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by mdonahoe 16y ago
"What about all of those teams that compete in the DARPA robotic car competition every year" I imagine that Google is hiring them. Sebastian Thrun, leader of the team that won the first DARPA Grand Challenge, is now part of Google's driverl
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by mdonahoe 16y ago
I like ProjectEuler, does that count?
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by mdonahoe 16y ago
"Weird... I can't print this PDF... oh well, I will just screenshot it and paste it into a Word doc."
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by mdonahoe 16y ago
Sad that they haven't given us much more than this in the past year
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by mdonahoe 16y ago
What's a filesystem? -sent from my iPhone
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by mdonahoe 16y ago
There were a few points made in that discussion. I'm curious to know what exact he thought we didn't "understand about innovation"
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by mdonahoe 16y ago
"It's entertaining" He has a very unique perspective on that situation. Exciting that he is coming to Ycombinator full time. Expecting some interesting Ask PB threads in the future.
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by mdonahoe 16y ago
why is there an "An"?
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by mdonahoe 16y ago
Interesting. On the page about the book[1], Zed also links to How To Think Like a Computer Scientist, another popular book for learning Python. Allen Downey was the first author on that book, but initially he wrote it in Java: "I released t
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by mdonahoe 16y ago
I successfully used this technique to unfreeze a shovel that was stuck in a mound of snow.
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by mdonahoe 16y ago
Yes, from the submitter's perspective, their link has been reclaimed. From the service's perspective, a key is either in use or not, and we agreed that keys that aren't in active use could have ads on them.
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by mdonahoe 16y ago
So ideally you want people entering links directly into the url bar instead of creating a page link somewhere. You could detect that reasonably well with the Referer header, and perhaps provide a warning against that behavior? food for thou
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by mdonahoe 16y ago
If the key has been reallocated, it is no longer expired.
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by mdonahoe 16y ago
You should make it such that links with expired keys send you to a page with an ad.
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by mdonahoe 16y ago
And now they drag him through the mud: http://valleywag.gawker.com/5615971/apples-freedom-from-porn... the danger of using auto-follow services on twitter.
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by mdonahoe 16y ago
"find a small problem, and start with a smaller problem inside of it" Also, dont make a product that helps you generate ideas.
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by mdonahoe 16y ago
At least Tom made a prototype of his idea, rather than letting the "Jump to Conclusions" map fester in his mind forever.
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by mdonahoe 17y ago
sweet. reminds me of this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1315642
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by mdonahoe 17y ago
I hope there is a way to disable auto-rotation for reading in bed. That is a big pet peeve with my iphone.
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by mdonahoe 17y ago
Not getting paid? Wow. I wish I had that problem. I'm stuck under the $250 threshold. sigh
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by mdonahoe 18y ago
There is a lot to be said of aesthetics, and I must say that Chrome looks and feels much sexier than the default Firefox theme. But whatever, none of them are much different from each other anyway. Where is the real innovation?
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by mdonahoe 18y ago
How are you protecting against spam? How do any of these no-signup services protect against spam without resorting to captchas?
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by mdonahoe 18y ago
it also has a CD-ROM player!
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by mdonahoe 18y ago
How do zero login sites deal with spam? Fancy javascript?
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by mdonahoe 18y ago
how long before my entire OS is just a fullscreen web browser?
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by mdonahoe 18y ago
The floating arms keyboard sounds really cool.
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by mdonahoe 18y ago
i love hacker news
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by mdonahoe 18y ago
I assume this was written a long time ago... ?
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by mdonahoe 18y ago
My roommate bought an eeepc after his old laptop died suddenly. He only really used it for the internet anyway, so a cheap netbook is a quick fix until he has the time and money to pick out a bigger/better machine. As for myself, I think th
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by mdonahoe 18y ago
I really don't like reading pdfs in the scribd flash reader. It usually slows my browser to a crawl.

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