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by ratsbane 16y ago
Can you post a link to your startup? I'd like to read more.
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by ratsbane 16y ago
PG described the worst thing about meetings in the makerschedule essay. Two other meeting evils: - Meetings that expand to fill the time scheduled for them - Meetings with more people than required to solve the problem at hand
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by ratsbane 16y ago
I've had T-Mobile for several years and I like them. They're innovative in their billing practices: If you don't want subsidized phones you can save $20/month and they don't interfere with tethering. This merger is bad news.
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by ratsbane 16y ago
That bothered me too. Looking at the traffic, it's doing a 302 redirect (temporary) from www.google.com/offers/ to https://www.google.com/offers/t Perhaps the t page is just the temporary page that lists only a few cities and they're pl
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by ratsbane 16y ago
Stanford's graduation rate for undergrads starting in 2004 was 78% after four years and 95% after six years. That doesn't consider by major, though, or students switching to easier majors. This is certainly higher than the rate at many sc
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by ratsbane 16y ago
A minor correction: it's not as bad as 15.3%. The self-employment tax is really just the company share of FICA withholding (6.2%) plus Medicare withholding (1.45%) If you're an employee you pay 6.2%+1.45%=7.65% and your employer pays the
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by ratsbane 16y ago
1) Can't say (client site) 2) ecommerce 3) Google: 90% / Yahoo: 5% / Bing: 3.25% (last 30 days; search traffic only) 4) Bing's capture rate is .2% more than Google's but average revenue per visit is about 30% less.
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by ratsbane 16y ago
"Winklevii" did appear in the CNN article. Judging from a quick Google search it's been used before (42,000 results) http://www.google.com/search?q=winklevii
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by ratsbane 16y ago
Good point, but using nested sets means a lot of work when you update. Doing the work in a UDF is a lot quicker than putting it into the code that calls the SQL. I've done that. [sigh] Maybe I shouldn't admit to it.
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Hierarchical Queries in MySQL (Function substitute for CONNECT BY)(explainextended.com)
3 points by ratsbane 16y ago|3 comments
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by ratsbane 16y ago
I wish I could get a car with a place to securely mount an iPad or Android tablet and supply power to it. They could leave out the stereo, mapping, and big display and let me use whatever device I choose. I currently use my Android phone to
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by ratsbane 16y ago
Not the best choice in names. If there are problems people are going to refer to it as "Nasty Narwhal."
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by ratsbane 16y ago
I'm not sure it's important to predict now whether iOS or Android is going to be bigger or more profitable to developers. They're both going to be enormous and they're both going to be around for a long time, just like the Window-Mac horse
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by ratsbane 16y ago
mb:~ doug$ perl -e "if ('ω'=~/\w/) {print \"It IS a word character.\";} else {print \"Maybe my language settings?\n\n\";}" Maybe my language settings?
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by ratsbane 16y ago
The number sign (pound sign, octothorpe, etc) separates the fragment identifier from the URL. Browsers don't send characters after the # to the server. It works with Twitter because they use Javascript to AJAX in data from additional reque
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by ratsbane 16y ago
I wish they wouldn't use non-word characters in the names of their products. I thought ".Net" was bad enough when it came out - then C# and F#. But I don't even know how to type this. On this page: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um
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by ratsbane 16y ago
Yes, but the kind of disruptive mindset YC funds will think about how to make some previously non-scalable business scalable. I don't know the answer here, but it's a good question.
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by ratsbane 16y ago
Loading that page required an absurd number of HTTP requests for the amount of actual content.
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by ratsbane 16y ago
I barely made it in to the startup panel and it was so full I was about to leave, but Jessica Livingston made space for me in the back corner and I watched the whole thing standing sideways and trying not to block the guy behind me. It was
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by ratsbane 16y ago
That's almost identical to my timeline (currently a mix of OS X and Ubuntu.) I wonder what is next. In your timeline you've been on OS X for 6 years and the longest duration you list for any OS is 7. I wonder if I'll ever use Android, iO
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by ratsbane 16y ago
A purely mechanical wristwatch is a marvelous thing. I frequently use my phone to tell time, but when my Nexus One battery went dead on a long flight recently I was glad to have the spring-powered backup on my wrist.
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Dropbox challenge(dropbox.com)
52 points by ratsbane 16y ago|20 comments
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by ratsbane 16y ago
Yes. The phrase "at the prestigious Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Oxford" also appears twice in this 256-word article. The large gap between two concepts - "high energy materials and encapsulating them using a nanostructuring techni
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by ratsbane 16y ago
Often I read HN with Lynx. The plain HTML here works much better than the markup at most other sites, including Reddit.
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by ratsbane 16y ago
There are three contracts for Facebook on Sharesost since the first of the year. The prices are $35-55. The Winklevosses accepted $36 a few years ago. Was that really such a bad valuation?
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by ratsbane 16y ago
There is another possible explanation, though it sounds even more like an airport novel than the Stuxnet story does. Consider that a lot of people, including the US, Israel, and just about everyone else on the planet would like to do anythi
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by ratsbane 16y ago
When I was a kid my family had a Mercedes diesel and my aunt had a Cadillac. I remember noting that the Mercedes fuel gauge was labeled "Tank" and marked off in a round arc with equal distances between each of the markings. The Cadillac h
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by ratsbane 16y ago
There's accelerometer support in Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and Safari (at least mobile Opera and Safari) now. It's only a matter of time until we have useable APIs for NFC, camera, etc. I'm wondering when there's going to be a browser USB A
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by ratsbane 16y ago
GoogleTV was just released. If it succeeds at doing for television what Android did for phone, it's kind of a big deal. I got Logitech Revue (GoogleTV) a week ago through the Google developer program and I've been playing with it, trying t
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by ratsbane 16y ago
Package managers are great. You don't miss having one until you've used one enough to understand how helpful they are.

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