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by icky 19y ago
You win some, you lose some. That said, I generally use the down-arrow sparingly on this site, specifically against abuse, trollery, or willful stupidity. It would be sad if the down-arrow became a general "I disagree" button like it is on
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by icky 19y ago
> SagaciousSmartassCommentGenerator.com? Sorry, Network Solutions already took that domain...
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by icky 19y ago
#FFFFFFey always be keepin' the #000000 man down!
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by icky 19y ago
> for all intensive purposes, Nitpick: "for all intents and purposes". And, no, you don't get French benefits.
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by icky 19y ago
Call me naive, but I think that's counter to the spirit of Hacker News.
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by icky 19y ago
> The author of this piece winces at hearing "but that's how Jamis does it", but I think the lesson applies equally to "but Paul Graham says...". BLASPHEMER!!! ;-)
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by icky 19y ago
Nope, didn't see anything like that last time I was there ~3 months ago.
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by icky 19y ago
Much better: I never feel guilty for not tipping a robot! :-)
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by icky 19y ago
Wireless start-up fails to get $1.4 BILLION in financing...
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by icky 19y ago
You're still on speaking terms with her as an ex-girlfriend. Imagine the added burden of having her as an ex-cofounder!
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by icky 19y ago
Make something so good that it spreads by word of mouth.
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by icky 19y ago
> In Defence of (0/:l)(_+_) in Scala I didn't know Scala had ASCII porn... :-|
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by icky 19y ago
If your goal is to deny the competition free code, then, yes. But too often people think that they're successfully hiding some trade secret when they're not.
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by icky 19y ago
End of world predicted: fate of Internet uncertain.
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by icky 19y ago
Or at least, it seems interesting on the face of it. Obfuscation != encryption.
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by icky 19y ago
> In a typical complaint, Dr. Yul Ejnes [...] said he was recently forced by Medicare to fill out requisition forms for a wheelchair-bound patient who needed to replace balding tires. "I'm a doctor," he said, "not Mr. Goodwrench." Dammi
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by icky 19y ago
> I think it violates a principle broader than that. I think everything you store in a web app, you ought to be able to get back out. As far as I know, Google meets this standard. While visting there, I've seen at least one whiteboard w
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by icky 19y ago
I'm impressed that he managed to misspell "lose" in a spoken interview! ;-) Edit: I sense an anomaly in the space-time continuum... :)
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by icky 19y ago
Nah, they repossessed him months ago...
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by icky 19y ago
Bug report: It's not -2147483648 degrees here, nor is that even possible in this universe... Edit: It appears to be fixed now. :-)
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by icky 19y ago
> This has been asked before, a lot of the comments seem to revolve around the idea that it is unpreventable. It's a hard problem, but not impossible. The structure and function of the site itself plays a large part in governing group
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by icky 19y ago
Little known fact: the mortarboard, or "thinking cap", grants all college graduates uncanny powers of logic and memory. It is impossible to become an intellectual without one.
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by icky 19y ago
If only YC had some sort of news site to announce these things...
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by icky 19y ago
Or, "Science improves web usability!"
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by icky 19y ago
Real-world news: wikiepedia's "Current Events" page, google news Nerd-world news: programming.reddit, science.reddit, news.yc (though lately I've resorted to upvoting stories that are actually "Hacker News"...) Slashdot has gotten surpris
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by icky 19y ago
And they both run things in Treasure City...
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by icky 19y ago
don't do it.
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by icky 19y ago
AOL to stop rebranding watered-down Mozilla releases as "Netscape".
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by icky 19y ago
Correct Javascript does not imply browser compatibility...
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by icky 19y ago
Sounds like they need a good dose of this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=92745

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