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Ask HN: Would this phone-to-email idea be useful? Also, a meta question.
1 points by jere 14y ago|3 comments
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by jere 14y ago
Seems like it doesn't scale well from your description. You would have to contact each company yourself and the value for them would be really low until the site blew up. If there was an automated way to get representatives from a company
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by jere 14y ago
Ask Darien Long, the "badass mall cop." He works in an area in downtown Atlanta infested with drug dealers and he constantly encounters people who want to threaten him. He has said repeatedly that his two most important weapons are his tase
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by jere 14y ago
The computer that can't get stuck in an infinite loop. I don't think that is necessarily the same as one that can't crash.
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by jere 14y ago
The important part to me is '“Users want to own their data” is an ideology not a use-case' The last section of this post is in poor taste considering that at least one real person has committed suicide while building such a social network.
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by jere 14y ago
Exactly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firewall_(construction)
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by jere 14y ago
Along the lines of the real world PITA you acknowledged at the end: getting dollars out of mtgox is a nightmare and don't expect for a second that you won't be giving up all your info to the government. I had some BTC lying around there for
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by jere 14y ago
I'm interested to see it pass $32, which should have symbolic significance if nothing else (the peak happened at $31.91 and crashed to $10 days later).
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by jere 14y ago
The headline had me cringing in expectation for a brain dead article, but how stupid of me! It's fricking William Gibson. Almost everything he said in this article seems to be spot on, then and now. In case you have any remaining worry that
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by jere 14y ago
When brainstorming website ideas lately, I find myself often thinking "well shit, that could just as well be a subreddit." Probably not a very productive attitude.
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by jere 14y ago
Agreed. The worst part is that, as far as I can tell, this isn't actually Diablo. So we can't even claim a foothold on 1997.
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by jere 14y ago
Neat. This kind of reminds me of something I did a while back: I had a permissions manager that let you drag and drop groups to various actions, but the color of each group was determined by hashing their the group ID into a color. The resu
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by jere 14y ago
>just loves his craft and wont bother with the business side of it. Its quite common. Yes. I've suggested the possibility of a business before and I think he believe it's too risky or not lucrative enough. In fact, I've ran into this mi
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by jere 14y ago
Not to my knowledge; that's why I suggested creating one. That might be a good idea, but I honestly don't know how feasible it is. I did once know a guy who made conference tables and he seemed to be doing fairly well.
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by jere 14y ago
Wow, somehow I never thought of that. Maybe I need to save up for a makerbot.
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by jere 14y ago
For lack of a better term, he's a woodworker. He spent decades building really snazzy museum exhibits and booths for trade shows. He's usually identified as the most skilled person in whichever shop he goes to, but there doesn't seem to be
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by jere 14y ago
>Your Parents Have Money Actually, the biggest problem among my parents is that they don't. My dad makes less than half what I do and he's incredibly knowledgeable, skilled, and hard working (a lot more than I am). If there's one thing
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by jere 14y ago
>Not everyone can become a computer programmer, genetic counselor, or startup CEO; a whole lot of Mead’s “ordinary people” will be stripped of their jobs and left behind in debt, poverty, and despair. So basically if you're reading HN,
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by jere 14y ago
Good advice but they're basically all the same thing: think. It's way too easy to get into a habit of hacking away at something without actually give it a moment's thought. Reminds me very much of the Feynman story "He fixes radios by thin
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by jere 14y ago
>It simply means something that took place prior to a moment in the past True, but that implies that there exists such a moment with particular significance. Otherwise, you wouldn't use that tense. In other words, it leaves you thinking
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by jere 14y ago
You're saying Reddit gets USD instantly? I guess coin base is the one taking the risk? Maybe I am misunderstanding.
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by jere 14y ago
>which is why you're only worth $750 to the project. Pffttt... if only. I can only dream of being the lucky devil who wins that prize and ends up making that kind of cash.
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by jere 14y ago
Virtual goods like Reddit gold seem like an obvious opportunity to accept bitcoin. There's no marginal cost, so you don't have to worry so much about the price of BTC plummeting one day.
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by jere 14y ago
I was sure this was a joke, but I didn't catch a punchline. Why would you want to jam all of that functionality together anyway?
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by jere 14y ago
>...as an undergrad I have way above average GPA You're mastering undergraduate material, which certainly doesn't give any clues as to if you are genius, but it does say you can probably build whatever you want given enough time and eff
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by jere 14y ago
As an old teacher of mine used to often say, "Check's in the mail. Love you in the morning."
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by jere 14y ago
What would the motivation be for doing this? If for anything other than historical interest, is there anything a 23 year old version of Photoshop has over GIMP?
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by jere 14y ago
I'm not sure which point is hard to believe, but hoping this helps: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Judaism
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by jere 14y ago
You'll see in "Indie Game" that Team Meat got kind of fucked by MSFT. Phil Fish has similar horror stories: he avoided patching a critical bug because supposedly it would have cost him $40k to recertify Fez: http://kotaku.com/5927224/fez-w
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by jere 14y ago
>Journey went on to become the best-selling PlayStation Network game of all time. Chen doesn’t know for sure, but presumably it will earn royalties. I'm sorry. I can't parse this statement. It's the best-selling PSN game of all time, bu

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