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by nhebb 14y ago
I get their blog as the first search result, but at least their blog links to their home page. I'm surprised by how often I see company blogs that don't link to their main site or make to hunt around the side bar for a link.
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by nhebb 14y ago
This is one of the reasons that I don't like graphs of governments spending shown as percentages. There is an inherent spin in the chart. If federal spending increases relative to GDP, but the constituent components of the chart remain rela
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by nhebb 14y ago
That's an interesting read. I'd never heard of La Défense before, but the wiki page makes me wonder whether it's the largest business center in Europe because of some set of favorables or if it is because there are so many historic areas in
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by nhebb 14y ago
Q: Does the moral character of an orgy change when the participants are wearing Nazi uniforms? A: Yes Did I pass the exam?
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by nhebb 14y ago
If they don't have any friends, what would they be using Facebook for? The Facebook login might filter out a good portion of the prospective market.
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For more on the subject, SEOmoz did a Whiteboard Friday on negative SEO a few weeks ago: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/negative-seo-myths-realities-and-...
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Why France Has So Many 49-Employee Companies(businessweek.com)
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Since this article is about Zynga as a publicly traded company, I interpreted the author's statement in terms of capital investment, not capability. To put the author's statement in perspective, compare Zynga to Valve. Both have been succes
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by nhebb 14y ago
I was mildly surprised to see so many categories dominated by state universities. It's a nice testament to public schools in the US.
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by nhebb 14y ago
From Times of India [1]: "Cipla, which has 23 oncology drugs in its portfolio, has been able to offer the price advantage because of backward integration and reverse engineering, its chairman Y K Hamied told TOI" I'm not sure what backwar
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How to Rip off a Story without Attribution(forbes.com)
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I agree. Ideas do matter. Being accepted into YC with no idea will place the startups in a creative pressure cooker. Just for fun, I think I'll try an experiment tomorrow => I'll go for a walk and not let myself come home until I come u
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Maybe, but that really for pg & co. to decide. I'm not going to presume anything.
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> How many successful entrepreneurs have you heard of without ideas, just totally empty heads and whole bunch of hustle? We'll find out after this next YC round. Besides, I think the point is that pg is looking for people that are the
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by nhebb 14y ago
> these kind of sites [...] make me want to throatpunch a baby That's the most viscerally disturbing thing I've ever read on HN. For as popular as HN has gotten, it's still one of the more civil discussion forums on the internet. I'm
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by nhebb 14y ago
Bill Nye The Science Guy has a bunch on his website.
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by nhebb 14y ago
On my monitor, all the links above the fold are Google ads. I'm not suggesting they stop showing ads. That's how they make money. It's just a question of balance between ads and organic search. The amount of screen real estate dedicated to
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by nhebb 14y ago
Which version of Excel were you working with? Security was greatly increased in Office 2007. http://serverfault.com/questions/122627/how-secure-is-the-en...
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If you search for "HD monitor" [1] & [2], or any other highly competitive commercial product, the scale tips to more of an ad service than a search provider. Yeah, they've got to make money, but they also need to be careful about mainta
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by nhebb 15y ago
There is a key at the top of the page: (Republicans in roman; Democrats in italic; Independents underlined)
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by nhebb 15y ago
They would be the De Beers of precious metals [1]. With that kind of wealth at stake, the monopoly wouldn't last long. You'd see competition from other private ventures, as well as from countries (Russia, China, ...). [1] http://en.wikiped
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by nhebb 15y ago
I used this as a study technique in college. I didn't do it for everything, but for concepts that were difficult to grasp, I would explain it to an imaginary pupil. It's a good way to sort things out in your heads and helps a lot with memor
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by nhebb 15y ago
This is the single biggest issue I have. I wouldn't say I distrust Google, but I don't trust them enough to store my documents with them. Algorithmic lockout happens with their other services, and with no customer service resource that I co
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by nhebb 15y ago
I'm got a completely different pricing plan than everyone is mentioning. Maybe they're doing some sort of price elasticity testing.
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When did writers at major publications like The Atlantic start submitting their own articles to HN? It's one thing when a programmer or other startup / tech blogger submits their own work, but when a magazine does, it just feels like spammi
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by nhebb 15y ago
I grabbed the nearest book and tried to find this page. By fate it was JavaScript: The Good Parts . The page only lists the following: Printing History: May 2008: First Edition. (Shakes fist) Damn you O'Reilly for making it so
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by nhebb 15y ago
The GitHub style guide recommends the opposite: "Do your best to never use a semicolon. This means avoiding them at line breaks and avoiding multi-statement lines. For more info, read Mislav's blog post [2]." FWIW, I agree with the Google
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by nhebb 15y ago
Preliminary figures suggest that being a veteran now roughly doubles one’s risk of suicide. For young men ages 17 to 24, being a veteran almost quadruples the risk of suicide CBS came up with similar overall rates a few years ago, and the
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by nhebb 15y ago
This one's getting milked for all it's worth: https://github.com/madrobby/semicolon.js/pull/6
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by nhebb 15y ago
Some pythons are nocturnal and many mongooses are diurnal. If you've never coded in Python, you could call yourself a "python mongoose" and not be completely disingenuous.

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