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Ask HN: Website that maps addresses to unique tiles, for different zoom levels
1 points by sendos 11y ago|2 comments
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by sendos 11y ago
Results are interesting, though unfortunately not too surprising. As an aside, I did really well in drawing the curve. The website asked me "Is that you, Raj Chetty?" [ http://imgur.com/XU4UNya ]
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by sendos 12y ago
Great product (at least from an ingenuity point of view; would be interesting to see how kids react to it) Side question: What is this style of info presentation called? Basically, a full-page-width webpage, with very sparse information tha
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Net neutrality opponents make little sense(andrewoneverything.com)
2 points by sendos 12y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: What do people like Condi Rice actually offer companies like Dropbox
1 points by sendos 12y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Rich ex-entrepreneurs turned VC's: "Bug" in society?
7 points by sendos 13y ago|9 comments
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Ask HN: Why doesn't HN have collapsible comments?
1 points by sendos 13y ago|2 comments
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by sendos 13y ago
A recent thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7430501 , "What if you didn't need money or attention?") reminded me of this post I wrote a while back, and thought you guys might enjoy.
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What would you do with your life if all who have ever known you die?(andrewoneverything.com)
3 points by sendos 13y ago|1 comments
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by sendos 13y ago
I'm sure he's a remarkable person, but not so sure about the examples you give as concrete achievements. First, I would not consider Loopt a success. Second, can you give examples of startups he helped succeed? There is a saying t
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by sendos 13y ago
Given all this over-the-top fawning from Graham, Thiel, etc, one thing comes to mind: "Where's the beef?" AFAIK, he only has one failed startup to his name, and yet he is hailed as a shrewd thinker and top startup strategist.
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Ask HN: Are there no irrational/incorrect valuations? [Re: WhatsApp and others]
5 points by sendos 13y ago|2 comments
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by sendos 13y ago
I have a term for this: "etime" [1] (the product of time and mental energy). Both are necessary to get anything done. [1] http://andrewoneverything.com/post/43544648479/i-dont-have-e...
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by sendos 13y ago
Does OSX Safari share the same code base as iOS Safari? If yes, why is OSX Safari better able to render websites and better able to work around JS bugs?
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by sendos 13y ago
If it's due to more SW bugs in iPads than in laptops, can this be due to iOS being relatively immature as an OS compared to OSX and Windows? Or are there some HW restrictions in tablets that make the SW more difficult to be made stable
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Ask HN: If iPad CPU is now "desktop class", why does the browser crash so much?
2 points by sendos 13y ago|6 comments
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by sendos 13y ago
> I'd bet good money that you have a compromised or vulnerable mailer script on your machine somewhere This must be the case. I turned on SPF and DKIM and the spam emails slowed down for a while, but are now back in full force. It l
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Ask HN: Help with spam "originating" from my website
9 points by sendos 13y ago|4 comments
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by sendos 13y ago
I call the effect smartphones are having on us "Information Obesity" [1]. Just like when food was scarce and people ate as much as they could, and now that food is abundant many people can't limit themselves to sensible amoun
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Poll: What's your opinion on flat design?
8 points by sendos 13y ago|7 comments
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by sendos 13y ago
I love it
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by sendos 13y ago
I like it
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by sendos 13y ago
I am neutral
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by sendos 13y ago
I don't like it
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by sendos 13y ago
I hate it
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Welcome to USA 2.0(andrewoneverything.com)
3 points by sendos 13y ago|5 comments
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by sendos 13y ago
I did not follow this case when it broke, so do guys know what Aaron planned on doing with all that JSTOR material he was downloading? (~80% of JSTOR, according to one article I read)
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by sendos 13y ago
"Does that reflect an injustice? Many say no, arguing that women earn less because they take time off to care for children or elderly parents (and thus have less seniority) or accept lower pay in return for more flexible working arrang
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by sendos 13y ago
> > the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has for years been developing what is effectively a secret and unchallenged body of law on core Fourth Amendment issues, producing lengthy classified rulings based on the arguments of th
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by sendos 13y ago
I wrote about this a while back, after watching a PBS documentary on domestic spying. Basically, it seems to me that the US could one day turn into a totalitarian regime with no way back [1]. Maybe it's overly-pessimistic, but once all

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