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New longevity drugs poised to tackle aging(blog.wired.com)
2 points by spif 18y ago|0 comments
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by spif 18y ago
Soundcloud is an awesome service. They're from Berlin and their (co)founder Alex Ljung is a great guy. We've had some good times in Amsterdam last month. We've stolen a lot of their UI tricks in our webapp. I love they way communicate with
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Fear, Competition, and Greed: A Checklist for Making Your Deal Hot to VCs(xconomy.com)
5 points by spif 18y ago|0 comments
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by spif 18y ago
The celebration of Bush being gone will only happen if McCain doesn't win. I'm from Europe (Netherlands) and I sure hope it won't happen but I don't trust the polls one bit.
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by spif 18y ago
You should apologize. Most posters are American and thus by definition very good at irony. /irony
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by spif 18y ago
I equate the statement that "throw hardware at the problem" in the case of Rails to be uneducated. The whole myth that Rails doesn't scale is becoming annoying. The video explains that it's not a framework or language that doesn't scale - i
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by spif 18y ago
I had a room mate once (who studied biology) that explained to me that the smell we smell when the grass is cut is actually a warning signal that grass expels when cockroaches or other bugs eat grass. It was always humorous because he would
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by spif 18y ago
"Just throw hardware at the problem" please watch this presentation and then see if your statement makes any sense: http://events.carsonified.com/fowa/2008/london/highlights/bl...
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by spif 18y ago
Shorter version is here: http://events.carsonified.com/fowa/2008/london/videos/stefan...
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The Future of mobile is not about mobile (Video of Keynote at FOWA - London)(events.carsonified.com)
9 points by spif 18y ago|4 comments
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by spif 18y ago
True - but pretty cool that you can get direct reponses within seconds from a minister like this: http://twitter.com/MaximeVerhagen/statuses/959259446
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Speech by Dutch Foreign Minister highlights adaptability: pragmatism trumps dogmatism.(minbuza.nl)
5 points by spif 18y ago|2 comments
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New multi touch gestures on MacBook Air and MBP(wcrawford.org)
10 points by spif 18y ago|2 comments
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by spif 18y ago
Just to clarify you are asking about founders from outside the US moving to the US and getting work permits. Not the otherway round, right? If it's the other way (in Holland at least) it will be easiest if one of the founders/employees can
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by spif 18y ago
Sorry but to say Amsterdam isn't a startup hub, is just silly. There are many startups here and although not all are massive there are some pretty big ones: Soocial, E-buddy and TomTom just to name a few. I think Amsterdam's ambition (in th
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by spif 18y ago
Interesting to see Nokia get involved more deeply into the software and services. Also good to to understand the movement in investment focus of large incumbents. Might not be a prefect fit for early seed stage startups that much as Nokia
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Syntactically Awesome StyleSheets: just for the name they deserve uptake(haml.hamptoncatlin.com)
1 points by spif 18y ago|0 comments
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by spif 18y ago
They used to be, now moved to the old ABN Amro building, downtown. Still have the ping pong table though. ;-)
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Amsterdam startup is looking for a Front-end all-rounder(jobs.37signals.com)
10 points by spif 18y ago|3 comments
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IPhoned: a story of shiny new gadgets and lousy customer service(aralbalkan.com)
2 points by spif 18y ago|0 comments
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RubyWorks Production Stack(rubyworks.rubyforge.org)
1 points by spif 18y ago|0 comments
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by spif 18y ago
One of the reasons we're happy with choosing Ruby/Rails is rspec, as far as I know there is no equivalent for Python.
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by spif 18y ago
For those of you fed up with Plaxo - you might want to try our (somewhat) competing product Soocial.com (join me in our campfire chat for an invite: https://soocial.campfirenow.com/7b5d4 )
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by spif 18y ago
Cool initiative, but the lingo is a bit on the lame 2.0 side of things. "...in the field of 2.0 technologies..." From the submission page, Web 2.0 elements: Feeds, Blog, Ajax, Wiki, Tags, Mashup, Social Network - if your submission doesn't
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by spif 18y ago
Yes I know. The whole point is that I believe this buried feature of HN should be a top level navigation. If I'm alone in this it's cool, I'll just add a bookmark in my browser.
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Ask PG: Can we have a top level link to our saved (upvoted) articles
1 points by spif 18y ago|3 comments
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by spif 18y ago
okay smartiepants... point taken, but organizing those is lame.
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by spif 18y ago
Leave your email in our Campfire chatroom, those will be done first. https://soocial.campfirenow.com/7b5d4
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by spif 18y ago
Wow, I've never seen that in my settings. Ok.. so it's already there, I guess that changes my question to: "Can we have a top level link to our saved articles?"
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Ask PG: Can we have a feature to save links in Hacker News?
2 points by spif 18y ago|7 comments

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