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by xfax 14y ago
Really cool concept, makes donating very compelling. In fact, I just donated to help fund Esther's treatment. An idea to get more people to give more - make it competitive. For example, it'll be cool if I could create a group for my school
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by xfax 14y ago
Excellent feature. Thanks for making life a little better for a lot of us. On a side note, I wonder how long before it'll be used to find security flaws in code (that results in an exploit) - I bet there are hundreds of hard-coded passwords
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by xfax 14y ago
It encourages you to shift from other modes of recording information. Taking pleasure in writing using a pen presumably moves you away from taking notes on your laptop, tablet or mobile phone. Thus it does encourage you to write more, even
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by xfax 14y ago
Well, you made two points. One is that having a nicer pen wouldn't (shouldn't) make you want to write more. Two, that a $60 pen has no value besides making you feel opulent. My response was to your second point where I assert that some peop
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by xfax 14y ago
Your argument applies to eating as well, yet people derive pleasure from food that goes beyond the act of nourishing their bodies. Beauty, as they say, is in the eyes of the beholder.
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by xfax 14y ago
I've tried fountain pens and have never been satisfied. Perhaps it's my left-handedness or the inferior quality of the paper I use, but it never felt "natural". I frequently purchase ballpoint and gel pens from JetPens.com and am particular
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by xfax 14y ago
Mauro's response shows incredible restraint. I commend him for that. Linus could have easily written that email privately to Mauro and spared him the public shaming. He could have then written a stern yet civil public response. Would that b
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by xfax 14y ago
'How to win friends and influence people' - Dale Carnegie. Simple, to the point and effective.
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by xfax 14y ago
Sure I could. Not denying that there are other ways to get access to the files I need, just that this has become a part of my workflow that two-factor auth disrupts.
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by xfax 14y ago
The authenticator app might be the game changer for me - in the depths of mordor (aka library), I hardly ever get a cell signal.
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by xfax 14y ago
Yeah, yeah, I should probably turn it on. And while I'm at it, I should probably eat more vegetables, less red meat and go to the gym. But I don't see those happening either ;). Seriously though, when you have to enter the PIN multiple time
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by xfax 14y ago
Yeah, that would be great if the damn wireless printing worked in school. Sometimes you just have to log into a public machine.
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by xfax 14y ago
Two-factor auth gets old really fast when you have to use public computers in a setting like a college library. I had turned it on for a while, but turned it off when I had 5 minutes to print out a paper that I had emailed myself (yes, I st
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by xfax 14y ago
It'd be nice if Microsoft worked on their spam technology along with upgrading the UI. Just logged in to my @live.com account - 4814 messages in my Inbox, 17 in my Spam folder. Guess how many in my Inbox are legit messages? None.
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by xfax 14y ago
I don't know man, I mean, I do want to hack the hackers before they hack me. Don't you?
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by xfax 14y ago
From Ankit Fadia's About Me page ( http://www.ankitfadia.in/aboutankitfadia.html ): In November 2001, Fadia was consulted by a classified intelligence agency for breaking an encrypted message sent by one of Osama Bin Laden's men
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by xfax 14y ago
Just did a bit of Googling on Ankit Fadia and Rahul Tyagi. Damn, are these guys really delusional or are they just good at selling themselves? Not that the Indian media helps - they are incredible at chest-thumping at the most mediocre thin
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by xfax 14y ago
On an unrelated point, this is one of the reasons why it bothers me when someone suggests that everyone should learn how to code. Not that there is inherently anything wrong about learning to think like a programmer and problem-solve; the p
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by xfax 14y ago
Regarding numbers, I believe he's talking about maximum potential revenue as determined by the market size. VCs won't invest in companies they think can only grow so big because it's not enough returns for them. In that sense, he's correct
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by xfax 14y ago
I'm in Chicago and I see this trend here as well. What's worse is that VCs and Angels in Chicago are perhaps, to an extent, more clueless about building technology businesses. Sure, money here is not as plentiful but I still see frivolous '
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by xfax 14y ago
Ah, finally - MBA getting some credit on HN ;). Monkey that triples shareholder value in a multi-billion dollar company? I'll take two please.
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by xfax 14y ago
Where can I get such a monkey?
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by xfax 14y ago
Sensationalist title much? From TFA: "Analysts were expecting a $5.3 billion profit for the quarter, but that was canceled out by an even bigger loss on a five-year-old acquisition." No, analysts were not expecting a $5.3B profit before the
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by xfax 14y ago
Microsoft has a development center in Copenhagen. I believe they develop the Dynamics CRM product there. Here's a list of open engineering positions as of today: https://careers.microsoft.com/search.aspx#&&p4=DK&#3... Good luck!
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by xfax 14y ago
Shareholders and long term investors (aka those who care most about management) look for long term stable growth in core businesses. Yes, you can argue that their performance compared to competitors has been dismal but MSFT is still a solid
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by xfax 14y ago
Yup. It also has the nice effect of inflating the P/E ratio for Microsoft, at least temporarily.
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by xfax 14y ago
This is why. http://ycharts.com/companies/MSFT/revenues#series=type:compa...
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by xfax 14y ago
I think you forgot an important feature of PHP: it just works. I can pretty much create and "deploy" a PHP web app within minutes of getting a run-of-the-mill hosting service.
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by xfax 14y ago
Why are we, as a community, having these "epiphanies" about how to start and run a successful business? The functions and skill-set may have changed, but the core principles that drive an entrepreneurial undertaking have not. For over a hun
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by xfax 14y ago
I suppose Wired covered this because the general sentiment these days is that everyone needs to learn programming since it is pretty much the only way to be productive in the future.

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