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by pj 17y ago
I'm really having trouble understanding the value here. Is there something more to this company than line charts?
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by pj 17y ago
How about public libraries start selling coffee!
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by pj 17y ago
It's funny that this article is on WSJ, owned by NewsCorp, which just said it is going to start charging for access to its online content.
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by pj 17y ago
I've played it once or twice against a friend who also didn't know how to play. Seems like an interesting game, very deep.
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Ask HN: What is your favorite board game and why?
3 points by pj 17y ago|14 comments
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by pj 17y ago
It works in Opera. Very nicely. A bit of stuttering but overall a great presentation. I think really what you have here Paul is an illustration of why javascript is the future, more than flash, more than silverlight. As browsers get fast
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by pj 17y ago
and what better way to target ads to them than to know exactly what they are talking about?
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by pj 17y ago
The author is going to have to go back to the basic question of "What is good?" before he can answer the questions he's asking in the article. He's making assumptions on the answer to that question based on his circumstances, which are tota
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by pj 17y ago
and if they allow both, they have to increase development costs for all web apps because we all know supporting multiple browsers costs more.
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by pj 17y ago
...that can provide substantiations with just a little curiosity and work? I think the answer is: People don't want to work. People are lazy. The very field of computer science was developed to help people do less work and still accompl
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by pj 17y ago
My grandmother, still living, became a great-great grandmother last month. Living members of 5 generations of the same family.
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by pj 17y ago
I downvoted because I believe that slavery can be created as a best alternative. Imagine if someone said to a starving person, "If you become a slave you'll have food every day." That person may become a slave by choice, but only at the lo
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by pj 17y ago
I've recently started focusing on a home remodeling after some renters destroyed it. It is a lot of hard work. Very manual labor: ripping out walls, painting, cleaning up the yard. But yes, very rewarding. You can actually see the work
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Online playgrounds: Virtual worlds for children (economist.com)
1 points by pj 17y ago|0 comments
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What happens when a newspaper disappears?(economist.com)
6 points by pj 17y ago|5 comments
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Monetising social networks: Tweeting all the way to the bank(economist.com)
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by pj 17y ago
Right! It's impossible to own land in America. You merely rent it from the government. But also, he uses the library for internet access. I wonder if he considers that "government dole."
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by pj 17y ago
Not where I live. 5% of my state suffers from "food insecurity" which means they dont know where their next meal is coming from. I went on a field trip as a child through a state park and the game ranger warned us all, he said, "Don't poac
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by pj 17y ago
It very well could be the knowledge he has gained while living without money that will go toward educating masses of people out of work in our increasingly struggling economy moving forward. More people are losing jobs, homes, credit. Debt
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by pj 17y ago
These myths are officially busted. No they aren't. Myths are busted with science and testing and experimentation. All this article did was contradict the myths. It did nothing to show the truth or falseness of the claims. If you are go
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by pj 17y ago
Yeah! That's what i'm talking about!! now it's just a FOR loop!
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by pj 17y ago
That's true. I just threw this together. I think you could even create a database table and generate the redirect on the server side or dynamically create the javascript. Most browsers have javascript enabled. Maybe a hacker with some tim
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by pj 17y ago
the fact that they're seeing this page means the shortened is working as intended They won't actually see the page they used the URL shortener to create a link to, because the browser will automatically redirect to another page where you
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by pj 17y ago
I think really, because I care about the future of the web. I know there are myriad problems with url shorteners and they are jeopardizing the future of the web. My website is just one little piece of it, I know, but education is grand.
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by pj 17y ago
That's a good idea, instead of document.location.href="..."; You could use: document.getElementById('urlshorteners').style.display='block'; Where originally, the div is like this <body> <div id='urlshorteners
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by pj 17y ago
You know, I understand your situation. I was in startup mode and a girl came along and I told her straight up, "My startup is more important to me than a girl. I don't want a girlfriend, I want a startup and I want a business and my #1 prio
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Tell HN: How to ban url shorteners from linking to your site
22 points by pj 17y ago|42 comments
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by pj 17y ago
Yep, that's right. The network is the bottleneck.
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by pj 17y ago
Our company has a CSC: Chief Sanity Checker Sometimes in a startup, people can get crazy. I love having a level head on the team. I mean, it takes passion and exhuberance and a little bit of crazy to make it all work, but you don't want t
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by pj 17y ago
Yep, that's it. I think that'd be a really cool way to speed up the web.

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