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by sdizdar 16y ago
I'm not sure if you know, but Bulgaria is in Balkans. And sane people are thrown in the loony bin (or just killed) if they talk too much. Bulgaria is considered the most corrupt country in the 27-member European Union. For example, just rec
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by sdizdar 16y ago
I went thru http://w3fools.com/#htmlsucks and errors reported there are very minor (I guess using Facebook API documentation trained me to be more forgiving). The w3school is a perfect for what it is. Is it reference? No - they don't clai
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by sdizdar 16y ago
Investing in rubles ops.. yuans is very interesting proposition. Especially when inflation rate is skyrocketing and there is housing bubble of enourmous proportion. And China's economy is very much connected to US economy: if dollar collap
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by sdizdar 16y ago
I had never heard of the 2 space rule until I moved to the US, so this is one of cultural things. I believe "single space" rule is prevalent is Europe and India. This anyway points that 2 space rule is not "right way" since significant port
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by sdizdar 16y ago
You can copy photosets from Flickr to Facebook or Picasa using http://showzey.com . It manual process now (photset by photoset). I wonder if enough people are interested in paid option for continuously sync between these services?
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No Run III for the Tevatron(quantumdiaries.org)
1 points by sdizdar 16y ago|0 comments
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by sdizdar 16y ago
I don't think Google is loosing mojo. But I do see one problem: Google revenue is all connected to search, and the next disruptive innovation seems to be in area of search (I personally, I'm not satisfied with quality of google search). Or
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by sdizdar 16y ago
I would like to understand something here. As far as I was explained by experts (I'm not a lawyer) GPL license does not allow to publish software on closed / proprietary platforms controlled by ToS similar to Apple AppStore. My understandin
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Facebook hype will fade(cnn.com)
192 points by sdizdar 16y ago|118 comments
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Power Posing: Fake It Until You Make It (hbswk.hbs.edu)
1 points by sdizdar 16y ago|0 comments
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by sdizdar 16y ago
There is actually a problem when organizations are focusing too much on tools. In order to efficiently address a disruptive innovation, a corporations need to change their processes and since tools are connected to processes, these good to
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by sdizdar 16y ago
With all due respect to Facebook and many great engineers at Facebook, if you look at quality of Facebook API ( documentation, bugs, reliability, compatibility), I don't think they followed "hiring the best" in the division working on Faceb
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by sdizdar 16y ago
I think the very first thing is to try to prevent malicious sites to be on the first page. For example, try searching for "lawsuit employment rejection". The very first hit is: jaysgrafx.com/char-tritan-energy-power-com-employment-san-mar
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Ask HN: How to find a great mentor for my startup?
5 points by sdizdar 16y ago|2 comments
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by sdizdar 16y ago
True, but I think the most important part is missing: challenge and growth. My first boss had mantra: Grow or Go. There is a misunderstanding that only top performers want to grow. Actually, all team members want to grow, but in different a
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by sdizdar 16y ago
I spent some time doing customer development for my http://wall.si project, so I have some experience with this. The top four concerns for restaurants are: personnel, personnel, personnel, and personnel. Cool looking web site is really pe
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by sdizdar 16y ago
As far I understands and I was told by some successful entrepreneurs that startups must not assume that it can build a great team by paying them less. Actually, when growing the team, startups must assume that they will pay more than compet
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Steve Wozniak: Net Neutrality Rules “Don’t Go Far Enough”(macobserver.com)
3 points by sdizdar 16y ago|0 comments
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by sdizdar 16y ago
COLD email 20 of them and offer to pay THEM to use your product if they are willing to offer some feedback. If anybody responds, tell them that the offer is oversubscribed and that it is no longer available. I wonder what is wrong with sa
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by sdizdar 16y ago
I believe that FlightPrep has a valid business plan. They have patent in order to prevent commoditization (i.e., giving away things for free) of their market. So they sue all free providers and if there is somebody with real money (like Je
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by sdizdar 16y ago
Any ex Yahoo'ers from SF Bay Area interested in joining us to work on http://cloudHQ.net ?
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Rivals Say Google Plays Favorites (online.wsj.com)
4 points by sdizdar 16y ago|0 comments
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by sdizdar 16y ago
Both Visa and MasterCard are down. This just shows how fragile the internet is and how 'easy' is to shut down the entire economy and system. The point is that coordinated attack by terrorists or plain old criminals can cripple the entire wo
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by sdizdar 16y ago
Very very good news for Heroku employees and investors. I also hope that Amazon will start bidding war. However, knowing Salesforce (and fact that they have many very very big enemies in this business) I'm concern about future of Heroku off
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by sdizdar 16y ago
For small programs you are probably right. However, the key of learning Prolog to teach you how to expresses the logic of a program/system without describing its control flow. Basically to describe what the program or system should accompli
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by sdizdar 16y ago
Actually, one of the best book for Prolog is book written by my professor Ivan Bratko: http://www.amazon.com/Prolog-Programming-Artificial-Intellig... We had to write Pascal interpreter in Prolog - that was an experience. I strongly sugge
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by sdizdar 16y ago
I think MVP does not mean "crappy product". MVP means just a version of product (which is working, tested, etc.) which can collect the maximum amount of validated learning with the least effort. In other words, my understanding is that MVP
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by sdizdar 16y ago
The following sentence is very not true and quite misleading: > Similarly, you don’t work on great technology at a startup. .. They are about business model discovery... If that is true, then why do technology startups exist at all? Isn
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by sdizdar 16y ago
It seems Linux does not have option to skip slow start and just use receiver's advertised window. Does anybody know where in net/ipv4/tcp.c this should be set?
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by sdizdar 16y ago
True (btw, BEA is ORCL now). What is definition of hacker in this context? Web 2.0 / javascript developer? Or self-learned developer?

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