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by joedevon 11y ago
I was approached a long time ago with an offer to pay for users' info on a forum I ran. You should have seen the shock at my refusal. The buyer just couldn't understand why I wouldn't want to make free money for just selling
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by joedevon 11y ago
Read the comments to understand the title
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by joedevon 12y ago
The LATimes posted a follow up story here: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/miranda/la-et-cam-... and the audio of the ceremony I attended is here (though Chrome has trouble with it, you need Quickti
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by joedevon 12y ago
Some people think it was done knowingly, to make a name for Curry, the grad student who made the request. Others say that because the Swiss guy who was trying to get a core sample which is non-destructive, was unable to do so before heading
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by joedevon 12y ago
Dan, First of all, the LA Times changed the title from when I originally posted it. The first title they used was stupid quite frankly. Second, under "sharelines", there are two headlines they suggest using when sharing the story.
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by joedevon 12y ago
There's a limited amount of space in the yCombinator title thingie. The LA times provided a convenient title. Did I really do something improper here? This is a fabulous story. And I happen to know about it because I took the trip to t
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by joedevon 12y ago
I copied the wording from the LA Times and it describes the story very well. At the time that tree was cut down it was the oldest known living tree.
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The tree was the oldest living thing on Earth, and they cut it down(latimes.com)
11 points by joedevon 12y ago|9 comments
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by joedevon 12y ago
I agree this article is weak. There is no discussion on the mechanism of addiction. Science is well aware of the role of environment on addiction. The environmental "trigger" prompts the user to use. Change the environment, remove
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by joedevon 12y ago
In retrospect the biggest issue was the in-person pitch. At first I was actually intrigued. But when I started to ask serious questions, like what's the unit cost? How do you scale? How many do you need to sell to break even? etc, the
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by joedevon 12y ago
I can't believe this insane idea has made Hacker News most popular. I heard the pitch in person a couple months ago and thought they were fantasizing. So now it's trending. Either I'm the stupid one, or the upvoters are. Most
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11 Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make When Managing Developers(readwrite.com)
2 points by joedevon 12y ago|0 comments
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Keepers of Prometheus: The World's Oldest Tree(arizona.edu)
5 points by joedevon 12y ago|1 comments
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by joedevon 12y ago
Tommy Edison, the Blind Film Critic's take: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDHJRCtv0WY
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What do people in SV plan to do once they hit 35 and are over the hill?(quora.com)
3 points by joedevon 12y ago|0 comments
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by joedevon 12y ago
Hot off the presses! Google just released the latest future ex-api they will get bored of in a couple/few years and kill, along with any company that depends on it. #rememberthiscommentthen
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by joedevon 12y ago
Great post Fiona! I wrote a similar post ~3 years ago here: http://mysqltalk.wordpress.com/2011/11/27/challenge-accessib... which turned into GAAD, Global Accessibility Awareness Day, a few months later. htt
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Museum of Fine Arts apologizes to The Onion for not having a Mona Lisa(twitter.com)
1 points by joedevon 12y ago|0 comments
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City of Los Angeles Data Portal(data.lacity.org)
57 points by joedevon 12y ago|6 comments
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by joedevon 12y ago
Ah, there it is!
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by joedevon 12y ago
Did the title of this link change? Didn't it originally say "MIT researchers turn selfies into art", or something like that?
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by joedevon 12y ago
The new site is not accessible unfortunately.
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Lawrence Lessig does a Ted talk inspired by Aaron Swartz(ted.com)
1 points by joedevon 13y ago|0 comments
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by joedevon 13y ago
Wow. Not sure how voting works on HN, but looks like I got downvoted for this comment. LOL. It's just an opinion. Not trolling or anything.
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by joedevon 13y ago
It was just a thought. I mean, just speaking in terms of a business move, Google's track record ain't great with these types of services. There must be a better way than dumping them like that. What I heard or read somewhere about
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by joedevon 13y ago
Entitlement? Google sold geeks the world over on a different kind of company. A "Don't Be Evil" company. A company we could trust with our personal email. That supported the open source community. But it was a big bait and sw
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by joedevon 13y ago
I happily pay for both Box AND Dropbox and this does not in the least entice me. Google made a social contract with the world. It was a bad marketing move to break the contract. Again and again. You'd have to be a fool to trust your da
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by joedevon 13y ago
Sorry nodemaker. This reminds me of a blog post I have that's a long time coming. (kinda painful to face). My Dad passed away a year and a few weeks ago of Lung Cancer. I am furious that his pain doc didn't warn us that the day he
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Einstein’s Lost Theorem, freely viewable at Einstein archive(alberteinstein.info)
1 points by joedevon 13y ago|0 comments
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Einstein’s Lost Theorem, Revealed(pbs.org)
1 points by joedevon 13y ago|0 comments

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