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by xirium 18y ago
That would explain why bugbear's profile ( http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bugbear ) says "Okay just had to see if I could register it :-) Feel free to delete/lock/change pw."
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by xirium 18y ago
While it is possible to find <foo>bug.com or even snuffle<foo>bug.com you are unlikely to find <foo> which is better than snuffle and is also available. Indeed, I'm becoming quite partial to snuffle because the word
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by xirium 18y ago
The full dataset is available as HTML, XML and SQL from http://download.wikipedia.org/ . Some versions are updated weekly. Some versions are updated less frequently. It doesn't occur on a strict schedule because the volume of data increas
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Want to show you're cool? Put a Trevor icon on your site.(bugbear.com)
1 points by xirium 18y ago|0 comments
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by xirium 18y ago
Alright. Name one that is a .com
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by xirium 18y ago
Unsurprisingly, bugbear.com is taken. Surprisingly, it features Paul Graham, Robert Morris, Trevor Blackwell, Jessica Livingston and John McCarthy ( http://www.bugbear.com/roguesgallery.html ).
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Staying safe and taking risks(news.bbc.co.uk)
1 points by xirium 18y ago|0 comments
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Laser heats up the fusion future(news.bbc.co.uk)
1 points by xirium 18y ago|0 comments
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Falling out of love with robots(news.bbc.co.uk)
2 points by xirium 18y ago|2 comments
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Exploiting Flash for fun and profit(news.bbc.co.uk)
1 points by xirium 18y ago|0 comments
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by xirium 18y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=185512 may be useful for your purposes.
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by xirium 18y ago
Alright. Name one that isn't already taken.
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by xirium 18y ago
This is spam about spamming.
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by xirium 18y ago
Is this real? The cast listed ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1049412/fullcredits ) is very eclectic. It stars Pauley Perrette (yes, the goth girl from NCIS) and includes Anthony Robbins, Raymond Kurzweil, Aubrey de Grey, Alvin Toffler, Mar
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by xirium 18y ago
snufflebug.com would be ideal for a bug tracking website.
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by xirium 18y ago
I know two people who are keen Internet users but don't have email. One plays World Of Warcraft extensively. The other just accesses the web. Any website that requires a working email address is guaranteed to turn away these users.
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Terrorism as a Tax(schneier.com)
13 points by xirium 18y ago|7 comments
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by xirium 18y ago
They've been paid obscenely well in stock options. Even if the Google stock price falls to its initial US$85 per share, at least 2200 Googlers are going to get US$10 million or more in vested stock options this summer ( http://www.news.com
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Clippy Version 2.0 Patented(schneier.com)
2 points by xirium 18y ago|0 comments
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by xirium 18y ago
Honesty is the best policy. Who'd thunk it?
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by xirium 18y ago
From the article: In his treatise, Malthus couldn’t envisage any innovations for increasing yield beyond “dressing” the soil with cattle manure. In the decades after he wrote, farmers in England took advantage of new machinery, powerful fer
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by xirium 18y ago
> Countersignalling theory predicts that the best strategy for the best candidates is to have a short resume. I believe that it has mentioned on this forum that exceptional people don't a resume at all and rely entirely on "the sidechan
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Growing Number Fall Behind On Energy Bills(crainsnewyork.com)
2 points by xirium 18y ago|0 comments
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The Origin Of Rounded Corners(folklore.org)
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by xirium 18y ago
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=135494 for a previous discussion on this topic and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=135575 for my previous recommendation.
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by xirium 18y ago
> If just anyone could label their food "organic", then what are the odds that word would ever actually mean anything? Let's recast this. How you like to pay a third party an ongoing annual royalty for the privilege of calling your own
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by xirium 18y ago
I've seen a similar argument. If an employee agrees to work for less than a statutory minimum wage, does it matter? Yes, because it makes it harder for anyone else to get a better income.
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by xirium 18y ago
I'll paraphrase the argument as "Blub doesn't include an XML parser therefore Blub is rubbish." Open source used to have a similar issue regarding Microsoft Word documents: "Open source operating systems were rubbish because there wasn't an
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Being Young is a Fault That Improves Daily(cambrianhouse.com)
2 points by xirium 18y ago|0 comments
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by xirium 18y ago
http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html explains public relations. You'd get addition benefit from reading the whole set of essays.

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