pj

53 ms·

481.
by pj 17y ago
Answer: Credit cards enable the user to live beyond his or her means and cash does not.
482.
by pj 17y ago
Locks keep out the honest people.
483.
by pj 17y ago
The public decides if it is a Google Killer, not the software maker. People will use your software in ways you never imagined. The makers of one of the slide show websites said she was really shocked when Preachers became their most popul
484.
by pj 17y ago
Danica McKeller (Winnie Cooper from The Wonder Years (great show)) wrote a math book for girls. She's a hot movie star that's doing something. Read more: http://www.tvsquad.com/2006/07/14/winnie-cooper-hottest-math...
485.
by pj 17y ago
It's funny because the media industry blames the internet, and therefore, coders and hackers, for their downfall with not very nice language all the time... and now they are begging us to save them from their death... Life is funny.
486.
by pj 17y ago
Dyson's quote said, "Smeed interpreted his law as a law of human nature." If this is true, then this formula should appear outside the world of driving. Has it been applied anywhere else? I did a quick search and found nothing. I wonder if
487.
by pj 17y ago
Most software is awful, not just enterprise software. The reason most software is awful is the same reason most text books are awful. They are hard to write and worth a lot of money. This is a big incentive for people who don't know what t
488.
by pj 17y ago
Sell them a license to run the software on their servers and query the database directly to reduce load.
489.
by pj 17y ago
There's a lot wrong with the article, I gave up reading it because it's mostly fluff, including this part: Current theory holds that prehistoric hunters drove these species to extinction. Here's a Nova episode that shows the human caused
490.
by pj 17y ago
Thanks for pointing that out!
491.
by pj 17y ago
I think Twitter here is making the correct decision. I know it isn't happy for you, RobbieStats, but the ramifications for them, whether you are breaking the law, or they are through allowing you to do it, are tremendously not fun. As a bu
492.
by pj 17y ago
You think the Pre is going to be all right? I'm waiting on it, but I've never seen it. What do you suggest as an alternative, I'm about to get a new device.
493.
by pj 17y ago
what do you suggest is their rationale? Is that the point of this? to point out an irrational decision in the world?
494.
by pj 17y ago
I don't think this is so bad really. Apple's brand is affected by the kind of material it sells and it wants to protect its brand. It's just like Facebook has porn patrol. Being a vendor of a product isn't just about moving product, it's a
495.
by pj 17y ago
It's like meme travel. How do we measure the velocity of a meme? We'd have to get the position and ..? Can meme's have a location? Would it be some aggregate of its locations in the minds of those conscious of its existence? It definitely
496.
by pj 17y ago
I never realized how interesting he is until just now. :D
497.
by pj 17y ago
Honestly, I don't know it just kind of came out. It kind of pointed at a trend that I've been noticing a lot lately though not in a sentence, so I was typing out the comment in a way that was comprehensible without math, but I couldn't so
498.
by pj 17y ago
Sounds like that game was about a century ahead of its time! Just imagine if they had waited to share their idea with the world, they'd have billions right now!
499.
by pj 17y ago
what andreyf said. In longer words, what I meant was that as technology advances, we are going to see less and less of the distinction between it and our own skin, or our own blood. Our blood may not even be what we think of blood today, b
500.
by pj 17y ago
Do you think you could measure something by the frequency of reposts? There must be some function with a component of memory and freshness of content that could tell us something about the course of a news aggregator.
501.
by pj 17y ago
as time approaches infinity, the opacity of the layer between the digital world and the analog (biological/evolutionary) world approaches zero.
502.
by pj 17y ago
I think it's funny how people who pay nothing and contribute nothing to keeping something alive can find plenty of time to bash it if it doesn't live up to their expectations of leechability.
503.
by pj 17y ago
Let's hope this isn't true... I mean, according to the article, more websites are doing it, but that doesn't mean it's a good practice. I hope, if it is coming back, that it is coming back in the way bad fashion comes back, so it'll go away
504.
by pj 17y ago
What is the value of homeownership? Why does the government give people incentives to buy homes in the form of tax breaks, etc? Is this to create more debt and therefore more currency in circulation or is it to benefit the homeowner in som
505.
by pj 18y ago
The post office has a similar system, except they charge customers differently to get information to the recipient faster. Overnight costs more than first class for example. If DPI were used to allow customers to pay based on priority, wou
506.
by pj 18y ago
I find HN is pretty good about finding sources and backing up facts. Commenters here will call you out if you say something they can show is false and I like that.
507.
by pj 18y ago
Spreading false information to prove that you can spread false information is morally corrupt.
508.
How Dumping TV Allowed Me to Quit My Job(savingadvice.com)
87 points by pj 18y ago|60 comments
509.
by pj 18y ago
Are Facebook and Twitter destined for the same fate?
510.
by pj 18y ago
Sports is a great reason to ditch the television. It is astonishing that we still waste 6 minutes of a 30 minute local news broadcast on the stuff...

More ›