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by kakooljay 17y ago
Posession is 99/100ths of Internet Law. I think similar logic led to a ruling that Google did not infringe on plaintiff's IP because Google did not host the images displayed on its pages.
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by kakooljay 17y ago
Maybe that applies only if the winner is American. I bet they changed the eligibility requirements after that was written..
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by kakooljay 17y ago
That's hilarious :) YC asks applicants to describe a time they hacked something to their advantage.. wouldn't that be a great answer?
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by kakooljay 17y ago
That is a great point.. imagine a prof issuing grades that way. I'd love to see someone with a 100-point system do some A/B testing to see how much recommendations degrade with a 5-point system.
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by kakooljay 17y ago
How would that work, without access to server logs? There's no way for a 3rd party to track every request. One note: Alexa is getting better: "On April 16, 2008 many users reported dramatic shifts in their Alexa rankings. Alexa confirmed th
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by kakooljay 17y ago
I'm glad FB is opening up.. now we'll see some cool FB mashups :) I'd love to see 2D visualizations of the people in my networks.. like an FB-touchgraph [ http://touchgraph.com/navigator.html ]..
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Google & Facebook to offer music sales(computerworld.com)
1 points by kakooljay 17y ago|0 comments
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"Facebook for scientists" .. will anyone friend them?(networkworld.com)
1 points by kakooljay 17y ago|0 comments
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by kakooljay 17y ago
8 great uses: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9118441/8_ways_Twitte...
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Mob Rule: How Users Took Over Twitter(wired.com)
11 points by kakooljay 17y ago|9 comments
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by kakooljay 17y ago
There's a related article in current issue of Wired [ http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/10/ff_twitter/ ]: The company’s revenue will be a modest $4 million or so this year. Even so, Twitter reportedly turned down a $500 million acquisition
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by kakooljay 17y ago
I believe in free markets too (I'm an economist + engineer). But Google, which professes to "not be evil" & is making peanuts on these services, could have set a great example (and not risked damaging publicity)..
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by kakooljay 17y ago
Yes - "Business" is too generic. Would you start a tech business in Pittsburgh?
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Don't be evil? Google's mobile services in Africa.
1 points by kakooljay 17y ago|4 comments
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by kakooljay 17y ago
Measuring IQ at age 2? Really? It's hard enough to measure IQ in adults. [Which is why average IQ scores have been increasing about three points every decade. http://skepticreport.com/sr/?p=371 ] "He is always asking questions." Wow, he MU
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by kakooljay 17y ago
"Bebo, with more than 24 million users [1/2 as many as Twitter], operates in offices about three times larger than Twitter's space." Interesting... Btw: when I cut & pasted that line, sfgate added this string: "Read more: http://www.sf
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by kakooljay 17y ago
When you have to recuse yourself at every meeting, what's the point?
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by kakooljay 17y ago
Hello HTML...& goodbye Flash? "HTML5 is expected to be a game-changer in Web application development, making obsolete such plug-in-based rich Internet application (RIA) technologies as Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, and Sun JavaFX.
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by kakooljay 17y ago
Check out Twitter API: Up and Running: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596154622 Chapter 1 has a great section called "Creative Uses of Twitter" (& a history of Twitter). Examples range from breaking news & games like Artwiculate t
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by kakooljay 17y ago
"There are two reasons for this: bandwidth limitations and the data integrity issues posed by the commodity drives that are typically used in cloud services." Why does using commodity drives entail data integrity issues? Doesn't everyone us
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by kakooljay 17y ago
"PrivateEquityForums.com (stunnning $14,500 to $25,000 plus 3-5% of your raise to present!) We’ve received information that Mike Segal of Joshua Capital Partners runs this forum that is looking for up to $25,000 and/or 3-10% of how much you
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by kakooljay 17y ago
That's great (and apt, given the economy). The New Yorker has collections of Baseball Cartoons, Political Cartoons, Art Cartoons, Doctor cartoons (which I got for my dad :). but no books of Tech or Computer cartoons.. wonder why?
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by kakooljay 17y ago
Great post - who knew about this facebook thing :p
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by kakooljay 17y ago
That bar graph (1/2 way down) is from 2006 [ http://ajaxian.com/archives/ajaxiancom-2006-survey-results ].. shows jQuery=7%.. wonder if that has changed since.
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by kakooljay 17y ago
With the launch of interactive advertising, "many of the dollars that went to the internet will come back to the TV," says David Kline of Cablevision...
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Will interactive television challenge online advertising?(economist.com)
1 points by kakooljay 17y ago|3 comments
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Ask HN: Best PHP unit testing tools?
7 points by kakooljay 17y ago|1 comments
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by kakooljay 17y ago
Paul Graham has a great post about hiring: http://www.paulgraham.com/gh.html [Great hackers] Some other good links: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/GuerrillaInterviewing... http://www.paulgraham.com/hiring.html
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by kakooljay 17y ago
Did you see this? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=868967
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by kakooljay 17y ago
"...be sure to check the URL. If it’s something like http://74.98.30.203/ebayaccountverify.php IT’S A SCAM!" How hard would it be to write a virus that changed a victim's browser (say FireFox or Chrome, which are both open source) so "pay

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