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by ulf 16y ago
While I think his attitude is authentic to his younger years, it is still somewhat amusing to hear a billionaire talk about not being into something for the money...
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by ulf 16y ago
I think the title was supposed to be the train of thoughts for everyone who got his original application. They thought he was too smart to apply for that given job, so they did not even invite him for the interview, since he would have to b
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Dealing with big corporations: Talk is cheap, writing is expensive(runningupstairs.posterous.com)
1 points by ulf 16y ago|0 comments
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by ulf 16y ago
"Everybody should be able to answer the question, “why am I doing this?” Otherwise they’re likely to be doing things right, but not the right things." This deserves more attention. While it is certainly critical to the point the author mak
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by ulf 16y ago
This illustrates a far greater point that every once in a while returns to the surface of HN as well: A tool is seldom more than a tool. In regard to languages, for most projects there are more than enough constraints to begin with, so you
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by ulf 16y ago
The employer-side of that exploitation-maneuver would be your boss telling you: "We do not have anything for you to do the next 6 weeks, starting tomorrow. You will not be paid but if you want, you can come back later." If that happens at y
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by ulf 16y ago
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/78742
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by ulf 16y ago
When you compare this with the much more complicated process in Firefox you cannot help but congratulate the Google guys for making this happen. Well done!
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by ulf 16y ago
Actually a B-52 might normally fly in heights where even a 10-second straight vertical fall should not be a problem
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by ulf 16y ago
This could change the music-game for good. With youtube already being an important player for any kind of music consumation, they would tap gigantic potential if they find a way to establish this program with a large number of bands. The mo
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by ulf 17y ago
I think the point of the site is not really to imitate someone's setup. It rather serves as a kind of anecdote at best, and in some cases (like RMS) gives interesting insight. "As for me, I have a single monitor with 2 sessions, one with li
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by ulf 17y ago
Very well written and pleasantly neutral. He focuses on a few key issues, which makes the article a very good starting point.
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by ulf 17y ago
The maximum total desire to work with some technology.
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by ulf 17y ago
Thinking some more about this, I come to the conclusion that there is only one way to incorporate civil liberties into nowadays world: We need an international tax that companies and organziations pay whenever they prune civic rights. Hard
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by ulf 17y ago
I would suspect they are private for the duration of the Games.
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by ulf 17y ago
Because nobody makes any money with civil liberties... "Police will have powers to enter private homes and seize posters, and will be able to stop people carrying non-sponsor items to sporting events." The second part is just as scary in my
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by ulf 17y ago
someone should measure the difference between: a. eating the icecream during 30minutes b. eating in 5 minutes + working out lightly (take a walk) the other 25
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by ulf 17y ago
Probably because he was wise beyond his years...
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by ulf 17y ago
Awesome post, this should be a must-read for everyone who ever has to give some kind of bad news to his oder her customers. Well done
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by ulf 17y ago
I can see your concerns, most of which are of course valid. A lot of people failed doing this kind of thing, though there were a lot of failures during a time when the internet clearly was not ready for that kind of thing in general. Nowada
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by ulf 17y ago
You raise some very valid points, most of which we also identified as key questions to our enterprise. As to the social issue: we anticipate the chicken-egg problem on an even broader scale. Our target group are not companies who already do
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Ask HN: Anybody here got use for micropayments?
7 points by ulf 17y ago|5 comments
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by ulf 17y ago
"Therefore the idea of passing laws that say some kinds of algorithms belong to mathematics and some do not strikes me as absurd as the 19th century attempts of the Indiana legislature to pass a law that the ratio of a circle's circumferenc
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by ulf 17y ago
If you decide to continue, use the current developments to your advantage. So your competitor does have significantly more manpower and financial resources? Reduce! Cut some features, really look at their app and identify the core component
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Social Objects: Notes on Knitting in America(ribbonfarm.com)
1 points by ulf 17y ago|0 comments
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by ulf 17y ago
This depends how far you change the system. US has a much higher per-person spending on healthcare than does Germany, so it has to be questioned how that money is currently distributed...
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by ulf 17y ago
Thanks for the confession... the scary part is the magnitude of which google has access to everyones personal data. Thanks to analytics they even can track everything outside of their direct control
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by ulf 17y ago
A classic leveraged 1:n problem. Every VC has many entrepreneurs to worry about and so in conclusion does not give a damn about most, especially if they show early signs of failure. Every entrepreneur depends heavily on his or her VC, so fr
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Ask HN: Do you have a favourite book about global economics?
2 points by ulf 17y ago|0 comments
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by ulf 17y ago
Actually, if you apply the MVC paradigm, the Django View is a mix of View and Controller. Admittedly a little confusing

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