its_so_on

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by its_so_on 14y ago
Brandon, a couple of technical questions. First, you talk about the "probability" of any car getting damaged. But surely a car wash is not qualified to act as an actuary (if it was it should immediately shut down all operations and do act
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by its_so_on 14y ago
pg, if you think potential size is interesting, why are you so against the biggest ideas?
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by its_so_on 14y ago
just have your secretary print your email twice a day (1). you can read it at your leisure (2), and dictate your responses whenever you want. (3)
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by its_so_on 14y ago
Ok I didn't know this. Comment withdrawn :)
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by its_so_on 14y ago
Free with purchase of Kindle
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by its_so_on 14y ago
Very interesting, thank you. Could you talk about what the liability is if you buy from someone who is (unbeknownst to you) infringing, and what your responsibility is if the seller turned out not to have a license? What if the component y
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by its_so_on 14y ago
this comment is great. I didn't believe you and clicked through, with your comment still ringing in my mind - I had to laugh. you nailed it.
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by its_so_on 14y ago
meh. for me the iconic style of LCD/TV is the Samsung style. No one copied it too closely for me ever to be confused and think a TV was a samsung. In fact, this is true for Audis and BMW's that kind of look like an iconic Mercedes, and s
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by its_so_on 14y ago
you are as confused as Apple legal. Apple's true problem when Samsung "crossed a line" isn't copying: it's brand confusion. The moment Samsung decided that they would sell units by being literally confused for an Apple device that one alr
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by its_so_on 14y ago
the only way to explain the sudden and highly pronounced drop-off between 29 and 30 not only here but on the year-by-year graph linked a few days ago (from a single cycle) is that PG considers exactly 30 to be "over the hill" but not 29, an
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by its_so_on 14y ago
The guy is onto something big. If you think about it, all tech ideas can be grouped into one of three categories: 1. Someone is doing exactly this. Response: "How is this different from (someone already doing it)? Even if it's better, w
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by its_so_on 14y ago
to be honest I lost track of the thread. I don't know what we're talking about anymore.
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by its_so_on 14y ago
"The more I get into it, the more I am astounded with the power of PostgreSQL to take over all these workloads on the low-end and more." Exactly. When NoSQL "honestly" say, oh nooooooooo we're not replacing the traditional RDBMS approach,
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by its_so_on 14y ago
lol @ "At least the NoSQL folks tend to be HONEST about their products not replacing the traditional RDBMS approach...." More like, technically true, but contrary to the whole reason for doing what they're doing. Nobody puts a lot of work i
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by its_so_on 14y ago
The problem I see with YC is that they want to take 7% of your company AND only let in people who are doing things their way already. I am extremely interested in listening to their way. That doesn't mean I'm already doing it. They should
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by its_so_on 14y ago
as just a reader on this thread, am I being asked to judge whether Nietzsche trumps a Latin proverb? This is a hard one, and I would need some more evidence. Don't you have a steve jobs quote?
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by its_so_on 14y ago
I did have one idea. I don't know if it would work. I've often wished that Reddit had an "adult table", which is NOT a separate place, but a separate DIMENSION of comments in the SAME thread. Let me explain. Currently everything has one
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by its_so_on 14y ago
blhack, That was quick (going through the first seed), but justified. In view of your momentum and execution we are approving another seed of $2mil for the next twelve months in San Francisco as detailed under separate cover. The name is
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by its_so_on 14y ago
Blhack, I ran across this comment of yours - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4377315 - and certainly appreciate your privacy concerns. A healthy private life is undoubtedly everyone's personal choice. At the same time, HackerNews is Y
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by its_so_on 14y ago
BLHack: Thanks - couple of thoughts here. You demonstrate good potential to disrupt some big companies with the coffee shop video. But you need a lot more momentum, so please hold off on coffee shop work until series A. I would also have
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by its_so_on 14y ago
>I could "kickstart" a trip to the moon with no engineering knowledge, and a budget of $5000, and by this metric I would be "successful". Probably within an hour if I properly attached the ideas of unseating a major tech company, and us
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by its_so_on 14y ago
There's no abuse mentioned in this particular article, and in this article it is exactly a "technologically broken" issue. The article says that if a TV network's real, legitimately copyrighted feed, that they are correct in telling Youtube
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by its_so_on 14y ago
changing your comment to read, >What did you expect Samsung to do, sit around and wait for customers to realize it's not an iPhone? would work just as well.
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by its_so_on 14y ago
If only there were a way to let a plugin give VLC a URL to open and overlay over a specific part of your screen until you close the tab. Nah, that's crazy talk. Who would want to watch a high-quality hardware-accelerated local video that ge
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by its_so_on 14y ago
Where did you find that quote? (Or are you ironically summarizing / was the article changed?) The article says "Practicing law is safe and probably fairly lucrative" and "Practicing law is an honorable profession. Indeed, I think it’s prob
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by its_so_on 14y ago
Here's a productivity tip. If you're not feeling motivated, then motivate yourself with a reward: after you're finished what you're trying to do now, you get to search for productivity tips online and make your life even more productive.
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by its_so_on 14y ago
we need to have a thread about this.
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by its_so_on 14y ago
I was afraid your story was one of a stroke. we should have a good thread on sleep deprivation. (e.g. someone should submit a story.) visual hallucations are pretty standard after a certain period of time that isn't even so long. (i.e. I
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by its_so_on 14y ago
right, specifically "to address its gross mishandling of the offering and its substantial failures to perform its duties". does anyone know what they could possibly have in mind?
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by its_so_on 14y ago
sorry, both. if your personal cook doesn't want to cook how you tell him to, he can leave. if you're someone's personal cook your only job is to cook like he says. if you can't or don't want to, leave or quote the price that will make yo

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