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by mikedouglas 11y ago
From the link: "In the late 1990s I paid $11,000US each for several round trips." That's about $16k when accounting for inflation, so $20k isn't too far off.
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by mikedouglas 11y ago
"No, don't you see? This is all about ethics in game journalism."
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Don't fear the CRISPR(marginalrevolution.com)
1 points by mikedouglas 11y ago|0 comments
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by mikedouglas 12y ago
Sounds like some investors took a wash too, so it's likely they had significant debt. Otherwise, it's because other investors held liquidation preferences (possibly at a multiple).
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by mikedouglas 12y ago
Sorry. I checked the guidelines linked at the bottom of the page, but I didn't know there were a separate set of guidelines for "Show HN". I'll make sure to follow them in the future. Maybe it would be possible to show a
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by mikedouglas 12y ago
We've signed the access contract and we're getting ready for a beta launch in the next few weeks. If you, or someone you know, is interested on building something with the api, send me a quick email at mike@3dot.com and I can get
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/dev/travel – free and open API for booking flights and hotels(devtravel.co)
15 points by mikedouglas 12y ago|5 comments
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by mikedouglas 12y ago
Did you blend it? I could imagine it being pretty awful if you skipped that step.
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September 2014 New Patent Case Filings Down 40% from September 2013(lexmachina.com)
5 points by mikedouglas 12y ago|0 comments
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by mikedouglas 12y ago
While you're 95% right, you could also argue that irreversible hundred million dollar transactions are a feature unique to bitcoin. That could appeal to kidnappers.
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Republican Study Committee disavows copyright reform memo(theamericanconservative.com)
15 points by mikedouglas 14y ago|6 comments
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by mikedouglas 14y ago
I think what they're trying to say is that 99% of the time, they have 99.999% uptime.
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by mikedouglas 14y ago
Yeah, someone should alert the newspapers. Oh wait...
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by mikedouglas 14y ago
There is something extremely tasteless about ripping off another site's design, right down to meaningless stylistic choices like the color of anchor links, and the use of circular avatars beside post titles. Instead of approaching the desig
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by mikedouglas 15y ago
... on startup. That doesn't mean it outcompetes Hotspot over the lifetime of the application.
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by mikedouglas 15y ago
The issue at hand is the return on investments, not the value of goods and services. I still purchase technology because the value of having access to that technology exceeds the current cost - the resell value. No one is buying warehouses
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by mikedouglas 15y ago
Opening Siri up to third-parties becomes much simpler if it can be made modal.
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by mikedouglas 15y ago
It's hard to understand your point if you change it. Of course no one likes preachers or endless discussions or anything else that's clearly bad: that doesn't have a whole lot to do with programming languages though. If that's all you're sa
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by mikedouglas 15y ago
More likely it's a signal that the USB option is not the preferred upgrade mechanism. Apple wants to push every possible user to the App Store, and it's only extenuating circumstances that are forcing them to offer the USB stick at all.
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ReverseHN - find the original discussion thread for any page on the internet(entropy.io)
1 points by mikedouglas 15y ago|0 comments
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The Barnes-Hut algorithm for fast n-body simulation(arborjs.org)
2 points by mikedouglas 15y ago|0 comments
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by mikedouglas 16y ago
#dickbar, the API/client controversy, and shutting down DabbleDB. Not sure if I've seen one company burn through as much goodwill in one week as Twitter just did.
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by mikedouglas 16y ago
I read the linked article and I'm not entirely convinced there is a difference (I've used last.fm happily for five years, and never touched the streaming stuff). If I've got 30,000 "scrobbles" and all my friends on last.fm, what does like.f
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Comprehensive Comparison of iPhone Notes Apps(leancrew.com)
2 points by mikedouglas 16y ago|0 comments
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by mikedouglas 16y ago
Isn't the poor refresh rate one of the disadvantages of e-ink displays? And isn't the long battery life a function of use (ie. e-ink displays only use significant power when refreshing)? Writing on displays also has texture and resolution i
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by mikedouglas 16y ago
Users dislike it on Windows because requesting elevated privileges became so common that they rationally chose to tune out. Had Windows been designed from the start with UAC, developers would have been less cavalier in requiring administrat
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by mikedouglas 16y ago
Not that I want to beat up on a open source project, but for a desktop environment focused on ease of use, there are some very odd things overlooked. 1. How am I supposed to know what these icons do? Why even title them? https://img.skitch
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by mikedouglas 16y ago
Did you really just put the word 'profit' in scare quotes?
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by mikedouglas 16y ago
If Lamos's story were consistent, would you be any more likely to believe it? If not, then you already have sufficient evidence that Lamos can't be trusted and you can just point to that. Evidence can't be important if, after learning it, y
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by mikedouglas 16y ago
Suspicious, but if you don't trust Lamos, than it's also completely inconsequential to the truth. Evidence is only valuable if, after confirm its existence, your beliefs shift in some direction.

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