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by nixme 17y ago
Except that the rich or even moderately well-off never convert even close to all their money into something tangible while the poor almost always must immediately. The rich don't live paycheck to paycheck. They save, invest, go on vacation,
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by nixme 17y ago
Sadly, this isn't even your average reporter. The author, Randall Stross, is a Professor of Business at San Jose State. What I don't get is why he's angry at Amazon. Sales tax is levied against consumption on a buyer . It's just that state
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by nixme 17y ago
Also, a sales tax is probably the fairest known model of taxation My understanding is that it is one of the most unfair . Poorer people will lose a greater percentage of their income to sales tax than richer people because certain consum
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by nixme 17y ago
I'm handing in my one month notice on the fourth, and I'm both excited and apprehensive about the future. But yeah, 2010 will be an exciting year no matter what happens. Good luck to you too!
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by nixme 17y ago
I just tried and it doesn't work :( I get a page full of garbled text (presumably the sound file) when I hit play. Using Mobile Safari on 3.1, non jailbroken, at http://www.google.com/voice . How are you getting this to work? I've been fru
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by nixme 17y ago
Except you can't play voicemails, which is the primary reason to use the web interface.
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by nixme 17y ago
Cinch is great. I've been using it for a couple days now and it's made managing windows easier on large screens. If you're just looking for a proper maximize in OS X, wrongzoom[1] is a great free alternative. After installing, most apps wil
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by nixme 17y ago
They're picking the lines at "nice" percentages, so the lines won't necessarily be straight (different widescreen ratios, etc. get combined)
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by nixme 17y ago
I'm actually working in this space... stay tuned.
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Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams (new book)(yatzer.com)
4 points by nixme 17y ago|2 comments
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by nixme 17y ago
He's talking about Issues [1], GitHub's issue tracker :) [1] http://github.com/blog/411-github-issue-tracker
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by nixme 17y ago
I've heard good things about Bento, but she'll need a Mac :) http://www.filemaker.com/products/bento/features.html
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by nixme 17y ago
Still no functioning bookmarks manager or bookmark sync. I was hoping they'd enable that in the beta release.
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by nixme 17y ago
Sweet! He's got a script to automate pushing a local branch to a remote and setting up tracking at one shot: http://git-wt-commit.rubyforge.org/git-publish-branch I always forget the exact config settings each time I have to do it... prob
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by nixme 17y ago
Or even better: hold down Ctrl-Cmd-D and hover over any word. Works in Cocoa apps that use native text controls -- Safari, Mail, etc. all work.
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by nixme 17y ago
It's a poorly worded sentence. I felt it contradicted the research on first-read as well. Since they specifically placed objects rated with high masculinity in the room, the "even if we make it all female" sounds as if doing the opposite do
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by nixme 17y ago
Totally in the same boat. I started work on my own idea this past week and it would be great to discuss ideas and the usual startup issues. I'd be happy to help out.
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by nixme 17y ago
Yep, and I love it. See my comment above: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=960532
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by nixme 17y ago
"And Dropbox ... says it will offer tools for corporate collaboration in a more formal fashion early next year." Any Dropbox folks here who could comment on what those tools might be?
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by nixme 17y ago
I bought the Zeo a couple months back based on reading about here on HN. What a huge difference in the morning! I used to be the kind of person that needed a 20 min hot shower to properly wake up. Now I wake up mostly alert and almost nev
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by nixme 17y ago
Simple explanation: Most database indexes are forms of B-trees. Insertion into a binary tree isn't constant time O(1), it's usually O(log n).
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by nixme 17y ago
Are you sure you're not thinking of Swoopo, not Priceline?
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by nixme 17y ago
What do Sailor's beliefs about an unrelated issue have to do with his analysis of NFL draft positions and performance? Gladwell's retort would have been better without that.
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by nixme 17y ago
Looks like they're using sIFR. Maybe you have flash or javascript disabled?
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by nixme 17y ago
Will you charge in the future? Will there always be a free plan with a limited number of hits?
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by nixme 17y ago
The whitepaper has more information: http://dev.chromium.org/spdy/spdy-whitepaper Interesting parts: - "...make SSL the underlying transport protocol, for better security and compatibility with existing network infrastructure." Won't thi
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by nixme 17y ago
Is this a form of discrimination? It is a form of exclusion based on past education and experience. Are you implying that it is unethical to do so? I say no. Past performance is the best predictor of future performance. Getting accepted i
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by nixme 17y ago
In short: no, not everyone is equally skilled, but you're going to miss a lot of gems if you only hire from MIT's peer institutions. You are correct, but that doesn't matter. Hiring filters are intentionally excessively restrictive becaus
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Your Coffee Shop Doesn't Use Two-Phase Commit (2005) [PDF](eaipatterns.com)
2 points by nixme 17y ago|0 comments
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by nixme 17y ago
Why do SMS web service prices vary so much? How does this service do a better job than Penny SMS who charge $0.01/message and provide return messages via email? https://www.pennysms.com/

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