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by scorciapino 17y ago
The sad thing is that this is supposed to be Hacker news, not Apple fan-boy news.
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by scorciapino 17y ago
I'm sorry, I'm not familiar with the iPad. Could anybody clarify? Is it just a regular tablet? What OS does it run? Is it free? Can I change it to GNU?
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by scorciapino 17y ago
After reading a dozen or so entrepreneur stories, I've come to the conclusion that luck and connections were the most important factors in their success [citation needed], and bodybuilders don't need any of them.
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by scorciapino 17y ago
I simply can't believe so many people are paying that exorbitant price tag ($1600 to $16000 an year) to have zero-profit niche Q&A website. It doesn't make sense financially, and they could sponsor free software development of the alrea
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by scorciapino 17y ago
> if a guy doesn't want to go to a party and get terribly drunk with everyone else in the company, then he obviously has some element of his outside life — a girlfriend, a hobby, et cetera — that is more important to him than the compan
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by scorciapino 17y ago
As a Brazilian, I consider very offensive the american difference between Hispanic and White. Were iberian europeans somehow lesser than north europeans? No matter the answer, non-hispanic whites are ignored and the term is now used to desi
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by scorciapino 17y ago
Ah, the typical and noble starving artist, who sacrifices material well-being in order to focus on its artwork.
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by scorciapino 17y ago
Meh, this is a war against MEN. In a society with such a gender imbalance, women can be more picky and some men are left without hope of getting a partner. Without a partner, what are they going to focus on life, if not work? And who is gon
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"We do not believe in censoring the Internet. Rather, we should censor it."(news.bbc.co.uk)
2 points by scorciapino 17y ago|1 comments
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by scorciapino 17y ago
And the news website reports this abuse as if it was an acceptable and respectable decision! Is there any doubt that mass media's role is just social control?
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by scorciapino 17y ago
That was the point! :)
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by scorciapino 17y ago
"For me, there is a sort of metallic flavour to most raw tuna;" - yes, it is called Mercury
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by scorciapino 17y ago
Haha, oh the irony... I once had my very own WM articles deleted on the portuguese wikipedia by a proposition of guy that... cataloged guava varieties.
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by scorciapino 17y ago
Let's just hope nobody records anything obscene so that our Apple overlords don't remove it from Their store.
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by scorciapino 17y ago
Reddit clone in 4 lines of perl: http://gist.github.com/299579
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by scorciapino 17y ago
Haha, my technique is also blocking websites. Here it goes, might be useful for someone: http://pastebin.com/AhY3mgU4
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by scorciapino 17y ago
So what? It's easier to lie saying only the truth and omitting some part of it, or not even omitting anything, but not saying it frequently enough. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_of_silence
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by scorciapino 17y ago
A lot of these thoughts ultimately come down to selling and dealing with clients, which I find the hardest part of the thing. Can someone share some advice on it, or maybe suggest a couple of books on the matter?
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by scorciapino 17y ago
> In fact, this week Citi has announced the financing for the True Colors Residence, a housing facility for homeless GLBT youth in New York City. Wait wat? Citibank is sponsoring free motels?
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by scorciapino 17y ago
How does this compare with parenscript?
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by scorciapino 17y ago
Install xmonad and configure it properly
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by scorciapino 17y ago
I hope my downvoters enjoy the beauty and art of "Bitches ain't shit but hoes and tricks / Lick on these nuts and suck the dick / Get's the fuck out after you're done"
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by scorciapino 17y ago
I try to be open minded; I try to appreciate the style; I try to pretend it's not just a glorification of criminality, immorality and shallowness, but with every song I listen, I get closer to the conclusion that it's the same goddamn piece
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by scorciapino 17y ago
This might be of some use: http://pastebin.com/f10cbf605
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by scorciapino 17y ago
Huh? I didn't get it... his whole technique is creating a one-key shortcut?
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by scorciapino 17y ago
I'm currently using sup ( http://sup.rubyforge.org/ ), which has labels and threads like Gmail, but is Free as in Freedom, runs on ncurses and, ironically, has a much better search mechanism, which was the main reason I switched from Gmail.
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by scorciapino 17y ago
The only program one needs in Windows is putty, so to be able to connect to a REAL computer.
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by scorciapino 17y ago
Considering that kindle customers do not own the books they buy, Amazon's kindle will be Free as free first dose of cocaine.
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by scorciapino 17y ago
This is what happens when we cede terrain to these idealistic and demented pressure groups, such as the feminists and the racialists.
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Ask HN: How to master the Art of Selling
8 points by scorciapino 17y ago|6 comments

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