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by whyleyc 16y ago
> Probably many more died because of the British Empire's policies I don't think body counts are a useful indicator of the level of evil intent of a government or a regime. On that basis the U.S. would fare significantly worse than Nazi
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I agree that the examples you give are terrible and inexcusable, however they don't support your assertion that the British Empire was more evil than the Third Reich, given what we know about the sheer scale of systematic extermination duri
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That's a pretty big claim to throw out there. What evidence do you have to support it ?
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by whyleyc 16y ago
Great photo - "scrunchface": http://bugbear.com/scrunchface.html
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by whyleyc 16y ago
"You won't get rich" Says who ? Some estimates peg 37Signals as being profitable to the tune of $6 million per year. Divided equally between the 12 employees that's $500k each. Not bad for a year's work. For more see: http://blog.jedchri
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by whyleyc 16y ago
"The financial goal of a startup is (often) to generate a lifetime of wealth in 3-4 years of intense work" That's just one class of startup. I'm sure the founders of Balsamiq and 37Signals which represent two of the better known "Business
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by whyleyc 16y ago
"... the thought of money coming out of my account each month until I cancel (which I would probably be too lazy to do)" I think you've answered your own question here. Recurring monthly subscription models work so well precisely because
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by whyleyc 16y ago
Depends on your attitude to individualism I guess. A society where you trample all over each other for monetary gain at the expense of everything else is not one that personally appeals to me.
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by whyleyc 16y ago
I guess you get what you pay for - higher taxes, great welfare state. Seems a fair trade to me.
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by whyleyc 16y ago
I've just checked the search and the results seemed to be pretty accurate for me: http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=fgb8wcu4ouls... Was it on a later page they seemed to go more fuzzy ?
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by whyleyc 16y ago
Just that we wanted to get a minimum viable product out of the door and this feature didn't make the cut. It's on the todo list to add in, but we thought it was just a "nice to have" that seemed to be the current fashion for realtime search
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We launched http://48ers.com a few weeks ago to do a similar thing. Obviously Google doesn't have our scale, raw computing power or potent technical acumen, but it's nice to see them trying. If it goes anywhere for them we'll most likely
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by whyleyc 16y ago
Cicky: http://github.com/adn37/HNCommentsHighlight
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Out of interest what are the domains for the other sites you still have running ?
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How ? Do you have links to any sample code at all ?
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Just to put the current oil spill in context, Bhopal represented: - The world's worst ever industrial catastrophe - Was committed by a subsidiary of a U.S. company - Killed 3,787 - Families receiving compensation of around $2000 for each de
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by whyleyc 16y ago
Preceded by: "You run a very tiny company". Amusing, but unfortunately that kind of tone from the CEO of a Yahoo is just descending to Arrington's level. Not constructive, nor would it really inspire me were I one of her employees.
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Michael Arrington interviews Carol Bartz (techcrunch.com)
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Tell HN: How to get the new Twitter client for iPhone
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Pakistan blocks Facebook in row over Muhammad drawings(guardian.co.uk)
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The havoc the XML purists wrought(scripting.com)
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by whyleyc 16y ago
Criticisms come directly from the 2 co-founders - Chuck Geschke & John Warnock - love the Sepia-toned photo of the two of them together :-)
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Real life "Neo" discovered ... in Latvia(calgaryherald.com)
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Adobe attacks Apple - "You're undermining the next chapter of the web"(adobe.com)
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by whyleyc 16y ago
"The RIAA has claimed they are owed up to $150,000 for every infringing work. With millions of files in question, that number could become huge." These guys need to get a new business model. Suing everyone is just becoming tiresome.
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Guy uses Google Adwords to land his dream job(guardian.co.uk)
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RIAA wins court battle against LimeWire P2P service(guardian.co.uk)
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Full interview here: http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=10630034
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Ellison: "The underlying engineering teams are so good, but the direction they got was so astonishingly bad that even they couldn't succeed. Really great blogs do not take the place of great microprocessors. Great blogs do not replace great
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Larry Ellison On Sun Ex-CEO: Blogging Was Silly Diversion(informationweek.com)
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