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by pj 18y ago
What is the problem with DPI? It slows down torrent downloads, which are already slow, but speeds up more synchronous activity like web browsing and chatting. Don't we all want that?
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by pj 18y ago
People want multiple categories, so there can be more winners and we can encourage those who are showing progress to keep going and inspire others in their demographic.
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by pj 18y ago
If you could change one thing about humanity, what would it be?
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by pj 18y ago
They think sleep is garbage collection: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=547598 Regardless of the question of sleep, the lack of a human known answer does not mean something else must exist that knows the answer. Perhaps the answer is
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by pj 18y ago
This is the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY Posted 6 days ago, over 20 Million views, 96,000 ratings, 108,000 comments, 580 video responses... Those are amazing numbers to be sure.
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by pj 18y ago
This is one more reason that flash is bad. Adobe makes truly terrible software. Sure, it makes pretty images and stuff, but it's horribly written and architected.
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Americans are stiffing the Chinese(globalpost.com)
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by pj 18y ago
I didn't see anything in here that was stricking or insightful. Pretty run of the mill introspection will lead you to the conclusions in the article.
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by pj 18y ago
a lot of browsers have the same user agent string as well. The only two ways, that i know of, to uniquely identify a particular individual is through a cookie or a query string parameter on every click.
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by pj 18y ago
Why do we have any laws controlling immigration at all? Why can't anyone migrate and live/work anywhere they want and for any company they want, doing any kind of work they want? Why do nation states exist at all? Passports, visas, check
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by pj 18y ago
That's what I was saying, "an additional solution" How is you make college cheaper, you reward productivity, you forget no child left behind and start thinking about providing advanced opportunities for the gifted children.
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by pj 18y ago
There are no more throw away resources. A lot of the shortened urls are going to twitter, of course, but those tweets are copy/pasted into blogs and those are copy pasted... Those blogs could be around for ever and ever. Do you think Googl
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by pj 18y ago
The desired candidate must have a Ph.D. in computer science, and specific technical skills in geo-location programming Sounds like an additional solution would be to make more American born PhD's in the technical fields.
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by pj 18y ago
The printout on Ms. Doyle’s desk includes names of five people who applied for the job. Ms. Doyle has determined none of them qualifies. (The desired candidate must have a Ph.D. in computer science, and specific technical skills in geo-loc
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by pj 18y ago
People talk about Vendor Lockin with Microsoft, but there are lots of links to AppEngine tools and services, so I'm wondering what is the difference? Why is Vendor Lock-in okay with Google's proprietary platform, but not with Microsoft's?
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by pj 18y ago
I agree. I think URL shortening is a bad practice. More convenient, but very short term and it adds one more breaking point to the Internet. How many URL shorteners are there and how many of them will bite the dust? When they do, all the l
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by pj 18y ago
I saw on McLaughlin Group that the total bailout distrubution in the past year was $5.32 Trillion. The $9 Trillion in bailouts you have are "pledges" not actually distributed. Also, I am not so sure these bailouts count as debt, much of it
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by pj 18y ago
Actually, if you had bothered to read the article, you'd have seen that the person featured was totally legal in the United States. He wasn't "sent back." He chose to move to Canada because his WIFE was not legal in the U.S. and she didn'
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by pj 18y ago
There are lots of great programmers in the United States, they just want to be paid more than immigrants, so the companies lobby congress to allow them to import more cheap softare factories. It's the same at every level of society.
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by pj 18y ago
There's a similar program for startups called BizSpark. http://www.microsoft.com/BizSpark/
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by pj 18y ago
If, by "fair," you mean, "Will I get a lot of up votes?" then Yes. If, by "fair," you mean, "Is what I just said true?" Then no.
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by pj 18y ago
You know your opponent has lost the battle when they resort to logical fallacy.
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by pj 18y ago
yes, there is still a middle man, it is "a device that found exactly the page" The issue isn't google, it's newspapers. THey are big and bulky and kill trees and there are millions of them accessible by the web now making all of them less
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by pj 18y ago
I'm talking about transition costs. Vendor lock-in is only an issue if you need to move. Microsoft has a BizSpark program that lets you have access to their entire suite of development and desktop applications for $100 at the end of 3 year
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by pj 18y ago
What exactly is the difference between being locked into Microsoft or being locked into Mac or Linux or FreeBSD or Java or Python or AppEngine or EC2 or technology in general? If you start building your project on a particular stack and the
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by pj 18y ago
You're new here, so a little advice: Don't ever mention anything outside the open source realm around here -- especially anything about Microsoft. HN'ers hate microsoft. pg writes articles about how Microsoft is dead. Hacker News is an
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by pj 18y ago
I also discovered that I was playing with fire. Whenever I got a team ready to be really useful, there would be a bizarre negative reaction from all sorts of other people who were employed within the same organizations, but were not part o
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by pj 18y ago
I hope it would not work just like Google, because "the public good" is harmed by advertising and consumerism.
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by pj 18y ago
Content Delivery Networks reduce latency.
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by pj 18y ago
It's always fun to find ways that you can make things cheaper, more efficient, more automated. That includes reducing latency and bandwidth costs. Look at javascript minimizers. Y-Slow...

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