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Ask HN: Mechanical Turk - equivalent outside USA?
10 points by tow21 17y ago|8 comments
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by tow21 17y ago
Thanks - yes, this is an error. We'll fix it shortly!
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by tow21 17y ago
Yes but - it's still true (for me at least), that XHTML is far easier to construct automatically. Mostly due to the tag-closing behaviour. I don't spend all day writing HTML, so it's not at the forefront of my mind which tags are self-closi
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by tow21 17y ago
The other day, I was speaking to a doctor friend who's in the middle of sleep-deprived training, and she defended the practice. She said that even as a senior doctor, you are going to have to pull insanely long shifts at times. Under thos
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by tow21 17y ago
We use xero.com. Your best solution might depend what tax jurisdiction you're in, though.
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Laughing all the way to the anti-bank(newscientist.com)
1 points by tow21 17y ago|0 comments
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by tow21 17y ago
The "march up the value chain" isn't about lock-in. It's about the fact there are a lot of business providing services between AWS and other services running on AWS (eg, by providing pre-packaged AMIs containing ready-to-run MySQL databas
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by tow21 17y ago
I really don't understand what you're arguing against here. > Thus slavery in the United States is now illegal, severely increasing the costs and the risks of operating a human trafficking enterprise. That's all that we really can do.&#
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by tow21 17y ago
Not to detract from the actual point of the article, which is extremely good, but this gem popped out at me: "Creating a root namespace named after your corporation will haunt you. Companies and brands get renamed, acquired [...] Oracle's V
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by tow21 17y ago
Depends what you're trying to compare. It's interesting if you want to ask the question "how much can a company do with varying amounts of resources".
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by tow21 17y ago
With Cloudwatch I don't have to manage munin, cacti, and a server to run them on. If there's network connectivity issues, or sshd falls over, or if my server load goes so high that I can't login - then I still get stats on what happened. So
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by tow21 17y ago
Poorly written XML parsers (and I've written my fair share) are always open to DOS attacks; XML has no upper bound on element names, attribute value length, stack depth ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion_laughs Same is mostly true o
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Timetric Makes Web Data Useful with Time Series Analysis(readwriteweb.com)
27 points by tow21 17y ago|11 comments
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by tow21 17y ago
That's what the significantly was all about. We're not really going to run out of silicon any time soon, but we actually might with copper. At the moment, both those prices are strongly dominated by the cost of processing, I would imagine
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by tow21 17y ago
I don't know if this counts as "deluded", but how about: resource exhaustion of raw materials required in hardware manufacture. See, for example: http://blogs.wsj.com/informedreader/2007/05/25/a-metal-scare... which talks primarily about
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by tow21 17y ago
It's the other way around. Partial commits terrify me in theory; in practice it's really easy to work out which lines you want to commit and which lines you don't, and having a clean history is really really nice. And since you've got both
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by tow21 17y ago
I think part of my pissed-off-ness would be that to me, the t-shirt is much less personal/sincere. Company schwag is almost the prototypical insincere, impersonal gift.
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by tow21 17y ago
Actually, I think (for me at least) this would run the risk of pissing me off. When all that I get in return for open source software is goodwill/karma/recognition, then there's no quid-pro-quo going on, and valuation is explicitly in non-m
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by tow21 17y ago
The complexity is a feature. Exactly. If you go down this road, you want big companies to be scared of potential liability. Then you offer to grant them a traditional software license for a traditional sum of money, just like they're us
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by tow21 17y ago
Or, it's because it's easier to think about one entry box than two. I don't think I'm stupid, but I tend to use the google search box almost exclusively - half the time I'm doing a search, and that's what I want; the other half of the tim
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by tow21 17y ago
I don't think you know very much about London's history. It's been a multi-cultural melting pot since about the 12th century, and people have been complaining about it losing its quintessentially English character for nearly as long. (Read
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by tow21 17y ago
I'm not sure that's entirely fair - I read it more like "I'm used to A, which means I find A much easier to use." And in this context, I think that's fair enough. There are far more developers out there with more than a passing familiarity
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by tow21 17y ago
Full recording from his iPhone available here: http://www.dailynewscaster.com/2009/04/02/audio-full-version...
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by tow21 17y ago
No, but I'd like to not be distracted by switching back and forth between virtual desktops if I can instead see at the same time all 6 Emacs windows & 10 terminals holding various aspects of my debugging state. (and I only need one coff
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by tow21 17y ago
Salient point (IMO): "On the other hand, I look at the online public sphere and too often tend to find myself thinking: “Discourse at this level can’t possibly accomplish anything beyond giving people some simulation of justification for wh
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by tow21 17y ago
Speed? Not sure if this is actually what the OP was thinking of, but pass-by-value usually implies copying, while pass by reference just involves handing around a pointer. ie, if you had an enormous immutable value (in Python, a tuple with
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by tow21 17y ago
Complaints around infelicities in the Python stdlib are fair enough - I don't think anyone would defend them, but what can you do? You can't change published APIs. Fos most of the rest of his issues, I think Zed's problem is that he thinks
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by tow21 17y ago
Macros. Macros macros macros. Even if I can't have full-on lisp-y AST macros, I'd kill for relatively simple CPP-ish textual macros, just to cut down on boilerplate code. Not that the chances are any good, and I can understand why - it woul
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by tow21 17y ago
I tend to think this is the wrong way to go about daemonizing a process; it does the relatively easy but fiddly stuff for you, leaving you still to manage process monitoring. Better to have the process neither know not care about its daemon
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by tow21 17y ago
Actually, I think the biggest problem with this dialog box is not that it's present, it's that the question makes no sense. As best I can tell, it's actually two questions merged into one, though the answers are still separated out, except

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