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by stoney 16y ago
I think the productivity increase is more than the time saved waiting for stuff to load. That few seconds pause can be enough to interrupt my flow, at which point I think, 'hmmm, let's check out HN while I wait for that'. Of course, by th
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by stoney 16y ago
Would you change your mind now? I decided on Monday to buy an Android phone (HTC Desire), but haven't got around to going to the store yet.
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by stoney 16y ago
I've got around this in the past by importing the bizarrely named files into iTunes and then telling it to automatically organise my library for me. It then uses the metadata in the mp3s to rename the files back to how they should be. Not
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by stoney 16y ago
This is in spite of the fact that the Android phone sales are apparently equal the number of iPhones phone sales. From what I understand, Android sales are currently similar to iPhone sales (in the US) in terms of phones being sold today,
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by stoney 16y ago
Or maybe the Google cache can give you what you want... http://www.mapmyride.com/view_route?r=488106908 Becomes: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:_kV756J...
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by stoney 16y ago
Maybe make the desktop application open source? That may remove a lot of the headache for you if you can find a keen customer to develop/support it. Good luck taking on mapmyride. Mapmyrun (the runner's equivalent) has got worse and worse
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by stoney 16y ago
IMO it has always been Office that has been the key to MS dominance I completely agree. Excel is the thing that keeps me tied to Windows (and no, the Mac version of Excel isn't the same). It is by far the best software I have used for sm
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by stoney 16y ago
The law referenced is Canadian, but I've often wondered which set of laws cover something like an email list (and things like affiliate links on blogs). What if my potential recipients span several countries? Should I abide by my local ru
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by stoney 16y ago
There was a lot of noise about that, but in reality the internet "filtering" proposals have not (yet) been enacted and thanks to the latest election result look pretty much guaranteed to be unpassable now.
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by stoney 16y ago
Don't start with the professors - start at the bottom and work up. Find a large-ish existing community of PhD students (e.g. all students at a certain lab) and build up from there.
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by stoney 16y ago
Mendeley has been mentioned a few times already. I'll just point out that it has some kind of API. I have no idea what it enables, I've been meaning to look into it, but it might be useful in terms of getting citation information for new
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Ask HN: Android vs iPhone app market
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by stoney 16y ago
That depends on my starting weight. If I weigh 120lbs then I'll take the muscle. If I weigh 220lbs then I'll take the weight loss.
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by stoney 16y ago
I highly recommend the Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. It's fiction, so the science is suspect in places, but it raises a lot of fascinating issues - the main one being that the science and engineering behind keeping Martian settlers
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by stoney 16y ago
Even considering YC companies, who's to say how many would have succeeded anyway? There's no control, so no experiment. I guess you could look at rejected applicants as a sort of control group (not perfect though)? How many of those have
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by stoney 16y ago
I don't completely agree with your 5th point. By the same argument, auto manufacturers make a profit, so don't buy a ready made car - you can make it cheaper yourself! (Maybe the part about auto manufacturers making a profit is a bit shak
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by stoney 16y ago
I'm surprised that the HN community seems more averse to using FB connect than I expect most normal users are. Either that or people that are critical of FB Connect are more apt to respond to this. You're probably seeing both effects her
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by stoney 16y ago
Unless I specifically wanted your startup to be putting stuff into my facebook feed, I personally wouldn't log in to your (or any) site using a facebook account. I'm a bit paranoid about the potential for 3rd party apps to publish stuff to
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by stoney 16y ago
Very true, the historical architectural/cultural side of the UK (castles+ruins+very old stuff) is incredible. Going around old towns like Cambridge and York, and seeing stuff like Stonehenge is a pretty stunning experience the first time a
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by stoney 16y ago
If you don't mind me asking, what sort of short contract do you take? How do you get them (advertised jobs, through contacts)?
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by stoney 16y ago
Your first point is a big one - the US has an incredible variety of places to visit. I'm from the UK, and while there are some amazing places to visit in the UK, there is a lot less variety than there is in the US. I spend 10 days driving
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by stoney 16y ago
Increasing the size of the workforce will tend to put downward pressure on wages. So if you double the workforce I expect you'd see pretty serious downward pressure on wages, maybe to the point where previously one partner working could su
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by stoney 16y ago
It's interesting how the calculation is quite sensitive to your initial capital - if you start with 6.2 million then at age 70 you have about 4 million remaining. Which you then burn through in the next 7 years.
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by stoney 16y ago
Cool, I look forward to it! I guess the trick will be to get people to view their social network as more like email (decentralised, everyone has accounts with different providers, etc) and less like facebook/twitter/etc (centralised). At t
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by stoney 16y ago
I don't think the average non-techie user is going to get very far past: You will need PHP5 (including the OpenID, gd and curl libraries) plus MySQL 5 or later. Apache 2 or later, or lighttpd are supported as web servers. I guess the proj
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by stoney 16y ago
There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't -- Robert Benchley
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by stoney 16y ago
Store it locally on your computer? (being careful to back it up of course)
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by stoney 16y ago
In the UK several of the national newspapers publish university league tables - not sure if you get the same thing in the US? Might provide some inspiration for you. See http://extras.timesonline.co.uk/stug/universityguide.php for an exa
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by stoney 16y ago
Interesting idea, but I wonder how many copies of my data would need to be stored across the system to guarantee that at least one copy is available when I want it? Many people don't leave their personal computers switched on all the time,
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by stoney 16y ago
As I understand it (though I could be wrong), the port in Dubai is one of the freight hubs of the world, which is where the Emirate gets a lot of its wealth (it has little/no oil - Abu Dhabi has most of the UAE's oil). So there was some ec

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