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by olefoo 14y ago
It depends on the site, and the stack you are using to manage it, but ideally you would have the following features. 1. All assets are under version control. 2. Committing code of any sort (HTML, CSS, Javascript, Ruby, Python, PHP, ...etc)
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by olefoo 14y ago
It is a related question, there are plenty of people with marginal housing arrangements who live in weekly rate motels for more than half of each year; paying more for housing that would cost them less if they had the economic stability to
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by olefoo 14y ago
This looks like a classic example of regulatory capture, where the regulator becomes an effective barrier to new entrants to the market. Factor in the concentrated nature of the hotel industry (fewer of them, more at stake) and you can see
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by olefoo 14y ago
Your savings account underperforming, or your adjustable rate mortgage being more expensive than it would be otherwise aren't obvious forms of theft... And the second order effects as businesses smaller than major banks attempt to make up f
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by olefoo 14y ago
It's big news in the very narrow segment of American society that pays attention to hard news. In the sense that we can see the mechanisms by which the general public is being robbed. It is not news in the sense that most anyone who has bee
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The myth of shareholder value.(propublica.org)
2 points by olefoo 14y ago|0 comments
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by olefoo 14y ago
1. You are making the assumption that the insurance companies models of what is and is not a risky lifestyle are correct. 2. For the same reason that your employer is not entitled to put cameras in your bathroom to make sure you aren't doin
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by olefoo 14y ago
+1 on that. If you open it up so that j. random startup can announce "Hey, we provide trigger foo, trigger bar and action baz" in a way that doesn't require anything more than cursory human interaction on the IFTTT end of the transaction, y
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by olefoo 14y ago
I'm now wondering what sort of mayhem one could cause with vendor access to every Oracle db the US .gov uses, presumably you could forge orders, reorganize parts of the executive and identify and suborn most of the people who would be in a
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by olefoo 14y ago
The ITU isn't that obscure, it is the main trans-national regulatory body for telecommunications. If you've ever made a phone call across a national border the ITU is the body that set the technical standards that made that call possible. H
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by olefoo 14y ago
Good deal, congratulations to Lance Albertson and his team.
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by olefoo 14y ago
Having been affected several times by colocation facilities bouncing the power during a test of the failover system, I can tell you that such tests are not without risk. Yes, you should test redundant systems, but how often, at what cost, a
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by olefoo 14y ago
You mean something like http://activitystrea.ms/ ?
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by olefoo 14y ago
"There is no Moore's law for software." That's because software comes from the realm of biology, not physics, improvements are path-dependent, historically determined and can quite easily get stuck at local maxima rather than finding global
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by olefoo 14y ago
It's definitely the case that Congress should take action on non-practicing entities being able to put up a tollbooth on others efforts; there is no way that qualifies as promoting the useful arts and sciences. I'm of the opinion that a pat
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by olefoo 14y ago
No, your conversion of ambient heat to drying the zeolite and the inverse release of heat when adding water; are both less than perfectly efficient. Entropy grows at each step. The retention of heat in the dried zeolite is not a conversion
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by olefoo 14y ago
If you could figure out a good way to integrate the heating element and the the zeolite on a surface like a menger sponge you would have a very high surface area and good thermal response characteristics.
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by olefoo 14y ago
The http://highscalability.com/ blog has a decent archive on the topic. Remember that your situation is unique and that the first rule of scaling is to measure everything you can. No two sites have the same audience, or requirements, or e
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by olefoo 14y ago
I actually really like the new redesign, it looks like they've decided to occupy the niche that used to be del.icio.us before Yahoo! digested it and shat out delicious.com It does seem like they could have paid more attention to transitioni
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by olefoo 14y ago
The thing is that most of the articles in this edition deserve their moment in the focus of Hacker News. Money is the ultimate software, it is a protocol agreement that drives human behavior in the real world. Money may be the illusion of v
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by olefoo 14y ago
Google leans pretty heavily on machine learning for even trivial design choices http://stopdesign.com/archive/2009/03/20/goodbye-google.html mentions the infamous testing of 41 shades of bue to decide which was the correct one. But truly
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by olefoo 14y ago
You may be correct on every point; but are you adding anything substantive to the discussion beyond your emotions about the story?
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by olefoo 14y ago
Ummm, the country of Paraguay already has the .py cctld, and they are somewhat picky about who they hand domains out to (residents and nationals only basically), which is why you don't see a bunch of programmers with vanity domains that ar
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by olefoo 14y ago
Pessimistic? I don't think so, he's facing the problems full on; asking hard searching questions about his chosen field and working for new insight. That is not a pessimist, that is someone who has faith that he can find a solution; even if
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by olefoo 14y ago
Facebook has the biggest and most metadata rich direct marketing list ever created? Facebook has not even begun to do the things they could with the knowledge they collect every day. In theory you should be able to go to one of Facebook's a
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by olefoo 14y ago
I would take the words of the employees over that of the investors, you tend to be a little more clear eyed and less inclined to gamble when it's your livelihood at stake. That said, the bubble we're in is mostly a media creation; people wa
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by olefoo 14y ago
The opacity of the market for shares in speculative ventures is the perfect breeding ground for conspiracy theories of that sort. Remember that most of what even the interested parties knows about any given deal (even the big ones like Inst
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DEA busts TOR hidden-service drug market.(emptywheel.net)
2 points by olefoo 15y ago|0 comments
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by olefoo 15y ago
The real startup opportunities here are in enabling and informing the new markets that this act creates. Three opportunities that matter: 1. Due diligence (verifying the existence of the team, and the software; fact checking the prospectus,
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by olefoo 15y ago
Your requirements are antithetical to each other. If you need to make marketplace payments, look at Amazon's Simple Payments (used by KickStarter amongst others) which prevents either of the end parties from knowledge of each other, but doe

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