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by jmatt 18y ago
Here are some of my personal opinions on the topic... I completely agree shorter commutes create happier workers. I also think employees are less likely to leave a job if they live close, happy or not... And of course, for most people, comm
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by jmatt 18y ago
Yeah it's calculated. I thought you were talking about comments. Or it was last time news.arc was released by PG (= gravity* 1.4 timebase* 120 front-threshold* 1) (def frontpage-rank (s (o gravity gravity*)) (/ (- (realscore s)
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by jmatt 18y ago
Yeah my bad, I'm talking about comments.
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by jmatt 18y ago
I'm not sure. But I have enough karma at 85. I think the number has changed over time, but I'm not sure. Maybe PG will share it with us or someone has recently hit the magic number?
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by jmatt 18y ago
for when that day comes... http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll
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by jmatt 18y ago
You can when you get a high enough karma.
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by jmatt 18y ago
fries, cheeseburger and chocolate shake.
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by jmatt 18y ago
Ya I think it's common courtesy to link to the actual article instead of some blog. http://money.cnn.com/2008/07/08/technology/Kleiner_bets_the_...
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by jmatt 18y ago
I agree one way to fix it is through design.
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Ask YC: Is VMWare a good buy?
3 points by jmatt 18y ago|5 comments
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by jmatt 18y ago
I have many of the same feelings and the only difference is I've learned to deal with it. I think part of what wasn't communicated in the article was that those tendencies don't necessarily go away. People just learn to cope with them bette
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by jmatt 18y ago
I was shy when I was young (until mid way through college). My shyness was labeled as a problem. My family and friends said that I should enjoy going to basketball games and meeting new friends, going to parties, being social, etc. As I gre
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by jmatt 18y ago
you are comfortable on these forums. Or at least comfortable enough to post comments.
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by jmatt 18y ago
I like the site. I would be more inclined to bid for the higher cost shirts if I knew some of the profits went to fund a defense fund for the RIAA (like FSF fund). When it's appropriate I think it makes sense to give a small % of profits up
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One Time Passwords coming for World of Warcraft(eu.blizzard.com)
3 points by jmatt 18y ago|2 comments
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by jmatt 18y ago
It's surprising to me that he's insightful when it comes to music. An area that M$ has struggled. I agree it's not surprising that he is insightful in general.
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by jmatt 18y ago
I find it ironic and quite unlikely that these memos show up in PDF format. I'm pretty sure Gates uses Office. I don't really know how to judge whether these are legitimate memos or not. I also can't imagine Microsoft sitting there while co
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by jmatt 18y ago
Here are my delicious location links: http://del.icio.us/jmatt.peterson/location There are a lot of APIs if you are going from address, city, zip. All sorts of variations - free, commercial, metadata, super accurate, international, US onl
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by jmatt 18y ago
Yes, They've sold this great idea to the developers. Including me. I'm waiting for Apple to implement. Ideas are one thing, implementations are another. And timing is important. I think it's safe to assume that these 4000 beta testers have
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by jmatt 18y ago
heck, i could spend all day addressing the misconceptions and downright falsehoods in this comment, but it sounds like you've already made up your mind. I'll listen if you'd like to continue to comment. great technical products are not p
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by jmatt 18y ago
Apple is fascist. The iPhone specifically. Microsoft in comparison looks like a beautiful tour de force of openness. Free (arguably) open CIL, languages, document format, IDE, documentation. No one DECIDES who can develop on windows mobile.
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by jmatt 18y ago
I'm in Tucson, AZ and me.com isn't working. It's defitely not the new apple web2.0 site that they are talking about at WWDC.
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Me.com - The site you are trying to reach has moved.(me.com)
1 points by jmatt 18y ago|2 comments
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by jmatt 18y ago
A true libertarian. One implication of having similar temperaments ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=204240 ) is that a lot of NTs tend to be libertarians. So this site will likely favor a libertarian view. I agree partially with this.
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by jmatt 18y ago
It's probably a fair request to ask for an RSS feed of all stories. I just don't know how many people are interested in that.
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by jmatt 18y ago
Balance this against the richest people in the world who did give away equity when it was appropriate. I guess it depends on the situation.
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Holodeck 1.0? Star Trek-style 3-D displays make their debut(cordis.europa.eu)
1 points by jmatt 18y ago|0 comments
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by jmatt 18y ago
what would you recommend then?
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by jmatt 18y ago
I think some background is in order so you know my perspective. I spent 3 summer months traveling to the western continental US in 2000. I've been to every state west of the Mississippi. Since 2000, I've lived in Arizona and traveled extens
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by jmatt 18y ago
I am a dev for reliability software company and Octoparts solves part of a huge problem in the electronic parts industry. Users can now find, purchase and research parts using Octoparts. It'll be interesting to see if they solve the greater

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