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In a really roundabout way, the Fed is manipulating securities in much the same way Wall St did during the financial crisis. Only an entity with that much buying power could make such a vast investment with such incredible terms. It seems
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Maybe I don't get it, but this seems like a truly horrible name. I didn't have an idea of what the site was for from the name and even reading Joel's post left it a little vague. Once I was there, I got a feel for what was going on, but I
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I like the page, very clean and tells me what you're trying to solve. The video was a nice intro and looked very professional; I really like when product landing pages have a video as it really embraces the "don't make me think" paradigm.
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Why is there such massive nerd-rage when it comes to people using IDEs versus what amounts to text editors with scripting toys? IDEs are fantastic and I am a more productive programmer for using one. I work with a pretty big codebase and j
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I've made the same suggestion to my company and we are going to adopt a pricing policy for IE6 in our future product releases (B2B). The bottom line is that it costs us more to support IE6 and it's a sunk cost. We've eaten the cost for a
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Thanks for the reply. I'll follow-up later to see what Zed's plans are. I agree that getting instructor Q&A is valuable and that live video is tricky to schedule. I'd be happy with screencasts since there is an opportunity for Q&
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You're right and I did see it, so I shouldn't have said there wasn't one. I was looking at the course page and desperately wanting some questions answered so I threw my hands up and said "where's the FAQ!". I would have preferred a bit mo
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I'd -love- to take a Python course from Zed but this site makes me uneasy about following through. Not enough information and the site simply doesn't look professional enough to be sending in payments of $200+. The 404 on the follow up co
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I think that we feel a loss of control over our common politic and that is making even the most rational of us feel like we have to yell and curse to have our disagreements registered, even in a quiet room.
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The first thought that popped into my mind after reading your question is about protecting your market. If you expect this product to be highly profitable and these other companies already distribute the software with other services, they
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Seeing a giant 10-story, foam-padded test facility doesn't exactly seem like real world use to me, but then again I know nothing about proper cell phone testing procedures.
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Whenever I'm feeling low, I go to lunch with friends who work at a big enterprise software company, preferably in the financial or health sectors. Those guys make me feel like my job is a dayspa. I've also found that constantly coming up w
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Ask HN: Feedback on my side project, a community for idea discussion(blog.sparkmuse.com)
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by netmau5 16y ago
I definitely like the idea of pushing the 99 designs concept into new verticals. That being said, it seems like one would want to target the low end of the market such as people doing music for a friend/lover, podcasts, indie games, etc.
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It was interesting to see MS buy up several location-based companies in the early 2000s. They always seem to be so ahead of the curve on concept, just not on execution.
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Cool idea, I've always wished there was something like this when shopping in a category. My process always breaks down into cross-referencing several items on cnet, amazon, ign, etc and a vote would give me a quick top 3 to narrow down my
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Just knowing the kind of character that Steve Jobs is portrayed as being, I can hardly believe he actually said those words. They usually have an insert with his email header and signature when they post these kinds of comments (not like t
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I've used SO from time to time but have only participated when I came across a question I thought I could add value to with my perspective. I've never really kept up with the point system. The author says "There's a plateau you hit there w
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These guys are young and I'm not aware of any previous work they have accomplished. The expectations of their work and their obvious inexperience doesn't lead me to think they are going to totally solve the problem by the end of summer. T
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There are so many new RSS apps out there but it seems like they don't even admit to themselves that Google Reader exists. The project doesn't seem worth doing if you're just going to provide a subset of that functionality. Do we want to co
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This guy is brilliant and I measure that by the fact that I can actually understand him rather well considering the subject matter is a completely different field than my own. He is mostly reiterating what he said at a TED talk, but his en
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If this ever happens to IT, I think I'd rather go work in fast food and write code on the side. I'm passionate about the work but not passionate about being worked to death. I guess some may argue it has happened in some tech circles (star
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Touche, gotta be grateful for what we've got.
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Thanks for sharing, it sounds like it was a good time. In some parts of the country (like mine~), finding interesting startups just to network with is nearly impossible. The idea that they all came together to court people into their web