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by nirvana 14y ago
I've been traveling with my co-founder for about 4 years full time. This was easy in the USA where we didn't need visas, but eventually we hit on the move-every-90-days limitation of other countries Visas. Currently we're in Chile with a 1
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by nirvana 14y ago
I can express my OO ideas in erlang with no problem (objects become processes). I cannot express my concurrency ideas-- that erlang makes super easy-- in the OO languages. Maybe Go changes this but I haven't used Go yet.
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Wow, you ordered something from ebay, and they shipped it to your apartment, and you replaced it, and all of this- from the moment you started looking at the auction, to completing the repair - was less than 5 hours?! Amazing! Well, if tha
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by nirvana 14y ago
Free aint cheap for you? Well, then you're just penny wise and pound foolish. Like I said, the vast majority of the time you might need some service, Apple does it for free. If you think you're going to buy some other companies machine
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This is simply not true.
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FREE is not a "fucking premium" you have to "pay" to get your device serviced! And this is for the lifetime of the product! Not that Apple products require service, but when they do Apple provides a premium service- a global network of sto
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by nirvana 14y ago
There really are death panels in obamacare. I read the bill before it was made secret, when this issue was brought out. The bill creates committees which decide who gets health care and who is left to die. That's a plain fact. The respon
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One thing to know about Amazon is that they use PR to leak things. I think there's an ethical problem in reporters not revealing that a "leak" is coming from a PR agency. "people familiar with the situation said" conveys a very different i
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by nirvana 14y ago
I guess if you live long enough you see everything. I was part of a team that invented "spacebase" back in the mid-1990s! We were able to support millions of simultaneous MMO players in the age when most people were using dialup modems and
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by nirvana 14y ago
Speaking of controlling communications-- this entire thread, which was #2 on HN when I first saw it-- has been buried because it is not sufficiently pro-obama. Meanwhile the latest uneducated screed about how the banks caused the housing cr
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by nirvana 14y ago
For anyone who wants to let this slide, how would you have reacted[1] if the headline had started "Bush gives himself..." and it had been published 6 years ago? Cause 6 years from now it might be someone you don't like in office, but the
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by nirvana 14y ago
How would you feel about the argument that, while I can't prove god exists, you should give %30 of your income to the church anyway. IF there is no god, you've still helped the world by funding the spread of his word. And if there is a go
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by nirvana 14y ago
This article is being pushed down as people flag it, and given how popular pro-AGW hypothesis articles are on HN, it is, to me, a clear cut example of AGW proponents trying to bury scientific data that disagrees with their belief. I'd rathe
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by nirvana 14y ago
Regarding screwing up the direct environment- I only want to say that I believe a historical survey, and economics, would support the perception that as societies advance in standard of living, they tend to clean up their local environments
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Let me make it clear upfront: I'm responding to the issue of emotional talk about this issue, not trying to debate the science with you. --- The IR absorption of CO2 is less than that of water vapor, is it not? CO2 is rising while the plan
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by nirvana 14y ago
What specific models are you talking about? Can you give me links with the lists of the sources of data, the adjustment factors applied, and also the predictive results of the model (forward in time, not backward)?[1] Regarding the chart y
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by nirvana 14y ago
One thing I do know is this: There are uncounted[1] numbers of glaciers in alaska alone. I mean that literally. There are so many glaciers on the planet that nobody has ever even counted them, let alone done a study on whether they are, on
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by nirvana 14y ago
I can speak on the job/travel conflict. Making apps or running a website can enable you to travel the world full time. We've been doing it for four years. For the record, two of us travelled on a budget of less than $4,000 a month. Actua
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I agree with the thesis of this article, but I think it is needlessly harsh and confrontational. "You don't get it", ok, maybe he doesn't but is he a 30 year old who should get it by now, or is he a whiz bang 16 year old whose hitting way
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by nirvana 14y ago
No, there are only two interfaces you make-- the iPhone and the iPad versions. These are your two code paths and the two Interface Builder projects. You want to make normal and 2X graphics of course, but for all of them this just means mak
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I have a Retina iPad and I would trade it for an iPad mini. The iPhone is small enough to use every day, but it compromises in its smallness. The iPad is great- probably the best web browsing experience anywhere, and with apps like Flipboa
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It happens also when a business model isn't so disruptive. Regulation ends up favoring the politically connected. The more politically connected, generally, are bigger or more established interests. This benefits politicians as well, beca
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Damn, github seemed like the perfect model for bootstrapped, they were growing like a weed, seemed to not lack for money from income, etc. In these situations, I'd really love to know the details-- did they go shopping for investment (love
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by nirvana 14y ago
I'm still trying to figure out what imdbapi is doing exactly. They cite freebase and wikipedia (at the bottom of their home page) but neither of those have imdb ratings. What data imdb makes available is here, along with references to thei
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This is confusing. On the imdbapi page, it says, at the bottom, its source is "Freebase" http://www.freebase.com/ and Wikipedia. If I search for a movie on the imdbapi.com page, it has IMDB rating. IF I go to freebase for the same movie
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This reminds me of the Tragedy of IMDB, once again. Many people may not know or remember, but IMDB (and CDDB which had a similar fate) were some of the great early "open source" works of the internet-- millions of movie (and music) buffs p
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by nirvana 14y ago
The door desk is a lie. They claim it is cheap, its one of the company mantras like "its day one!" that are part of the ideology/cult that exists at amazon. It is part of their fraud (like leaking that kindle fire is a success via a PR fi
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In fact, if someone is paying $1,200 a month for a dorm, then that tells you something about the kind of employee or co-founder they would be. No problem if they stay there for a couple weeks, up to a month, while getting situated or doing
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I find it odd that a site started by a rich guy who decided to put together a for-profit enterprise based on the idea that helping entrepreneurs get their first startup off of the ground would both make him richer, and make them richer, is
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Have you noticed that AWS has regular, significant outages? The web store does as well. The thing is, most of them don't affect the whole store or all customers. Amazon covers for a lot of this with superb customer service (provided you'r

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