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by jhancock 17y ago
My primary email address and several secondary addresses are public in easy to find spots on the web, including my HN profile. All these addresses use gmail and I am not having a problem with spam.
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by jhancock 17y ago
I understand your general position. Your assertion that of course China would print it seems to make at least the following assumptions that in my experience are not correct: 1 - China is the borg, everyone, and especially everyone in the
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by jhancock 17y ago
"The author is an Economics Nobel laureate and university professor at Columbia University." Are you implying the author is being used as tool of the China government? Or that this isn't his original text and the "Propaganda Vessel" twist
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by jhancock 17y ago
just moved everything from godaddy to namecheap. It was a good bit of work, but glad to have finished it.
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by jhancock 17y ago
100% sure, everywhere in the U.S., as of at least the early '90s. Practices vary; some places will charge you with something meaningless and drop it when they release you. According to wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detention_of_s
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by jhancock 17y ago
Any info as to if donating to wikileaks could put you at risk?
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by jhancock 17y ago
From personal experience, your position, in many U.S. locales, would most likely be poorly received by a police officer. For example, if you are in your car, they can simply arrest you (no charges, but can hold you for 72 hours) and then f
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by jhancock 17y ago
agreed. I've found the only trick is there are no tricks. It takes me more than 5-10 minutes to get into it, but within an hour or less usually, I find myself in the zone and can go for 12 hours.
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by jhancock 17y ago
It may be true the government does not redistribute wealth in a way that provides value to the purpose of an estate tax. I would hardly call it evil though. If other aspects of society and government were managed well, an estate tax might
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by jhancock 17y ago
Very impressive commuter story. I'm way too much of a cold wimp to ride a bike in winter.
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by jhancock 17y ago
The economic troubles in the U.S. are shared by most developed countries. If you look at national debt or large numbers involving the Treasury or Fed it looks like we stand alone. However, any country that holds or trades with USD is in i
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by jhancock 17y ago
"I think Microsoft today is a lot like IBM was in 1985. When I started my career IBM dominated the tech world." In the entire article, this is the only comparison he makes to IBM. He follows with zero support for the argument. It may not
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by jhancock 17y ago
This perspective may be correct for well educated upper middle class and above. But thats a small part of the U.S. and an even smaller part of the world. The vast majority do not have jobs they love and have little choice in the matter an
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by jhancock 17y ago
_Not_ registering for MobileMe is a benefit unless you are blowing cash on iPhone 3G data plans and really get value from iPhone and Mac data and email sync. For everyone else, its a net loss. me.com's web site is painfully slow (sorry Sp
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by jhancock 17y ago
I think its great that webapps have borrowed some concepts from MVC. But people should understand that this new thing should be called something like "web_mvc" or less glamourous "web_page_shared_nothing_mvc". Separation of code and compon
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by jhancock 17y ago
I'm pretty sure Shuttleworth has clearly stated he never sees a profitable business model around Desktop linux.
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by jhancock 17y ago
This article is not a clear cut case for a founder's visa as the business model isn't at all clear it should be operated from the U.S. Quality control from Shanghai is a critical element of this business. Boston does not provide enough of
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by jhancock 17y ago
Description of high-risk third-party payment aggregation and why its not just PayPal that has a problem with it: http://www.braintreepaymentsolutions.com/blog/high-risk-mech...
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by jhancock 17y ago
The reference to increased sales is true for both VA Smalltalk and Gemstone. Also noted: this growth is consistent in prior years. Those are not opinions without regard to the fact that they did not release sales numbers. I know and have
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by jhancock 17y ago
no it won't. If you want to operated a server in China, you need a Chinese company to do it. If you operate your server outside China, the bandwidth will be so bad you won't be able to retain many users and you might get blocked. For the
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by jhancock 17y ago
Taxes don't work quite the same as the U.S. Taxes in China for the most part are pay as you go. Payroll taxes work pretty much the same as U.S. but there is no 1040 to file each year. As to the bullet billing, I do know a bit about that.
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by jhancock 17y ago
Marx was a tool for change in China mostly only in name. And that was limited more than Western minds have been taught. Chinese were and are good at reading between the lines of propaganda. I agree Marx was not correct in his economic th
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by jhancock 17y ago
There are plenty of poorly run and corrupt city govs. A few I've had close exposure to: Atlanta, D.C., Miami (most of south FL), Jacksonville FL (they've had a highway construction project running for over 20 years!!), Savannah GA. SF can
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by jhancock 17y ago
Depends on your wallet size: Silicon Valley is not cheap. If your product does not involve rocket science and your that close to having a viable product you should be able to find a developer either close by or "anywhere in the world" that
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by jhancock 17y ago
This is fine rational for a forum post. But as tc points out, few have any experience being "handled" by law enforcement and react with primitive defense. I love dogs and don't show fear around a clearly well-trained police dog. But I've
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by jhancock 17y ago
good outline. An alternative, which I use, is tarsnap http://www.tarsnap.com/ .
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by jhancock 17y ago
If your a one-man show, you have to develop enough sysadmin skills for critical tasks such as offsite backup. I do have sympathy for Jeff, I'm certainly not laughing at him. Hope this is a strong message to the many out there not doing it
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by jhancock 17y ago
yes, that's how I was trained as well.
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by jhancock 17y ago
Are you serious? If so, any further info?
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by jhancock 17y ago
I was told by patent lawyers that as soon as you expose your product to those not under non-disclosure (and a piece of signed paper is the best way to prove those exposed are under non-disclosure), the clock starts ticking on your window to

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