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Ask HN: What was your first job?
32 points by pj 17y ago|75 comments
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by pj 17y ago
If bit.ly would put in the referer logs the url where the bit.ly link is, then bit.ly would be much better for recipients of traffic from bit.ly. As it is, the actual producer of the content being linked to has no idea where that link is
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by pj 17y ago
This is another problem with Open Source. Americans need to create something of value to the rest of the world that the rest of the world is willing to pay for. If we continue building open source software, then the rest of the world never
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by pj 17y ago
"They cannot be expected to compete against free software," Roche argues, "in much the same way that African farmers cannot compete against free food shipments from European donors. People who say that end-users benefit from access to free
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Ask HN: How to deal with hagglers w/ future opportunities?
1 points by pj 17y ago|2 comments
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by pj 17y ago
Cloud computing actually is dying and the hype from the author of that blog is one of the reasons. It's a bunch of smoke and mirrors. Why would TMZ or any other site want to pay for all the resources to satisfy acute demand when it produ
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by pj 17y ago
Awesome. There are so many lies being exposed in this article. For one, One advertiser told me how he paid $200 to an Indian operation for 2,000 Facebook accounts. That means FaceBook's account numbers must be highly inflated. Their g
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by pj 17y ago
NPR will have to use other sources to verify the information people on the internet submit. They can build it so that the submitted information isn't publicly available until it's verified. Perhaps if they get multiple people suggesting th
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by pj 17y ago
It was a metaphor, here I'll explain it. The singularity is something in the future. Some believe the singularity will be an entity smarter than humans, that can do things, including move, perhaps even move itself in time. Who knows? Thus
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by pj 17y ago
They should have an image map over the faces and you can click on the face and then it goes to a form where you can add details about the person.
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by pj 17y ago
As the singularity trots backward in time toward us, these types of computer found solutions that humans can't comprehend are going to increase.
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by pj 17y ago
Here's why: When I go to that link you provided, I get this: You need the lastest version of the Flash plugin to view this site. I have Flash installed, yet can't see that site because it's not the "correct" version. The problem with fl
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by pj 17y ago
So if he had said, "I got this from this wikipedia article," then his book would also have been ShareAlike? Maybe he didn't want that... I don't understand really, did he think no one would find out? What is his response? I looked on the
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by pj 17y ago
Well, if he did this with content licensed under the ShareAlike, then he has to release his book the same way. Right? Share Alike — If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the sam
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by pj 17y ago
Oh, if only Chrome and Safari worked identically, then what you said would perhaps be a valid statement.
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by pj 17y ago
This is starting to be kind of obnoxious behavior from google. They only want the web to be faster so people can click back faster and search again and they can get higher throughput on their searches and thus generate more revenue from th
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by pj 17y ago
I like it. The interface is clunky, but it's text based, so that's okay. Really, what a great tool. Regex expressions can be a real pain to build. I think a lot of the comments are being overly critical. To take something as complicated
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by pj 17y ago
The funny thing about this issue is that if you are a vendor of products for sale, you are not allowed to sell your wares in Iran, yet the united states govt is more than happy to let twitter help them stage a revolt.
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by pj 17y ago
It's not worth it. Why not just get a contract before the company is registered? You can draw up a document that says what will happen after registration. Otherwise, don't start working until the registration is complete.
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by pj 17y ago
advertising is about visibility and a square inch is nothing. How many people will see this ad?
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Visualization of the Netflix Database(magamaps.com)
16 points by pj 17y ago|2 comments
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by pj 17y ago
Yes, I do think people are smart enough to care for themselves. It's more philosophical than whether or not people are smart enough though. I think people should be able to choose. If I make a mistake in my own health care and I die, then
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Origins of Employer-Sponsored Health Care in the U.S.(content.nejm.org)
5 points by pj 17y ago|1 comments
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by pj 17y ago
How about not letting the AMA artificially limit the supply of doctors? How about letting patients care for themselves? Acquire their own medicine? Ask for their own blood tests and monitor their own hormone and chemical levels without ha
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by pj 17y ago
Of course this guy is going to disagree with the abrasive genius idea, because he himself is one of the conscientious and agreeable types, as evidence by his dismissal of IQ as disagreeable. I don't know why scientists think they are immune
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by pj 17y ago
you might also want to try qrimp.com don't need a lot of database experience and it's easy to build it then tear it down, then rebuild it until you get it right and since you don't have to write a lot of code, you don't lose all the time re
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by pj 17y ago
Au contraire! I had many very good conversations with people in usenet who I have never met in person.
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by pj 17y ago
Once again, history repeats itself. Facebook users fell for it. Facebook advertisers fell for it. Facebook investors fell for it... It's a terrible situation for everyone involved. It's the great lie of the internet. MySpace laid off 3
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Websites that use the spoken word will empower the illiterate(economist.com)
1 points by pj 17y ago|0 comments
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Spam is not only irritating, it is bad for the environment(economist.com)
1 points by pj 17y ago|0 comments

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