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by nfnaaron 17y ago
"The person who does get to cherry-pick scenarios -- to steer the course of his or her life in situationally-appropriate ways -- is the customer." As has been pointed out here on HN, we are not the customer. The customer is the ad buyer. We
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You'd have to have people who were provably harmed, in a way that jurors or judges would recognized as harmed. Google will defend themselves vigorously, and likely win. And it would take a long time. More effective to just leave gmail. It t
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
You could ask for nothing more than the positive influence over millions that this man had. Not to mention all the people who suddenly had a reason to find out what a roof looks like up close.
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
I can't really tell what it does just by glancing at it. The name implies that you track movies somehow, don't know what that means. "About" says you recommend movies. That's not the same as tracking movies, but maybe you recommend them by
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
May I assume for sake of argument that by "deserve any comments" and "lack of intelligence" that you're including comments similar to those made by the leets against the facebook confused? Why is this OK? Why is it OK to laugh at and discri
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"... doing the Hokie Pokie in a circle limits how far you can grow. As the circle kept expanding, it became less and less space efficient. People were excluded simply because there wasn't space for them to join." Keep the original small cir
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
They're all subsidiaries of BigCorp. Once you get past a certain size (employees, sales, market cap, whatever) it's unavoidable to become BigCorp, regardless of the differences in your particular company's culture. Once you've become so cap
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
"This is a bit of a trap." Yes, it can be. The truth is, some of those brilliant kids going into BigCorp are lost startups, some are future startups, and most won't be startups regardless, because most people aren't founders. "Also when you
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Is there anything at all that stands out above the rest? Assuming that anything more embedded than a phone is not part of the question, we have two choices: a smart phone, or a PC. Kindles and iThings are just feature restricted implementat
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"Whenever I see a brilliant kid decide to join Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, or Google, I think to myself: a startup just died, and as a result our world is a little less wealthy, innovative, and interesting." Or, a future founder just began the
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Thanks lots. Encouraging to know, based on responses, that I'm thinking in some of the right directions. ocean large, boat small
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"Ask me if you're responsible for keeping customer information secure ... that's its own can of worms and one that's I've worked on myself." I'm one guy, building a web app up from nothing. So yeah, I'm responsible. :-/ My initial approach
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"But's that reference is only 'a mile wide and an inch deep'" So maybe that's an overview/jumping off point? I've run FreeBSD at home years ago. I'm on slicehost for now, the and linode offer mainstream-ish linux. My concern with *BSD, or a
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Ask HN: server security intro/reference?
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Convicted in 1976. My entire adult life, buried under a prison wall. So many kinds of people I've been, lives I've lead, so many people I've known, things I've done.
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Thank you.
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Everything you say is probably true. But like many trivial things, this could be a stepping stone into deeper insights. Some academic/marketer researches this data, which leads him to a question that can't be answered by the data (and which
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And yet we buy pet rocks.
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"I know he is not just advocating building made-for-adsense sites, it’s not the method, it’s the attitude that goes with it, that is the real issue. Lets not care about providing any kind of value, lets not worry about any sort of professio
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
"Let me first say, that I'm from Russia and I'm a self-educated programmer, I want to live in US (or Australia, or Canada). Good enough? So I guess I'm the target audience ..." You're only the target audience if you roughly fit the demograp
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
"Bristol university graduate Tiffany Philippou originally set up the group in response to a competition from ad agency Saatchi & Saatchi to win a mere summer internship. However, it seems unlikely that Tiffany will be too bothered. Ther
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
I think the idea is that each project gets an initial small period of launch work, and then after that they're mostly self-sustaining for their economic lifetime. "Optimize for time." In that case, half hour/month may be enough. The 1$/day
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
" What's next? Tracking our bowel movements? Places we've had diarrhea? Places we saw pretty girls?" That's what Twitter is for. Or at least, that's what Twitter gets used for. Most people have entirely unremarkable lives (nothing wrong wit
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
The first comment after the article, by Sh0rtWave has some good pro-Flash observations.
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I spent about 15 years sitting in cubicles owned by large and small corporations, and all that time I thought I didn't have much social skills. I spent about three years trying out real estate, and found ... my social skills really were not
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
(I'm not educated in UI, UX or UXB, these are just my impressions, written with friendly intent) Title: The title bar says "Praux - Welcome To Praux.com" You're missing an opportunity to tell readers and google what you do. Maybe instead
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
"What does P.C. stand for?" Looks like Praux.Com to me.
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Interesting, enjoyed it, but ... OT: That is one of the "dirtiest" sites I've ever seen, and the reason is that so much of the text is rendered as images. Maybe understandable if a logo is a strong part of a company's identity. But there's
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"But what's with this language about how location can only be used to 'provide beneficial information?' Who makes this decision ..." Apple. Has RWW not been paying attention? "... and where on earth does Apple get off making a policy like t
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
I can't say whether his implementation makes sense. Regardless, I would like to see public key encryption of all email. There's no reason why messages should be plain text anywhere except at the two ends. I realize key management would be a

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