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by shimon 18y ago
From page 2: "Prior studies reveal yawning leads to a heightened state of arousal, so a morning yawn may function somewhat like a cup of coffee in providing a jolt of energy."
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by shimon 18y ago
I was tech lead on a project that involved both Firefox and IE extension development. We tried to keep the extensions very simple, so there would be as little to port and keep synchronized between versions. Both platforms were relatively
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by shimon 18y ago
On one hand, this should be similar to finding investors in any industry: Look at work that you admire. Figure out who built and funded it. Figure out how to get into their social circle -- start where you can, and work your way to the r
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by shimon 18y ago
I think there are some fallacious connotations to the word "calling", not unlike those for the word "soulmate". You probably don't have exactly one, unchanging calling; but there are probably some general themes about the world that excite
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Economic Stimulus: instead of cash for Korean TVs, give us all fiber(renesys.com)
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by shimon 18y ago
I doubt that the G1 will "simply not operate" without a data plan. I suspect this is T-mobile's way of avoiding having to explain (especially to non-techie customers who might not realize that a smartphone without a data plan is probably a
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by shimon 18y ago
Many carriers will let you use their data services on a pay-per-byte basis even if you're not subscribed to a data plan. This is usually ridiculously expensive, so if you're going to actually use a smartphone, an "unlimited" plan is usuall
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by shimon 18y ago
Twitter messages have unique URLs (permalinks). It doesn't exactly have replies, though; you can send a message @someone (public, but intended especially for the given person) or send a private direct message, but there's no standard way t
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by shimon 18y ago
I believe the studies you are referring to measured 3 lines of shipping code produced per programmer-day. This doesn't mean that Joe the Hacker went to his terminal and only typed three lines; it means that other people re-wrote code, or
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by shimon 18y ago
I don't think this is likely, because turning a kind-of-flawed tech business into a good tech business usually (though not always) requires a lot of technical work. I could imagine a collaboration between VCs and hackers, though, or just a
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by shimon 18y ago
There is something very smart going on here, but it's not the idea of using DNS to store contact information. What's smart is the ability of Telnic and its affiliated registrars to convince everyone (ICANN, NYT, probably most HN readers) t
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by shimon 18y ago
Sun is the General Motors of the computer industry. They used to do tons of stuff for everyone because their products and expertise were unrivaled. As the demand for big machines picked up in the 90s, they did well and sold a lot of stuff
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by shimon 18y ago
Both Obama and McCain talked about improving/increasing regulation because that's what they thought the public wanted to hear. Obama was able to do it more credibly, which helped his campaign. He was always quite unspecific, though, leavi
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by shimon 18y ago
The ideal version, I think, would be a way to invest a tiny amount, so you could diversify even a small (under $10k) investment. Even better, it could make it easier for a consultant to take stock in a small company as compensation, and co
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by shimon 18y ago
My favorite part: some guys from a hedge fund that's betting against subprime mortgages, at a subprime industry conference in late 2007: Their first stop was a speech given by the C.E.O. of Option One, the mortgage originator owned by H&#38
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by shimon 18y ago
Yes, very disappointing. This guy is an investor. His job is make a lot of guesses about the future, monitor all of them so he can learn what works and what doesn't, and place money on those guesses he believes in strongly. This article
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by shimon 18y ago
I agree. This can be a difficult thing to learn, though, because most organizations obscure this relationship. And because effort is hard by definition, there's a massive mythology of low-effort success; fantasizing that reward is random
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by shimon 18y ago
They probably are doing a lot of little illegal somethings. The issue is that each violation is minor and each "victim" has no idea of the scope of the operation -- so it's natural to just throw away the sign. This is the sort of patholog
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by shimon 18y ago
I wonder how much of the company's secrecy is a reaction to the expected illegality of placing these lawn signs. I see them frequently on municipal or state property, and I'm sure they are frequently removed by public works crews. If citi
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by shimon 18y ago
I'm very, very optimistic about signs like this. Effective use of Internet-based communication, organization, and collaboration tools appears to be something that, generally speaking, comes naturally to younger generations and doesn't come
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by shimon 18y ago
You should probably try to get some competitive bids. If you have trustworthy contacts with any of your potential acquirer's competitors, call them and say "hey, I got this offer from FooCorp and I haven't really thought much about selling
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by shimon 18y ago
Good point; I meant to say "IPTV" somewhat generically. The important point is that it's a digital signal on a dedicated portion of the wire's bandwidth. I think Verizon's FiOS TV might be over IP, although I really have no clue.
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by shimon 18y ago
That's where I worked. I was never the network geek that most of my coworkers were, but I got to learn a lot. :)
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by shimon 18y ago
As far as I can tell, net neutrality is an interesting mythology that probably is not reducible to specific technical requirements in a long-term-meaningful way. One one hand, there have been good rulings from the FCC, e.g. preventing ISPs
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by shimon 18y ago
This article briefly hints at the less regulated internet transit industry. I worked for two years at a company that sold competitive intelligence tools to large ISPs, and what I learned about the global telecom business was pretty eye-ope
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by shimon 18y ago
I haven't read the article yet, but my first reaction to the name was: wow, vasectomies over the web?
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by shimon 18y ago
I've been in a pretty similar situation recently. I quit my day job in May, wanting to pursue my own projects. For two months, I worked on my own projects, releasing something new every week or two. That was fun and I learned a bunch of n
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by shimon 18y ago
Think of it as an easy way to screen out people who would be uncreative and uncommited. Less signal, but a higher signal to noise ratio.
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by shimon 18y ago
I think there is perhaps a point in the text highlighting, where it shows you an excerpt from the page containing your search terms. To do that they need either a very complex index (or to optimize for the most popular queries) or full pag
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by shimon 18y ago
No, I'm jealous because you're close to Smith!

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