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The world's tallest buildings, since 2600 B.C.(en.wikipedia.org)
8 points by herdrick 18y ago|7 comments
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by herdrick 18y ago
I think Estonia's old Hanse town, Tallin (Reval) fits. Between 1549 and 1625 its church was the tallest building in the world (and its peak height wouldn't be exceeded until 1884!. Very interesting table here: http://news.ycombinator.com
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by herdrick 18y ago
No. On the web, innovation is happening so quickly few users can keep up. And the tons of little companies making incremental improvements don't seem to be hurting the shops working on big ideas either: http://www.anybots.com/
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by herdrick 18y ago
How did your talk go?
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Disqus: comments can now be blog posts(blog.disqus.net)
23 points by herdrick 18y ago|8 comments
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by herdrick 18y ago
If you end up with smarter friends, then yes.
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by herdrick 18y ago
This is great.
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by herdrick 18y ago
Very nice design. But: "Server Down on localhost:9009 Please visit again in a couple of hours."
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by herdrick 18y ago
An outstandingly well-designed and built car feels good. Wait, I'm reminding you of this? Go out to your garage...
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Contagious cancer: The evolution of a killer(harpers.org)
31 points by herdrick 18y ago|2 comments
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Solzhenitsyn and Putin (network.nationalpost.com)
1 points by herdrick 18y ago|0 comments
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by herdrick 18y ago
I really like the design sense here. But the decision to give some whitespace padding between items (sites, movies, etc.) means that you can't get an accurate idea of the totals for a given period. Compare to these: http://www.leebyron.c
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by herdrick 18y ago
Not even close. The Dell has lots of venting, beveling, and recessing that Apple's products don't. Also the way the pieces of plastic come together isn't too neat. Also, the typography isn't good. Etc. Here's a detailed pic: http://www
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by herdrick 18y ago
I know plenty of Boeing engineers and my impression is that they don't feel that way. Several engineers will be jointly designing that hatch door you mention, and they know there will be plenty of careful review by other engineers of every
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by herdrick 18y ago
"I have written all this down hastily, and when I read through it I see that there are weak patches in my argument and much of it is commonplace." Yes.
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by herdrick 18y ago
"Is this really how Paul thinks his YCombinator startups should make decisions on where to build their business? By restaurants with jacket requirements?" Paul figured out a way to quantify something (fussiness about appearance) that seems
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by herdrick 18y ago
Not really. At least, the supply of gold increases more slowly than about anything else, especially stocks. Or am I missing your point?
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by herdrick 18y ago
Java's email library sucks. You need to sumbit to the JavaMail way of looking at email to do the simplest thing with it. First you need to understand that JavaMail is 'cross-platform' in the sense that it's for any hypothetical messaging
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by herdrick 18y ago
Probably you just just need to get to know your way around the ASDF system better. Or, just switch to Scheme: http://docs.plt-scheme.org/net/pop3.html http://docs.plt-scheme.org/net/smtp.html
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by herdrick 18y ago
> Why not contact Google and Yahoo and see if they > are interested in acquiring you? It couldn't hurt. You should never do this. When buying or selling something illiquid, the side who brings up the idea of a deal starts off at a
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by herdrick 18y ago
I've had the same thing happen with Google calendar. (Later, randomly, I happened to meet socially the guy whose calendar I was mistakenly allowed to read. That was weird.)
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by herdrick 18y ago
Fine, but he's certainly from the "resistance is useless" meta-school. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asahi_Beer_Hall
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by herdrick 18y ago
> no brain damage Doubtful.
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by herdrick 18y ago
"...Yahoo trumpeted data showing their results were better than Google's. Well, the Google team was quite amazed, because their data showed just the opposite: their results were better than Yahoo's... It turns out that Yahoo's benchmark con
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by herdrick 18y ago
Crappy article. Here's the only new info: "Detailed measurements made by the satellite have shown that the fluctuations in the microwave background are about 10% stronger on one side of the sky than those on the other. Sean Carroll concede
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by herdrick 18y ago
More comments here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=205709
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by herdrick 18y ago
"They estimate they will be up and running by Sunday afternoon." Still down.
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by herdrick 18y ago
Over 24 hours now.
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by herdrick 18y ago
"Dear Valued Customers: This evening at 4:55 in our H1 data center, electrical gear shorted, creating an explosion and fire that knocked down three walls surrounding our electrical equipment room Thankfully, no one was injured. In additi
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by herdrick 18y ago
I don't know much about Michael Arrington, but what you're saying about PG is a crock. Money is just not the main motivator for the YC partners. Also: "a 6% cut on ticket sales"? So... PG and MA get a slice of the money startups spend? O

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