nano81

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by nano81 16y ago
Facebook, Gmail, Grooveshark and my site, diPoll
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by nano81 16y ago
Hey, thanks for offering to take questions. How long have you guys been working on this, and how closely was Facebook involved during development of the product on your end? A couple comments/questions about how it works. The "can advise fr
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by nano81 16y ago
One of my first encounters with Java was in writing silly IRC bots with some friends. Easy and fun. http://www.jibble.org/pircbot.php
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by nano81 16y ago
Don't think so - fridge was YC S10
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by nano81 16y ago
Is the teenager in high school? University? Does the teenager have any working experience? What country is this in? What city? Not nearly enough information to give any kind of estimate, and even with that information, the answer would prob
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by nano81 16y ago
Exactly. Not only that, but it will make them seem even less sympathetic in the eyes of the general public.
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by nano81 16y ago
http://www.insidefacebook.com/2010/01/20/facebooks-page-admi...
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by nano81 16y ago
IANAL, but does that make what I said wrong? He didn't say anything about setting precedent, he said they risk "losing" the patent if they do not enforce it, which is just not true. If you have a source saying otherwise, I'd love to see it.
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by nano81 16y ago
I think you're confusing patent with trademark: "As a trademark must be used to maintain rights in relation to that mark, a trademark can be 'abandoned' or its registration can be cancelled or revoked if the mark is not continuously used. B
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by nano81 16y ago
Suing Waterloo students is also not how to build rapport with the massive number of co-op students they hire every term.
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by nano81 16y ago
~515M is Facebook's active monthly number, I'm sure the registered users number (which she uses to measure every other site on the list) would be much, much higher.
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by nano81 16y ago
I don't understand the logic - why would attacking a terrorist organization be an act of war?
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by nano81 16y ago
There are several reasons for having a criminal justice system; rehabilitation is but one. Others include deterring crime, incapacitating dangerous violent offenders to separate them from society, and yes, offering a sense of retribution.
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Travel Ad Network Acquires TravelMuse(mediapost.com)
1 points by nano81 16y ago|0 comments
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by nano81 16y ago
Old (March 17th 2009) and already submitted earlier today with discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1948436
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WikiLeaks and the Arab public sphere(lynch.foreignpolicy.com)
2 points by nano81 16y ago|0 comments
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by nano81 16y ago
Easy to say when you're not the one at risk of dying.
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by nano81 16y ago
The point is that leaks of this magnitude have much broader effects than you can imagine. You can argue about whether it is a net positive or negative, but there WILL be negative consequences and to pretend otherwise is just fooling yoursel
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by nano81 16y ago
That's 250 hours per term (4 months). I'm fairly certain you don't spend 1000+ hours in lectures out of the ~2880 hours in four months.
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by nano81 16y ago
120 * 0.8 = 96, not 106
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by nano81 16y ago
Lamebook links have already been unblocked. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1932259 http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/22/facebook-censorship/
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by nano81 16y ago
Thanks - didn't see that
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Prof Gives Lecture to Prove He Knows Students Cheated; Over 200 Students Confess(thoughtcatalog.com)
231 points by nano81 16y ago|143 comments
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Chinese workers build 15-story hotel in just six days(news.yahoo.com)
57 points by nano81 16y ago|28 comments
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by nano81 16y ago
Even though we targeted broadly over several English speaking countries, we were still getting a big chunk of impressions (judging by the resulting registrations) from the more competitive markets like USA and Canada.
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Six steps to effective Facebook advertising at $0.01 CPC(dipoll.com)
48 points by nano81 16y ago|15 comments
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by nano81 16y ago
I think you overestimate government desire to eliminate inefficiency.
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by nano81 16y ago
The professor was a member of the Graduate Studies Committee, who as I understand it came to a consensus that the student should not be awarded the PhD. The committee was overruled by the university administration, which is what triggered t
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by nano81 16y ago
I think you are mistaking "number of employees" with "number of engineers". Facebook has quite a lot fewer than 900 engineers even today.
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Facebook Now Allows Orkut Profile Linking(tech.nolicio.us)
1 points by nano81 16y ago|0 comments

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