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by mustpax 16y ago
Please. He's saying that, if he can't do it, others of similar age must be hopeless. That simply means he believes he's at the top of his field, not just above average.
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by mustpax 16y ago
If I can't get into the game, I can't imagine there's much chance for most other people in their 50's to play a role. The arrogance of this statement is just mind boggling. Why exactly does the author think he's orders of magnitude more e
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by mustpax 16y ago
Oh Spamhaus, everybody who's ever had the joy of operating an SMTP agent loves them.
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by mustpax 16y ago
This has been said before but it's worth repeating, Oracle is not an engineering company. They are giant sales organization with an engineering department tacked on. They probably considered Sun's workforce before the acquisition as a liabi
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by mustpax 16y ago
No, no and no. Chronic distrust of anything and everything, bordering on paranoia, in response to one in a million events is not rational. Having a Katana like handle sticking out of your backpack is not even in the same ballpark as malic
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by mustpax 16y ago
Greenhouse gases have nothing to do with the ozone layer. The ozone hole was caused by CFCs from refrigerants and spray cans.
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by mustpax 16y ago
A well-worded and thoughtful blog post takes time and effort. It also interrupts other development work, which the context switching makes doubly costly. So I don't think it's a "15 minutes over lunch" affair exactly.
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by mustpax 16y ago
For more background see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1272541 SEC is proposing that prospectuses (prospecti?) for asset backed securities include a simulator written in Python. The investor can use this simulator to test out the be
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by mustpax 16y ago
On top of that, it's liable to be rejected by Apple as an abuse of public APIs. Just last week there was an article on HN about a guy who got rejected for using the VoIP background API for an IRC app. Which actually is bending the rules a l
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by mustpax 16y ago
Agreed, the statistic bears further exploration and analysis. A figure like 99% percent does raise some eyebrows, and I would argue, so does 90%. But we shouldn't leave it there.
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by mustpax 16y ago
It's not much of an argument in favor of the status quo to say it could have been worse. The North Korean regime has a worse censorship record than China, but that doesn't make the situation in China any less troubling.
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by mustpax 16y ago
Each security breach, however small, paves the way for a bigger breach. Even if the information gathered in this case seems innocuous, these impromptu social engineering attacks do demonstrate a real vulnerability. Also keep in mind that th
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by mustpax 16y ago
I'm really loving these blog posts from Flightcaster about the internal mechanics of the airline industry. Engineering pr0n at its best. The work of getting paying passengers to the boarding gate makes our modern flying machines look simple
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by mustpax 16y ago
An article in the Atlantic that was posted here "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Ending Poverty" actually talks about this idea from the lens of international development. It dwells on the analogy with Hong Kong, and some city states in
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by mustpax 16y ago
While I laughed at your joke and agree with your sentiment, I had to vote you down because witty one-liners introduce more snark than insight and drive the quality of discussion on HN down.
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by mustpax 16y ago
The SIM lock is why I have yet to buy an iPhone. I don't mind the mandatory contract and I don't mind having to buy prepaid SIM cards when I travel abroad. But I live in Canada and travel elsewhere quite often; roaming charges are such a bl
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by mustpax 16y ago
I did not mean to say film is the only way to learn photography; it clearly isn't. The art transcends any tools used to perform it. I just feel nostalgic for my journey from a n00b to non-n00b and how the challenge of film contributed great
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by mustpax 16y ago
There is much that makes me nostalgic about film but I regret its loss as an educational tool the most. Learning photography is about learning to slow down. A finite roll, an arduous and tactile development process all encourage patience an
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by mustpax 16y ago
Marcovici is a conceptual artist and this is satire. Wasn't sure if some comments here thought this was for real. Take a look at his satirical illustrations about BP here: http://sites.google.com/site/artmarcovici/
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by mustpax 16y ago
Deploying a major release as a diff to a complex development environment is far from effortless. They probably figured the effort vs. payoff ratio didn't work out, compared to making improvements to the product itself.
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by mustpax 16y ago
Why are you shortening URLs? There's plenty space on HN for full ones. Edit: Thanks for unobfuscating those :) Great links!
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by mustpax 16y ago
Gruber has a knack toeing the Apple line, but you have to give him more credit than that. He bothers to lay out clear arguments in his posts, and I've yet to see him write something as contentless as this piece. I mean, what the hell is thi
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by mustpax 16y ago
The problem surrounding the current patent regime is not that those being sued are blameless, it's that patents do not encourage innovation anymore. As you stated, companies that actually bring products to market are not ideally suited to l
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by mustpax 16y ago
That article perfectly demonstrates how Wikipedia does not have a sense of humour about itself. While this submission in particular is inane, there is a place for quality satirical pieces on HN. And there ought to be.
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by mustpax 16y ago
I wonder if the same sensors that provide the log data also control the engine. In that case, it would be impossible to distinguish a sensor glitch from user error by purely relying on in-system logging. This sort of thing happens all the t
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by mustpax 16y ago
It's not a technical limitation, it's a matter of user expectations and perceived value. In a way it's a marketing issue, that's why Apple was so good at getting over it.
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by mustpax 16y ago
Did you read the article? They did offer to let us cancel the tickets for a $420 charge, meaning we'd still be out almost $1100. We thought this was unreasonable, so we disputed the charges through Amex, thinking they'd have more leverage
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by mustpax 16y ago
That's what reserve prices are for. To claim that there's no reserve price and then place shill bids to reach a certain minimum is deceptive.
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by mustpax 16y ago
While it's hard to argue that Kin is an awful product, the saddest part of the story is that many of the people responsible for it knew it was -- they were largely victims of political circumstance, forced to release a phone that was pract
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by mustpax 16y ago
The reporter is clearly confused about what Y Combinator is. On the other hand, that YC is described as a bi-annual award program speaks to a growing problem that I'm sure PG and Co have to face: admission into YC becomes something to covet

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