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by synnik 16y ago
Is it great that these guys are raising money? I don't know them, but if the issue is a major fundraising effort to replace Facebook, I would think that selecting teams to implement the new system would need some serious due diligence. Shou
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by synnik 16y ago
This may be one area in which big corporate business is better than startups/SMB. The Exec assistants in the large companies I've worked for have been very well respected, well treated, and often made more money than the average IT guy. The
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by synnik 16y ago
It depends entirely on pricing. Most "coal" plants switch between coal and natural gas based on current market trends. And even if coal is burned, the fuel to get the coal to the plant is petroleum-based. There are a lot of complexities in
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by synnik 16y ago
But the electricity powering the Internet is also somewhat oil-based, depending on exactly what fuels you local plant runs. It may not impact the individual homeowner, but the costs of the data centers and network providers will increase a
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by synnik 16y ago
Here's the catch. I have gotten in touch with a lot of old friends via Facebook. That is actually all I use it for - communications with old, non-local friends. I fully admit that my communications with them is sporadic and superficial, but
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by synnik 16y ago
The author is oblivious to the irony that he is publishing his rant on the exact platform that he chooses to vilify. The fact is that the web is a monstrous success at its purpose - to share information. The fact that it isn't rich enough f
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by synnik 16y ago
I wonder if invoicing alone is worth paying for... Although I know my feelings are inaccurate, I've never minded invoicing because I am asking for money. I actually somewhat enjoy it. It equates to income. By the time invoicing becomes a se
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by synnik 16y ago
Hey, I've built an entire career on decommissioning Lotus Notes platforms. It is a lovely niche...
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by synnik 16y ago
I love this concept - not everyone realizes that the original design idea behind the cubicle was exactly this kind of feature: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_Office We lost the idea along the way, but I am glad we're getting back to
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by synnik 16y ago
It is an idiom, not a metaphor.
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by synnik 16y ago
My brother-in-law started something along these lines a while back: http://cymonsgames.com/
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by synnik 17y ago
He is still making it too complicated. I use Notepad. I edit a file called todo.txt. I've been editing this same file for many years.
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by synnik 17y ago
All irony about the source of the article aside, I think that they are missing a demographic shift that underlies the topic: Just as people are calling themselves CEOs and entrepreneurs without much actual business experience, likewise are
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by synnik 17y ago
I wouldn't -- your baby can use that blood TODAY. For more info, Google: benefits of delayed cord cutting
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by synnik 17y ago
Performance is only half the story... As the comments show, different systems will have different performance benchmarks. Maximizing performance on your dev system doesn't guarantee performance for your users. A full test suite of all platf
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by synnik 17y ago
I've got to believe that any truly revolutionary technology could be spun into a story of a bubble that "Didn't pop." The printing press comes to mind as the most obvious example. Literacy ballooned after it, which led too the entire print
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by synnik 17y ago
This is a startup weekend, though. I don't know what all the weekends have done, but for the ones that I did pay attention to, they did almost zero due diligence on their idea before starting work. If an idea has been done before, more play
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by synnik 17y ago
All he is really saying is that simple architectures are better than complex architectures, if they fulfill the same functions. I don't argue that underlying point, but the way he got there sure was a lot more complex than, "KISS."
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by synnik 17y ago
"Even if you have 100,000 users and 1,000 pay for your paid account. If you charge $10 per month, you are still making only 10k per month, barely making the salary of one person. No one will invest in a company like that." If I have a side
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by synnik 17y ago
Answered on their FAQ page: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/chickenfoot/faq.html
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by synnik 17y ago
There is a reason that this wasn't invented 50 years ago -- most people who regularly thread needles have been doing it for so many years, that this is a non-issue. That being said, I asked my wife (who makes her living with needles and fib
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by synnik 17y ago
It isn't us older professional folk who really have to worry. It is the 13-15 year old crowd. If you thought what you said at 18 was embarrassing, try the things you said at 13. These kids will be seeking jobs some day, and guess what will
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by synnik 17y ago
It is classed by the FAA as an ultralight aircraft. Google surely will provide full details, but in brief, that means that you cannot fly it over any inhabited area. No commuting.
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by synnik 17y ago
Thanks for the reply -- And I'm not trying to be difficult, but... I'm not convinced. In your scenario, the 500 comments are already loaded for any user. The comments you have authored are a small dataset, not a check for each and every com
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Ask HN: Collection of UI Examples?
4 points by synnik 17y ago|4 comments
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by synnik 17y ago
"It is a highly customized user experience, on par with something like Facebook (just not as many users)" Really, Reddit? While, I don't doubt that they have complexities to deal with, this sounds like skewed perspective of either overestim
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by synnik 17y ago
Or, at an even lower level... do you understand your hardware? Not just disk space and memory, as most programmers need to know those... But do you know how the keyboard works? USB? How the processor receives/manages all the signals? I did
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by synnik 17y ago
Readers should be aware that the article completely misunderstood the patent, as did most of the commenters. I find the misunderstanding much more interesting than the patent itself.
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Facebook Just Patented The Feed(thenextweb.com)
1 points by synnik 17y ago|2 comments
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by synnik 17y ago
I saw the large, red, bolded sentences centered between paragraphs, and my mind just filtered them out, assuming it was an ad. It took me a minute to figure out that the bold red text was actually relevant content.

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