial copies of a given file can help transmit pieces of a file to ano
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by hallmark 17y ago
For those as confused as me, I did a bare minimum of Googling. Google Fusion Tables was first announced in June 2009, and they just released an API. Original announcement: http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2009/06/google-fusion-tab...
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by hallmark 17y ago
The article also states that Dr. Jim Gray disappeared in January 2007. Well before either of you pointed to this thought trend.
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by hallmark 17y ago
I have only been following LED indoor lighting as a non-participant, but from what I've read, you need to stick with name-brand at this point. Cree has popped up a number of times in technical articles as a leader in white LEDs. Their prod
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by hallmark 17y ago
The surgery may be experimental as a treatment for MS. But the procedure itself for unclogging the veins sounds fairly straightforward for vascular surgeons, Zamboni included.
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by hallmark 17y ago
You mentioned Kumon, and I felt a cold chill go up my spine from a long lost, forgotten childhood trauma. <nod/> I was good at math, but my mother ran a Kumon center as her small business, and I had to do Kumon so that she could us
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by hallmark 17y ago
Yes, it's very common with built-in navigation systems that are standard or optional equipment on a model. I'm not sure about after-market systems that you happen to install in the dashboard, such as the JVC unit that is shown in the artic
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by hallmark 17y ago
How incredibly insightful and true. From experience, I can say that in one situation where things never got ugly, three was a great number. In another situation, pairing up to the exclusion of one was exactly the case.
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by hallmark 17y ago
> sex pales in comparison to the feeling I get from being an entrepreneur. Ha, and they suggest that software developers are naturally weird. http://ask.slashdot.org/story/09/10/18/1557210/Are-Software-... Kidding.. sorta. ;)
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by hallmark 17y ago
Very similar experience. I had registered getwellconnected.com, which I had vague plans to use for a nonprofit idea to let sick kids in hospitals connect together. I got an email from someone claiming to be a consultant working for a small