nostromo

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   by nostromo 14y ago

   A friend once told me, "You should try going with the flow once in a while." She was absolutely right. Yes, many people could improve their situation by not sleepwalking through life. But similarly, we (people on HN and other ambitious fo
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   by nostromo 14y ago

   The ironic ending of the blog post is interesting. He's running Ubuntu... on a MacBook Pro. Even if you hate the software and all things iOS, it's hard to find a better designed laptop.
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   Single sign-on for your websites(dailycred.com)

   2 points by nostromo 14y ago|0 comments
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   by nostromo 14y ago

   I wish they'd show someone using it. How big is it? Seems like it's about the size of a gallon jug. Maybe bigger. The hourglass shape, unlike a traditional filter, wastes a lot of fridge space. Do I have to remove the filter to pour? Th
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   by nostromo 14y ago

   Pony up $28 yourself, get $50,000. What were they thinking?
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   Canadian scientists create a functioning, virtual brain(canada.com)

   3 points by nostromo 14y ago|0 comments
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   by nostromo 14y ago

   Fun fact: the US Navy uses trained dolphins to locate mines. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Navy_Marine_Mammal_Program... (No, they are not killed in the process.) This got me thinking, could we train rats to locate landmines using t
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   by nostromo 14y ago

   Please do, I'd love to read it. Your blog is the most honest account of entrepreneurship I've seen. ("Exploiting Silicon Valley For Profit and Maybe Fun" was one of my favorite startup reads ever.) At a previous startup I cofounded, we ha
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   by nostromo 14y ago

   It bothers me that this is being called "the fiscal cliff." Language matters, and I hope I'm not being a conspiracy theorist when I wonder if this term was propagated specifically to scare people. The positive aspect of the fiscal cliff is
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    by nostromo 14y ago

    I challenge you to find a city near Holden, MA that doesn't sound like a menswear company. Sterling, Millbury, Brookfield, Oxford, Webster, Clinton, Boylston, Northbridge, Holliston, Douglas...
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    by nostromo 14y ago

    I wish spam prevention was a bigger part of Apple's culture. I get spam robocalls on my iPhone and have no way to block them. I have recently started getting unblockable requests to Facetime with strangers on my Mac -- a service I didn't e
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    by nostromo 14y ago

    Honest question: is anyone buying these? The Chromebook seems to be all about corporate strategy ("everything in the browser!") and not about creating something people actually want. I'd love to hear about how I'm wrong however. Edit: unsur
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    by nostromo 14y ago

    Someone on StackOverflow suggested we think of ugly Java class names as poetry; he provided an example: InternalFrame InternalFrame Title Pane, Internal Frame Title Pane. Maximize Button Window, Not Focused State.
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    by nostromo 14y ago

    Maybe Nate Silver can incorporate this into his model in four years.
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    by nostromo 14y ago

    American Apparel had a real novelty value when they launched. Not only was it made in the US, it was made in LA! It struck a chord with hip urban audiences. So I'm left wondering how From Holden differentiates itself with AA. Pricing, br
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    by nostromo 14y ago

    Intrade is just one such place to bet. See others listed here: http://www.oddschecker.com/specials/politics-and-election/us... SkyBet and Ladbrokers for example both have payouts closer to 538's forecast. What is peculiar is that Intrade
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    by nostromo 14y ago

    It may actually happen in our lifetime. The small states would never allow such a change to the constitution. (A presidential voter in Wyoming has almost 4 times the vote of a Californian.) But the big states may have found a work around:
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    by nostromo 14y ago

    Interesting to note that both Apple vulnerabilities listed exist only for their Windows software. (QuickTime: http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/May/m... iTunes: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5485 ) I wonder if these
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    by nostromo 14y ago

    Most startup advice is also good advice for 20-somethings. Get to an MVP quickly: Find a way to practice your target profession as soon as possible. (Don't spend hundreds of thousands getting a law degree just to discover you hate the actu
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    by nostromo 14y ago

    What is legal and what is ethical are two different questions. I was only speaking about what's ethical (in my view).
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    by nostromo 14y ago

    This is an unfulfilling thing to say perhaps, but price gouging is actually beneficial in producing more supply when it's needed. (So long as we're speaking about a market that is not a monopoly.) Why else would a cab be out during a hurric
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    by nostromo 14y ago

    Meh. This is a touch over-the-top. You know what Facebook is to me nowadays? It's another flavor of Gmail. Sometimes I send and receive messages there. It's plumbing. Sometimes I turn the spigot on for some updates, then turn it off an
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    by nostromo 14y ago

    Does anyone but me here listen incessantly to podcasts? The latest Podcasts App from iTunes is a skeuomorphic mess. It has a superfluous animation of a reel-to-reel player of course. But it utterly fails at its most basic task: playing a go
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    by nostromo 14y ago

    I used to work for an American company with a large Israeli workforce. When I left the company they were actively trying to hire engineers from the West Bank. Apparently this used to be hard to do, but has gotten easier thanks to a governm
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    by nostromo 14y ago

    It's exactly what it sounds like: a short-term dip in voltage. I'm not sure why any end user would care about this, unless they are using a device with no battery.
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    by nostromo 14y ago

    That doesn't help in cases like these. In order for it to help, a company or individual would need a way to say, "only contracts held in escrow are valid from the period from x to y" and have it hold up in court.
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    by nostromo 14y ago

    I doubt it's a coordinated effort. Most YC companies will fly to front page regardless of content because other YC founders (that obviously hang out on HN) want to see them succeed. The net effect is the same but the motive is more noble.
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    by nostromo 14y ago

    I was struck when we incorporated our company and raised financing how much we still use ink and paper to keep track of things like corporate ownership. When signing so many documents I wanted to seal them with paraffin wax and send them t
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    by nostromo 14y ago

    Sometimes yes, HSTS sites would be harder to crack. However, many people still manually enter website urls (citibank.com) which redirects to https. If the DNS points citibank.com to a fake citibank phishing site, they simply wouldn't redir
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    by nostromo 14y ago

    I like HackerNews to be a supportive environment for startups, but this raises some questions. Publishers trying to make an honest buck will dislike this. So will cafe customers that just want coffee and wifi and not your political positio