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by jey 15y ago
Are there any long-term studies of these issues? I'd be surprised if there's actually enough good ones to draw conclusions.
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by jey 15y ago
The rest of the quote is relevant too: "no demonstrated ability to rescue doomed businesses with (soon-to-be-)failed business models". If you're referring to Macs, the Macintosh line is more like a luxury clothing brand than a horse-drawn b
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by jey 15y ago
Apple has tremendous proven ability to create/ride new markets, but no demonstrated ability to rescue doomed businesses with (soon-to-be-)failed business models. Why should they start now? Sure, that's only a backwards-looking argument agai
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by jey 15y ago
It would make a lot of sense if people actually listened to the advice and stopped replying-all. Terminating the chain-reaction would easily easily be worth the price of one reply-all, but in reality enough people would ignore the advice.
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by jey 15y ago
Yes, I agree. I think it sucks to have these hellbanned folks who didn't actually do anything wrong.
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by jey 15y ago
There's a few examples of HN undead, e.g. jcitme. Unfortunately I've lost my list of other undead users. Your vitriol against pg is pretty unwarranted though. You have to admit that spam is a big problem for a site like HN, and the automate
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by jey 15y ago
Please keep the current scaling of the charts, but label it with the actual per-capita values instead of 0 - 100. (I agree with sequoia's comment.)
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by jey 15y ago
So shutting off information services is evil, and we're going to show it by committing the same evil? By that token we should teach everyone how bad genocide is by executing a random member of their family. We should certainly get people's
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by jey 15y ago
I agree. Taking a stand and putting up a banner, or a click-through page, etc is fine. But information services like Google and Wikipedia shouldn't actually be shut off in a way that makes the information inaccessible.
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by jey 15y ago
I wonder how they'll avoid the "second-system effect". ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect )
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by jey 15y ago
Forgive me for playing psychologist, but I'm detecting a bit of insecurity. You should internalize that you really are awesome & rare, as evidenced by the fact that you single-handedly created a high-quality product and sold it. Example
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by jey 15y ago
> But the thing that bugs me about this is that nobody seems to think that I'm anything more than a code monkey. They don't realize that, in addition to engineering, I actually started something new, managed the product, a whole team, d
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by jey 15y ago
C++'s variant is RAII: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Acquisition_Is_Initial...
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by jey 15y ago
> This is part of the code for the conservative garbage collector which is supposed to scan the stack for pointers. If you know a better way to do that, by all means let's hear it. Why does scanning the stack for pointers need to involv
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by jey 15y ago
D3.js, which stands for "Data Driven Document"
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by jey 15y ago
Link to site: http://cloudexchange.org Link to code: https://github.com/tlossen/cloudexchange.org
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Ask HN: EC2 spot price history site to replace defunct cloudexchange.org?
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by jey 15y ago
It's a difference in the author's attitude toward the project. A person who feels that they're building an MVP will be looking for ways to monetize it, while for "just a side-project" monetization might be an after-thought or explicitly not
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by jey 15y ago
I think he meant to say "close your account" rather than "log out".
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by jey 15y ago
It's a strawman to assume that they'd all be hobbyists. (Also in practice, most writers start off doing it on the side, then become full-time.) However, we should zoom out: I don't claim that what I'm proposing is the correct solution. I'
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by jey 15y ago
Sure, maybe huge productions like "Lost" would become comparatively rarer, but is that necessarily bad? More to the point, is it worth the other costs to society to grant these monopolies? I don't claim to have the answers at all, but I'm j
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by jey 15y ago
This is entirely backwards looking; of course the people who benefit from the current system will want to keep it in place. The real question is whether others would step in if everyone who is currently writing books suddenly just quit. In
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by jey 15y ago
Empirically doesn't seem to be true, since high-quality fiction and non-fiction is currently produced even when there isn't a profit motive. There's still ways to make money from writing, e.g. by asking people to give donations totalling a
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by jey 15y ago
> The root cause of SOPA is a culture of piracy and a lack of participation by leaders in technology to develop better enforcement regulations. There's a tacit assumption in your post that copyright is still a valid notion that should
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by jey 15y ago
These "infographics" really don't deserve the name at all. They're almost 100% chartjunk and have a data-ink ratio approaching zero. It's almost as if the people who make these read Tufte and decided to do the exact opposite. On the other h
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by jey 15y ago
There are many vendors of ergonomic keyboards that are compatible with Apple hardware. Why do you wish for one to be produced by Apple?
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by jey 15y ago
IMO, just use python unless you absolutely have to use R for some other reason. You can still call R functions using rpy2. EDIT: My suggestion is to use Python if you're starting a new project, since it has a wider ecosystem you can tap int
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by jey 15y ago
What's the standard for correctness in literature criticism? Biology has one (agreement with externally observable reality). I don't know what the objectives of lit crit actually are, nor what their research methodology is, but it seems tha
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by jey 15y ago
Authorize Early Nerd to use your account? This application will be able to: Read Tweets from your timeline. See who you follow, and follow new people. Update your profile. Post Tweets for you. No thanks.
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by jey 15y ago
There's still a lot of other people who need a matching donor.

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