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by jval 13y ago
It's just a start, I'm sure it wouldn't be too difficult to add these features in future for popular languages if there is demand for it. It's pretty exciting IMHO.
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by jval 13y ago
He's a great entrepreneur, and I don't think for a second that technology has a monopoly on great entrepreneurs, but the reality is that you don't get into technology because of the revenue growth, but rather for the profits
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by jval 13y ago
This is a huge deal. I live in Australia and I have been running businesses on the cloud for the last 3 years or so. I have rarely heard the issue of the PATRIOT Act raised and in spite of there being laws banning the transfer of personal d
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by jval 13y ago
Does anyone have any great resources they can recommend regarding SEO and Angular? I have read a lot of conflicting things so far.
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by jval 13y ago
Out of interest, how many hours do successful startup founders tend to work? Does anyone have a solid view on this, and is there any anecdotal evidence out of YC to suggest any sort of correlation of this kind?
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by jval 13y ago
Neat, although I'm more interested in when you plan on having this book out... Angular is incredibly powerful but it really could use with some more resources for those who are picking it up.
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by jval 13y ago
This is completely right. Most of the commenters here keep thinking about it from the perspective of people in countries that already have great access to education, but disruption begins with people who don't already have access to a produ
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by jval 13y ago
In response to some of the critics: For a good user-generated content comparable, YouTube wasn't profitable until around 2010-2011[1], 7 years after its founding. It is, of course, very profitable now and looks like one of the best acquisit
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Petition to join America and Australia to form Ameristralia(petitions.whitehouse.gov)
2 points by jval 13y ago|0 comments
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by jval 13y ago
It is an interesting experiment and kudos to them for having the courage to actually commit to it. I'm pretty sure Steve Jobs tried to do something very similar to this at Next Computer and it failed. I think the openness of Next, where emp
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by jval 14y ago
Amazing work github! Now get those sticker packs back in the store so I can buy a few and stick them everywhere :P
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by jval 14y ago
"Elsevier tried to sneak in legislation through lobbying – the so-called Research Works Act – that was to undo the National Institute of Health’s Open Access mandate and therefore would have prevented public access to millions of bio-medica
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Wikivoyage Destination of the Day - Narnia(en.wikivoyage.org)
1 points by jval 14y ago|0 comments
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by jval 14y ago
I just finished watching an interview with D'Aloisio on the huge 7.30pm current affairs show here on the ABC in Australia (unimaginatively named 7.30). The interview opened with the newsreader restating the fact that he had been covered on
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by jval 14y ago
I feel this would be an appropriate subject for a Dilbert comic. Storyline is that someone accidentally left the dot out of $300000.00 to make it $30000000 and then everyone else went along with it for fear of looking stupid.
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by jval 14y ago
I don't know anything about fashion but I spoke to some friends who are lifelong fashion addicts. Apparently in the fashion blogosphere they're more well known for copying small designers than they are for the quality of their clothing: ht
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by jval 14y ago
Agree that long term the value of Bitcoin will go up provided that there is no technical flaw that gets exploited in the long run (which I'm not sure will be the case). However, these predictions are completely wrong. At best the drivers of
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by jval 14y ago
I like the growth hacking feed - who curates it? Is there a way we can get other feeds on the web or just through the app?
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by jval 14y ago
Sad to see so many negative comments on this article and on the site, totally uncalled for and unfortunately very common with HN comments these days. Give the OP a break. The story about the boyfriend was fascinating. Get over the bold sent
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by jval 14y ago
Awesome article and props to him for sharing that, must be hard to pour out something that is really hard for him and for all of us to admit, which is that even though we know not to put our work ahead of our health, we do. If this can serv
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by jval 14y ago
I disagree with the whole idea that lower quality is such an awful thing. I feel like the entire article is written through a well-educated American lens that doesn't understand why this is so revolutionary. This has nothing to do with peop
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by jval 14y ago
Thanks for that, I'll change the article title. I was going off this Ars article which made it seem as though the Australian cops were quite suggestive, but you're probably right. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/07/australian-cops-
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Australian police prosecute man for buying drugs via Tor and Silk Road(theage.com.au)
38 points by jval 14y ago|41 comments
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by jval 14y ago
Seems to be up for me still. Basically it reads text to speech of each article on the front page of HN. Kinda like Hacker News Radio almost.
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by jval 14y ago
Wow, amazing work. I too was skeptical about TTS but it really grows on you. Are you guys using some kind of proprietary solution? Sounds really clear.
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by jval 14y ago
pg, I think you should make this point clear in your OP. The reason I say this is that I don't think the majority of the indignation towards InstallMonetizer was around the fact that they do what they do, but rather the fact that YC appeare
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by jval 14y ago
Sale of goods refers to goods, which do not include intellectual property. The first sale doctrine refers to resale of goods which contain copies of intellectual property (such as books and DVDs), and refers only to the transfer of the limi
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by jval 14y ago
This article is completely wrong. I have read a few articles (I think there was one on TorrentFreak) on this point in the last few days that seem to completely misunderstand what property is and how intellectual and real property rights are
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by jval 14y ago
I never said let them fail, I said that we are all victims of moral hazard. I don't profess to be able to solve all the world's problems in a HN thread, but the controllers of these companies were never held accountable for their failings a
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by jval 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_hazard The only thing worse than making a mistake is failing to own up to it and suffer the consequences. The entire Western world, not just Ireland, is a victim of this.

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