siculars

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   by siculars 16y ago

   Take a few hours and go watch The Social Network and see what one possible outcome could look like. That said, go talk to a lawyer, get your ex-partners to sign something that either gives all of you the right to run with the idea with no c
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   by siculars 16y ago

   I am a cyclist who was run off the road by an suv while training for the Westchester half ironman. Was fortunate to walk (ride) away with only one broken bone (4th metacarpal). I've been riding my entire life in NYC without ever having an i
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   by siculars 16y ago

   There is no right turn on red in NYC.
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   by siculars 16y ago

   When many database systems or language implementations rely on os cache, scheduling, threading and eventing implementations among other things then yes, the os matters.
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   by siculars 16y ago

   The Stuxnet saga continues to entertain...
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   Iran arrests "nuclear spies" accused of cyber attacks(bbc.co.uk)

   2 points by siculars 16y ago|1 comments
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   by siculars 16y ago

   Sounds like someone is upset that someone else is cheating on them.
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   Ask Joyent: How do you feel about Oracle owning your toys?

   13 points by siculars 16y ago|6 comments
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   by siculars 16y ago

   Most technical question/answer: "11. Ahawks This may be "confidential" information, but I have to ask: As a developer, I am amazed at the amazing world that's created dynamically. Towering mountains, twisting caves opening up to caverns, i
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    Nevermind the Bullets. IE9 HTML5 showcase.(nevermindthebullets.com)

    2 points by siculars 16y ago|0 comments
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    by siculars 16y ago

    If I ever get something worth looking at together I'll be sure to post here on HN. But I have some content analysis in mind.
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    by siculars 16y ago

    Thank you!
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    Ask PG: Polite ways to scrape HN?

    71 points by siculars 16y ago|29 comments
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    by siculars 16y ago

    I signed up for your service, I know it will be useful to me. Thanks for putting it out there. The only concern I have is that it seems a bit self serving that a YC funded company gets, what seems to be, preferential treatment by having the
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    by siculars 16y ago

    Sounds like fun. Signed up. See all you New Yorkers there.
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    by siculars 16y ago

    Buy the printed book off amazon for 20 bucks. Personally, I'm not sold on the ebook experience for a number of reasons.
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    by siculars 16y ago

    JavaScript: The Good Parts, http://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Good-Parts-Douglas-Crockfor... Watch Crockford on Javascript at ydn: http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/theater/archives/douglas_cr... Watch @ryah on nodejs at ydn: http://www.
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    by siculars 16y ago

    not natively. try couch + lucene. http://github.com/rnewson/couchdb-lucene
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    by siculars 16y ago

    My take on charter schools vs. public schools is quite simple really. I firmly believe that all the hype surrounding better test scores (better outcomes) can be solely attributed to the fact that the population is self selecting. As it turn
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    by siculars 16y ago

    They have also been stockpiling. Which is a good buffer, but ultimately only that. This should be a wakeup call that you can not have sole source production of critical material under the control of what is nominally your enemy. Also, natio
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    by siculars 16y ago

    All this over the detention of a Chinese fishing vessel in disputed waters. Anyone who thinks the current situation re. Chinese mining monopoly and I would also include their manufacturing monopoly is a tenable/acceptable situation for the
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    China blocks rare earth exports to Japan(nytimes.com)

    3 points by siculars 16y ago|4 comments
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    by siculars 16y ago

    Following in the vein of all-your-content-belong-to-us, posterous unleashes an picture hoover for twitpic. Hmm. Interesting, sure. But isn't this kind of a utility some dude should be making as a weekend project? My blog[1] is on posterous
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    Posterous Releases Desktop TwitPic Downloader(blog.posterous.com)

    2 points by siculars 16y ago|1 comments
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    by siculars 16y ago

    I'm pretty frank about not being a fan of microsoft. I actually tell people that if you absolutely must use windows, the only acceptable way to do it is on a virtual machine on a mac. I was just at the bitly hackathon night earlier this wee
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    by siculars 16y ago

    Agreed. It may well be. I took the counter offer from the original company for various reasons. But it left me with a bad taste in my mouth. I'm not sure if I would have made the same decision had I had it to do over. When a company does no
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    by siculars 16y ago

    I second your experience, edw519. Unfortunately, often the only way to get management to loosen the purse strings is to come back with another offer from another firm. This exact situation has happened to me. Sad, really.
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    by siculars 16y ago

    Rsvp'd. Nodejs stuff.
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    by siculars 16y ago

    Obviously we can expect nothing from Russia except more of the same. Nevertheless, this kind of press moves the needle as evidenced by the prompt reply from Microsoft.
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    by siculars 16y ago

    Hey look at that. Good journalism still has a place in this fast paced, linked up, tweeted world we live in. I don't often say this but grats, nyt.