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by seldo 17y ago
I agree that freedom of speech is the overriding priority here, but at the same time I can't help but feel -- for instance, when watching 400 people attempt to login to Facebook via ReadWriteWeb's comment button -- that some kind of basic t
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by seldo 17y ago
For the record, Japan has universal, socialized healthcare: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_system_in_Japan So does Korea: http://www.slideshare.net/manhattanresearch/south-koreas-hea... And so does Taiwan: http://en.wikipedia
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by seldo 17y ago
It has been a long time since I was involved in the W3C, but I can tell you that the public lists are plagued with clueless people who jump onto, e.g., the XHTML 2.0 standards definition list and ask for help with converting their BMPs into
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by seldo 17y ago
Absolutely. Creating a better safety net WOULD really help innovation -- being terrified of not having health insurance is a huge barrier to joining startups for many people. And the current government has so far done nothing to help that,
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by seldo 17y ago
Sure, but my point is that Yelp's core tech of storing venue information, ratings and reviews is not "hard" -- Google and Yahoo both have services that do this. But it beats the pants off of them because its user interface and social dynami
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by seldo 17y ago
While there is definitely a bunch of talent on the team, I'd say this is definitely a technology acquisition, but specifically a UI acquisition -- Google could build the back-end to vark tomorrow, but the user interaction is something they
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by seldo 17y ago
The idea that a software/firmware bug in the electronics that controls the gas pedal could kill me is deeply, deeply unsettling. If you put electronics into basic systems of a car like this, I want it to be like plane electronics: three of
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by seldo 17y ago
The main app is free (and he plans to sell advertising on it later) but downstream services (like an off-site widget) are premium. That's a successful business model to be sure, but hardly novel.
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by seldo 17y ago
There are actually lots and lots of video tributes to this strip, although this new one does feature a bunch of celebrities. Here's one of the best older ones: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvGhEJyfC7U
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by seldo 17y ago
A friend's startup used Rackspace Cloud for all of two weeks. It's a really strange product. It pretends to be a cloud service but it's really just Yet Another Shared Host, only more expensive. After their account got suspended without noti
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by seldo 17y ago
So the IE6 comparison is definitely the right way to sting developers into action. Nobody wants to end up being That Guy from 2001 again. There's a few differences though. IE6 did a few things better (their box-sizing model is still more
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by seldo 17y ago
It's really interesting to me that he even considers taking Moore's law into account when doing cost planning, but of course it makes sense. I also like this line: For a really quickly growing startup that's always doing something new, you
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by seldo 17y ago
It's from a French HIV awareness campaign. There is a female equivalent which is slightly less horrifying: http://adsoftheworld.com/media/print/french_aids_awareness_s...
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by seldo 17y ago
Terry's earlier article about the future of PHP (linked in the first paragraph of this one) is also very good reading: http://phpadvent.org/2009/1500-lines-of-code-by-terry-chay
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by seldo 17y ago
It's a shame to hear this about Dan; I'd read about him before this incident in regards to his involvement with Teens in Tech. He's a very impressive individual and hopefully this is just a minor incident of letting his success get the bett
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by seldo 17y ago
This is not even vaguely HN-appropriate. Flagged.
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by seldo 17y ago
It is amusingly typical of Rasmus that he included a long list of flaws in RWW's own website :-)
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by seldo 17y ago
This is actually ReadWriteWeb, being syndicated by the NYT. Here's the original: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/rasmus-lerdorf-php-hiph... The RWW version has the video that the NYT version mentions but does not include.
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by seldo 17y ago
This rings very true. UI shapes thought, in the same way that language has been shown to. I wonder in what subtle ways our understanding of how computers work has been shaped by the way we structure command line arguments, or the existence
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by seldo 17y ago
This is a comment where I take an obvious corollary of the thesis and state it as if it, too, is a dazzling insight, in a shameless attempt to gain HN karma.
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by seldo 17y ago
I am a major anti-fan of OpenID, but the idea is that these sites will not ask you for your Yahoo/Gmail password. Instead, they will bounce you to Yahoo/Google/whoever (where it's assumed you'll usually already be logged-in), which will a
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by seldo 17y ago
If Watterson looks like Calvin's dad, does that mean Larson is this weird round dude with a tiny head?
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by seldo 17y ago
As a pretty die-hard Obama supporter and also a huge geek, this is a tough one for me. The change in funding priorities gives us another 5 years of funding for the ISS of course, which is by far the greater achievement than landing on the m
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by seldo 17y ago
Seriously. "No flash = no porn" is a pretty base move (also, HTML5 video is surely only a matter of time...)
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by seldo 17y ago
I love my vibrams. It took 3 or 4 runs to get my calf muscles up to any kind of strength to be able to run in them, but it completely vanished the knee problems I'd been having, simply by forcing me to change the way I ran. I wouldn't wear
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by seldo 17y ago
I don’t know why they’re doing it. It’s hard to see how it makes them more money. (Curating all those apps must be expensive, not to mention the lost sales from the unapproved ones.) It seems like a 30% cut of any app sold for your operat
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by seldo 17y ago
The author frames the question as to whether iPad native apps or web apps will win, but obviously the much bigger question is: how many people will buy iPads? The iPhone app rush is predicated on the enormous popularity of the iPhone itself
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by seldo 17y ago
Do we have anyone's word on that other than a semi-anonymous poster on a messageboard?
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by seldo 17y ago
As long as you're here, do you have any details on the hack? Your only post about the attacks seems to be this one: http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/26/techcrunch-hacked/ Which hasn't been updated with details as promised. The lack of de
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by seldo 17y ago
I've only worked for Yahoo for 3 years but AFAIK employees have been called yahoos since pretty early on, and yahooligans was only ever the kids brand. I could easily be wrong though. Also, thanks for researching Yahoo's own history on Goog

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