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by jka 15y ago
This article seems to advocate a huge amount of work to an existing, open, and highly stable software product - all to allow it to work on a proprietary device with heavy restrictions on software availability and installation. Should we do
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by jka 15y ago
They serve a few purposes - I'll try and illustrate from various points of view. * As a site operator, particularly if you're keen on 'organic' and free traffic, you need to keep on top of the latest in search engine and social marketing.
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by jka 15y ago
It's not wrong to have a reaction to words - they have connotations and power (particularly expletives), and people often use words carefully to manipulate their audience (for good or bad). There's no suggestion that the cringe is an unheal
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by jka 15y ago
While I agree that improving access to education and opportunities for all is a big part of the remedy, I do have to take a disagreement with the author's initial statement that wealth ratios aren't worth considering. Expensive education ma
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by jka 15y ago
It's difficult to tell - the U.K. courts until recently had seemed (following heavy lawyering from Assange) to be allowing him to stay in the country under curfew, but this recent ruling seems to overturn that. There was a bit of an outcry
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by jka 15y ago
I've always been interested in psychology, but I've been reading a little more recently. I think it's possible to use the concepts of 'control' and 'evolution' in relation to sociopaths; let me try to illustrate: It's so-called human natur
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Skyscanner 24H Hackathon
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Google Maps API over SSL now free (no longer enterprise-license only)(code.google.com)
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Lucene & Solr 3.1 Release Candidate 0(mail-archives.apache.org)
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by jka 16y ago
While reading Nick's story in text is incredible, I caught his presentation on the topic & the repercussions at 27C3 in December, and would thoroughly recommend watching the video recording if you're interested in it. Could be good que
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Skyscanner has them - prices and all: http://www.skyscanner.com/flights/sfo/chia/110402/110410/
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by jka 16y ago
Have you come across Skyscanner (www.skyscanner.net)? I'm an engineer there, so am a little biased - but this is exactly the type of question we try to solve. Would be interested to hear if you have any feedback/queries! i.e. http://www.
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by jka 16y ago
Broadly agree with this and the parent - but there's an interesting alternative way to look at travel metasearch. If you think of obtaining prices as being akin to 'indexing', then what metasearch engines are doing is building up a search i
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by jka 17y ago
I'm not an executive, but certainly interested in data & reporting! I was initially going to suggest a one-off cron job to run each morning, aggregating the previous day's costs/revenues by the core 'dimensions' you use (store, sales re
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Ask YC.sfbay: Anyone for drinks in Palo Alto, circa 28th Jul?
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