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Ask HN: How to politely decline an NDA?
19 points by pzxc 12y ago|20 comments
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by pzxc 12y ago
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=OG
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by pzxc 12y ago
Something about this topic disturbs me. I would always have loved computers no matter what, but if my parents had restricted my screen time during my obsessive periods I don't think I would be half the programmer I am today.
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by pzxc 12y ago
You're right, my explanation was technically inaccurate. However, the terminal velocity of a bullet due to gravity is still easily enough to kill someone (and does kill every year from people "celebrating" this way), so my po
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by pzxc 12y ago
1. Firing a shot in the air is reckless -- the bullet/round comes down with the same speed and momentum as when it was first fired, and it's gotta land somewhere -- and I'd be surprised if that was the standard operating proc
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by pzxc 12y ago
I prefer to reverse, because it emphasizes that there is a double-31 pair of consecutive months which is unique in the pattern and a good thing to know/remember (that both July and August are long months)
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by pzxc 12y ago
Hmm. Well, although there is certainly plenty of snake oil sold on the market, you CAN detox your body just like you can "tox" it. If you smoke and drink and eat poorly every day, you are putting toxins into your system. If you s
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by pzxc 12y ago
Thirty days hath September April, June, and November All the rest have 31 Except for the very special one. ... The knuckles method, for those who don't know: Make a fist. Start with January on your first knuckle. Counting knuckles AND
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by pzxc 12y ago
I don't understand how it works or could possibly work. How is your app going to detect that someone is accessing one of my accounts from Israel, as indicated in your screenshot? Do you have software running on google's servers s
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by pzxc 12y ago
Because Elon Musk embarassed them when he repeatedly tells the tale of why he started his own Mars mission. (because he went to the NASA website and they had no plans to go to Mars or to do much of anything since they got bored with the moo
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by pzxc 12y ago
I recently disregarded the competence of a coworker (who is in a programmer position) because I took a class with them and saw that they could not type. They were hunting and pecking. (This guy is 50 years old so has had plenty of time to
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by pzxc 12y ago
Yeah, the plots of Avatar and Pocahontas are so identical that you can literally take a synopsis and play Mad Libs substituting the character names and it describes both perfectly. The ultimate laziness of avatar: The mineral they're
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by pzxc 12y ago
On top of that, you are required to keep a valid contact email in your domain's DNS configuration, or you risk losing your domain. (ICANN rules) However, just because someone doesn't reply to an unsolicited email sent to their dom
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by pzxc 12y ago
You're familiar with the term "premature optimization", right? Don't bother forming a corporation, renting office space, or even making business cards when you don't have any customers or revenue. It's perfectl
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by pzxc 12y ago
Okay then. Thanks Dan.
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by pzxc 12y ago
Well, the reason I posted this today is because I posted a link to house.gov where you could look up the personal finances/investments of each Congressional representative. I also posted the link to the Senate version. They must be hi
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Ask HN: Descriptive titles or original titles?
6 points by pzxc 12y ago|5 comments
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by pzxc 12y ago
A moderator changed the title from the more descriptive "House of Representatives Personal Finances" to the on-page but less-descriptive title "Financial Disclosure Reports Database", and apparently at the same time hit
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by pzxc 12y ago
Senate version: https://efdsearch.senate.gov/
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Senate Personal Finances(efdsearch.senate.gov)
12 points by pzxc 12y ago|0 comments
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Financial Disclosure Reports Database(clerk.house.gov)
34 points by pzxc 12y ago|15 comments
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by pzxc 12y ago
I disagree completely - the reason the US banks are behind is because the heavily-regulated environment they operate in means they are not subject to free market competition, and they have no incentive to capitalize (pay for) proper upgrade
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by pzxc 12y ago
You mean they receive Microsoft's software for free for 3 years , after which they get a discounted price for 2 years as an "alumni", after which they have to pay full price now they are fully on your stack and have large sw
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Swiss Gold Initiative – Referendum to Peg Swiss Franc to Price of Gold(goldswitzerland.com)
2 points by pzxc 12y ago|0 comments
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by pzxc 12y ago
That's a common aphorism, but it's not logical. Declining to vote doesn't negate your right to bitch about the political system or even individual politicians, any more than voting and your guy winning negates your right t
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by pzxc 12y ago
Maybe it'd be more precise to say 100% of startups believe they're developing breakthrough products?
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by pzxc 12y ago
Au contraire - security from credit cards IS better than the proposed competition from the retailers, which avoid CC fees by deducting your payment directly from your bank account. Credit card security is better simply because it doesn&#x
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by pzxc 12y ago
I use .US for email, because it's on of the cheapest TLDs possible. I have a couple really short .US domains but since .US is geotargeted by google, it doesn't work well for a website, but works great for email
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Alert (TA14-290A): SSL 3.0 Protocol Vulnerability and POODLE Attack(us-cert.gov)
2 points by pzxc 12y ago|0 comments
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Microsoft Can Now Turn Any Space into the Holodeck(fastcodesign.com)
4 points by pzxc 12y ago|0 comments

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