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by jskopek 17y ago
These are all remarkable, but the one that really gets my imagination going is #7 - Straightlist. If they can implement embeddable widgets that can be put into blogs and forums I can see the site picking up a lot of steam, and once they sta
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by jskopek 17y ago
I'm being paid considerably more then my co-workers mainly because I've demonstrated the ability to complete projects very quickly. To a certain extent, this code is one of the reasons I was hired; that said, I'd still like to be able to us
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Ask HN: Using personal code at work
20 points by jskopek 17y ago|21 comments
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by jskopek 17y ago
Unlikely, but it would be a cinch to determine the number of letters in the address; do a little creative guessing with that value and you could probably find it. Of course, having an interesting conversation with them would likely be a lit
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by jskopek 17y ago
While Kevin's regret is pretty valid, I think the most interesting is definitely Gauri Nanda's - regretting going at the business totally alone. I refrained from applying for YC funding in the past because I couldn't find a good partner, bu
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by jskopek 17y ago
Thanks to everyone for the great suggestions - looks like I've got a reading to do! I just remembered another incredible novel that I haven't read in years - Noble House by James Clavell; it's a novel about two warring business empires, set
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Ask HN: Recommend any good business/hacker fiction?
30 points by jskopek 17y ago|45 comments
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by jskopek 18y ago
I'm sure they've double and triple checked this with their legal departments, but this strikes me as being ripe for a lawsuit. If the MPAA (or Israeli equivalent) can prove that the ISP is caching copies of illegal torrents it doesn't seem
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by jskopek 18y ago
Goes to show how few attacks are currently performed on sites nowdays. Twitter survived all the fame, competition, and development without this happening until now
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by jskopek 18y ago
I'd conclude that they're keeping up with the times
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by jskopek 18y ago
I have to question if Jobs, Gates, or Ellison would actually be good employees in a large company like Google. It definitely takes resiliency, dedication, and tenacity to start a company; when you're joining a well established one, however,
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by jskopek 18y ago
The site seems to map purchases down to the individual address of the customer (you just have to zoom in a while to get there). As a potential zappos customer, I can't help but feel a little weirded out that my order information is so publi
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by jskopek 18y ago
Post your submission on HN. We'd love to tear it apart :)
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by jskopek 18y ago
Acting as devil's advocate here, there isn't much evidence behind these 'explanations'. It's quite possible that Zuckerberg is loosing his edge, but this article paints him in a way that's damn close to slander.
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by jskopek 18y ago
A little too simple for most of us on HN, but this would be a great teaching tool for computer science classes
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by jskopek 18y ago
The idea is crap, and there's very little future in it, but the lessons learned from it seem valid to a wide number of startups: find an influential champion to spread the word, make it easy to discover and use (a first time can measure the
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by jskopek 18y ago
This kind of kills the main value of the site
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by jskopek 18y ago
Service is a feature that's much harder to quantify, but there _are_ ways of demonstrating it. One of the best recent examples I've seen is http://www.engineyard.com/ , which lists its sales & support phone numbers on the header of eac
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by jskopek 18y ago
I think it's based on a pervious article on HN a couple days back in which the author talked about how running a Tor exit node can get you arrested for downloading child porn. Nerd humor
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by jskopek 18y ago
I'd like to add that I find it amazing how devices that focus on simplifying existing technologies are taking off in the marketplace; Peek and the Flip series of camcorders being the big leaders. The hardware behind all this innovation has
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Peek Pronto: The world's simplest email communication device now supports SMS(i.gizmodo.com)
1 points by jskopek 18y ago|1 comments
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by jskopek 18y ago
Your approach to teaching a curriculum that is custom tailored to an individual's goals is one of those things that makes so much sense in retrospect, but at the same time an approach I have never seen discussed. Here we have this vast repo
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by jskopek 18y ago
As a previous commenter pointed out, the device purportedly saves up to 40% in hot water energy, not consumption. My bad on the incorrect title
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by jskopek 18y ago
On a related note, has anyone found the different quality settings for a flash app to have any effect? I used to browse the web on an ancient G4 powerbook that would choke under most flash apps and movies, and lowering back the quality neve
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The Ecodrain: How a simple, non-moving part can reduce hot water consumption by 40%(inhabitat.com)
64 points by jskopek 18y ago|24 comments
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Digg & Reddit missed out on Twitter. Here's why(jeanmarc.skopek.ca)
3 points by jskopek 18y ago|0 comments
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by jskopek 18y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't the two ideals (being able to charge for your work VS. being able to modify others' work) contradictory? I have zero experience with Firefox extension development, but everything I _have_ seen about it po
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by jskopek 18y ago
I'd extend your comment to "Everyone should learn how to program". When you look at the number of repetitive tasks that take place in a typical office environment, it's amazing at how much time could be saved with a little programming. Macr
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by jskopek 18y ago
More importantly, how did this submission get 4 points?
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by jskopek 18y ago
This is a little off topic, but I want to re-iterate an age old plea: Please link to your product/service from your blog page! I missed the original soft-launch, but happened across this article. I had to type in the top level domain to see

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