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by motoko 17y ago
Facebook once required an .edu email address, starting from #1 ranked Harvard, opening access gradually down university rankings until it was free for all people. It's true that anyone can open a Facebook account now, but would be impossibl
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by motoko 17y ago
Let's also imagine many Alans (corporate engineers) and Charles (hackers) and from this bigger sample, measure how consistently each approach produces an acceptable outcome. It may be that the Charles, on average, produce better solutions w
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by motoko 17y ago
Like how it took your competence to recognize the competence of the example?
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by motoko 17y ago
Many people already live in sheds to save money. They are called "trailers." +1 to ellyagg for the "stuffwhitepeoplelike.com" call
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by motoko 17y ago
I've had success with NearyFreeSpeech.net, but I've had GoDaddy lock domains due to dubious legal complaints. I recommend trying NearlyFreeSpeech.net and reporting in the registration that you chose them from recommendations at Hacker News.
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by motoko 17y ago
I disagree. I like Gmail's email interface best, and I like that I can scan many messages quickly ---even on small screens. But Google publishes a solution: the Google Apps API. Also, since it's email, you can simply import, forward, or syn
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by motoko 17y ago
This looks like a troll post, but this is actually good advice. Don't try to force a good Ruby environment on Windows. Instead, merely edit your source code on Windows, and use PuTTy to SSH into a Linux machine that runs your development Ru
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by motoko 17y ago
Google application suite ---especially gmail (search and worry-free attachments that appear on my iPhone). I've been happy with the recent task list and calendar resource additions, too.
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by motoko 17y ago
8. Health care administration will be the fastest-growing sector. (The panelists were so bored by this trend they didn't even discuss it.) Warning Bells Information technology venture capitalists didn't "want" to discuss "the fastest-grow
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by motoko 17y ago
If Apple or any other company wanted to use Twitter, why not create free accounts or pay Twitter for advertising like anyone else could without first spending $700,000,000.00? I don't understand these "acquisitions" from a business perspect
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by motoko 18y ago
I see what you're getting at, but in the context of computers and computer labs, again: it's the environment of a preconfigured lab that's valuable, not so much the physical medium of the computer itself. Likewise, a library, a bookstore, a
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by motoko 18y ago
This service didn't work for me, but I'm voting it up in hopes that attention will help this startup as I'd like it to someday.
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by motoko 18y ago
Because lab computers can be configured with all the necessary software and support students need to do work in an environment conducive to doing work. It's the software, support, licensing, environment, configuration, maintenance, convenie
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by motoko 18y ago
True, but it's the easiest to measure, and so it is.
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by motoko 18y ago
As for not "hard problems," there's nothing disreputable about completing an achievable unit of concrete work for your own edification and profit. Maybe hard problems are hard because they don't fit into anyone's idea of an "achievable unit
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by motoko 18y ago
I've noticed that newspapers (unhelpfully) will directly link to the home page of a university, but rarely link to commercial websites which they feature. I think this is an editorial policy to artificially maintain a veneer of journalistic
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by motoko 18y ago
You also get a bonus 50GB for a small $10/mo donation. That is a 200x improvement over cobbling invitations between your friends and email aliases, and it directly funds the people who build and operate the service you enjoy.
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by motoko 18y ago
My gut impression is that this is a good program for recent graduates near Atlanta, but I think that enrollment in this program is good in the same way that attending a regional community college is good. It's real, but it's obviously a com
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by motoko 18y ago
Are there plans for adding PostgreSQL?
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by motoko 18y ago
No, I disagree. The function of a resume isn't to represent you, it's to qualify you for further relevant attention. Thus style may disqualify you without justifying your relevance unless the position itself requires style. If it does, then
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by motoko 18y ago
I can vouch for Kevin. Nobody I know works so hard to invest small amounts of money to make moderately larger amounts of money simply to avoid work explicitly labeled as "work."
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by motoko 18y ago
Please consider revising your comment.
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by motoko 18y ago
Jay, What people are trying to communicate is that they don't judge that you are offering value. It's a possible and valid answer to your question that you have to consider: that you ad is good, but your opportunity is bad. That doesn't hel
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by motoko 18y ago
news.ycombinator is successful because it's first the web forum for YCombinator program participants. "Trimming" works (civility and killing fluff stories) because what remains is a community of vetted YCombinator members and their friends.
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by motoko 18y ago
Briefly: based on anecdotes, some may be more creative if they psychologically attribute their creativity outside their ego
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by motoko 18y ago
This is true for git, too. However, I don't know of any git command like "svn export" that doesn't also pull the .git directory. The working solution seems to be to simply delete the .git directory after a clone ---preferably in some nice d
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by motoko 18y ago
Right, which is a proxy for where you went to school and my disclaimer about wealth and aristocratic connections.
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by motoko 18y ago
The rule of life: Runescape xor ____________
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by motoko 18y ago
No, because education is an important marker of social class. Where you went to school, for how long, and what you studied defines who you are and where you belong in the social hierarchy in the United States absent aristocratic relations o
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by motoko 18y ago
I agree that theory is more appropriate than specific tool training at university, but it's an exaggeration that web technologies are necessarily an afterthought.

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