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by t0pj 18y ago
As if building a popular blog was something they were able to do only by being bitten by radioactive spiders Obviously, 37s had to do something more than simply getting bitten by radioactive spiders; but it's a good start! :)
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by t0pj 18y ago
Utter glee. Just make sure "Search for text when I start typing" is turned off within Firefox.
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Myths & Realities of Power Management(cassatt.com)
3 points by t0pj 18y ago|0 comments
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Turn Your Servers Off at Night(greenmonk.net)
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by t0pj 18y ago
Problem with the little yellow dots: I pay cash for a printer and fill out the warranty card with someone else's information that I don't like. I send the warranty info back to the printer company; they now have a record of my neighbor owni
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Every Cause Wants To Be A Cult(overcomingbias.com)
2 points by t0pj 18y ago|0 comments
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Guessing the Teacher's Password(overcomingbias.com)
54 points by t0pj 18y ago|38 comments
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by t0pj 18y ago
And when the speech was over, McCarthy spoke up from the auditorium's front row. "I'm a little puzzled," he said. "What does this have to do with AI?" I love you, John!
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by t0pj 18y ago
iPod was "open and standardized" in 1991 1991 was a sweet year for the iPod and iTunes. I had no issues installing it on MS-DOS 4/Windows 3.1 but had a hard time with corrupted data when connecting it up via centronix cable (I think iTu
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Ask HN: What's wrong with all those dating sites?
14 points by t0pj 18y ago|46 comments
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Spam is different(paulgraham.com)
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E-Commerce: Secrets and Mistakes(paulgraham.com)
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by t0pj 18y ago
Perhaps a ycvalidator service is needed? Accept url, download cached version of page, and use for comparisons to subsequent (and possibly different) url postings of same content.
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by t0pj 18y ago
if(god.exists()){ return to_your_predetermined_role_in('work','play','etc'); }else{ while (true) { rage_against_the_machine(); } }
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by t0pj 18y ago
Following the link: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13953_3-9980569-80.html?part=rss&#... Jonathan Heiliger, vice president of technical operations at Facebook said: "...through that process we were able to lock in prices today and carry those
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by t0pj 18y ago
No.
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by t0pj 18y ago
Most of us don't get epiphanies. We only get a whisper -- a faint urge. That's it. That's the call. It's up to you to do the work of discovery, to connect it to an answer. Of course, there's never a single right answer. At some point, it
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by t0pj 18y ago
IMHO, MZ as inventor of said patent makes this funny*scary^2.
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by t0pj 18y ago
library of Alexandria had been destroyed I think we're still recovering from that infamous day.
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by t0pj 18y ago
Is that opportunity I hear knocking at the market's door?
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Ask HN: What is your HN day like?
1 points by t0pj 18y ago|2 comments
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by t0pj 18y ago
" The fields are littered with the corpses of full-time startups." Watch your step!
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by t0pj 18y ago
So where Facebook wants to own the social map, you're well on your way to owning the social timepiece; excellent.
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by t0pj 18y ago
"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people." --Eleanor Roosevelt
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by t0pj 18y ago
Neither has the proven stability or community that Apache does I care about the community/support aspect and you're right; I think going solely with Apache, and skipping the leaner httpd engines, is definitely a possible choice for me. T
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by t0pj 18y ago
Thanks for the link to Smarty. I'm checking it out now.
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by t0pj 18y ago
PHP's lack of first class functions Thanks for that lil' tidbit.
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by t0pj 18y ago
Thanks. I didn't know about PHP's array/hash combo. Would there be nothing for someone familiar with Perl to learn from using a language like Python? I appreciate your thoughts.
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by t0pj 18y ago
I don't mean to be coy, but it comes down to giving people something that 1) removes, transfers, or simply defers pain and 2) simply increases happiness. I would think that's useful in some way to some people at least some of the time.
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by t0pj 18y ago
Hopefully, PHP would still be the right choice for me if I then have to move beyond the single hosted server. That is interesting though; that there does seem to be a ton of hosting options with PHP versus Python.

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