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by vain 14y ago
A bat and ball cost a dollar and ten cents. The bat costs a dollar more than the ball bat + ball = 1.1 bat = ball + 1 2bat + ball = ball +1.1 +1 2bat = 2.1 bat = 1.05 ball =0.05
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by vain 15y ago
what works rather well is google reverse image search. While it doesn't seem to do face recognition, if the image is a resized version of one on facebook, as they often are, it'll straight to the user's facebook profile.
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by vain 15y ago
I did it because I was unsure and had no idea how to react. I am asking HN so I know better for the future.
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Ask HN: What do you make of an NDA for a job interview with a startup?
6 points by vain 15y ago|5 comments
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by vain 15y ago
i wish someone had explained this to me about 15 years ago. i had sought, and settled on the unsatisfying explanation that it is a conventional notation with useful ways to do coordinate geometry. non essential, but a way of doing it. thoug
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by vain 15y ago
i start off with enthusiasm and lose it at some point. For atleast one of the projects, I do think something worthwhile can come of it, that's twitterex.com. i am not sure how to go about doing AB testing on a simple site like that
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by vain 15y ago
Some of them are here http://twitterex.com http://reduce.li http://twitexplode.com And am building a facebook application: http://namesucker.com One pattern in all these, I lose interest and they fizzle out. So, if i could pose a qu
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by vain 15y ago
Yak Shi Mash! Borat must be fuming now.
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by vain 15y ago
atrocious grammar and style of writing. wonder how this makes it to the front page. and it isn't even breaking new
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by vain 15y ago
I have worked for a few years with a company pretending to be many things at the same time. it was a mess of strategy and homepage. each department and each individual wants a piece of the homepage. that meant fecal widgets just showing up
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microsoft.com html title - signs of a company in decay?
7 points by vain 15y ago|11 comments
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by vain 16y ago
my first impulse was - let me rush out and buy an eggtimer. i had to tell myself to relax, experiment with this idea. i am now arguing that if i had that much self discipline in the first place, it would not be a problem in the first place!
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by vain 16y ago
i have tried that, but most days, HN or the very few sources just expand to occupy all my time. I agree with you about it being a very serious problem. In terms of health, two things already very evident are weight gain and eye lubricating
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by vain 16y ago
How did you see this post with those host settings?
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Ask HN: Help me, I fuck around on the Internet too much
187 points by vain 16y ago|145 comments
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by vain 16y ago
I am not a fanboy, but Microsoft started almost exactly 1 year before, and hasn't faced an existentialist crisis in it's lifespan. It is actually rare among companies to have gone from strength to strength almost year after year. While some
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by vain 16y ago
and it works for comic sans!
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by vain 16y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2370022 (CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire .NET programmers) Would an open source programmer do something like this?
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by vain 16y ago
this is a problem we had at a large social network i used to work with. launching a directory of users primarily for google's consumption was something that was difficult to scale for our huge size of database. The solution for us was node
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Ask HN: Best way to milk a viral Facebook app?
2 points by vain 16y ago|0 comments
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by vain 16y ago
If you cant fit your reason in a simple sentence or paragraph...
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by vain 16y ago
from the user's profile, he built this site: http://www.adormo.com/ which brings airbnb to mind.
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by vain 16y ago
1. Did you solicit your future customers online? 2. Did you know them from before? 3. Link to your website
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by vain 16y ago
i was very excited by this technology. i tried to implement it on a large database. it bombed, the hype around nosql kind of whitewashes the fact that at the end, it is indexed in a btree, exactly how mysql would do it. i am not trashing mo
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by vain 16y ago
well, if they bought it for 20 million, they'd be left with a measly 21 million
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by vain 16y ago
yes they will fail. they have already spent money carelessly on their domain name. Just think what a few good developers could have done with that money. Unless they change radically, which I dont think they will, they are going to die.
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by vain 16y ago
the link to the nature article http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v471/n7339/full/nature0...
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by vain 16y ago
i take newscientist with a few grains of salt. I have come across misleading information here. They are not a peer reviewed journal.
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by vain 16y ago
just curious here, but how much money has the record industry made since the beginning of time?
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by vain 16y ago
spends like this one make me think that we could be in a bubble. why? when fred wilson talks about saving a few thousand dollars, these guys go out and blow a fraction of million! i mean think up something like instagram. especially when so

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