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by shimon 18y ago
I'd be interested to hear more about this. I think there are some significant opportunities to make cities better (maybe by starting new ones, maybe just by working with our existing ones in new ways). And a lot of the ways technology has
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by shimon 18y ago
As a Williams grad, I am working hard to make sure that MORE Amherst students have landmines.
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by shimon 18y ago
I'm thinking we need to register vomitr.com and crowdsource this. A community of people answering the question: Is your favorite pet species vomiting right now?
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by shimon 18y ago
Wow, it's like someone invented a time machine and invited a 14-year-old-me to come and comment on hacker news. Seriously though, many hackers have loved Ayn Rand's ideas, but the simple biological fact is that we get gratification from hel
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by shimon 18y ago
run4yourlives raises some good points. But if you're sure you want to do the deal, the main thing you have to figure out is how much of the company your new investor will own, and how much of it will be owned by you and your partners. If
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by shimon 18y ago
The facebook redesign is indeed hurting many existing apps. But it's one of those things that hurts in the short term but will help in the long term. Or at least I think that's the intention. Firstly, the type of app that is currently dom
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by shimon 18y ago
Yes.
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by shimon 18y ago
What, servers only on three continents? Amateurs.
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by shimon 18y ago
There are some good things in this post, but did anyone else get the impression that the author ran parts of it through a Markov Chain text generator to bulk it up?
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by shimon 18y ago
Interesting points. It could well be my professional frame of reference that's shifting. Maybe a historical analysis of job listings would give a less biased take?
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by shimon 18y ago
I agree that this approach is deranged. It all stems from the decision to distinguish between values and references. That decision comes from the available hardware and typical programming background at the time of Perl 5's development (e
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by shimon 18y ago
I love Perl, but its essential problem at this point is that it's lost momentum. After over 7 years of waiting for Perl 6, a huge gulf has developed between the people who can influence language development and new users. In this time, ot
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by shimon 18y ago
The desire to store generated energy for use at a different time isn't limited to solar cells or other day-only sources. A similar problem is posed by the fact that conventional power stations have a fixed maximum throughput, but demand is
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by shimon 18y ago
In retrospect, any limitation on potential liability would be nice. But I didn't originally set out to make Voo2do into a business -- the only way I get money for it at present is through donations. Are you saying anyone who wants to buil
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by shimon 18y ago
I got a "courtesy copy" of the complaint this morning (via overnight Fedex). Does that count as service? I'm not incorporated and haven't thought about Delaware in particular as a place to advertise Voo2do. There are certainly Voo2do user
496.
by shimon 18y ago
Thanks, man! I don't think they can win a royalty on kind words, which has been my biggest payoff from Voo2do.
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by shimon 18y ago
One possibility, and this is just speculation, and I am not a lawyer, is that CI is targeting a number of small players in the hope that we will settle or lose, thereby providing some precedent that their patent has succeeded in litigation.
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by shimon 18y ago
Ask YC subtopic: Have you ever been the target of a frivolous IP lawsuit? How do you deal with it?
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I just got sued for patent infringement for operating the voo2do.com todo list(techcrunch.com)
85 points by shimon 18y ago|45 comments
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by shimon 18y ago
If I understand correctly, here's what this means: - Last round, the investors bought in at, say, $10/share. They got preferred stock, which gives them access to more of the company's assets in the case of failure and certain other rights
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by shimon 18y ago
The title pretty much covers it. Twitter is more like an IM network or email list service than like a typical database-backed webapp; a relational database is just the wrong platform for large-scale messaging.
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by shimon 18y ago
Seems like a good guess based on http://news.cnet.com/2008-1024_3-5208228.html
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by shimon 18y ago
ISPs charge consumers a monthly fee for theoretically unlimited usage because that's the way most people are comfortable paying for their internet usage. Even a geek like me doesn't have a clear idea of how much bandwidth I use in a month,
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by shimon 18y ago
I would be delighted to see some software to actually measure throttling; there's nothing the network neutrality needs more than some actual data about what is happening and how pervasive it is. My guess is that most ISPs do no throttling o
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by shimon 18y ago
There is a factual error in this article, in the razor/blades analogy. The monthly service fees for an iPhone don't just benefit the carrier; a portion of the service fees goes to Apple as well. I'm not sure what the portion is (or if tha
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by shimon 18y ago
Provocative article. But I don't think the fact that book publishers price ebooks and paper books the same is about protecting printing plants. It's actually about protecting a distribution advantage, which is a core part of the publish
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by shimon 18y ago
Twitter articles are popular here, as in other social news sites and blogs, because of selection bias. Who likes twitter? People who always have something to write. Who posts stuff on the web? People who always have something to write.
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I spent a week building a game on AppEngine. Here's what I learned.(rura.org)
18 points by shimon 18y ago|0 comments
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by shimon 18y ago
BarCamps are great for (1) meeting local people, (2) vetting ideas, (3) scoping out new technology. Not unlike Hacker News. :)
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by shimon 18y ago
http://mitworld.mit.edu/ "MIT World™ is a free and open site that provides on-demand video of significant public events at MIT. MIT World's video index contains more than 500 videos."

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