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by retro 17y ago
"It’s easy to denounce the tyranny of the online masses when you live in a country that has strong rule of law and institutions that address public corruption, but in China the human-flesh search engine is one of the only ways that ordinar
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by retro 17y ago
"The NYC Startup Job Fair will bring students, young alumni and startups together to help place bright motivated individuals in exciting New York based companies." Emphasis on "young".
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by retro 17y ago
His talk about micropayments makes me wonder why it hasn't come further than it has in all the years since it was first talked about. He mentions Google Checkout as a possible provider. But I would guess Paypal and Amazon's payment solution
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by retro 17y ago
I disagree that this is a bad idea. I think it's a good idea that hasn't been done well and it remains to be seen whether quora is up to the challenge. (btw, if anyone has an invite, i'd love to check out the site: padlane@gmail.com).
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by retro 17y ago
pg recently said that one of the biggest changes in his thinking since starting yc is that he no longer believes that coming from a good school is an indicator of success in a startup and that this was an unquestioned assumption of his when
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by retro 17y ago
What's Autotune? Auto-Tune was also used to produce the prominent altered vocal effect on Cher's "Believe," recorded in 1998. When first interviewed about this, the sound engineers claimed that they had used a vocoder, in what Sound on Sou
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by retro 17y ago
In case anyone questions why the HN title is different from the NYT title, I adapted it from the subhead which reads as follows: "Grudgingly, many climate scientists are beginning to engage critics, admit mistakes and open up their data."
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Scientists Taking Steps to Defend Work on Climate(nytimes.com)
16 points by retro 17y ago|14 comments
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by retro 17y ago
William Safire's weekly "On Language" piece in the Sunday New York Times did this type of thing for decades and was required reading in my English classes. Sadly he passed on recently but you should be able to find stuff like this in his bo
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by retro 17y ago
What is Tim Bray known for? (please excuse my ignorance)
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by retro 17y ago
Does anyone have any advice on whether he should delete the blog post to avoid any additional potential liability? I'm thinking about how Conan couldn't talk about his contractual discussions with NBC and imagine something similar applies i
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SeaWorld Shuts Down Shamu's Twitter Feed (yes, the killer whale)(blogs.wsj.com)
11 points by retro 17y ago|12 comments
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by retro 17y ago
His Mercurial tutorial/promotion of Kiln was a great example of how to present dense technical material in a colorful, expressive way. But between the constant drive to squeeze every penny he can out of StackOverflow, first by charging for
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by retro 17y ago
Don't care much about the data itself but the use of Google Docs as a data source in combination with whatever flash library they're using for the visualization is an interesting approach. Too bad there aren't more details on how they're re
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by retro 17y ago
What about the artist/poet Jenny Holzer who tweets her latest compositions before subsequently publishing them elsewhere: http://twitter.com/Jennyholzer These short phrases have been the basis of her entire body of work for decades. I fin
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by retro 17y ago
West-coast residents have been particularly incensed that they wait an additional three hours after the East coast gets whatever "live" coverage there actually is in prime time, even though they are in the time zone where the Olympics actu
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by retro 17y ago
"3 hosting companies out of 9 have my referral id." But the point is, you didn't disclose the role of commercial sponsorship in your "recommendations" until you were called on it. Because this article smells like an advertorial and it is
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by retro 17y ago
I wonder how many of these recommendations are sponsorship-based. Linode is curiously missing in favor of Slicehost. Considering the recent discussion here regarding changes to Slicehost's pricing options, this seems like either a striking
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by retro 17y ago
Anyone tried HostGator? I'm wondering what kind of Rails hosting you're actually get for $5/month. I'm using Dreamhost at the moment and my Rails app is crawling and barely usable. Can't justify spending much on hosting at the moment, tho
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by retro 17y ago
I see what you mean but I guess I see an important difference between creating a sockpuppet in these two circumstances. On the one hand creating an account to protect your anonymity when you make a potentially inflammatory accusation about
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by retro 17y ago
Does that somehow discredit his opinion?
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by retro 17y ago
"I have long suspected that Andrew has been using fake accounts or paying people to put a positive spin on his threads. The above comment was made by a brand new a account and follows a trend of other fishy comments." I have had the same
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by retro 17y ago
This seems to directly affect programming contractor rates. Let's say you can contract yourself out directly to a company at $200/hour in 1985. After 1986 if, for all practical purposes, you have to go through an agency for the same work, t
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by retro 17y ago
Does this mean if you're a freelance programmer, you're at risk of running afoul of this law - as Joe Stack did - if you're trying to negotiate programming contracts directly with the client rather than through an agency? My understanding i
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Spolsky Switches Teams: Raising VC for StackOverflow in Light of Q&A Competition(gigaom.com)
2 points by retro 17y ago|0 comments
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by retro 17y ago
The claim about Sarah Silverman's 'brilliance' seems to be this: "Saying the word 'retarded' can only have extreme negative power if you let it and Sarah Silverman is brave, because she got on stage in front of some global minds and droppe
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by retro 17y ago
I agree that the problems HAML creates for collaboration between programmers and designers - who, as you say will never learn HAML - is the key limitation of HAML - a limitation also discussed by James Britt in his excellent post on the top
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by retro 17y ago
Yes but I question what function it serves and whether that function outweighs the drawback of potentially discouraging some people from participating. The last thing a new site needs is obstacles to user involvement and I would imagine you
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by retro 17y ago
Why are you publishing the IP addresses of people who update their listings? "Updated 6m ago by 196.210.182.81"
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by retro 17y ago
James Britt wrote the definitive post (in my opinion) on the use of Haml: http://www.jamesbritt.com/2009/4/29/thoughts-on-haml

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