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by jacobscott 18y ago
If you're going to have a humorous, content-free post, at least try harder. Even on a rainy Saturday!
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by jacobscott 18y ago
I find this blog post poorly written. Too informal to be informative, to me. Points made are overly general rather than insightful. Sounds like the author has interesting things to say (and relevant experience), but the presentation ruins i
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Ask HN: Best debugging war stories?
4 points by jacobscott 18y ago|4 comments
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by jacobscott 18y ago
I don't think its mentioned in the version of the article you linked (good choice on the printed version to link, though): this article is from February 2007. It also focuses on the failures of ex-CEO Terry Semel, not Jerry Yang's current p
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by jacobscott 18y ago
Also given that there are competing, comparable, open source/commercial wiki projects (a mindtouch cofounder commented on the article), the developers do have other places to go...
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by jacobscott 18y ago
The article sites Wilson Sonsini as an investor in Twiki.net, but they're actually a law firm. I'm confused.
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by jacobscott 18y ago
Isn't this just temporary? I mean, shouldn't we wait like a month before complaining?
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by jacobscott 18y ago
Did you miss the part where they say "Google supports the OpenID 2.0 Directed Identity protocol, and provides authentication support as an OpenID provider"? They're supporting 2.0 which supports discovery requests...
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by jacobscott 18y ago
I don't think your last point is very fair. See e.g.: https://www.23andme.com/gen101/ as well as the very long disclaimer you're given before you can actually sign up for a 23andme screening.
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by jacobscott 18y ago
I a lot of interesting info that I haven't seen linked yet: From 11/24/06, via Google cache: http://is.gd/5cvU "How much profit does DropSend bring in each month? * Revenue: $9,041.81 per month (and growing by 8.6% per month) *
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by jacobscott 18y ago
This is silly. I know where you work. In case of emergency, I would mail your bosses and have them pass word on to your parents.
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by jacobscott 18y ago
From techcrunch: "We had guessed earlier this year that Microsoft would choose the Silverlight platform to deliver Office online, but Microsoft will instead be copying the Google approach - the applications will be 100% HTML and Javascript.
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by jacobscott 18y ago
Is it clear that this isn't just some kind of alternate reality game? I mean, if he can find all this guy's info, he can't find his parents?
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by jacobscott 18y ago
Sorry, the key point is that the assertion: "Therefore, P is not equal to NP, is true and provable in a simply consistent extension B" of B" does not necessarily imply P \neq NP (the caveat being the B" and B stuff). I'm not really a comple
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by jacobscott 18y ago
There's a fine line between irony/parody and wasting everyone's time...
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by jacobscott 18y ago
I like the interface of reading certain things in physically better than online. This includes, for example, the New York Times as well as Edge Magazine. I think it will be a while before non-PC devices are the primary way people get their
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by jacobscott 18y ago
This is really interesting in the context of recent news about the New York Times cashflow issues. Internet killed the print newspaper star?
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by jacobscott 18y ago
This was actually really annoying (rickroll with java script popups).
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by jacobscott 18y ago
Saving $30 is cool, but remember the majority cost of this phone (and other smartphones) is in the contract.
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by jacobscott 18y ago
This is just a design, right?
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by jacobscott 18y ago
A couple of things that might be relevant: * How many people who want to do X but haven't yet would choose your site over established-X-player? * Would you expect people using established-X-player to switch to using your site? Why or why no
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by jacobscott 18y ago
"The best articles are voted to the top by the community, but in a way that makes it difficult to game the system. Instead of being able to vote up your own articles or those written by your friends, readers are given a random sample of art
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by jacobscott 18y ago
Yes.
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by jacobscott 18y ago
Thanks! Assume six months is a reasonable amount of time to have passed for me to dupe.
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by jacobscott 18y ago
A windows stack in the cloud makes my head hurt. Is this just my anti-microsoft bias? Would anyone seriously consider developing their startup using a C#/azure stack?
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Ask HN: volunteering/giving back?
3 points by jacobscott 18y ago|3 comments
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by jacobscott 18y ago
Maybe salesperson shouldn't be a dirty word then. I think the burden is on the creator (and or proponents) of software to explain to others why they should use it. Would you argue otherwise?
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by jacobscott 18y ago
Why is advertising the only way to gain traction in a recession? Do you not understand that the startups on the Internet have many options for revenue? Do you need a stern talking to? (above is tounge-in-cheek if that wasn't clear)
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by jacobscott 18y ago
I use mostly is.gd, haven't had any problems yet. It's also the shortest :)
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Netflix brings online streaming to Mac with Silverlight(engadget.com)
4 points by jacobscott 18y ago|1 comments

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