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by tc 16y ago
Congratulations to PG & company. When I first met Paul years ago, he was musing about spam filters and the finer points of a well-designed lisp. Now he apparently has the top 10 angels in Silicon Valley running scared of him.
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by tc 16y ago
Apple's "Think Different / Change the World" ad was a brilliant piece of marketing. But it doesn't seem that really stuck as the core value of their brand. If Nike's message is "we hang around great athletes," Apple's message today is "we
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by tc 16y ago
Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked. Did Google believe that this was going to succeed as a consumer product, à la Facebook? Wave, as it exists today, is a great tool for corporate communications. With the right i
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by tc 16y ago
While I sympathize with you in general, I believe you've erred here on two accounts: 1) The author here is being lighthearted ; your comment implies instead that he's being a demagogue. 2) This sort of pattern is far more common in "publ
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by tc 16y ago
Perfect; to my lisp startup file was just added: (defconstant tau #.(* 2 pi)) Regarding adoption, I think it's worth pointing out that these sorts of conventions can and do shift within a generation. I recall quite clearly while gro
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by tc 16y ago
Key quote from the majority opinion: "With ever more people trying to innovate and thus seeking patent protections for their inventions, the patent law faces a great challenge in striking the balance between protecting inventors and not gra
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Ask HN: What other low-probability high-impact events are we ignoring?
35 points by tc 16y ago|84 comments
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Dell unveils new 5-inch Android tablet(marketwatch.com)
2 points by tc 16y ago|0 comments
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by tc 16y ago
Most of the kind of wealth that can be consumed by consumers is stuff that takes real energy and resources to produce, transport, and dispose of. As for thrift, I subscribe to the notion that it's a virtue, and I reject the supposed paradox
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by tc 16y ago
While I don't disagree with some of the author's analysis, and the thought behind some of his solutions, one premise of this article is flawed. He promotes the notion that: 1) Germany creates wealth better than other countries, and 2) by s
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Android-based Smartphones Outpaced Apple's iPhone in Q1 2010(dailytech.com)
74 points by tc 16y ago|94 comments
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by tc 16y ago
You misread. They are claiming that mail older than 181 days or mail that has been opened falls under the lower standard. Edit: To your main point, I think your emphasis on the fact there is still a court order is misplaced. Of what pra
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by tc 17y ago
Everyone is still mistaking why these bonds were/are 'toxic.' It isn't that no one wanted to buy them. It's that no one wanted to buy them for the price at which the banks needed to sell them to remain solvent. The bonds were 'toxic' beca
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by tc 17y ago
Problems that this creates: 1) Because of how governments deal in collective punishment, private aviation is likely to suffer further regulatory decimation even though events of this type are extremely rare, statistically speaking. 2) His r
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Ask HN: What would you do with 1Gbps to the home?
8 points by tc 17y ago|12 comments
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by tc 17y ago
When voters reject a tax increase, it isn't unusual for a city (or even a school district) to make cuts in those services that inflict the maximum pain in the most visible way [1,2,4]. Businesses, of course, do the opposite when facing a
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by tc 17y ago
Free markets are also deeply rooted in strong and fair contract enforcement. That's the bounds-check on self-interest.
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by tc 17y ago
This is how societies break down. An example is set at the top, by those in power, that self-dealing and self-interest above all ethical standards is standard operating procedure. Eventually this moral decay 'trickles-down' and people star
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by tc 17y ago
This is cute. But word to the wise: don't actually do this. You can create far more attraction in person within five minutes than this poor ("nice") guy did with untold hours of work. And no matter how much he liked learning WPF, spendi
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by tc 17y ago
No, he doesn't get off that easy. I sympathized with that line of reasoning much more before reading Thoreau's Resistance to Civil Government . Now I'm convinced that he should either resign or be held as equally complicit [1]. http://th
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The Mystery of the Miniature Stealth Fighter Jet(telstarlogistics.typepad.com)
1 points by tc 17y ago|0 comments
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by tc 17y ago
Another point: There appears to be a growing disconnect between what we consider right and what we consider practical . It seems right that you should be able to peacefully question any non-emergency procedure, expect basic respect even
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by tc 17y ago
Oh dear. I had hoped that the satire of the first two grafs was self-evident [1]. Helpfully, wiktionary includes for quaint the definition: "quaint, adj., 3. Highly incongruous, inappropriate, or illogical; naive, unreasonable -- usually
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by tc 17y ago
The bottom-line problem seems to be that law-abiding people don't have much experience with being treated like criminals. In a high-pressure situation they sometimes fall back on their quaint expectations of rights and basic human respect.
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by tc 17y ago
It could also, of course, be simple uncritical rationalization. If staying in business and out of the cross-hairs of the DoJ's anti-trust division means you have to play ball with some data retention "requests," then you're probably going t
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by tc 17y ago
What if his statement was not intended as a moral imperative, but as practical advice? Perhaps he is saying, "The fact of the matter is that we're required to retain and release lots of information. If you don't want that information being
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by tc 17y ago
Programming languages and tools. There are some counter-examples (e.g. Franz, LispWorks), but I think it's best to just consider this sort of work a labor of love.
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by tc 17y ago
You seem pretty touchy about the analogy. I understand that the 'hacking' meme has been overplayed here. Above though, I'm just pointing out that simpler is often better in a number of different fields, even for complex problems. The Supr
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by tc 17y ago
complex problems more often require complex solutions When you apply that sort of thinking to code, the result is an explosion of special cases, and you get buggy, slow, and unmaintainable software. Maybe it's just me, but it seems like t
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by tc 17y ago
Shareholders can sometimes do crazy things. Arrington mentioned that the deal being contemplated involved a new entity buying Fusion Garage. I'm sure that would have required the approval of FG's shareholders, who don't currently seem to b

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