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Boulder, Boho Paradise (probably useful for anyone who might be applying to TechStars)(nytimes.com)
9 points by pius 19y ago|5 comments
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Send Text Messages From Rails with SMS Fu(brendanlim.com)
2 points by pius 19y ago|0 comments
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by pius 19y ago
Thanks for the tips, I'll be taking a look at Dynadot. Re: Godaddy, how do you find the coupon codes for renewals? It wasn't clear to me from your post. Thanks!
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Ask YC: Who's your favorite domain registrar and why?
49 points by pius 19y ago|66 comments
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How to move your domains off GoDaddy(robsanheim.com)
16 points by pius 19y ago|12 comments
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State of California Trying to Close GIS Data and Reclassify It as Non-Public(cfac.org)
14 points by pius 19y ago|2 comments
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by pius 19y ago
I love it.
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by pius 19y ago
I don't know if this what you're looking for, as Greenspan was not prognosticating, but speaking in hindsight. "Greenspan said in an interview with Austrian magazine Format that low interest rates in the past 15 years were to blame for the
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by pius 19y ago
See here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=149196 .
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A Simulation of Kernels(apps.pdos.lcs.mit.edu)
2 points by pius 19y ago|1 comments
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by pius 19y ago
LOL. Yeah, he did peace out and become an independent contractor shortly thereafter.
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by pius 19y ago
On a related note, I have a friend who tried to argue for Ruby on Rails in his workplace and one of the Perl guys there literally said "Whatever dude, frameworks are for fags." He was dead serious. I mean, where do you go from there?
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by pius 19y ago
Funny. :D
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by pius 19y ago
Just about any of the social networks that were "the next big thing" except for Facebook and Myspace. Friendster was the first social network I joined, was massively popular, and now seems pretty moribund.
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by pius 19y ago
More and more I'm starting to believe that this is the best approach. It was a wise person who said never to argue with fools because, from a distance, you can't tell who's who.
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by pius 19y ago
One thing that isn't mentioned in this essay is an appreciation of the concept of having a "preponderance of evidence." In U.S. law, for example, this concept is introduced directly through the burden of proof hierarchy (terms like reasona
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by pius 19y ago
In that case it wouldn't be deceit as much as it is manipulation. To avoid any political insinuations, I could recast this as appeal to status quo. It's common to argue against new ideas in this way.
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by pius 19y ago
I agree that it's nowhere near exhaustive, most obviously because it doesn't address the ways that writers try to directly deceive the audience (appeals to flattery, conservatism, etc). I remember being part of an Academic Games league in h
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by pius 19y ago
I think the Flamebaiting category is a useful addition to PG's hierarchy. The new category brings to mind an interesting property of this hierarchy though, namely that it seems to be difficult to respond to an "argument" with a higher order
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by pius 19y ago
I'd have to imagine Kernen was joking.
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Getting A VC's Attention(feld.com)
1 points by pius 19y ago|0 comments
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'Naughty Auties' battle autism with virtual interaction(cnn.com)
1 points by pius 19y ago|0 comments
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Rickmob = Flash mob + Rickroll(rickmob.com)
2 points by pius 19y ago|0 comments
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Busting a Rogue Blogger(businessweek.com)
4 points by pius 19y ago|0 comments
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by pius 19y ago
Wow . . . people ought to learn what 'blackmail' means before bandying the term about.
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by pius 19y ago
I don't know why someone would downmod you for that comment, but I threw an upmod your way to try to even things out.
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I Love Lisp(feld.com)
2 points by pius 19y ago|0 comments
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by pius 19y ago
That sounds very plausible and, indeed, I have join tables throughout my apps. This is why I put the proviso in, "correct me if I'm wrong." :) My understanding was that hardcore relational database guys would say that join operations ar
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by pius 19y ago
Nice exit!
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by pius 19y ago
The functional model can't store data and therefore can't be used to create a database. That's not quite right. You can persist data in functions, it's just not done as often.

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