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by rwhitman 13y ago
Oh man disabling right click I forgot about that one. The clients that were really concerned people would try to save images off their website cracks me up today. I can't believe that adding alert('This is copyrighted material.&
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I looked at the map and was curious - are these cities each in somewhat close proximity to existing google data centers? It would make sense if fiber, much like app engine is just productizing existing google infrastructure
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I'd argue thats called Pivotal Tracker
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Out of all the comments on this thread, this is the only one with an actionable solution to the problem.
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I don't have a comment smart enough for HN to express how cool I think this is. I want to print it out and thumbtack it to my wall like I'm 14
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I'd say this has more to do with an existential crisis - the landscape for project management collaboration tools is very crowded with competitors, and some are vastly superior in many ways to Basecamp. I stopped using Basecamp years a
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by rwhitman 13y ago
SEEKING FREELANCERS - Remote I'm a web dev / design consultant with an increasingly demanding workload and I'm looking to bring in some help. I'm based out of NYC / LA (yes both, kinda). I need folks in 2 areas - 1)
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Starbucks gift cards are relatively anonymous, can store varying amounts of money without being suspicious and are easily transferred and sold. They are a fantastic vector for transfering dirty cash
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Agreed, I wouldn't be surprised if his runaway success is due to people leveraging the money laundering possibilities en masse. Thats a hell of a risky business to be in
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What a great article. I recently shifted my approach to client relationships in a similar way but never really did any real thought with why it was more effective or formalized my methodology. Looking at it in perspective makes a real case
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If attractiveness is based on facial symmetry and we wear an object asymmetrically overlapping our face, does it make us seem less attractive? Could that be the issue here?
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Its pretty much how 'sitting' worked before the advent & ubiquity of chairs
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I recommended a book that I found interesting and helped me with my back problems. I'm a web developer not a doctor. Thats the best I can do for you.
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Its also mostly a tongue in cheek joke, if you didn't get that.
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Apparently its almost unheard of in some cultures to have any sort of back problems, even after decades of physical labor etc. The premise of the book is that the reason for this is that these people are using their spines and posture in a
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by rwhitman 13y ago
If you have a bad back or are interested in posture, there is a wonderful book (ignore the generic title) called "8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back", written by a woman who observed that people in non-Westernized cultures have very litt
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by rwhitman 13y ago
Are there any other more credible sources of reporting on this? Not only is the article very vague and alarmist but it also ends with a call to action to buy security audit software from the author's company, which makes me pretty ske
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It guess the counterpoint to this is that tools are fun to build and it can be easy to fall into the trap of spending too much time building tools instead of other priorities. I've seen a lot of developers over the years use tool bui
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by rwhitman 13y ago
This is really fascinating and sounds kind of groundbreaking, but I don't know the space. Is crowdsourcing investment in a community's infrastructure of any sort, not just efficiency, something that has been done before to date? I
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I swear I feel like I've read a version this article once a year since the advent of CSS. This is a naively utopian vision of the future. The designer/developer is a very rare breed outside of the HN community. Most designers can&
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by rwhitman 13y ago
So the most powerful tool for the open sharing of information since the advent of the printing press, that has transformed the way we live forever, will now be discarded because people are using computers in the form of handheld devices ins
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San Francisco and East Bay cities like Berkeley, Oakland have historically had very favorable city policies and amenities for homeless people. I think this has more to do with the volume of homeless in the Bay Area than anything else.
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On the flip side its kind of amazing that such a beautiful city with a mild climate and massive protected harbor has maintained being so affordable for so long prior to today. Its kind of a fluke that some really awful urban planning disast
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by rwhitman 13y ago
My wife just got the Target Red debit card a few weeks ago, after a number of protests from me about security loopholes. She seemed to think getting 5% off of all purchases for bestowing the ability to a 3rd party to deduct money from your
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News is also highly addictive, I've tried to kick the habit since I read the original article a while back but its been nearly impossible.
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That Mac Plus is decked out. 4MB RAM, external hard drive, System 7. Jealous!
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I like the idea that in the future the only people manually operating cars and motorcycles will be doing it for fun rather than for the drudgery of daily life. That sounds like a better place to live. If the net benefit of driverless cars
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Sounds like Southern California.
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Thats a great PR move, I'm jealous. I had unofficially been doing "startup therapy" for years, but I always treated it as a loss-leader for new business. Probably should have been charging for those meetings, oh well.
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Kind of reminds me of something discussed on HN a long time ago "Why The Vasa Sank" : http://faculty.up.edu/lulay/failure/vasacasestudy.pdf There was a good discussion on HN about it at the time, particu

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