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by nroach 17y ago
Except that this is fraud. And the USAA app requires you to log in first, so the depositor has been authenticated. Trying to pass off a photoshopped check via USAA's deposit@home would be about as wise as walking into a bank to rob it afte
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by nroach 17y ago
Ok, i'm thoroughly disgusted. How bad does your asthma have to be in order to resort to parasitic infection as a cure? I hate my hayfever, but you can count me out for this remedy.
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by nroach 17y ago
That's disappointing, given Obama's repeated public support for transparency. Calling it a national security issue is absolute rubbish. What scares me is that this will impact people's lives in a significant fashion, and yet the public doe
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by nroach 17y ago
The real question in my mind is whether the book provides attribution to Wikipedia as the source. If not, and if the book's contents are literal copies of the wikipedia article, then Wikipedia may be able to have the book(s) taken down bec
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by nroach 17y ago
Yep, I'm very broken up about my inability to install Gimp on Linux using the Gimp Installer for Windows. It strikes me as pretty disingenuous to say that only Windows can run the "top 10" downloads when your top 10 list includes vectors fo
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by nroach 17y ago
This difference in thought process is often described as "cooperative" vs. "adversarial". I like the "relationship" vs. "transactional" analogy as well. I always start out with a cooperative approach, and fall back to adversarial only when
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by nroach 17y ago
I like how CSS is by itself. Since I never use HTML or Javascript in the same project as CSS :P
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by nroach 17y ago
In the US, those people tend to fall into one of a few groups: 1) They're covered by a government plan already (medicare, medicaid) 2) They have a good employer-sponsored plan and don't see the costs. My own parents fall into this category
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by nroach 17y ago
Awesome. Would have been +1 if they'd rickrolled you after the signup click-through. Although ... you _could_ do this with a custom app. Wouldn't be too hard, really.
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by nroach 17y ago
I think the applicability of the article depends on your local Walmart. Perhaps in Boston you get local, sustainable, produce. But where I live in Texas, even the newest Walmarts still only stock the plasticized Mexican and Chilean produc
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by nroach 17y ago
No, that's the HN title post on creating buzz. When I saw the bait-n-switch I clicked back. I have better things to do with my time than wait on sign-ups for yet-another-stack-overflow. Now, if that link had gone to a well-written blog po
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by nroach 17y ago
Am I the only one that finds this ad kind of scary? 58 comments so far and not one mentions privacy. Google can tell a lot about a person from their search history, and this ad illustrates the point well.
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by nroach 17y ago
What are your criteria? Do you have a geographic location that the employer must be within? Do you have a minimum salary you need to make (before bonus or equity)? We just finished a hiring round, which included Python. I expect that we'l
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by nroach 17y ago
iPod Touch DX.
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by nroach 17y ago
This isn't directly applicable to the OP, but since a lot of readers are in the US, I thought I'd go into a bit more detail. In the United States, compilations of data are protected by the Copyright statute. Specifically, any "collection a
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by nroach 17y ago
More detail ... WSJ: http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20100121-717467.html It looks increasingly like the Google threat to pull out of China or stop censoring results was nothing more than a bluff: one they were destined to lose. The C
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Did Google just bail on their China bluff? Discuss.(nathanroach.com)
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by nroach 17y ago
OP, Usually, I recommend putting the "going for it" part before the "quitting the day job" part. They don't always have to be mutually exclusive. I admire your resolve and wish you great success. Let us know how it goes.
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by nroach 17y ago
This is a great question. I've asked myself as much and I think it comes up any time someone decides to sit down and write an app. To me, the short answer is that pople can be enticed to pay for webapps when the app delivers value and solv
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by nroach 17y ago
Yep, I think this was just on HN recently: http://www.brepettis.com/blog/2009/3/3/the-cult-of-done-mani... I hadn't realized how accurately that describes my productive/unproductive periods.
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by nroach 17y ago
"Ideas kept under lock and key are much less useful than those that are freely available." That's precisely the point of the patent system. It is supposed to encourage disclosure so that after the protected period the knowledge is made ful
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by nroach 17y ago
Well, my surreply would be that for those customers, there is only one one need, and Google's feature matrix attempts to address more needs than actually exist in that segment of the marketplace. But segmentation is a good point that I hadn
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by nroach 17y ago
I got a good laugh out of that comic, and it's frighteningly familiar for a lot of enterprise developers. But taken too literally, it sends entirely the wrong message to a startup. In some cases I guess you really do want to swing for the
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by nroach 17y ago
Moreover, if you want to get that prior art on record with the USPTO, one way to do it is to file for a patent then let the application lapse before issuance. It'll then show up on subsequent searches.
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by nroach 17y ago
boucher seems to be running into some pretty stiff resistance here, and I totally get it. That said, I opted to pay for the beta. While it probably should have been marketed as an alpha instead, it was worth much more than $20. Really, m