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by pdevr 12y ago
Interesting observation. So then, for women, it is the above, plus this delicate balancing act: Make sure to marry a man who earns enough so that the combined household income is $125k+, while not caring much about his wealth.
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by pdevr 12y ago
There were some really good devs embedded in all that lard, hopefully they'll be fine. Almost all the comments posted below the original local blog post (which the TechCrunch post links to) are job offers, so I guess at least some of
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by pdevr 12y ago
If you want to use open source software for this, Google has released Course Builder[1] a while back. Caveat: It uses App Engine, as far as I know. [1] https://code.google.com/p/course-builder/
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by pdevr 12y ago
"Softwar" is an insightful book about Larry Ellison, written by someone who had access to Ellison. I do not want to chime in with my own opinion, but would suggest to read the book to learn a lot about the history of Oracle and El
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by pdevr 12y ago
Twitter handle of ISRO's Mars Orbiter: https://twitter.com/MarsOrbiter First tweet: "What is red, is a planet and is the focus of my orbit?"
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by pdevr 12y ago
Nice work. You may want to mention HackerNews in the site title so that non-HN visitors will know what it is about - unless the omission was intentional.
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by pdevr 12y ago
My knowledge of her research is limited to Wikipedia and the recent news articles. Based on that limited knowledge, I think her two major contributions were: 1. An asymptotic formula for the growth of the number of simple closed geodesics o
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by pdevr 12y ago
Note: Don't take the titles seriously. Publishing schedule changes? http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=saturday.sunday.monday... Strong correlation: http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=moon.mars E
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by pdevr 12y ago
How expensive food items are "created": truffles, caviar: http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=truffles.caviar
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Google – Compare Credit Cards(google.com)
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Mike the Headless Chicken(en.wikipedia.org)
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by pdevr 12y ago
This is something which has been known for thousands of years, unless I am missing something: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_effect Edit: The relevant Bhagavat Gita verse: http://www.bhagavad-gita.us&#x2
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by pdevr 12y ago
This is not like IBM making some of its less important patents available to the community. This is huge. How many times in the past has a private company opened up its core patents for everyone to use? There aren't that many precedence
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by pdevr 12y ago
Also, the fact that you have the freedom to discuss and criticize CIA on a public forum. A strong democracy's pros outweigh its cons by a large margin - almost always.
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by pdevr 12y ago
Posted here already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7848945
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Last Of The Navajo 'Code Talkers' Dies At 93(npr.org)
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by pdevr 12y ago
Congratulations! How long ago did this happen?
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by pdevr 12y ago
Even when they were marked as sponsored links, they were penalized, according to this post[1]. On a sidenote, my post was downvoted by someone even though it was on-topic. I disagree with you, but have upvoted so we can discuss this rationa
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by pdevr 12y ago
This is a good starting point for anyone interested in the Eudyptula Challenge [1]. [1] http://eudyptula-challenge.org/
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by pdevr 12y ago
Copying my previous answer here (and more explanation at the end): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7821157 Yes, and I think OP was trying to point out Google Adsense allows "paid links" to be displayed on the
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by pdevr 12y ago
Yes, and I think OP was trying to point out Google Adsense allows "paid links" to be displayed on the same website: "You own a website, I own a website, I pay $100 to Google who decides when to show my ad on your website and
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by pdevr 12y ago
The site has a lot of other articles that are darn interesting.
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by pdevr 12y ago
Did you commit any allegedly fraudulent activity to get that money? Not trying to be snarky or accusative, but happened to see a similar case[1] of an affiliate marketer who is also an HN member yesterday and want to make sure you get the r
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by pdevr 12y ago
Got it, thanks to your and tootie's replies.
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by pdevr 12y ago
From the BBC article: Weighing in at 77 tonnes, it was as heavy as 14 African elephants, and seven tonnes heavier than the previous record holder, Argentinosaurus. According to the Wikipedia page about Dinosaur size[1], the biggest (and l
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by pdevr 12y ago
It is interesting that the author had to portray a hypothetical scenario of learning music theory and never practising to get his point (which I more or less agree with) across. Sometimes, it is necessary to create unrealistic scenarios and
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by pdevr 12y ago
Not sure what version of Spring you are using, but the newer versions allow you to annotate your way out of the need to have so many XML files. Code bloat is a different beast. Unless the company decides to refactor and redesign the whole t
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Google Style Guides for Angular.js, Lisp, etc(google-styleguide.googlecode.com)
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by pdevr 13y ago
This is a decent start. However, the data set is statistically insignificant. Only 52 founders? HBR can do much better than this.
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by pdevr 13y ago
There will always be people who want privacy, regardless of whether their intention is good or bad. On the other hand, regulators and rulers will always want to know as much as they can. The privacy seekers will come up with innovations to

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