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by jleader 15y ago
Do you find it reasonable that people can "own" domain names? I think so, because unlike a software patent, a domain name is really hard to share with everyone simultaneously. Do you think people should be allowed to buy and sell things the
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This is worth considering, but it depends on who's calling, what industry you, they, and the candidate are in, etc. If you answer the question "what was their title?" with "they mostly did X and Y, they were incredible", I doubt that's goin
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I think the analogy to startups is this: You can plan 100 features, implement 100 features, launch 100 features, get feedback on 100 features OR You can plan, implement, and launch 1 feature, get feedback on it, then move on to the next fea
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On the other hand, digital maps have a huge advantage in the level of detail they can provide over a much wider area. I still carry a Thomas Brothers street atlas of Los Angeles in my car as a backup. If you haven't seen the old Thomas Guid
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The post is a response to the original object mentor list of 10 papers; this post claims to be oriented more toward technical depth and less toward philosophy and design.
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Way back when I was young and first learning shell scripting, I was taught not to use csh for scripting. Is that no longer true? Have the problems described here http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/ been fixed in newer vers
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It's worth noting that the Wayback Machine shows the Britney misspelling page existing almost unchanged since March 2002 ( http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://www.google.com/jobs/... ). The back link has varied a bit over the years.
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Regarding point x, it's not that screen size is calculated on the diagonal; doubling the diagonal (and keeping the same aspect ratio) doubles the width and height as well. The key is that area is the square of any linear dimension (again, f
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by jleader 15y ago
The guy who sets up the flight school, collects the money, and hires an unqualified instructor bears no responsibility for the outcome?
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If Apple "invented" the GUI by commercializing some ideas that started at Xerox, how is it that the Xerox Star was released before the Lisa? Now, the Macintosh was a far more impressive execution of those ideas than either of its predecesso
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by jleader 15y ago
Interesting paragraph from the FastCompany article: "As all this information [about the wrongful death lawsuit] unfolds for me, many things that had seemed odd begin to make sense: McAfee's publicity campaign to promote the idea that he'd l
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I suspect that ship would beat train hands-down on costs, but train could still win for time-critical uses.
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I went to zerply, clicked on a url in one of their testimonials, saw a page where I had to scroll waaaay down to get past all the huge header text and pointless graphics to read a few small snippets about the person. Then I clicked on the p
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by jleader 15y ago
Perhaps there are a lot of depressed HNers, who don't want to talk about it, and this is their way to try to let the rest of us know about it?
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I'm a little suspicious of people who claim to think "everything" through from "first principles" (whatever those are). Where do you get your first principles from? If you get them from observing the world around you, how do you decide what
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It's great to see this on-line! I have an old xeroxed copy filed away somewhere, that I got from a co-worker when I worked at the Burroughs Pasadena Development Center in the mid to late 1980s. In 1991, after the merger with Sperry into Uni
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Gah, of course I meant Algol 60 (a much simpler language than Algol 68, there was no Algol 67)!
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See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_large_systems#B5000 for background. Some noteworthy firsts: First commercial implementation of virtual memory Tagged, stack-based architecture, designed for easier compiler implementation Most of
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by jleader 15y ago
I suspect the trick is to get people to think about it as "recycled water" (or whatever name gets them to accept it) while also intellectually realizing that it's treated wastewater, so when someone blogs about it, people just shrug and say
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"well, the system's working fine, isn't it!?" is analogous to "I haven't hit the limit on my credit card yet".
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That one at least triggers a "Did you mean...", which the site: version avoids (because Google doesn't try to spell-correct site names).
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Remember, by discussing this, you are leaving a permanent record that you are aware of its existence. If you are ever sued for violating it, and by some bizarre horrible legal accident the patent is upheld, you will be liable for treble dam
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Yes, but that definition you quote is for "man" (often written as the more archaic "mankind"), not "men". You're actually using definition a.1: "an individual human; especially : an adult male human", in the plural, to refer to adult male h
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70 years later, and we're still all "men"?
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"A couple years later, the entire market segment died, because their crappy products couldn't compete with personal computers". This is wrong in several ways: A few years later, Convergent was bought by Unisys for $350 million (in 1988 doll
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Glad to hear it! As a resident of Los Angeles, and graduate of Caltech, I'm completely sympathetic to trying to get the word out about tech innovations happening in places other than Silicon Valley.
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I'm curious why bostinnovation.com posts get voted up so high on HN, when they're so full of hype, and so lacking in content. This one is at least intrinsically more interesting than the last one I saw, "a list of programming language desig
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The aptiquant.com site now says this was all a hoax.
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I couldn't find a time estimate on Wikipedia, but Pearson (the publisher of the WAIS-IV) says that it takes 60-90 minutes ( http://www.pearsonassessments.com/HAIWEB/Cultures/en-us/Prod... ). It's also not clear to me how they determined cor
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There's a way to encode a protobuf schema in a protobuf message, making it possible to send self-describing messages (i.e. include a serialized schema before each message). I'm not sure if anyone actually does this. See http://code.google.

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