mixmax

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by mixmax 14y ago
it's interesting to read the comments here. Most of them go on bashing PHP because it's a terribly designed language. They're probably right, but they're totally missing the point, primarily because this is a very technical community. I'm n
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by mixmax 14y ago
This has been mentioned before, but could you please not change links and edit titles unless there's a reason for it. Or at least make it transparent to the users that something has been changed. It's enormously irritating.
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Richard Bransons Virgin group does this, although their groups are smaller. Around 20 people if I remember correctly.
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The writing style is scarily close to Bret Easton Ellis in American psycho. This could be the main character Patrick Bateman describing his morning routine. Scary indeed..
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by mixmax 14y ago
The algorithm takes many things into account, one of which is the url. Self-posts for instance need a lot more upvotes to get high up on the frontpage. So You can't quite know.
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by mixmax 14y ago
maybe you're right - I didn't catch that. Apologies to aes256 if I misread his comment.
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by mixmax 14y ago
so if an American did something that was illegal in Pakistan and the US had no interest in prosecuting you'd find it natural that an American citizen should be extradited to Pakistan and prosecuted there? That's basically your argument.
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by mixmax 14y ago
From the article it seems that this guy ran a search engine which might or might nor be illegal in the United States. However, he is British, most of the visitors are British and the servers are not in the United States, yet the US wants hi
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by mixmax 14y ago
Thanks for the good explanation. However you end your comment by an unfounded claim that more socialism tends to imply perverse incentives. The same could be claimed of capitalism (or probably any other ..ism), see the banking sector and Am
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The problem isn't socialism, it's a divergence of productivity between the northern and southern regions of the euro area. When you combine this with a shared currency you're asking for trouble. Note that the socialist nordic countries have
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and it's late at night in Europe
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yes, it's on my bookshelf right besides my computer :-)
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Why are we still taking advice from Dale Carnegie in 2012? because the way people work hasn't changed much since he wrote the book in 1936, and it's points still stand. I believe "how to win friends and influence people" is actually one o
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by mixmax 14y ago
No, that's another post. If you click through to the parents post you'll see it marked as dead. This is the post you're talking about: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4101992 Edit: Why is this downvoted heavily? It appears pretty obvi
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That was an absolutely amazing hack
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Thanks a lot for the reply. Yes, it is quite a lot of wishes, especially give our budget of 0. That doesn't mean it can't be done though :-) I'll check out Boinx.
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by mixmax 14y ago
Clickable links: Copenhagen Suborbitals homepage: http://www.copenhagensuborbitals.com Tycho Deep space astronaut capsule: http://www.copenhagensuborbitals.com/tychodeepspace.php Big LES engine: http://www.copenhagensuborbitals.com/bi
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Ask HN: what tools to use for livestreaming a rocket launch
3 points by mixmax 14y ago|3 comments
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There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses. Bjarne Stroustrup
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by mixmax 15y ago
A friend of mine has built the largest homemade submarine in the world ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UC3_Nautilus ) and they're clearly dangerous vessels, exactly because of what you're saying: If something goes wrong you're under 100 feet
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by mixmax 15y ago
Of course you can build an unsinkable ship, as a matter of fact for some uses it's mandated by law. If you build in fibreglass you will usually make a sandwich construction with fibreglass on either side and a layer of stiff foam in the mid
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Technical walkthrough of how a 200.000 HP amateur rocket engine works(youtube.com)
1 points by mixmax 15y ago|0 comments
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by mixmax 15y ago
What if you could edit all your files in dropbox' html interface? What if it was easy to do, and kept the simplicity they've become known for? Then your OS would be a commodity, and Dropbox would be what provided the value. Seamless editing
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Excellent description of why global warming is manmade(reddit.com)
3 points by mixmax 15y ago|0 comments
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by mixmax 15y ago
Do one thing and do it well. Forget about everything else - ideas are cheap. Can you come up with just one example of a startup that's had success in it's initial stages that's been doing more than one thing? I can't.
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Game of the Century - Bobby Fischer vs Donald Byrne(youtube.com)
1 points by mixmax 15y ago|0 comments
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I think the best interview question to ask is " what question do you think I should ask?" That tells a lot about a candidate, and it gives him/her a chance to talk about what they're good at. It also shows some respect, which is a good thi
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I'm sure you could stack a few, they're pretty sturdy :-)
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In my case I paid around $36.000 for the boat, and I pay on average $300 a month for mooring, electricity and heating. A small apartment in Copenhagen, which is where I live, is around $300.000. So yes, it's a lot cheaper. Also a lot more f
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They could learn a lot from boating. I live on a boat, and coincidentally I have 160 sq. Ft. of indoor living area. In that space I have a functional kitchen w. Fridge, oven, cookers, freezer, microwave etc. A bathroom, a table where 8 peop

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