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by joblessjunkie 15y ago
...or, a disorganized regurgitation of papers that have been posted to HN several times in the past. I know it's tiresome to complain about reposts, but can we at least not link to cut-and-paste content farms?
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by joblessjunkie 15y ago
"Who I am and why I am here," despite being the first heading in the article, is curiously unanswered. It may seem immodest or obvious, but bloggers, please put your name prominently on your blog posts, especially if the most common word is
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by joblessjunkie 15y ago
If the site has control over my money or my public persona, then I very much need to care how they handle my password. It is not uncommon for databases to be stolen via lost laptops, human error, or sloppy security. When this happens, I wou
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by joblessjunkie 15y ago
This article is mis-titled. It makes an easy argument for "debacle," but omits the difficult "how to avoid" part.
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by joblessjunkie 15y ago
It's pretty much the only phone number I can remember.
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by joblessjunkie 15y ago
I wish that when a headline announced "Big company acquires little startup you've never heard of" that it would be accompanied by some explanation of what the little startup actually does, and why it is interesting.
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by joblessjunkie 15y ago
Especially when the "protest" generates news, and gets the product name in front of casually interested gamers who might actually sign up for new accounts.
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by joblessjunkie 15y ago
...And many apps don't make it 100% clear that wall spam is going to be the consequence of your choice, or that not sending spam is an option. Send spam: "Click big happy green button to share!" Don't spam: "Click tiny, scary 'X', which is
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by joblessjunkie 15y ago
Winning games != Good management I have no idea what the meat of the complaint is, but if this championship comes at the cost of increased debt, badly negotiated contracts, or other "shenanigans" that affect the owner's equity then there ma
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by joblessjunkie 15y ago
How is Spotify different from Rhapsody, which has been offering subscription streaming in the US for almost a decade?
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by joblessjunkie 15y ago
fn key where the ctrl key should be
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by joblessjunkie 15y ago
An anonymous anecdote about an anonymous product is the best HN can offer today?
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by joblessjunkie 15y ago
On the same morning, HN promotes the tale of John Perry Barlow lambasting the G8 over copyright protection, but then also promotes the tale of a randomly tweeted photo getting used without permission on numerous news outlets. Is the HN comm
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by joblessjunkie 16y ago
Am I alone in feeling that this headline is self-aggrandizing snobbery? Facebook succeeds by providing universal access: it must be a tool that anyone can use. Is a hammer geared to dullards? Is a coffee mug? Just because it is simple enoug
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by joblessjunkie 16y ago
But it's great for all those plants they have hidden behind the false rack fronts.
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by joblessjunkie 16y ago
I'm not sure if you are just trying to make a supplemental point, but this isn't really where I was going. Either my cell phone drops its signal, or it doesn't. Either my books balance and my checks clear, or they don't. In engineering and
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by joblessjunkie 16y ago
You are trapped in the same Hell as other creative types, such as musicians: there are countless young aspirants who are willing to do this work for free just for a shot at "making it", but precious few people who sign checks who are able t
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by joblessjunkie 16y ago
Completely agreed. It was downright embarrassing to have a profile page on MySpace. Unless you wanted to spend an entire weekend customizing your page, it was going to look like a banner ad factory had exploded on your profile. I'm a web pr
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by joblessjunkie 16y ago
Wait, are you trying persuade us with facts? Airplanes are the safest way to travel by far. That doesn't prevent people from stubbornly refusing to fly (taking very unsafe road trips instead), it doesn't prevent panic attacks in the air, an
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by joblessjunkie 16y ago
JNode: 'Planned future features include lower memory consumption...' As soon as I read that someone was building an OS entirely from Java, I immediately wondered, "How did they solve the memory consumption problem?" Evidently, they didn't.
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by joblessjunkie 16y ago
More Guy Steele, more on topic. It's a much more in-depth investigation of the topic of this article: http://vimeo.com/6624203
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by joblessjunkie 16y ago
It's amazing that just a handful of non-producing individuals were able to skim $700MM off the software industry in just one year. How much did you pay in hidden costs to Intellectual Ventures this year? It's difficult to put a price tag
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by joblessjunkie 16y ago
A-players do not submit unsolicited resumes, and would never have to pay a fee. They would be head-hunted or introduced directly through colleagues. They get plane tickets, expensive dinners, and nice lodging. They are completely above this
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by joblessjunkie 16y ago
Yep, my bad, I did not carefully read the article. :-(
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by joblessjunkie 16y ago
There is not much PHP on Github. It's the same reason there is no profanity it FORTRAN or COBOL in this graph. The author makes a terrible mistake: he does not normalize the graph relative to the total amount of code in each language. There
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by joblessjunkie 16y ago
This study is hopelessly naive. It's like trying to predict the motions of the stock market. I have worked on airline pricing software, and have seen the dirty bowels where your airfare is cooked up. The truth is that pricing rules are so c
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by joblessjunkie 16y ago
IIRC, there was a time when EE pages didn't provide any answer at all without registration. To keep their search ranking up, they'd show this hidden content to the Googlebot, but not to unregistered users. Google cried foul about this, an
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by joblessjunkie 16y ago
Tip to bloggers: put your NAME on your blog somewhere.
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...and a thousand other reasons. Perhaps a government steps in to break a monopoly. Perhaps a new technology arrives to subvert the control. Perhaps a competitor simply offers something a little better or cheaper. We don't necessarily have
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by joblessjunkie 16y ago
This piece is short on big-picture thinking. None of its complaints hold up under scrutiny. Mobile internet access while traveling abroad is expensive and unreliable because it's new . Yes, there are commercial forces that try to maintain

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