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by jpadvo 15y ago
It is probably more subtle than that. You have to have a surplus of goods so there is selection. There needs to be enough pastries on display so that people will be able to find something they want. And when money was flowing, he could affo
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by jpadvo 15y ago
First, that is awesome. You've reminded me about a few projects that I really need to open up. Thanks. :) Second, playing this game seems like a great way to develop intelligence, specifically spatial reasoning, as per the recent front page
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by jpadvo 15y ago
> To fix the conversion rates, John moved the "cash only" sign inside, and on top of that started accepting checks, foreign currency, and even the I.O.U's. In my mind, this is the highlight of the article. If you carry out your business
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by jpadvo 15y ago
This was a purchase: the investors bought part of the company. When they signed over a billion dollars, they were not trying to fund operations; they wanted to become part owners. They know that the vast bulk of the money would go straigh
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by jpadvo 15y ago
Strange. Does anyone know if upvotes can resurrect a dead comment? In any case, I just gave it one in hopes it'll help..
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by jpadvo 15y ago
Yikes, I missed that. Thanks code_duck!
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Ask HN: Why is there no Anti-Software-Patents organization?
8 points by jpadvo 15y ago|1 comments
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Searchyc.com is Down.(searchyc.com)
8 points by jpadvo 15y ago|3 comments
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by jpadvo 15y ago
I don't think that is inevitable. There is not an inherent reason why the Patent Office needs to award trivial patents. If they tighten up (or apply) their standards, the problem would be tremendously reduced.
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by jpadvo 15y ago
If courtesy means giving undeserved benefit of the doubt, I'm all for discourtesy. This is about rational discourse. The statement that "It's like they don't even _want_ to fix the language" is inaccurate. It does not relate to the state of
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by jpadvo 15y ago
I catch myself feeling that way, too, but it is uncharitable and inaccurate. They do work a lot of work on developing the language. The issue is that sometimes their idea of what is should be differs from the idea that most people have.
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by jpadvo 15y ago
But why not make it more readable? The patch exists - all it would take is for it to be accepted. And there are a ton of people who can't justify the switching costs of moving to a different language. And true, a lot of us aren't great pr
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by jpadvo 15y ago
This does not seem reasonable. I mean that literally -- this feels more like a choice driven by culture than by reason. The cons seem nowhere near strong enough to counter the fact that the overwhelming majority of users want this syntax, a
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by jpadvo 15y ago
Flagged -- this is a highly misleading title. People have been given a year to come into compliance with the new regulations. Communications minister Ed Vaizey said that "...it will take some time for workable technical solutions to be de
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Cookiejacking: 0-day exploit of all Internet Explorer versions(sites.google.com)
171 points by jpadvo 15y ago|29 comments
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by jpadvo 15y ago
Likejacking is already a widespread plague, and this is even worse. Instead of tricking users into invisibly clicking a like button, they can trick users into invisibly giving away their login info. Expect to see a lot of Facebook spam from
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by jpadvo 15y ago
"The secondary uptake wave after enthusiasts is not going to come from those who use legacy banking daily and are comfortable with it. It is going to be people who don’t want or are not allowed to use the legacy banking system for their eve
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Six Degrees of Lois Weisberg [Malcolm Gladwell in 1999 on Networking](gladwell.com)
2 points by jpadvo 15y ago|0 comments
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What are important things to know that people generally aren't told about?(quora.com)
4 points by jpadvo 15y ago|2 comments
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by jpadvo 15y ago
"The idea is to focus on simplicity and performance. Not availability or fault tolerance (at all)." This sounds absolutely perfect for a restricted number of use cases, and really tantalizing but unworkable for the rest.
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by jpadvo 15y ago
"But, seriously, if fifty awesome people knocked on the door, we’d hire them all. We don’t hire to specific positions, we hire to standards." This is how Andrew Carnegie ran his companies. He didn't hire when he needed employees, he hired w
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by jpadvo 15y ago
Flagged as inaccurate -- can someone change the title? It started as a Comcast specific issue, but there is (1) no evidence it was anything aside of a glitch, and (2) it is affecting lots of non-Comcast users now as well. Edit: this post ha
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by jpadvo 15y ago
Lots of things are intuitively obvious -- but when articulated clearly, it is possible to understand them more precisely. That ay you can use the knowledge in a rigorous way, not just an intuitive way.
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by jpadvo 15y ago
That's what it seems like. Unless I'm missing something, it seems like there has got to be a ton of prior art that would invalidate this, forget the fact that it is obvious.
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by jpadvo 15y ago
I understand that Google is big on defensive patents, but this one seems over the top. Here is the abstract of the patent application Google has filed -- it has lots of big words, but doesn't seem to describe anything that is in any way non
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by jpadvo 15y ago
In an update to the post: "As evidenced by our updates and comments, many people seem to be affected by this, and some of them don't have as loud megaphones as we do. We'll continue trying to find out why this process is the way it is, and
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by jpadvo 15y ago
This has some features that would be really nice for a backbone project I'm working on. Specifically, nested routes would really help me DRY some of my code. I watched this, and will definitely be using it once there is some cross-browser t
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by jpadvo 15y ago
That is exactly what he claimed -- that the situation with high heels is in a stable equilibrium. Barring some kind of outside influence, stable equilibria remain in their state indefinitely.
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by jpadvo 16y ago
"Sustained software quality is an extremely difficult challenge." - (from the article) Quality can mean a lot of different things. Elegant, simple to understand code. Adherence to current best practices. Modular. And the list goes on... But
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by jpadvo 16y ago
A more accurate statement would be "what Thiel isn't quoted about in this article is..." Otherwise, very interesting points. :)

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