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by karzeem 19y ago
If I get sick of being home, I head out to a movie. The important thing is to interact with other humans, so call a friend or go somewhere by yourself and make an effort to be gregarious. I find it doesn't take much to recharge.
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by karzeem 19y ago
There's a grain of an argument somewhere in there, but the writing is astoundingly unclear and confusing. It needs a serious overhaul.
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by karzeem 19y ago
That's roughly analogous to saying that Citibank, because your money is in their vaults, may come up with whatever conditions it pleases for you to access that money. It violates the spirit with which people agree to let a company store th
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by karzeem 19y ago
I'd get rid of the table slice and add that chunk to the death-to-IE section. It would be interesting to see how many person-hours have been spent in the U.S. since, say, 2003 solely on fixing sites' IE bugs.
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by karzeem 19y ago
A bit of clarification: Buffett is very big on only going after investments that are within your "circle of competence"--the domain of businesses you understand well. He's saying that while there's plenty of money for investors to make in
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by karzeem 19y ago
Exclusively multi-touch interfaces have only limited applications at sizes much bigger than an iPhone. Something the size of a piece of paper doesn't seem big, but it'll certainly feel big if you've been moving your hands all over it for a
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by karzeem 19y ago
> "Hey, old man, I learned in school today that there used to be these companies called 'studios', and they would actually spend tens or hundreds of millions of dollars making scripted entertainment, and you would actually sit still, in
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Problems with Leopard's UI(thinkmac.co.uk)
1 points by karzeem 19y ago|0 comments
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by karzeem 19y ago
You shouldn't have much trouble. I learned by drawing up a layout in InDesign (you can do it on a piece of paper, it doesn't matter). Get that how you want it, without regard to what you do or don't know how to do in CSS. Then turn that i
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by karzeem 19y ago
I'd say that F1 teams have too much money riding on wins to allow that sort of shoddy design, but that doesn't seem to stop most big corporations. On the other hand, F1 is a great source of innovation, and it's hard to believe that in the m
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by karzeem 19y ago
I don't know that there's any sensible reaction to this other than breaking into tears at its majesty and elegance. (And then holding yourself to similar standards.)
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by karzeem 19y ago
I think it was a good submission, so you did the right thing by posting it here. It sparked some good discussion.
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Verizon Introducing FiOS with 20Mbps Upstream and Downstream(arstechnica.com)
11 points by karzeem 19y ago|4 comments
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by karzeem 19y ago
Hmm, good eye. I wonder if they'll respond to the question you sent them.
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by karzeem 19y ago
This is a great illustration of why exposing yourself to randomness is useful. I'd bet that all successful startups have similar stories of chance meetings that led to something great.
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by karzeem 19y ago
The byline is inconclusive, and Mediratta doesn't use the first-person until about a third of the way through the article--the first time it's clear that we're hearing from an insider. Anyone who reads the whole article will realize by th
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by karzeem 19y ago
Twenty percent time is great, and obviously it has paid off nicely for Google. But was anyone else taken aback that the Times would run this? It's a bit...puff piece-ish. It's good, obviously, to report on good ideas that companies have
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by karzeem 19y ago
A few months back, Vanity Fair published a fascinating excerpt from a book ( Thunderstruck ) about this case. Dr. Crippen was one of the first people ever to be captured because of radio transmissions. He fled the UK on a US-bound ship, a
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by karzeem 19y ago
Exactly. Algorithms are simply ways of approaching and solving a problem, and the ability to devise clever ones is portable between disciplines. At my college, several professors in the CS department hadn't programmed anything since the '
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Ask YC: Good Lisp Hosts?
4 points by karzeem 19y ago|4 comments
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by karzeem 19y ago
For non-techies, iTunes is a better deal than BitTorrent. There's no hunting for torrents, managing wonky downloads, dealing with slow clients, etc. Maybe the popular peer-to-peer options in Russia are more mass-market than the ones in the
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by karzeem 19y ago
Obviously MySpace is doing fine now, but time is unkind to companies that coast. Until MySpace does something very new, they're coasting. Of course they'll be around in 2008. I'm talking about whether they'll be around in 2015.
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by karzeem 19y ago
Futures markets deal with financial instruments, not predictions about stuff like when an iPhone nano will come out.
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by karzeem 19y ago
Journalists too often declare trends based on isolated examples. Where's the context? How do peer-to-peer downloads compare to legal sales for traditionally marketed albums? Also, a lot of the illegal downloaders may get their music tha
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by karzeem 19y ago
They seem to be playing catch-up--there's nothing in this announcement that's above and beyond what Facebook is doing.
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by karzeem 19y ago
Why on earth would a part-owner of the company be stupid enough to use his access to help a friend cheat? Absolute power corrupts absolutely?
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by karzeem 19y ago
You nailed it. Because we live in a society whose rules we'd like for the most part to uphold, we impose norms on ourselves and on others. Fairness is among the most important of those, and it's the foundation of many others. Check out th
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by karzeem 19y ago
I used Altavista, then HotBot, then Google. I remember reading a Time Magazine article in 1998 about the "new wave" of search engines; it featured Google pretty prominently, and I switched not long after that. Google's results were very mu
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by karzeem 19y ago
Yeah, articles like this are almost enough by themselves to justify the concept of a statute of limitations.
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Driving from New York to LA in 32 Hours or Less(wired.com)
46 points by karzeem 19y ago|9 comments

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