rquantz

61 ms·

1. 541.▲
   Ask HN: What's a good primer on online advertising?

   7 points by rquantz 14y ago|5 comments
2. 542.▲
   by rquantz 14y ago

   I don't want to undermine your basic point here -- I hope that you're right. Quinoa in particular might be a problem though, since it's already increasing in price due short supply. Mass adoption by America's schools would probably result i
3. 543.▲
   by rquantz 14y ago

   Try banning practices like this and you'll end up with over-general regulations that ban a lot of things that should be legal. When the government find itself with overly broad statutes, it frequently ends up applying them selectively, base
4. 544.▲
   by rquantz 15y ago

   Musicians are already using kickstarter.
5. 545.▲
   by rquantz 15y ago

   And it was quite relevant. Sorry about that -- I'm used to reading everything here as an argument.
6. 546.▲
   by rquantz 15y ago

   Is this meant to be a rebuttal? Or are you supporting the parent? The result of this discussion was no agreement, if I'm not mistaken, leading to mosaic implementing the img tag without a standard.
7. 547.▲
   by rquantz 15y ago

   I do that. I'm a freelance developer part time, and a freelance musician part time. It's difficult, and way more work than just doing one or the other. You have to constantly guard your ability to do it -- if you let them, people will deman
8. 548.▲
   by rquantz 15y ago

   Thanks for this article. I think it's much better than the original, though I suppose it is to be expected that a novelist would write a better commencement speech than a lawyer. I have to wonder about taking life lessons from someone commi
9. 549.▲
   by rquantz 15y ago

   Just to add to the "working musician" profile: there are lots of opportunities for paid live performance, whether in clubs, with live orchestras or bands, or for events. Most musicians I know make most of their money with a combination of l
10. 550.▲
    by rquantz 15y ago

    Ever since I learned the name for these kinds of mistakes, I can't help but call it out every time I see them: eggcorn! http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/46/seed/
11. 551.▲
    by rquantz 15y ago

    My almost entirely uninformed idea was that observation of the universe by something that is external to the universe might somehow interfere with the conservation of energy or in some other way produce phenomena that contradict the laws of
12. 552.▲
    by rquantz 15y ago

    This is the most wonderful thing anyone has every told me.
13. 553.▲
    by rquantz 15y ago

    Will it stop replacing my technical terms with non technical synonyms, and randomly leaving out my search terms? Cause whatever they've done to the UI, it pales is comparison to those two things.
14. 554.▲
    by rquantz 15y ago

    This brings up an interesting question (or possibly interesting): how would one observe the simulation? Would we not be able to detect evidence of the observation?
15. 555.▲
    by rquantz 15y ago

    1) Almost all civilizations like ours go extinct before reaching technological maturity. 2) Almost all technologically mature civilizations lose interest in creating ancestor simulations: computer simulations detailed enough that the simul
16. 556.▲
    by rquantz 15y ago

    So just to be clear, I didn't just sit there and spout "Ruby! Wordpress! Html5!" and wait for them to give me a cookie. Obviously they want to try to find out if I can solve their problem. But when they say "I want a slider that shows the p
17. 557.▲
    by rquantz 15y ago

    From Raganwald's new ebook, How to Do What You Love : "Recruiters are simple keyword-oriented pattern matching machines."
18. 558.▲
    Ask HN: How do I convince non-technical people to hire me?

    5 points by rquantz 15y ago|4 comments
19. 559.▲
    by rquantz 15y ago

    I'm upvoting you for the use of the word "extincted," which apparently the OED says is kind of ok: http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=2004324
20. 560.▲
    by rquantz 15y ago

    To expand on another reply, it would probably not be a good idea to market these as pets. As soon as people start keeping a species in a terrarium in their home, some of them will escape. They might be fragile and die, but they might also c
21. 561.▲
    by rquantz 15y ago

    Weinstein has run into problems with the MPAA so many times, he probably is on a hair trigger with them. The MPAA is a prudish censor and deserves to be destroyed. That being said, what you suggest is probably what will happen if they lose
22. 562.▲
    by rquantz 15y ago

    Except the movie is about the line between an R and an NC-17 rating. Kids under 17 are not supposed to be allowed into an R rated movie without an adult. On the other hand, NC-17 rated movies are not shown in most movie theaters. So by givi
23. 563.▲
    by rquantz 15y ago

    Having an educated populace is essential to a democratic society. It's the same reason we have public education and also why the freedom of the press is enshrined in our constitution.
24. 564.▲
    by rquantz 15y ago

    There's the function of the news in practice and there's the function of the news in theory. I don't do very well making political small talk because I get very angry about it. Nonetheless, I believe it is my duty to be informed about polit
25. 565.▲
    by rquantz 15y ago

    Prior to IE6 it worked this way all the time. That's why quirks mode was there in later versions.
26. 566.▲
    by rquantz 15y ago

    The only economic question here is what economic value does SupportBee put on a paidlink on their site? If it were less than $6,000 then they win by giving the link to Gigya, if its more then they should just pay the $6,000/yr. (or use a d
27. 567.▲
    by rquantz 15y ago

    It seems like the best course of action here would have been to take down the website... and then just finish filming anyway. It wasn't actually worth it to the studio to send somebody there to confirm that filming had stopped. They were ju
28. 568.▲
    by rquantz 15y ago

    I haven't read Colvin, and I don't know what he bases that assertion on -- it may be well supported, but on its face it sounds absurd. You can't get better at anything as long as you still have to think about the things on which it is based
29. 569.▲
    by rquantz 15y ago

    The problem with this kind of advice is that it is based on conscious goals and requires staying focused on one goal for an entire year. In my experience (and I believe research tends to support this) humans have a hard time giving consciou
30. 570.▲
    by rquantz 15y ago

    When is the summer session? That would be a great time for me as it would be less likely to conflict with other gigs.