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Financial Times editor says most news websites will charge within a year(guardian.co.uk)
4 points by nir 17y ago|4 comments
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by nir 17y ago
This whole "good companies and they're good to their customers" is ridiculous. Why are they "good companies"? Because they didn't publish anything about Twitter? Why were these companies selected, anyway? Because the ad server happened to p
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by nir 17y ago
Honestly. The downmod arrows are only for comments. No amount of karma enables you to downvote story submissions.
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by nir 17y ago
Since there's no way to downmod a submission in HN, the "majority of the community" numbers exactly 14 people at the moment.
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by nir 17y ago
Whatever you think of TechCrunch or Twitter (personally I think they are both bullshit factories), boycotting company X for advertising on a site that exposed some documents from company Y is beyond pathetic. This is not important . Twitte
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by nir 17y ago
I don't really know MongoDB. Memcache seems like a good fit: you could use key names like '{{url}}-{{day}}-{{hour}}' etc, incr/decr is built into the API and make use of its expiration system. Keep in mind that with memcache (AFAIK) you ne
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by nir 17y ago
Personally, I prefer to give new technology some time to mature before using it on anything important (and, as result, becoming competent with it), but I do try to look into new stuff just to see the ideas and approaches behind it. For exam
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by nir 17y ago
Voted up, as a good example why it's better to build on top of existing software rather than reinvent the wheel (or in this case, Apache)
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by nir 17y ago
There's an excellent TED talk by J Kunstler about livable cities and how we stopped building them: http://www.ted.com/talks/james_howard_kunstler_dissects_subu...
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by nir 17y ago
Well, it contains the string "Twitter". (To be fair to the media, I don't think they're "pretending" it's significant - IMHO they, like Morgan Stanley, really have no idea anymore what's significant and what's not. Next stop - Nobel prize :
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by nir 17y ago
I'm honestly not sure if this is a brilliant parody of TechCrunch style "journalism" or just the echo chamber that produces quotes like "Google, which probably wants to buy Twitter just because it’s hot".
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by nir 17y ago
"Today, an "entrepreneur" is someone who sells ads on a dumb website people look at while they should be doing useful work. When America was a great nation, an entrepreneur was a guy who would invent or design useful things" Well said.
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by nir 17y ago
http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2009/07/dear-eric-youre-dead-t... ;)
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by nir 17y ago
Isn't large scale software actually where most of the automation and offshoring take place? The "judgments calls and architectural decisions" can be made just as well by software architects in India or China or Brazil. >The interesting
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by nir 17y ago
>I like how no one cites employment figures for engineers and programmers in these articles. That's going to be the future employment prospects for men in the long term. In the long term, can't a significant amount of engineering &
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by nir 17y ago
Looks interesting, but why not make it web app, rather than a Firefox extension?
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by nir 17y ago
There's also Froogle, Google Notebook, Blog search, Google Video and there's still no way to delete a GAE app... My view is that, unlike what much of the media seems to assume, Google and other huge companies aren't executing some secret Ha
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by nir 17y ago
Botnets are not a new invention. They are being rented for DDoS attacks for a while now. "Cyber Wars" aren't new either: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberwarfare#Known_attacks or: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack#In
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by nir 17y ago
Exactly. If you don't let the style distract you, Fake Steve is actually the most sensible and sharp tech journalism around. This is the first non-hyperbole analysis of Google's announcement I've seen today. My bet is that Chrome OS will h
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by nir 17y ago
But the discussion isn't whether you can create quality writing while giving it away for free (obviously that's going on, long before the Internet - eg the Bible..) but whether "free" is a sustainable business model. Anderson's own example
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by nir 17y ago
also: http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2009/07/06/09070...
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by nir 17y ago
Good point. Personally, I think that articles describing how you do X (and why) - assuming the writer has some history of successfully doing X - are more valuable than articles that try to define how X should be done. And even more valu
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by nir 17y ago
Is there a Spolsky Complex over at Fog Creek? :) Come on, guys - there isn't that much to say about the software process that haven't been said already. A short post with some code is way better than another discussion of "how to hire peo
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by nir 17y ago
I doubt the kind of following Apple has - people spending thousands of dollars on its products, sticking with them even when their market share was marginal etc - is comparable to people regularly reading a blog. So far, other "A list" web
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by nir 17y ago
I don't know, isn't 11 year old a bit premature for optimization? (sorry, I had to :))
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by nir 17y ago
Awesome. I really hope this gets to front page.
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Rails plugin for ActiveRecord validation clusters (github.com)
2 points by nir 17y ago|0 comments
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New Dyson vaccum cleaner has "switched reluctance" motor, producing 104,000RPM(telegraph.co.uk)
20 points by nir 17y ago|12 comments
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by nir 17y ago
Article's a bit hyperbole, but I think it might be interesting to HN for its description of the dot.com bubble: "The basic scam in the Internet Age is pretty easy even for the financially illiterate to grasp. Companies that weren't much mor
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The Great American Bubble Machine(forums.somethingawful.com)
1 points by nir 17y ago|1 comments

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