perokreco

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by perokreco 15y ago
Because Google owns both the browser and the search engine, and could use position in one market to gain a large advantage in another. Opera is neither a market leader nor it owns DDG. Moreover there is no such thing as anti-trust behavior,
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by perokreco 15y ago
Well if the valuations are lower now, wouldn't that mean that now is the best time to invest?
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by perokreco 15y ago
That was Microsoft and IBM AFAIK.
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by perokreco 15y ago
It would not be beneficial to standardize such s young technology. It is likely that the best car battery design hasn't been invented yet. Standards bodies are there to codify best practices and not to decide things by themselves.
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by perokreco 15y ago
I bought it and it looks terrible on my Kindle, some sentences repeat themselves and there is a "Paul Graham" string shown 3 times per page. The about Paul Graham text was actually behind his picture, so overall quality of this is extremely
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by perokreco 15y ago
Most of the benefits university provides are not gained in class, those being accreditation, networking, and being in a group of really smart people. Moreover a lot of people are spending somebody else's money through scholarships and etc.
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by perokreco 15y ago
No it does not. If you can only move forward or backward on it, it is still 1D, as your position can be described by 1 coordinate.
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by perokreco 15y ago
This happens sometimes with couchsurfing as well. People are generally good and trusting.
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by perokreco 15y ago
Axioms by definition are not provable.
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by perokreco 15y ago
Your email does not appear automatically, you need to write it yourself in your about section
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by perokreco 15y ago
CPU does not necessarily have to be the bottleneck.
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by perokreco 15y ago
It is not that the result of operation is undefined, the operation of INT_MAX+1 itself is undefined(actually the entire program becomes undefined when you do it), so the compiler can do whatever it pleases. According to the C standard, INT_
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by perokreco 15y ago
Transition to Python 3 is going well and according to schedule AFAIK.
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by perokreco 15y ago
Why did you choose vWorker compared to the other outsourcing websites?
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by perokreco 15y ago
The article is down, but on-topic, I know bunch of large airlines(EasyJet for example) that let you present boarding pass on your smartphone so you do not have to print it.
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by perokreco 16y ago
Not really true, for example my 3 year old Nokia N82 has a much better camera than the iPhone. It even comes with a real flash instead of the lousy LED one.
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by perokreco 16y ago
You can have pretty interesting Monopoly games. Mine usually end up with interplayer corporations, loans for building and investing, bailouts, mergers and similar.
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by perokreco 16y ago
Think about what happens when a dam fails. For example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banqiao_Dam
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by perokreco 16y ago
Thanks, I put so much text to try to explain the idea and credentials as to not seem like one of "You give me money and I give you this awesome secret to saving and becoming a millionaire in a year" but I agree it is a bit too much.
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by perokreco 16y ago
I was primarily inspired by this Derek Sivers blog post http://sivers.org/semi-expert and my own frustration when often booking flights and finding from a friend that I could have saved tons of money by using a low cost airline that is no
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Show HN: I made a human powered travel search engine(toorld.com)
15 points by perokreco 16y ago|10 comments
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by perokreco 16y ago
I just saw you use e-junkie for fulfillment. Are you satisfied with them? I am considering using them for a digital goods sale, except mine would be an one-off sale of unique items.
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by perokreco 16y ago
I am a bit unnerved with airbnb, as they took something people have been doing for free(couchsurfing), and are now incentivizing people to charge money for it.
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by perokreco 16y ago
Wikileaks publishes what people send it. There has been a bunch of non US stuff in the past.
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by perokreco 16y ago
In Norway, tax records are actually public, you can search through them online.
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by perokreco 16y ago
No engineering interns? Thats a bit odd.
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by perokreco 16y ago
Your sarcasm is wrong, because you are claiming the converse of what pmjordan claimed. Its a common logical fallacy.
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by perokreco 16y ago
Why protection, isn't the fact that people are submitting the story actually a powerful indicator it is a good one?
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by perokreco 16y ago
How do you mean you can't find it? I live in the US, and all my phones have been Nokias for a while. http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dap... http://www.nokiausa.com
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by perokreco 16y ago
Their core market today is still mainframes for large businesses.

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