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by tisme 14y ago
Trivia: ebay.com was named after Echo Bay, a Canadian consulting firm, which in turn was named after the township. Echobay.com was taken, the rest is history.
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by tisme 14y ago
I'd say judging by the way this is handled that it comes down on the side of 'definitely to Stripe in Canada'.
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by tisme 14y ago
You're jesting, but it's been done.
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by tisme 14y ago
Welcome to the cloud, where your personal data is no longer personal. Microsoft may have made a mistake doing this, it may look like a relatively small issue but they have taken on the burden of being responsible for the data stored on thei
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by tisme 14y ago
You make it out as if appearing like a salesman is a bad thing. Why not be proud of what you're good at? This product is all about sales, it's aimed squarely at the HN demographic and the page does a fantastic job of proving that Patrick
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by tisme 14y ago
For someone who isn't comfortable selling on HN you're doing a stellar job of it! Telling people that you don't want their money is a great strategy.
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by tisme 14y ago
You may be better of with a re-launch under a different brand recycling the tech. Re-establishing a reputation once it has been dented this badly may be more work than starting afresh.
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by tisme 14y ago
Selling shovels during a goldrush is a great way to make money! Patrick is sure to rake it in with this one, and with the 'money back guarantee' you really can't go wrong. HN is the perfect target demographic for this product.
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How to Build a Windmill, Part 2: Parts, Nuts, Bolts and Blades(jacquesmattheij.com)
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by tisme 14y ago
Just banned from doing it? That's way too mild. Those employer that were caught doing this should be fined and/or disbanded. If they think they have the right to ask for social media passwords what other rights do they think they have? This
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by tisme 14y ago
Part of the reason may be that NASA has been crying wolf before. The 'arsenic life' announcement wasn't that long in the past. So people may be a bit wary until the images have been independently analysed.
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by tisme 14y ago
That they then do not turn around and inform the general public.
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by tisme 14y ago
It probably isn't the intention but that will serve as a validation of wikileaks in the eyes of quite a few people.
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by tisme 14y ago
Or switch to more expensive but faster SRAM.
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by tisme 14y ago
All that work and not one mention of this: Engineers usually really don't like recruiters. Not being found by recruiters is a feature, not a bug.
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by tisme 14y ago
Randall is a great guy with lots of really nice stuff. That said there is an absolute glut of xkcd stuff on HN compared to other sites that get mentioned here. xkcd links handily outnumber even wikipedia. One of the HN originated memes is t
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by tisme 14y ago
> interactive UX, which to be clear, Smalltalk environments never really had Smalltalk had an interactive UX in 1986 or so when I used it first for some CAD stuff. Or is there a special definition of 'interactive UX' which would rule ou
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by tisme 14y ago
No, perhaps not. There is no visual difference between a well made prototype and a zero-batch machine or even a production item. But there is a huge difference in the amount of work that needs to be done to get from the one to the other. So
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by tisme 14y ago
> No, you don't have to. Hehe, too late. Sorry ;) Enjoy! And I agree that there should be more consideration for people that are hard of hearing or deaf. Slides are a lot easer in this respect.
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by tisme 14y ago
The video doesn't show any time marks so you'll have to interpolate the locations. -- So the first thing I thought we would do is create a little custom git widget that shows the files modified in our repository. So we add a custom object.
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by tisme 14y ago
This is really neat. I see a lot of connections to Borlands visual C builder. Create a canvas, drag elements onto the resulting form and change their properties and code up actions. Of course this example here uses 'clojure' but there are a
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by tisme 14y ago
> For something that is ready to enter manufacturing I think a pre-order model is appropriate. Do you have proof this is the case?
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by tisme 14y ago
It would be really nice if they laid out how far they are on the road to making this 3D printer into an actual product. When you pre-order something the money that you spend should go to manufacturing, the bill of materials, shipping, handl
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by tisme 14y ago
Foolishness knows no barriers and rich people can be fools just as easily as poor people. If this guy was poor this would not be news.
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by tisme 14y ago
Suggestion: abdicate and re-hire this guy as your next CEO.
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by tisme 14y ago
collect the plaintext!
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by tisme 14y ago
> I don't think firing him did any good to apple. By a roundabout way, it did! If Jobs had not been fired from apple he would not have learned a whole slew of valuable lessons which he applied upon his return.
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by tisme 14y ago
It's not the amounts that matter, it is the care that is spent on deciding whether or not an expense is warranted.
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by tisme 14y ago
From prototype to product is a (sometimes very) long road, I find it a bit strange that someone would say 'don't buy 'x' where 'x' is available today because there exists a prototype from a company that has not yet shipped in volume. Maybe
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by tisme 14y ago
You've been telling people to hold off buying a 3D printer from other manufacturers until this one was unveiled. But I don't get the impression this is in the product phase yet. There are some slick pictures and a nice presentation but noth

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