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by x3c 14y ago
> The “corporate brand functions” (i.e. marketing, PR, legal) value privacy issues over speed. My poor friend is stuck in the middle. Marketing dept. is most probably the worst offender of online privacy.
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Ask HN: How do you manage your daily Agendas? Tools/tips?
2 points by x3c 14y ago|2 comments
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by x3c 14y ago
Sorry for going off in a tangent but PG, would you consider doing an AMA on reddit. I've seen two posts in last week with the sole purpose of asking you a question. Seems like the community wants an interaction with you. If you've already d
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by x3c 14y ago
>Sadly, I suspect in reality it was at least partly driven by fear of association with politically toxic subjects like SOPA/PIPA. Still, a win's a win. Well, on the bright side, SOPA/PIPA and legislation like these are actually becoming
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by x3c 14y ago
BTW whatever happened to Spartan, the facebook-HTML5 project? I was really hoping for some good things.
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by x3c 14y ago
Hey, I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 . Could someone guide me through what I can do to detect/prevent this from crippling my server? Thanks.
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by x3c 14y ago
Hey, I'm getting application error. You must be making some changes. BTW why are you linking https for the landing page? It'd work just as well on http.
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by x3c 14y ago
You notice ugliness everytime you use it. The beauty in UX/UI/Window Manager lies in it just being there, not distracting but complementing one when he/she is working. That's my definition of beauty. I can go days without noticing it and if
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by x3c 14y ago
Hanlon's Razor. Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
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by x3c 15y ago
I see your potato and raise you a dead badger! http://www.strangehorizons.com/2004/20040405/badger.shtml
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by x3c 15y ago
In windows, it's easy. Press alt+<space> and then 'm' and then arrow keys till the window is in frame and finally 'enter' when you are done. Even easier is to use Win+<arrow keys> to get window to a particular boundary of th
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by x3c 15y ago
I propose the following solution. R&D stays in private sector. All successful drugs are bought by the government at the cost of R&D and a sizable profit. The government, then, distributes it. Government can control the distribution
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by x3c 15y ago
Would you consider open-sourcing the code and let the community work on it?
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by x3c 15y ago
Actually, twitter should not have any google indexing problem. Search engines have provided new scheme for indexing hashbang URLs with Ajax content[1]. But, maybe, not all search engines have implemented it yet. If I had to guess, primary r
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by x3c 15y ago
Article is off base. Telling corporations to think about profit is like telling someone to think about breathing. It's always in Corporation's mind to think of profits. What differs here is the strategy. Profit in the long term compared to
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by x3c 15y ago
With the ludicrous patent wars going on among the biggest tech players, increasing piracy and ever-increasing cases of countries bending over backwards to placate entertainment industries; the whole Intellectual Property paradigm is ripe fo
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by x3c 15y ago
You should also send the HTML5 features supported by the browser via modernizr or something. Very easy to implement on your end and will be a huge timesaver in debugging javascript.
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by x3c 15y ago
But how do you achieve data persistence in case of server crash? Snapshots are not reliable for that, slave db servers aren't foolproof either.
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by x3c 15y ago
Could someone (knowledgeable) comment on his chances to win the elections? I'm not from US.
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Redditor Dr. Michael Ham announces his candidacy for US senate (New Mexico)(reddit.com)
109 points by x3c 15y ago|20 comments
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Norway authorities take away Indian couple's kids, say feeding with hands wrong(ndtv.com)
3 points by x3c 15y ago|1 comments
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by x3c 15y ago
I can give you one quick suggestion: try and get into conferences, expos and meetups of hospitality industries. From what I gather, you need to expose your product to shot callers as quickly as possible. As an added bonus, if any such confe
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70% of Android devices sold in the US pay license fee to Microsoft(unbiasedtech.com)
7 points by x3c 15y ago|0 comments
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by x3c 15y ago
Yeah, but " Opinion based news, short attention span, easy consumption of wide array of opinions, consumerism and the resulting sensationalist attention-grabbing behavior of companies/corporates/politicians " (and of course, social media) i
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by x3c 15y ago
To put it succinctly: "Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it." I agree with it but I'm also inclined to agree with the defeatist attitude the quote represent. Your comment does point out the problem (which is
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by x3c 15y ago
I cant comment on the specific case for your startup but given the wide adoption of PHP/Java/Ruby/Python compared to Haskell/Scala, it comes to a simple eq. No. of programmers for the former > No. of programmers for the latter Bu
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by x3c 15y ago
>Is it really so hard to take existing talent and train them to use other languages? This will go into the costs column, and the reasons you use that particular tech. stack will go into benefit column. Weights and values are fairly subj
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by x3c 15y ago
>In academic research and in entrepreneurship, you need to multiply your effectiveness as a programmer, and since you (probably) won't be working with an entrenched code base, you are free to use whatever language best suits the task at
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by x3c 15y ago
I dont know why you were downvoted, because that's what I was wondering when I read this. But unfortunately, poor areas are often "high crime areas". Lets forgo the semantics for a second and consider the implications. I wonder if this is j
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by x3c 15y ago
>I've seen far crazier religions and far less effective ways to comment on copyright. I doubt this method is any more effective than most other methods. Primarily because religion and Intellectual property are very combustible issues on

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