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when I tried Google alerts (asking it for references to my name), it would alert me to pages published (by me, which is how I am sure when they were published) months ago, so the signal was drowned in noise.
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Since I like smart women, the story got me a little excited :)
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If you think language like the following is "extremely articulate" or "informative", well, please do not send me anything to read. The decision has primarily dictated by market conditions and opportunity cost which in aggregate would mean
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Let's not forget that the OP does not reveal what women think, it reveals what women who went to Harvard and live in Manhattan think.
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Suppose you started volunteering on Wikipedia years ago and for one reason or another you've acquired "insider status" in the form of admin priviledges or alliances with other insiders. Well, there is a natural human tendency to hoard powe
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Linking to a .js file and asking/expecting us to install without reviewing the source is optimistic at best. . . . And WTF hasn't anyone said this in the past 3 hrs already? You were too hasty with the WTF. Unless he or she is extremely s
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VM, which (like gnus) is built on top of Emacs. I use a very old version (version 5) because I did not like the direction the project took after that. Heavily modified by me.
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The subject of the OP is the climate for startups, and it is almost certain that the climate for startups is better in the U.S. than it is in Germany or Austria. Off-topic, but I recently considered relocating to Germany, and here is a brie
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the same thing used to happen to suspected communists in the U.S. Name one suspected communist, please, who was detained by an authority in the U.S, who was denied a public hearing before a magistrate to challenge the legitimacy of the gr
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To what extent will a government go to protect your investment/property? My guess is that it is better for a business to be under a common-law jurisdiction. The legal system in most of the world is of a type called civil law, as contras
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the web page has "hard newlines" (implemented by BR tags or by some other device) so that a person like me who likes his text size a little on the large size and does not have a huge monitor has to scroll horizontally every single line of t
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Too long; didn't read.
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Sadly, Wikipedia mode does not eliminate the need for a web browser. I was hoping for an Emacs command to load a Wikipedia entry directly into an Emacs buffer.
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The only thing worse than not having a blog IMO is having one that hasn't been updated in weeks or months. Can you explain why an infrequently updated blog would be bad? I suppose you believe that it makes you look bad somehow. But what
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Building a mail system into a single-threaded text editor seems a bit silly to me... Why's that? The (not gnus) mail system I use on Emacs will hang the Emacs process for a few seconds sometimes when I hit send while the Emacs process ta
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One of the blog entries of independent journalist Michael Yon describes an informal interview of a young Kurdish woman soon after the overthrow of Saddam. Yon said that the Kurds had no material resources, but a can-do attitude. He describ
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Anyone know of a GSM cell phone that can be configured to ring only when the incoming call is from a number in the phone's address book? 'Twould have eliminated the need for the OP (Dave Gorman) to change his phone number
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From the page that says what the Lamson project is about (emphasis mine): "I’m always looking for people doing interesting things with e-mail. Even if you’re a spammer , or someone trying to destroy the spammers, I want to hear from you" (
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Summary of the article: Redfin reimburses 50% of the fee they receive back to the buyer. And Redfin charges the seller a $5,000 - $7,000 flat fee. In contrast when the buyer and the seller of a million dollar house use traditional Realtors
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I think I got sidelined by the quote I threw up in the original posting If you had RTFA before your first comment, you would not have gotten sidelined. The author (mixmax) of TFA graciously conceded in his reply that his "Google won the b
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Yes, they can, but it is not as robust as X. Now and then you have to reboot the whole OS to reset the windowing system.
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I use Adblock Plus to block Google Analytics, too. I do it because Google Analytics freezes scrolling on my old version of Firefox on my slow computer.
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I always hated visiting comment pages of blogs hosted at Blogspot Dot Com. And I use an old browser (Firefox 1.5).
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How about it pg: would you accept a patch that showed the subdomain when the domain is nytimes.com?
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This will help not only soldiers but also those civilians who are prone to fractures. I have a friend BTW who because of bone disease has experienced over 100 bone fractures.
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If HN is your only source of world news, I suggest you find at least one more Google News and the news sites I have tried have way too much information. I want the top 10 or so current-events general-interest stories of the year: more th
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Quick question for those who maintain that this story should not be on Hacker News: where else can a person get timely notification of extremely notable events without being barraged with lots of noise? Don't say BBC Dot Co Dot UK or Wiki
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imho, online dating is inherently "humiliating and disappointing." Even if that is true, that is no reason for the design of match.com to increase the humiliation or disappointment.
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How much did it cost you for how many weeks in China?

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