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by qeorge 17y ago
Garbage. You've derailed the argument to one about sexuality. This is about professional advancement, not courtship. The author is comparing men's success in impressing an authority figure of an unknown gender against a woman's success in t
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by qeorge 17y ago
Somewhere in this rant is a good point, but the author has piled on so much bullshit its hard to find. For example: "It would be good if more women see interesting opportunities that they might not be qualified for, opportunities which the
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by qeorge 17y ago
Google Groups does this now for all external links.
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by qeorge 17y ago
That's a good explanation, but its not actually that jQuery automatically binds events to the newly inserted elements, its that it takes advantage of Javascript's event bubbling to match the selector at the highest level it can. Basically,
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by qeorge 17y ago
I'm embarrassed to admit I thought _() was specific to Wordpress. Great to know its not. metaphone() is a great tip too. I've only used soundex() in MySQL, will be interesting to see how they compare.
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by qeorge 17y ago
Congratulations Patrick. Can't wait to see what you come up with. Best of luck with everything.
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by qeorge 17y ago
I used your site many times over the years. Its amazing how much it comes up. I stopped using it when I found out it was tweeting my inputs. I often checked my own sites, and didn't like it broadcasting that the site was down, much less wit
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by qeorge 17y ago
The primary difference (IMHO) is that no one wants to pay overseas contractors anything reasonable, so its a self-fulfilling prophecy. As the submission's title says, "you get what you pay for." In my experience, this is the case no matter
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by qeorge 17y ago
I certainly think so, but that's outside the central point of this argument.
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by qeorge 17y ago
Thank you both for following up. I like this, because its something actionable that I can do to have an impact on an unfair system. I am having trouble locating SAT test prep centers in Raleigh, NC who provide free training (via Google). I
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by qeorge 17y ago
In 2008, TWC spent roughly $1 billion on video content and only $33 million on high-speed data (30x more spent on content). So the infrastructure cost per subscriber to TWC is negligible. Also worth noting, TWC made about $2.7 billion off c
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by qeorge 17y ago
Wrong. Cable companies pay for content, and recoup their money (+profit) through a combination of subscriptions and advertising. The cable gets ~$1200 + advertising revenue per customer per year, and from this pool they can buy content from
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by qeorge 17y ago
I don't see what value this post adds to HN. Perhaps if you added some statistics this would be more interesting.
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by qeorge 17y ago
How does one get into this? Are you a teacher, or are schools also looking for professionals in other fields to help out?
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by qeorge 17y ago
The PCWorld article is a bit overblown, but I expect this to be the first signs of an ongoing problem for Google. I know I've personally had a nightmarish time getting in touch with Google support, for both AdSense and App Engine, and I kno
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by qeorge 17y ago
It matters because public property is just that: owned by the people (govt). This includes airwaves, which gives the US govt the right to license it. The airwaves in your home however are not public property. At least that is my understandi
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by qeorge 17y ago
I'm assuming that the whole thing could be accomplished without occupying any more space than the existing prison system, and hopefully with fewer guards. This would not be the case. Enforcing such a policy would be prohibitively expensiv
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by qeorge 17y ago
I hate to be a downer, but this just sounds crazy to me. Yes, I understand that they use a ton of power and can probably get it cheaper this way, but this is an advertising and software company, not a power company. Am I being a total neoph
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by qeorge 17y ago
it's become so complex that a typical small business owner can't be expected to manage their own campaign without relying on outside consultants Absolutely. I can't say AdWords has ever been user friendly, but the average business owner h
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by qeorge 17y ago
Perhaps Google ought to link Google Voice accounts with adwords This is a brilliant idea, and I would be shocked if Google doesn't have plans to do so.
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by qeorge 17y ago
Not true. This press release may say that, but earlier accounts disagree: "This matter now appears worse than originally suspected as the dataset also contains a table where RockYou have stored user credentials for social networks and other
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by qeorge 17y ago
To be fair, its not that simple of a problem. At the time, Facebook Connect didn't exist, Twitter didn't use OAuth, and I don't know what MySpace was doing. So if you wanted to give a 3rd party app access to your account, they had to store
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by qeorge 17y ago
Not only that, the requisite class action lawsuit has already been filed: http://gigaom.com/2009/12/30/rockyou-sued-over-user-data-bre...
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by qeorge 17y ago
Agree. I like the Courier concept, but I'm skeptical about MS's ability to deliver on hardware. Although to be fair, their mice are great. I also share the same sentiments towards Google and their recent hardware follies.
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by qeorge 17y ago
Absolutely, we just really want to purchase this service from a vendor, and for whatever reason I'm having a lot of trouble finding one that fits the bill. If you know of any specific vendors, please let me know.
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by qeorge 17y ago
I hadn't seen them yet, thanks for the link. Their list of customers is impressive.
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by qeorge 17y ago
Do you want to protect from customers buying less licenses than they really need? That's exactly it. I know there are some people who are dead set against paying for software, and they'll break whatever we do. Those people weren't our cus
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by qeorge 17y ago
Fair point, but in what case does including 30 inline stylesheets make sense? I'm hesitant to call this a bug.
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Ask HN: Copy protection for desktop software?
4 points by qeorge 17y ago|8 comments
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by qeorge 17y ago
Perhaps, but if you're including 30+ stylesheets in a given page you're doing it wrong. Every stylesheet is an extra (blocking) HTTP request. 5 is already too many, but 30 is seriously impacting your user's experience.

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