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by mrduncan 16y ago
In case you (or others) weren't aware, they also introduced experimental support for Node.js a couple of weeks ago. http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2010/4/28/node_js_support_ex...
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by mrduncan 16y ago
They appear to be working on some sort of fix right now. If you look at "following" lists, everything is showing up as zero for me right now, as in it shows that I'm not following anyone. All other users that I check are also showing that
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by mrduncan 16y ago
Just wanted to say that I've met most of the folks at Airbnb and they are all unbelievably awesome. Seriously check them out, they're doing some amazing things.
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Ask HN: Who's Hiring?
161 points by mrduncan 16y ago|169 comments
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by mrduncan 16y ago
Mac OS X has been shipping for almost 10 years now, Adobe just adopted it fully (Cocoa) two weeks ago when they shipped CS5 If I remember correctly, iTunes isn't Cocoa based yet either.
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by mrduncan 16y ago
I believe that there is a time limit on the duplicate check, that way items can be re-posted after some time has passed. I'd guess it's probably 30 days. For those wondering, here is the original: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12010
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by mrduncan 16y ago
I posted this about a month ago, didn't seem to get much interest then unfortunately. In any case, here is a link to the actual thesis: "The Story of the CDO Market Meltdown: An Empirical Analysis." - http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/stu
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by mrduncan 16y ago
The best way to accomplish that is to up-vote or submit other articles you think are more worthy of the front page.
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by mrduncan 16y ago
In case some weren't aware, Arrington is a Stanford Law School graduate and was previously was a lawyer at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. http://www.crunchbase.com/person/michael-arrington
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by mrduncan 16y ago
What really is a shame is that your comment regarding this submission--which isn't entirely on the mark--is what is at the top of the comments and taking away from the discussion which I am finding (and I'm sure others) very passionate and
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by mrduncan 16y ago
I haven't read it yet and don't doubt that it's a great op-ed but: Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or adding a parenthetical remark saying how great an article is. It's implicit
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by mrduncan 16y ago
Also, where exactly does the funding for sports at major Universities come from? I'm not totally sure (so please correct me if I'm wrong), but here are my best guesses: - Money for sports complexes, stadiums, etc. mostly comes from donors
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by mrduncan 17y ago
Didn't have much time to actually check it out, but the "What is this good for?" link on the front page doesn't seem to be working for me (Chrome Dev Channel on Win7).
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by mrduncan 17y ago
As far as I'm aware, only mods can edit titles once they're submitted.
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by mrduncan 17y ago
For a little background, John Gruber tweeted "Someone should make a Tumblr site for (and only for) these Steve Jobs email replies." earlier today. It seems a few people have ran with the idea. He's retweeted[1] about 6 of them now, this o
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by mrduncan 17y ago
There are many good applications written in something other than C, Objective-C, C++ or JavaScript available for iPhone. Any examples? I'm genuinely curious since I've heard that a few times already today but haven't heard of any specifi
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by mrduncan 17y ago
Twissandra is also a good one, it's a simple Twitter clone built on Cassandra - http://github.com/ericflo/twissandra
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by mrduncan 17y ago
The Red Bull Stratos video is pretty cool, especially in HD - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyGmTV0q2kY
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by mrduncan 17y ago
A simple way is to create a new element in memory and set it's text property and then retrieve it's html. Using jQuery: $('<div/>').text('A & B').html(); // "A & B"
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by mrduncan 17y ago
I imagine that they'll get a good amount of press out of this, which will (somewhat) negate their monetary losses here. That said, it's pretty obvious that this is a heartfelt message from the company, props to them for doing what most oth
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GM Makes Your Entire Windshield a Head-Up Display(wired.com)
1 points by mrduncan 17y ago|0 comments
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by mrduncan 17y ago
45 degrees Celsius = 113 degrees Fahrenheit
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by mrduncan 17y ago
Here's a link to the actual thesis: “The Story of the CDO Market Meltdown: An Empirical Analysis.” - http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/students/dunlop/2009-CDOme...
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Michael Lewis’s ‘The Big Short’? Read the Harvard Thesis Instead(blogs.wsj.com)
4 points by mrduncan 17y ago|1 comments
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The Rational Rejection of Security Advice by Users(research.microsoft.com)
27 points by mrduncan 17y ago|9 comments
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by mrduncan 17y ago
Nifty. One suggestion: let me click on states in the image of the US instead of having to click on the image and then find the state in the list.
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by mrduncan 17y ago
Awesome, I had no idea that XKCD encouraged people to do that - major props to them!
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"You're stupid looking, do something else" - one man's persistence(blog.inklingmarkets.com)
38 points by mrduncan 17y ago|13 comments
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by mrduncan 17y ago
Looks great! Would be really fun to add this to a monitor or picture-frame which would auto-refresh every so often. One suggestion: Add attribution to the XKCD images and don't steal their bandwidth. I got this one as a motivation earlier
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The Dark Side of Healthcare Technology(huffingtonpost.com)
1 points by mrduncan 17y ago|0 comments

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