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by jd 14y ago
It's right there in the article's title: "An inside look behind Romney's loss". I take that to mean that the article attempted to explain (partially) why Romney lost.
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by jd 14y ago
Are we really to believe this is plausible? 1: Romney's big data app failed on election day which led to ineffective use of their volunteers. 2: Romney's campaign performed exactly as predicted by the likes of Nate Silver. Therefore: the fa
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by jd 14y ago
Exactly. Stripe can't support every bit of functionality out of the box, because then the API would get really convoluted. Just think about what sort of discounts are commonly use: absolute discounts, percentage discounts, coupon codes with
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by jd 14y ago
One major point not addressed in the article is that the Dutch media aren't afraid to call out politicians on their lies. When a politician is caught in a gross lie the media turn up the heat until the politician publicly apologizes (or at
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by jd 14y ago
To those who think it isn't a big deal: when GET requests are made public you can snoop "password reset links" and similar to to get access to somebody else's account. Even when developers use best practices GET request paths can leak sensi
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by jd 14y ago
That's perfect. Thanks for the clarification.
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by jd 14y ago
The sign up button says "try for free", which implies it's a trial signup. But I can't find the price for the subscription anywhere on the website.
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by jd 14y ago
Don't forget that many people have trouble understanding something as simple as a variable. You have to learn to execute code in your head to not be completely surprised every time you run the program. Programming really doesn't come natura
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by jd 14y ago
Tests are supposed to measure understanding of the subject material. Therefore tests should be open book iff open book tests are better at measuring understanding than closed book tests. Are open tests better? I remember from my university
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by jd 14y ago
Most of the time though the issue is we don't trust links in comments/posts on websites we otherwise trust. Those websites don't allow people to inject javascript code in their comments (but they often do allow people to change the link tex
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by jd 14y ago
In comparison to other yachts (E.g. http://list25.com/25-most-expensive-yachts-ever-built/ ) "Venus" looks pretty minimalist to me.
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by jd 14y ago
If pg is correct and hardware startups are making a renaissance then we can expect to see startups soon that sell shovels for hardware startups. For web startups we see shovel-style products that help with customer support, A/B testing, vir
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by jd 14y ago
> It's analogous to IQ tests having cultural biases, but people's claiming they measure intelligence objectively. No contradiction there. IQ tests clearly aren't completely unbiased and perfectly objective, but they don't have to live u
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by jd 14y ago
Remember that every iPhone/Android has an SSD drive in it and how many are DOA? Very, very few. We're talking about hundreds of millions of SSD drives sold per year that are used all day every day. So it's not early-adopter technology in an
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by jd 14y ago
Looks cool, but if you ask me a monthly subscription model isn't optimal for this kind of thing because the churn[1] rate will be so high. Why do I expect a high churn rate? Well, there are two options. Either the splash pages created with
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by jd 14y ago
Wait a second, you consider price-fixing of (e)books in France a good thing? Where I live it's cheaper to buy books online in the UK and have them shipped over than to buy them in the local bookstore. So that's what people do. And local b
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by jd 14y ago
If you consider $7 (or $12) a month a lot of money for software then you're probably not in the target audience for any (SaaS) software product. A lot of people are willing to pay some money for a SaaS product even when there are free alter
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by jd 14y ago
Or more generally: it's much easier to excel in the intersection of two (or three) disciplines than to excel in a single discipline. Programming + Biology. Programming + Economics. Business + Comic book writing. Programming + Business. Cook
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by jd 14y ago
> But technically, he was required to send Mike his files and decompresser. Instead, he put them on his server and sent Mike their location. Mike then had to get the files. It goes both ways. In that case Patrick could just argue he had
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by jd 14y ago
Exactly, I consider Mike to be acting in bad faith here. Mike was willing to accept $100 (which in most of the world constitutes many hours of labor) not just once, but every time people wanted to play again. He was willing to accept real m
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by jd 14y ago
In your blogpost you said that you used to refer to what you were doing as a startup and don't anymore. So either your organization wasn't a startup in the first place (and now you started labeling it correctly) or your organization is a
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by jd 14y ago
You quoted a pretty good definition of a startup. So why not do the obvious thing, and call something a startup iff it meets that definition? Why encourage using a different and more generic word "business", if that doesn't clarify anything
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Ask HN: who here has tried LinkedIn ads?
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by jd 14y ago
In the Eurozone real GDP has contracted since the crisis according to this graph: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/25/more-coulda-been... So a lot of the "growth" is just the economy recovering from the austerity/crisis-related po
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by jd 14y ago
I think you're trying to do both business and charity at the same time, and that doesn't really work I think. If you run a great business and make lots of money (by providing even more value to customers) you can then put that into any pet
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by jd 14y ago
You recognize that the accuracy of a statement is a scalar, and that every statement is part truth and part lie (but often not in equal proportion). So then why obfuscate language by using the same word for a statement that's 95% true and 5
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by jd 14y ago
I don't think regrets are necessary at all. No mistakes means no learning . But of course mistakes -/> regrets. If you make the best decision with the information you have at hand you shouldn't regret the decision you make. Retroacti
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by jd 14y ago
The bottom line is still that many lives are saved by organ donors. From a moral point of view it's also pretty clear cut. If you want to accept an organ when you fall ill then you should also be willing to donate your organs. The concept o
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by jd 14y ago
I don't think it's fair to say the author's reasoning is terrible. A blogpost is always written for some specific audience, and in this case it looks like the blog post was targeted at programmers generally, not C++ experts. I agree that co
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by jd 14y ago
It can be insanely profitable. NPR on how some lobbying efforts yield returns of 22,000 percent: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/01/06/144737864/forget-s...

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