mixmax

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571.
by mixmax 16y ago
In the footnotes he proposes that Lady Gaga is a hacker. The definition is getting a bit shallow isn't it?
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by mixmax 16y ago
"...until that day when I accidentally created an infinite loop and rang every number in the database a hundred times." A developer that worked for me did exactly this a few years ago, only instead of ringing numbers he sent them overchar
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by mixmax 16y ago
Well in Danish territorial waters I'm probably as close as you'll get to a pirate :-)
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by mixmax 16y ago
I paid $40.000 for the boat and spent around $15.000 on repairs and upgrades. If you take a loan you're going to pay around $800 a month. In my part of the world that's pretty cheap. Might be expensive elsewhere though.
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by mixmax 16y ago
Most bigger boats have a holding tank for grey water and a water tank for fresh water. When you shower you use the fresh water and dump it into the harbour, it's not that dirty just because you've showered. When you go to the toilet you use
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by mixmax 16y ago
You're right - the memory of HN is excellent :-) I've kind of shelved it for now since I'm pretty busy doing other things, but I hope that I'll have time to do it within the next year sometime. I don't think it's a great way of making money
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by mixmax 16y ago
A dutch built steel canal boat. There's a link to a picture elsewhere in the thread. Covered in ice... Overall I'm happy and would buy the same kind of boat again. The Dutch build excellent boats and have for centuries. The only thing that
578.
by mixmax 16y ago
If your boat is in good shape and you're in a harbour it's not a problem. If you're not protected from the open sea by a bulwark of some kind the ice might drift towards land powered by wind and put a lot of pressure on a boat or whatever e
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by mixmax 16y ago
I'm in the European Union where you're free to travel from one country to another as you like, so it isn't a problem. Theoretically I could be borded by a customs boat, but I've never had it happen and suspect it's quite rare. I'm not sure
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by mixmax 16y ago
I've lived on a boat in the Copenhagen harbour for the last four years. I bought it in Holland, and knew absolutely nothing about boats when I started out. My thought was that the only regrets you have when you get old are all the things yo
581.
by mixmax 16y ago
This is part of an interesting trend that's potentially going to be very lucrative for developers. Apple store, Chrome web store, Android market, etc. are all solving the marketing and distribution problem for developers all over the world.
582.
by mixmax 16y ago
"Priority Inbox users spend 15 percent less time reading email than Gmail users who don’t have it turned on." This could of course be because priority inbox works. It could also be because users that have priority inbox turned on are corr
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by mixmax 16y ago
"I have worked hard to get my founders as little as $25,000 to pay off credit cards and student loans. Or, in a small deal that closed this week, I was able to get a founder the money so he can pay for his wedding and not have to worry abo
584.
by mixmax 16y ago
You make an excellent point, and to some degree I agree with you. Particularly it's obvious that there are some traits that are needed, or at least up your chances significantly. You point out focus as a vital ingredient. But there's a flaw
585.
by mixmax 16y ago
While I agree with you I find the same to be true of successful companies. When you ask a successful founder why (s)he succeeded you'l most often get an answer aided by hindsight. It appears to me that nobody truly knows what makes or break
586.
by mixmax 16y ago
derefr actually proposed using sentiment analysis in the discussion on the original NY Times article. Not a bad call. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1949064
587.
by mixmax 16y ago
If Douglas Adams were to write about programming this is how he would do it. That's a compliment.
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Engine trouble for Google(economist.com)
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by mixmax 16y ago
Or a good moment to remember what happens when a less advanced civilization meets a more advanced one. It never goes well for the less advanced civilization.
590.
by mixmax 16y ago
I have no idea... That's how I'd solve this particular problem though. As I said in the parent I only have cursory experience in programming, and almost none in algorithms.
591.
by mixmax 16y ago
Or maybe our algorithms just aren't good enough. Suppose you use bayesian filtering on the text surrounding the links to determine whether the connection is good or bad. With a reasonable amount of data it should be possible. Note: I'm no
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by mixmax 16y ago
Maybe it would even be possible to reproduce these webpages using HTML.
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by mixmax 16y ago
Launching a product is only the first step. Seeing meaningful returns is the hard part. I can code up a chatroulette site in a weeks time, but that doesn't mean it'll make money. Actually as far as I know chatroulette still isn't making any
594.
by mixmax 16y ago
Well, it was kind of tongue-in-cheek, but eventually the truth would come out and users would be outraged - it's simply not worth it. Besides I just don't think PG has the mentality to do something like that :-)
595.
by mixmax 16y ago
I believe there would inevitably be some blowback stemming from that sort of behaviour...
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by mixmax 16y ago
If you do have a startup and are new to the site you're welcome to send me an e-mail (it's in my profile). I don't mind spending a few minutes looking through your site and posting an RMS on your behalf if everything is legit. Be aware th
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by mixmax 16y ago
It's a quote about standing up to tyranny, and the fact that if you don't speak up when someone else is discriminated against you may be next in line. I think it applies very well in this case.
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by mixmax 16y ago
the coiled, closely packed lines at TSA screening sites are the most dangerous places in airports, completely unprotected from a terrorist attack -- a terrorist attack that would serve the same purpose (shutting down air travel) as an atta
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by mixmax 16y ago
They came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up beca
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by mixmax 16y ago
Interesting to see how everyone seems to be constantly picking on PHP, yet this poll shows that it's the second most used language used for our apps/startups.

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