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by ljw1001 7y ago
just like spam email, and yet hardly any get past Gmail's filters.
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by ljw1001 7y ago
Because all those bots look good on the recurring visitor stats and the provocation is good for engagement
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by ljw1001 7y ago
You wouldn't see anything like that at, say, Theranos, or (to a lesser degree) at WeWork, which was about to be a superhot IPO a few weeks ago and is now struggling to survive. Defrauding investors in an IPO is still defrauding investo
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Ask HN: What are your coolest software apps ever?
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by ljw1001 7y ago
At least someone is making progress.
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by ljw1001 7y ago
> There wasn't a clear seperation between the system itself and whatever you were working on. Another serious issues is that people routinely modified the system classes. Once you had imported a few large libraries there would be a
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by ljw1001 7y ago
> In the end we would ask ourselves if the economics of transporting grain from remote areas is worth it economically, and we can leave the environmental issue out of the equation. Looking at complex issues - especially issues involving
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by ljw1001 7y ago
> These "bots" are mostly spontaneous people You know this how?
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by ljw1001 7y ago
That’s the whole point. A small expense for facebook is enough to kill a small business. It doesn’t matter if there’s any merit to the case
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by ljw1001 7y ago
Pretty unlikely that most people aren't buying the products of the big producers. Otherwise they wouldn't be the big producers.
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by ljw1001 7y ago
Dear Om, Nice article, but please don't use the word "proverbial" in two consecutive sentences unless your article is about proverbs. Or even then. It's distracting as the proverbial bull in the proverbial china shop.
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by ljw1001 7y ago
the great advantage of mind maps like those from the old FreeMind app, is that by putting the root in the middle and branching on both sides, you can fit a lot more information in a standard screen without scrolling.
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by ljw1001 7y ago
So cheap. I'll take one of each.
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by ljw1001 7y ago
i really wanted to use Firefox, so I switched recently. It lasted about 3 hours. Every time I tried to Google something I got a warning that Google was a dangerous site because of their self-signed certificate (seriously? Google should be o
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by ljw1001 7y ago
What is it with pyramids and hairless pets. Egyptian hairless cats, anyone?
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by ljw1001 7y ago
no fault of yours, but if this is really successful it will be bought by facebook and drowned like a pillow case full of kittens.
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by ljw1001 7y ago
i'm not sure about the specifics, but i applaud any attempt to return something to contributors. There are difficulties as always. The most important I think is that it might discourage free contributions if the core developers got pai
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by ljw1001 7y ago
Make it a user testimonial. Then explain the benefit: almost always time, money, or risk-reduction, but it could be something like "Build things you could only imagine before...". If the testimonial does this, you can skip this on
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by ljw1001 7y ago
so he pulled it off the shelves. The man is a hero for our times.
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by ljw1001 7y ago
Agile died the minute someone who never coded anything for money could get a certificate proclaiming them an expert.
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by ljw1001 7y ago
the massive popularity of "agile" otoh, is based to a large extent on the fact that it turns engineers into automatons and offers management unprecedented visibility into their work. As an IT exec if sprints and work broken into 2
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by ljw1001 7y ago
all commercial ventures with any upside have significant risk.
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by ljw1001 7y ago
people chose iphones when they were far superior to everything else and have been (largely) locked-in by switching costs ever since.
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by ljw1001 7y ago
meh, i'm just starting to fool around with music editing and my 250 GB laptop is out of storage. Also, it's a three year old laptop and that's what it came with. They could have kept the stainless steel and given me a bigge
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by ljw1001 7y ago
that just shows that they put the tiny, essentially useless HD in to keep the base price artificially low.
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by ljw1001 7y ago
sure, but it's kind of a shame. Ever larger VC funds today pursue opportunities that require little actual new technology. VC today buys marketshare in markets that represent a new application of widely available tech. Look at the diff
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by ljw1001 7y ago
HR: The acquisition, maintenance, and disposal of human resources (i.e. people).
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by ljw1001 7y ago
Good point, but Smalltalk was basically fully baked in 1980. That's why they called it Smalltalk-80.
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by ljw1001 7y ago
lol. It won't be an issue because no one will relocate for a two month job.
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by ljw1001 7y ago
In the US (I should say in MA, which is what I know best) the firing process is already trivial. The only real deterrent for firing someone is that it is an emotionally difficult task. I've been on both sides of that table, fwiw. I abs

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