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by phil 14y ago
That program requires you have verified family/friends to take you in at the other end of the trip, which seems pretty legit.
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by phil 14y ago
<3 Peter DeFazio
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by phil 14y ago
Hot tip: filter uncommitted make-your-own-rules types by looking at driving instead of walking. Any Joe Schmo can jaywalk, but it takes a real free spirit to decide no cars are coming and run that red light.
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by phil 14y ago
"Communications tools don’t get socially interesting until they get technologically boring." - Clay Shirky
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by phil 14y ago
...is a feature iMessage does not offer.
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by phil 14y ago
Well put. Few people seem to make a distinction between what's good most of the time and what's good when you're trying to turn around a moribund giant whose dysfunctional processes are a big part of the problem.
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by phil 14y ago
Totally unrelated: does anybody want a gift box? I've got several thousand.
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by phil 14y ago
Sure, but the problem here is "we'd like to detect rivers in TeX, but it doesn't know about glyph shape which we know is important." They're talking about clean images only.
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by phil 14y ago
Pinning indicates purchasing intent, and mediating purchasing intent is the most lucrative thing anybody has ever found to do with the web (search advertising being the all time greatest example).
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by phil 14y ago
Lynn Hill actually failed to tie any knot. She got distracted just as she was starting to tie in: http://books.google.com/books?id=-vp31fS0OvoC&lpg=PA4&#3... There's good and bad news on the figure 8 itself. The good news is that they
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by phil 14y ago
"Interpreted" is too restrictive. For example, Objective C provides NSClassFromString().
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by phil 14y ago
Did you know Todd Skinner? (I didn't except by reputation & his accomplishments). That was a tragic accident and definitely shook every climber I know. I think it's the exception that proves the rule though. Word when it happened was he
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by phil 14y ago
I think LTCM's problem was more that they picked up all the nickels in front of steamrollers. But it looked like there were some more nickels out in the middle of an 8-lane freeway...
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by phil 14y ago
I'm pretty sure it's climber error and mis-rigging by at least 10x. Gear failures of all kinds are extremely rare. Edit: objective hazard is significant, too: rockfall, afternoon thunderstorms, etc.
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by phil 14y ago
I find the door handles deeply unnerving, even though they're also pretty cool.
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by phil 14y ago
At an ASP of $75k (probably pretty close), that's about $1.5b/yr or about 1/3 their market cap... not bad at all.
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by phil 14y ago
It's also a reference to the opening line of Howl, of course: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/179381 I don't know if that's what Jeff intended or not, but a lot of readers are going to have a strong association with the phrase "the b
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by phil 14y ago
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TheracTwentyFive
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by phil 14y ago
I've always liked the way this is described on his YC bio page ( http://ycombinator.com/people.html ): In 1988 his discovery of buffer overflow first brought the Internet to the attention of the general public.
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by phil 14y ago
You won't learn finance specifics from those books, but they're all great recommendations. In particular, everyone in this community should read When Genius Failed as a cautionary tale. It had a big impact on my world view. Here's a case wh
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by phil 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Journalism
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by phil 14y ago
Ah, I misunderstood your proposal. This would actually be a great update and is pretty plausible. Like, a streamlined way of installing an app and the ability to launch it with some URL the first time. Relatively easy, not a platform threat
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by phil 14y ago
Wasn't he some kind of general, or philosopher, or something?
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by phil 14y ago
This would be pretty neat, but file it under "things that will never happen on iOS in a million billion years."
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by phil 14y ago
He should do this for the convergence zone east of Arlington (about an hour NE of Seattle). I'm pretty sure it actually is raining all the time there, and hard.
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by phil 14y ago
Well that last one is pretty easy: nobody in Seattle carries an umbrella, for any reason, ever.
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by phil 14y ago
What are the odds you'll cross paths with the wife of a random person from the internet? Your comments (and the others saying this should have been anonymous) are really saying that you think scottmagdalein should feel ashamed about this pa
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by phil 14y ago
This is genius. It's like the art from William Gibson's Spook Country come to life, but made practical and tied to a huge fan base.
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by phil 14y ago
Actually, an empty canvas for me to drop an arbitrary UI style on is exactly what your iPhone is. In fact, it's one of the best mediums yet invented for it.
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by phil 14y ago
Just tap Don't Allow. Edit: More seriously, all four of those suggestions are very good, and I'd like to see them too. For #4, a deep link to the app's notification settings would be good enough, and probably more likely than getting a noti

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