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by mrduncan 17y ago
Totally agree. His resume is pretty tough to beat, Apple, NeXT, and Pixar. I'd also argue that he has almost single handedly brought design to the forefront of the computer industry. Overall, a tough businessman who you can't help but like.
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by mrduncan 17y ago
Odd, it seems as though HN eats the apostrophe. This link should work: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smeed%27s_law
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by mrduncan 17y ago
Your comment got me curious about Smeed's law, the Wikipedia article is pretty interesting ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smeeds_law ). Smeed himself took his law as expressing a truth about group psychology: people would take advantage of
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by mrduncan 17y ago
This is a flaw in the SSH standard itself, not in a specific version of software. Countermeasures have been put in place to mitigate the flaw in OpenSSH however. "They've fixed [OpenSSH]; they've put countermeasures in place to stop our at
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by mrduncan 17y ago
As a compromise, what if votes made from the new section were weighted to be stronger than votes from the front page?
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Gary Vaynerchuk Keynote at Big Omaha(vaynermedia.com)
31 points by mrduncan 17y ago|17 comments
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by mrduncan 17y ago
You can turn on new services and pre-release features in google for domains - http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answ...
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by mrduncan 17y ago
Technological change has destroyed all sorts of once-popular products, from the handloom to the Walkman, and the world has mostly been better for it. I think this sums up my thoughts on the death of the newspaper pretty well. News isn't g
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by mrduncan 17y ago
It appears that Amazon FPS will also handle non-US credit cards based on the following note from the pricing section: This fee schedule is for payments by US customers only. For an additional charge of 1% of the transaction amount, non-US
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by mrduncan 17y ago
Good point, I've never flown either but have heard plenty of stories. I think there is a fine line here between inexpensive and cheap which those airlines have go walk wisely.
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by mrduncan 17y ago
Another which I'm surprised wasn't mentioned - NERDTree ( http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1658 ) will give you a tree view of files and folders.
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by mrduncan 17y ago
I couldn't agree more, they are one of the only airlines which understand that simplicity can actually be an advantage. They fly only a single aircraft type (737), only have general seating (no first class), don't have in-flight entertainme
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by mrduncan 17y ago
Do you actually work from that couch all day? I can't imagine that being comfortable for more than a few hours.
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by mrduncan 17y ago
or, macvim ( http://code.google.com/p/macvim/ )
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by mrduncan 17y ago
Seems like the author didn't take his own advice - "2.- The variable name has to be as short as possible."
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by mrduncan 17y ago
I've never seen a roundabout work well with high traffic though (in the US anyway), it has always seemed to me that they work amazingly well with low and medium traffic, but once they are full you end up with a single inbound street hogging
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by mrduncan 17y ago
A twitter clone that requires you to pass a spelling and grammar check and use more than 140 characters
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by mrduncan 17y ago
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~ad/news/ Academic Hacker News - although it isn't too active
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by mrduncan 17y ago
The following seems to take care of the issue in Firefox at least, I haven't had a chance to check in other browsers. pre { max-width:500px; overflow-x:scroll; padding:2px; }
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by mrduncan 17y ago
Depending on the situation, this might be something to discuss with the new company. If they have asked you to wait to start until July, they may not have a problem with you starting a few weeks later.
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by mrduncan 17y ago
Would you mind elaborating on what else you're looking for other than what Harvest offers?
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by mrduncan 18y ago
Looks like they retail for around $800 based on a quick Google search ( http://www.google.com/products?q=humanscale+freedom+chair )
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by mrduncan 18y ago
Congrats to the core team and all of the contributors! For those who haven't checked it out, the spec is surprisingly short ( http://rack.rubyforge.org/doc/files/SPEC.html ).
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by mrduncan 18y ago
Why not post a link here on Hacker News?
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by mrduncan 18y ago
I've always wanted to try a pair of Vibram Five Fingers ( http://www.vibramfivefingers.com/ ), they are about as close to running barefoot as you can get while still having a little protection.
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by mrduncan 18y ago
Here is a link to the Google Tech Talk by Steve Blank: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&oi=video_r...
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by mrduncan 18y ago
I think the surprise here isn't just that he was born on January 8th, but also that he was born in 1942 which made it exactly 300 years to the day. With that said, I still don't find it to be a big deal that the date lined up with Galileo's
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by mrduncan 18y ago
As far as their larger products are concerned, I think that Oracle is a much better fit for Sun than IBM was. Obviously there will be some overlaps in technologies (MySQL vs. Oracle being the big one) but on the whole, I think these compani
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by mrduncan 18y ago
The best way to predict the future is to invent it. - Alan Kay
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by mrduncan 18y ago
How to Win Friends & Influence People ( http://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People/dp/06... ) - Seriously.

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