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by mustpax 14y ago
The analogy to predatory pricing doesn't work because in the brick and mortar world, you drive out your competitors so that you may raise your prices . So the price is said to be artificially lowered. In the software world, free software p
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by mustpax 14y ago
It is downright scary how incompetent, indifferent and arrogant most IT organizations are. They are usually run by someone who's background is in procurement (i.e. buying things cheap) or compliance (i.e. lawyer). And if you try to explain
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by mustpax 14y ago
A lot of people get engineering degrees as a signalling mechanism to prove they can do hard work, not because they have any interest in becoming engineers. Formal training in a subject combined with a lack of intrinsic curiosity about the s
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by mustpax 14y ago
Presumably Conway and Milner did not like how the initial approach was working out either and were looking for a change.
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by mustpax 14y ago
I've been beta testing Super Smart and loving the sense of humor in the questions and answers. Nice to see a quiz game that doesn't take itself too seriously/feel like taking the SATs. Good luck!
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by mustpax 14y ago
As you realize, your video needs a lot of work. You need to focus more on the product less on you or your company. We don't see any actual footage of the cable being plugged in, just some rather plain mockups of how it could work. You have
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Co-author of Bootstrap (fat) quits Twitter(twitter.com)
8 points by mustpax 14y ago|0 comments
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by mustpax 14y ago
Letterman: How did you know so much about computers then? Hopper: I didn't. It was the first one. What a beautiful tribute to Grace Hopper's pioneering spirit.
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by mustpax 14y ago
What basis do you have for believing TrustEgg will do any of the unethical things you list? Your logic seems to be "there are unscrupulous financial service providers in the trust fund business, therefore TrustEgg is unscrupulous." Which de
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Show HN: Dropbox organizer SortMyBox now integrates with Box(sortmybox.com)
3 points by mustpax 14y ago|0 comments
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by mustpax 14y ago
Yes, getting out of the resume pile is harder without a name brand college degree but you shouldn't be going in the resume pile in the first place. Make connections, build your network, get referrals. Once you actually make it to the on-sit
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by mustpax 14y ago
I actually really like how you've kept the images as thin bands, really keeps the continuity of the text going. I'd just recommend that you use source material that looks good when cropped to fit such a wide aspect ratio without any stretch
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by mustpax 14y ago
This is tangential point but if you need to make images fit into a smaller bounding box, crop them. Do not just rescale with a different aspect ratio. Stretched/squashed images look terrible.
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by mustpax 14y ago
Your point is well taken. I did not mean to imply that this is bad design decision on the part of Unix. I was also trying to articulate why the current behavior makes sense by describing the mechanics of inodes. However in my experience man
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Delete files owned by root, without being root(paksoy.net)
13 points by mustpax 14y ago|15 comments
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by mustpax 14y ago
Top 20 most wanted TLDs: $ cut -d, -f1 < tld.csv | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -20 13 APP 11 INC 11 HOME 10 ART 9 SHOP 9 LLC 9 BOOK 9 BLOG 8 MUSIC 8 MOVIE
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by mustpax 14y ago
I'm not making any blanket statements about regulation, I'm simply stating that in this particular case the safeguards provided to guests by the structure of AirBnB's business are superior to those provided by municipal hotel operation regu
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by mustpax 14y ago
I've first hand experienced bait and switch scams, thieving cleaning staff, and made up fees in cheap hotels from around the world. NYC hotels are particularly bad offenders even though they are thoroughly regulated. If anything an AirBnB h
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by mustpax 14y ago
No one has an obligation to tell you about their private financial transactions because you want a "data point."
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by mustpax 14y ago
Gruber is taking a page out of the Apple PR book by not saying anything, unless there is something good to be said. This may help move the news cycle along but it's still no way to treat a friend.
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by mustpax 14y ago
Time to start a company named "Mobile');DROP TABLE investments; --"
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by mustpax 14y ago
We built this over a few weeks to scratch our own itch as heavy Dropbox users. Feedback greatly appreciated. I've been using it as a Quicksilver like single action file sorter, which works pretty well. It's BSD licensed on GitHub in case an
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Show HN: Sortbox – Organize your Dropbox(sortmybox.com)
11 points by mustpax 14y ago|4 comments
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by mustpax 14y ago
Prevention > Detection by Developer > Detection by Tester > Detection by Customer. Having mechanisms in place to catch programmer errors is no excuse for adopting practices that make programmer errors more likely.
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by mustpax 14y ago
The code is BSD licensed, you can modify and distribute it as you wish. https://github.com/overshard/pinry/blob/master/LICENSE
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by mustpax 15y ago
Shouldn't this language be white-space insensitive in order to be truly pure as a semicolon language?
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Wireworld - a computer implemented as a cellular automaton(quinapalus.com)
2 points by mustpax 15y ago|2 comments
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by mustpax 15y ago
They are claiming "negativity" is causing this loss. Not unhappiness or depression but merely verbally sharing negative observations (or whatever negativity means). It would be hard enough to measure and quantify the effects of happiness, q
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by mustpax 15y ago
Negativity costs the US between $250 and $300 billion every year in lost productivity, according to the Gallup Organization. This sort of pseudo-scientific corporate speak makes my BS detector go on high-alert. Your point is better made w
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by mustpax 15y ago
I really hope SendHub requires users to explicitly sign up before they receive mass updates. I bet a lot of your customers are going want to import their existing customer database so they can "stay in touch" and send out inane spam about t

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