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by ronaldx 13y ago
Posting to HN is effectively equivalent to seeking negative feedback.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
It depends on exactly the situation but heading towards no: Why am I building this business if I don't think it will increase above its current value? Why does Google value it so highly? What does Google see that requires them to shut us do
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I'm not at all a fan of positive discrimination. However, the author is saying that we shouldn't give out any opportunities because programming is supposed to be hard. I see that as equivalent to saying programming should be restricted to t
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by ronaldx 13y ago
"I want to deny opportunities to others in order to preserve my own advantage"
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BBC homepage clock is 'inaccurate'(dailymail.co.uk)
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by ronaldx 13y ago
wow! The video has some nice examples, indeed. I suppose this method cannot be adapted to work for non-random 'bags' of Tetris shapes...?
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by ronaldx 13y ago
It is Google's job to make sure every webmaster has a fair shot - any unfairness ensures the top results will go to organisations who are best at gaming the system: unfairness harms the results. Google won search by being good at this whe
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I would be more likely to sign up for full price. "Free trial - just add credit card" is a massive alarm bell for me. In my experience, this type of free trial often means you want my credit card details so that you can make it as awkward a
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> less security Depends a lot - if you have one or a small number of big clients, you probably have slightly less security than full-time employment. If you have a large number of diverse clients, you have tremendous security - even if
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by ronaldx 13y ago
>I can't understand how a competent, experienced developer with basic communication skills would have trouble finding contract work once they start looking. Basic communication skills may not be enough, since you have to overcome the 'm
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Freelancer here: the prestige of university is certainly very useful for getting more work and commanding higher pay - some people use it as a simple marker for quality.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
$4.5k is surely a small amount of money if they had employed someone to do this kind of work. However, since you the work was done for free the author had sunk the time and risked getting $0 for it. Even if the author is inclined to go blac
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Wow, I feel that you missed the point. Coffee gives a guaranteed positive experience - you know what you're getting - and the latte is not the only reason for that. People are happy to pay for coffee even if there's a fair chance the coffee
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Economics - a company with Apple's cash pile might be able to look toward the future, but they still need to build things for today and tomorrow.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I disagree. At the moment, companies have a point of competition on their licensing agreement with customers - exactly what license they allow, and how exactly they choose to enforce it. That there is competition (and that the market cares)
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by ronaldx 13y ago
It's not correct for W3C to enforce policies that are worth billions of dollars to big companies at the average user's expense.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Is there some reason you decided to have a maximum price? I was curious that you felt the app had $20 value personally to you, yet you don't think anyone else would value it higher than that? I found that decision surprising.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> just like short people are can't swim at world-class levels. This is not immediately obvious to me: world-class training programs favour people of a tall stature[0] in the belief that they're faster. This may just as well be a self-fu
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Thus, what tv would you recommend to learn Dutch? ;)
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by ronaldx 13y ago
If I was personally interested, and thinking about the purpose of the app, it's easy to understand that a connection with Facebook may be genuinely beneficial in this instance. That Facebook is "for people who know you" means it's exactly w
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Bear in mind that mice are a poor model for Alzheimer's disease (a disease of aging) because they don't live for very long. I am not an expert, but it's my understanding that wild mice basically don't get Alzheimer's - Alzheimer's mice have
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Yep: there's no better strategy to kill my interest in buying from you.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Randomness is also useful for the integrity of online gambling - knowing what cards are coming next in a high stakes game might not be considered a waste of time.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I'm sure I don't want to stop on "make more money" as the fundamental answer to "why" - surely there are healthier, more basic motivations than that. Go on, ask one more "why"...
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Facilities being carted away can be an extremely urgent signal to employees - the signal of "we didn't pay our bills last month" :(
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by ronaldx 13y ago
"What's a Jiff?"
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I like the name, but one barrier is that DuckDuckGo doesn't verb comfortably. I can't imagine ever saying "I DuckDuckGoed it" - since that breaks the verb 'to go'. Although I've conditioned myself over several years to say "I searched for i
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by ronaldx 13y ago
do you think it's harder than 'Google' to recommend to non-technical people? just curious.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Printer ink, being hugely marked-up and inefficiently wasteful, is not a good analogy for the stated goal: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/07/04/printer_ink_seven_ti...
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I learned exactly none of those things in school.

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