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by mrshoe 17y ago
Like most people here, I would love to cancel my cable TV and TiVo subscriptions and just get all my content on demand. However, aside from streaming every movie and TV show, Netflix/iTunes/whatever also needs to nail these two features: 1)
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by mrshoe 17y ago
It seems (unsurprisingly) that I wouldn't have a good shot at getting into the same undergraduate program, just 10 years later. Competition seemed pretty darn cutthroat at the time; it must be a nightmare now.
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Ah, but this is the Home Premium edition. If I could navigate their maze of feature matrices maybe I'd know if that does what I need.
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Is this pg giving more hints at a possible implementation of RFS 1? ( http://ycombinator.com/rfs1.html ) That would imply that no one has approached him with a satisfactory solution. This article seems to indicate that the solution is to si
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by mrshoe 17y ago
I think VCs are trying to turn their reputation on its head: "Nurtured By Super Angels" is pretty much the opposite of "Raised By Wolves".
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by mrshoe 17y ago
The Matrix
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by mrshoe 17y ago
I would never call pg wrong (especially not on HN ;), but I side with DHH on this one: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1159-you-dont-have-to-sell-yo... I suppose they're both correct in their own ways, but that's a pretty good description
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Fungus is the new computer. There's nothing like that feeling a beginning programmer has when he realizes that he can give the computer a few simple instructions and, in a matter of seconds, the computer does something that would take thous
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by mrshoe 17y ago
These high frequency traders typify the harmful Wall St. attitude with which America's twenty-somethings are enamored. It really needs to stop. Let's compare business to football. Some people become experts in training, coaching and playing
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by mrshoe 17y ago
While this is nothing more than a dubious rumor at this point, it still adds to my growing sense that acquisitions in the valley are inclining right now. In recent days we've seen FriendFeed, Mint, Omniture, and reCAPTCHA acquired by large
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by mrshoe 17y ago
I'm sorry, but you're going to have to provide a compelling reason why those features shouldn't be in iTunes if you want to make this argument. "I don't need them" isn't good enough. Is 88MB too much for you to download? Is it too much to s
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by mrshoe 17y ago
I thought they were going to tell us to omit the pointless drivel and get right to the crux of your argument , which is always in italics here on HN.
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by mrshoe 17y ago
ORMs are dangerous abstraction layers. SQLObject literally cost a previous employer of mine tens of thousands of dollars due to an obscure bug (needless to say we switched to SQLAlchemy posthaste). Use them at your own risk. Transparency is
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by mrshoe 17y ago
> This usually breaks down as follows: > You develop your first little toy app using Framework X. > ... > Then one day you become Twitter, and all hell breaks loose. Really? Web apps usually become Twitter? I agree that kn
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Once again, this discussion insists on equating health care with health insurance . As any good hacker knows, the solution should directly address the cause of the problem, not merely the symptoms of the problem. The problem is the quick
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by mrshoe 17y ago
AT&T disgusts me. How much money has the iPhone dropped in their lap? And all they do with that money is drag down the entire user experience with horrible, overpriced service which cripples the device severely. They have had time, howe
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by mrshoe 17y ago
In trying to answer my own question I had come up with some of the same ideas, but you put together a great list. Gracias.
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Ask HN: Why not Flex?
37 points by mrshoe 17y ago|74 comments
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by mrshoe 17y ago
> So how can you tell the difference between an Ice Cream Glove and a Snuggie? You can’t. Steve Jobs can. :-) I'm only half joking. I know of no name for whatever ethereal quality Jobs possesses, but it is often the difference between a
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by mrshoe 17y ago
I especially liked the looks of these classes: http://www.techshop.ws/take_classes.html#245 btw, I am in no way affiliated with the TechShop, just thought it looked cool and designed specifically for hackers.
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TechShop: A Xerox PARC for the rest of us(techshop.ws)
19 points by mrshoe 17y ago|5 comments
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by mrshoe 17y ago
There's a reason for this phenomenon. It might be misguided in this particular case, but there is a reason that it exists. It's the same reason that everyone here loves businesses based on technology. It's the same reason that VCs are willi
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Dunno, but I sure have benefited from the Music Genome Project.
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by mrshoe 17y ago
His blog, Joel on Software, is popular for a reason. Many of his posts are excellent. Most of them are quite a bit better than this talk, actually. Give it a read; I think you'll agree that the respect he garners is deserved.
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Mike Rowe: Dirty jobs have better incentive structures(blogs.discovery.com)
28 points by mrshoe 17y ago|5 comments
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by mrshoe 17y ago
These kinds of domino effects are one reason why scalability is so hard to get right. It reminds me of precipitation in supersaturated solutions. Everything seems normal until you reach some unforeseen tipping point, and then all hell break
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Is this, at some level, why we all want to do startups? To make our lives like fairy tales? It certainly is a roller coaster.
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by mrshoe 17y ago
What does the y-axis on the graph on the first page represent? I might be missing something, but that curve looks completely arbitrary...
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Every five-year-old who can answer “paper” won’t turn into a financial analyst who puts a buy rating on Honda at $25, or have the mental skills to do so. Slightly OT: I had hoped that our current economic situation would help obliterate t
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by mrshoe 17y ago
vim is one of the most user friendly pieces of software I have ever used. The interface is incredibly efficient. The designers put great effort into making sure that common tasks were one or two keystrokes that usually don't even require mo

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