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by oskarth 14y ago
Agree. It's especially obnoxious if it comes from the author himself. It's the equivalent of having a tagline saying "I'm a smart developer who works hard" - it might be true but it's not your call, it's just a counter-signal. On second tho
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by oskarth 14y ago
Startup returns usually follow a power law. That means a missed good investment is potentially hundred times worse than a accepted bad investment. A single good investment like Heroku, Dropbox or Airbnb can easily outweight all other invest
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by oskarth 14y ago
That's not what I'd call a tradeoff. Problem complexity isn't the same thing as incidental complexity. If a DSL is useful for the problem domain, it's not "extra complexity", it's a simple (albeit hard to implement, simple != easy) and eleg
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by oskarth 15y ago
You'd be surprised what consumers can mistake a product for. In many people's eyes, iPhone == smartphone. It'd be a relatively simple mistake to make if you are a elderly non-techie.
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by oskarth 15y ago
Where did you see real/projected P/E ratios?
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by oskarth 15y ago
I think the reason they mention the timeline is because it's great for advertisers. It doesn't seem unlikely that it has intentionally been designed to be disorienting which leads us to pay more attention to ads. User retention (including e
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by oskarth 15y ago
Are you a Hollywood lobbyist rallying behind enemy lines? Anti-DRM != Theft.
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by oskarth 15y ago
A lot of spam mails are sent through hijacked white-listed accounts. If that's the case here, it's unnecessary exposure of someone else's email address.
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by oskarth 15y ago
I think it's better to read a broken translation than a broken original source. That is: go to a foreign language site of your choice, then translate it into broken english.
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by oskarth 15y ago
I don't understand this attitude. Would you feel the same way if someone put up an ad saying "learn to drive in 3 months"? A couple of years back I went to one of those "driving camps". It was enough to land me a driver's license in Sweden,
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by oskarth 15y ago
This is getting awfully off-topic, but I just re-read the essay and stumbled across this: It will actually become a reasonable strategy (or a more reasonable strategy) to [suspect everything new] ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleolithic_
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by oskarth 15y ago
Because it's most likely skewed. Without knowing anything about where your votes come from, I'm pretty sure the WEIRD demographic is over-represented (white, educated, industrialized, rich, democratic). Not trying to be overly critical - I
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Course: Become a web developer in 8 weeks(bloc.io)
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by oskarth 15y ago
I think this is just a premonition of what's to come. Fast forward a couple of years, add in a ban (semi-optional) on visual advertising a la Sao Paulo, mix with freebee creative advertising, season with flash mob and suddenly our future co
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by oskarth 15y ago
That's a nice-to-have but certainly no must-have. Even if each work of art had an average of say, ten rips - unlikely, given the cost of making a rip and the loss of utility for making the 10th rip - the cost for yet another petabyte is har
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by oskarth 15y ago
The best sign that we are not in a bubble is the fact that it's mainstream to think that we are in a bubble. This suggests that the possible overhype is already accounted for in the market price. It's the equivalent of when your taxi drive
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by oskarth 15y ago
Regarding Seinfeld: Have you seen his tour schedule? [0] He's still working extremely hard as a standup comedian. In interviews I've heard him say that he likes to keep his routine 90% the same, refining it from show to show, while still ad
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by oskarth 15y ago
This is a great way of working. I just wonder if the books are: (a) any good? (b) selling? There's a huge difference between writing a good book and sticking a couple of notes together. Anyone read the books in question? EDIT: I didn't see
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by oskarth 15y ago
Off-topic: Every new paragraph starting with an "I" comes off as distracting for the reader. Also the repeated use of "I would / wouldn't" makes it sound like it's a stylistic grip, but the sentences doesn't seem to be set up that way. Seei
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by oskarth 15y ago
I am curious: how did you find this infected comment thread? Do you get alerted whenever a comment thread reaches a certain depth or how does it work?
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by oskarth 15y ago
Self-fulfilled prophecy? Please read http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html especially this bit: Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, fl
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by oskarth 15y ago
Looking at the shopping cart [0] it looks like august 2012 for earliest testing, october 2012 for pre-beta and december 2012 for betas. All estimated dates, naturally. 0: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/306316578/light-table/pl...
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by oskarth 15y ago
Woaha, that's a see-to-believe it. From $800 to $2 000+ in the time it took me to skim a couple of HN comments.
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by oskarth 15y ago
Idea for a simple mobile game, Gauss Jordan Golf: - Specify 18 (or a multiple thereof with minor number changes) equations of varying difficulty. - Allow free choice of standard computer calculated operations, and a give-up button once you
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by oskarth 15y ago
Email was not designed to be used the way we use it now. ...my inbox is a todo list, and email is the way things get onto it. But it is a disastrously bad todo list. ...it seems unlikely that people in 100 years will still be living in the
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Elon Musk interview [video](thedailyshow.com)
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by oskarth 15y ago
If you write, read, bookmark, share or search for something like this [0], does your conditional probability of killing someone go up? Probably not - chances are you just happen to be morbidly curious. The real killer, being smart enough, w
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by oskarth 15y ago
If Google is, and has been for quite some time, using it for large-scale systems in production, I would call it production ready.
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by oskarth 15y ago
Slightly offtopic question: I re-read Odysseus a couple of weeks ago and was wondering about the name Telemachos. My rudimentary knowledge of etymology tells me that he's a "far away man". Given your username and the fact that you have a Ph
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by oskarth 15y ago
Is this a common thing in US? I can't think of any good reason for an employer to get access to a prospective employees account. Sounds like the equivalent of asking to access a person's home to make sure it is well kept and that they have

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