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by nonchalance 13y ago
Actually, removing RSS streams is what makes twitter a business. They hold the keys to the data and can charge customers for access to the firehose. Your assumption is that the news consumption pattern ultimately dictates where the produce
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by nonchalance 13y ago
Twitter may not have much in terms of technical innovation, but I believe that isn't Twitter's goal. Their true value lies in the news-making ability (you hear about many news events first reported on twitter and relatively few f
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by nonchalance 13y ago
Google tried something similar with the reverse dutch auction
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by nonchalance 13y ago
PG: can you make HN show the subdomain for apple.com links (or just for itunes.apple.com )?
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by nonchalance 13y ago
They may have been advised to be a bit more conservative, given how FB IPO went
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Twitter expects to raise up to $1.61 bln in IPO(marketwatch.com)
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by nonchalance 13y ago
Many of the complaints are due to the opinion that the braceless if is bad: if(foo) bar(); I understand why you may think if(foo) { bar(); } is better, but it's unnatural for most people
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by nonchalance 13y ago
http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Python_as_a_macro_language#S... has a sample hello world script that can be run as a macro But I agree in general that the documentation is paltry. Good opportunity for an interested pe
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by nonchalance 13y ago
There are some issues which make me question the usefulness for a javascript project: For browser-based scripts, usually a minified and an unminified version are made available. That unminified version is usually the product of a script th
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by nonchalance 13y ago
If you are staying for a day or two, you most likely would go out and eat your meals (including breakfast). For longer stays, especially with kitchen access, you probably would buy cereal, milk, juice, and other items. If you are estimati
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by nonchalance 13y ago
https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Scripting
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by nonchalance 13y ago
> Not sure why estebank's comment was downvoted I gave an upvote. I suspect others downvoted the comment because it spoke well of Resolver One, which is competing in the same space as DataNitro (a YC company).
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by nonchalance 13y ago
The problem is that the underlying "facts" are really misinterpretations. > 62 percent of Airbnb hosts say Airbnb helped them stay in their homes The statement seems to suggest that most people wouldn't be able to afford t
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by nonchalance 13y ago
Apple put out similar hand-wavey figures last year: https://www.apple.com/about/job-creation/ I think the point boils down to: 1) dollars paid to hosts are counted towards the city economy (ostensibly most of thos
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by nonchalance 13y ago
I suspect the full paper includes much of that hand-wavey obviously-biased goodness that we expect from Fox News: http://freethoughtblogs.com/lousycanuck/2011/12/14/im-better...
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by nonchalance 13y ago
> [The beautiful, gorgeous product] would solve every monetary exchange hurdle with masterful, dashing perfection. I wish the author actually described his/her conception of this panacea. It's possible that "paypal'
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by nonchalance 13y ago
I suspect that most people here who hate Microsoft still use products like Excel (for which there is no good competitor :) And maybe that's part of the reason for the hate: for all the problems, there are a few indispensable products
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by nonchalance 13y ago
McDonalds never claimed that their food could be consumed to the exclusion of every other possible food. They offer breakfast options, but none of their marketing made the claim that eating at McDonalds every day was recommended. On the ot
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by nonchalance 13y ago
the article used the cringeworthy misspelling homogenious
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by nonchalance 13y ago
> After all the VC money flushed out, the bootstrapper is still standing. :) Generally, the bootstrapper focuses on building a sustainable business early on (whereas the VC-funded startups try until the wellspring dries up)
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by nonchalance 13y ago
he's now known as snoopzilla
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Netflix earnings jump; service surpasses HBO in U.S. subscribers(latimes.com)
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by nonchalance 13y ago
I apologize in advance if I sound snarky, but I (and I suspect many others here) hadn't heard of Marginalia until today. How much did you spend on ads and where did you advertise?
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by nonchalance 13y ago
> the number of those competent enough to write a LISP in PHP is precisely nil. There are many people competent enough to write a lisp in PHP, but most are working for companies that still work with PHP (of which there are many, includi
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by nonchalance 13y ago
I hope it's shorter :) 60 chars: !($1%3){$2="Fizz"}!($1%5){$2=$2 "Buzz"}!$2{$2=$1}{print $2}
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by nonchalance 13y ago
A correct FizzBuzz in awk (the version in the article doesn't print numbers in the general case): $ seq 1 100 | awk '!($1%3){printf "Fizz";p=1}!($1%5){printf "Buzz";p=1}!p{printf $1}{printf "\n"
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by nonchalance 13y ago
> we're not about to read every article submitted to HN. How many articles reach the front page per day? I'd imagine it is a small percentage of the total
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by nonchalance 13y ago
Berkshire Hathaway class A is current 175821/sh :) extreme example. But my point was that, while market cap is all that matters, people still fixate on round numbers
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by nonchalance 13y ago
$1000/sh seems like a more momentous headline than $330B market cap. On the other hand, It's more likely that we see the headline "$1T company" than "$3030.30/sh"
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by nonchalance 13y ago
It could be because the plus500.co.uk is manifestly UK (and people saying otherwise are probably based in the US).

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