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by lsb 17y ago
Perhaps allow comment score over a certain karma and/or age, just like the ability to change topcolor and downvote?
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by lsb 17y ago
Tesco, an enormous supermarket chain, had that in some stores. It was so efficient, and (what I'd never considered) took up much less space: you don't need to keep waiting room for 20 lines, just one long line.
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by lsb 17y ago
Read carlzimmer.com --- it's very well-written and informative.
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by lsb 17y ago
Good PR firms charge thousands of dollars a month, many over 10k/mo.
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by lsb 17y ago
It shouldn't, you can just have something like static.example.com/picture-of-cat-playing-piano-0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef.jpg
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by lsb 17y ago
People use "this begs the question" to mean "this begs [you to ask] the question", and while it's not historically correct accurate, it's modern usage. People 100 years ago would have thought that Americans using "mad" to mean "angry" inste
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by lsb 17y ago
They're targeting desktop apps. The Java app downloads the pages, so it needs high permissions, so you get the default Java unfriendly popup asking you for confirmation.
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by lsb 17y ago
Why would you need Google to index your blog that same day if no other blogs want to talk about it?
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by lsb 17y ago
Try Yahoo Pipes for things like that?
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by lsb 17y ago
When the Wikipedians say that it "is the only national flag in the world to feature such a modern rifle", it sounds like the Onion video of the faux Chinese minister beaming at the high cancer rates, proud of such a modern disease afflictin
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by lsb 17y ago
Jane St likes it because of the rock-solid type system, but they've been eyeing Haskell compiled with -Wall for the same reasons.
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by lsb 17y ago
It's a good thing they've spent so much time focusing on a photo editor! See tptacek's comment about WordPress security http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=806760
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by lsb 17y ago
The Haskell Paradox, too.
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by lsb 17y ago
And Rio beat Apple to the punch with an MP3 player! Steve Jobs must feel pretty silly about that.
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by lsb 17y ago
Absolutely. It only stops people who are half-heartedly malicious: bots stop and attackers get past either way. You now get the malicious uncoordinated person, but you also get a simpler code base and the peace of mind from knowing that y
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by lsb 17y ago
This looks like it'd be promising for having SQL databases over a cluster of machines; how far along is this research?
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by lsb 17y ago
You're still getting free bot-prevention. If you don't like it, use something like Damien Katz's Negative CAPTCHA (hide a field with CSS, call it email, and wait for a bot to fill it out, and check that that field is empty server-side).
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by lsb 17y ago
All the new books are pretty high quality, compared to old printing techniques. There's a lot of valuable Public Domain data that we're all itching to have, and having Google be the source for that is a distinct possibility.
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by lsb 17y ago
The "tragedy of Craigslist"? It's one of the most popular sites on the internet, one of the highest revenue per employee companies anyhwere --- and somehow it's a tragedy because they're still using table-based layouts?
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by lsb 17y ago
"Y Combinator's been huge and encouraging a lot of young entrepreneurs and guiding them and mentoring them, but that's a knock I hear about you guys a lot, is that there aren't really big ideas that come out of it, it's more just kind of we
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by lsb 17y ago
Excel really took off when they allowed you to SAVE in Lotus format.
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by lsb 17y ago
Here's something I'd like to know: EC2's dashboard looks really friendly, much better than their suggestion of downloading some java programs to fiddle on with. Amazon's the cheapest, so what's the benefit of going with Cloudkick vs straig
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by lsb 17y ago
Obviously, your reference frame is different from a 10-year-old's. In Bart's mind: the most likely outcome of jumping off a cliff is that I'm with my best friend, and personal injury at my age heals really easily.
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by lsb 17y ago
Looking at where he came from, and where he is now, he's got plenty of reason to flaunt it. He came from the slums, and made tens of millions! (It doesn't mean it's not tacky, but he's got the street cred to say he did it (mostly) by his
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by lsb 17y ago
Pedibus is Latin for "by feet".
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by lsb 17y ago
Not to second-guess you, but extra-large reserved instances going full-time for 3 years go for $250/mo via http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2009/08/lower-pricing-for-amazon-...
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by lsb 17y ago
Songkick.com is an events site, for live music events around the world, and they're awesome. They've even got a plugin for iTunes to recommend you gigs based on what you listen to. (I no longer work there, but their product looks better th
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by lsb 17y ago
What FS will you use? SSDs?
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by lsb 17y ago
Just out of curiosity, what were your options that were cheaper than EC2, and why'd you reject them?
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by lsb 17y ago
It's doing exactly as it says, announcing the domain name and their plans with it, none of which are currently implemented. It might be their minimum viable product, just tell people we're working on XYZ, and see how many people show up, bu

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