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by xirium 19y ago
C++0x ? This must be an April Fool. Edit: No, the truth is stranger than fiction. Gads!
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by xirium 19y ago
Quaero got US$306 million investment ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=136759 ). SearchMe got US$31 million from Sequoia ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=134291 ). Ex-Googlers start a search engine. Perhaps this is because Goog
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by xirium 19y ago
There is a standard gadget, the Harding FPA Machine, to check television adverts for likelihood of triggering epilepsy. Apparently, it wasn't used to check London 2012 Olympic publicity material ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/articl
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by xirium 19y ago
It was a reasonable assumption to assume that selling books online was unviable. It was enevitable that the cost, speed and quantity of data online would exceed all printed books. However, quality and conciseness hasn't been exceeded in the
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by xirium 19y ago
Ativation emails are an outdated idea. It only takes one service to freely give away email addresses to make an activation email quite moot. The theory is that a genuine user can confirm sign-up using an out-of-band channel. So, if you want
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by xirium 19y ago
It doesn't matter if the morgages are repaid and it may even be beneficial to bankers if there is a small level of defaulting. Unlike junk bonds, resold mortgages have an underlaying value in property. Unfortunately, beyond a small level of
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by xirium 19y ago
No. From the article: He says most Googlers' options vest under four- or five-year plans Google floated in Aug 2004. Here's looking forward to Aug 2008. That may be why Quaero recently got US$306 million investment ( http://news.ycombinato
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by xirium 19y ago
Its not the first month thats critical, its the last month. Any plan with an extra month at the end has more chance of success. The problem with a startup is that the total amount of time available is rarely known in advance.
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by xirium 19y ago
Coding, telecommute, 9AM start. Choose any two.
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by xirium 19y ago
I knew it was faked because it was only uploaded once. However, it immediately made me laugh because it implied the impossible. Judging by the quantity of blue in the middle, I'd say that resizing was only done three times.
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How Was This Recursive Image Made?(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by xirium 19y ago|4 comments
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by xirium 19y ago
If you put an old harddisk in a new computer does it boot to the same desktop? If you say "That does apply to people because..." then Ray counters that we'll find out if this is the case within our lifetimes.
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Ask YC: Are You Planning Anything For April Fools Day?
1 points by xirium 19y ago|0 comments
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by xirium 19y ago
Its good to know where the limits are.
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by xirium 19y ago
April Fools Day is almost upon us. This certainly beats the island of San Serife ( http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-54600165.html ).
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by xirium 19y ago
Could this model be applied to recruitment?
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Controversial Game Encourages Cosmetic Surgery And Anorexia(news.com.au)
1 points by xirium 19y ago|0 comments
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by xirium 19y ago
> you could "raise" more than twice as much money as a YC "round" by consulting for a month However, you'd be one month behind in development. For a start-up, that could be critical.
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Justin.tv: One Year Old And Still Full Of Illegal Content(valleywag.com)
5 points by xirium 19y ago|1 comments
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ValleyWag Seeking US$10 Million VC Funding, TechCrunch Could Follow(valleywag.com)
1 points by xirium 19y ago|0 comments
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by xirium 19y ago
Is this article on infoq.com plagiarised ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=145142 )?
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by xirium 19y ago
The OA5 business process ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=140712 ) is a more moderate and conventional version of this idea.
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by xirium 19y ago
Colonisation of the ocean was considered enevitable in that era. It is also covered in the 1970 book Future Shock by Alvin Toffler. However, so far, it has been easier to improve utilisation of land.
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by xirium 19y ago
More than 10 years ago, I made a website called UCACA [Under Construction And Collecting Awards]. It collected about 17 awards. It was eligible for one award because it had already had two other awards. One fellow noted that the site met al
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by xirium 19y ago
Sometimes it pays to be a contrarian. Sometimes it doesn't. For programming and employment, it pays to be a contrarian and that is the focus of this forum.
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by xirium 19y ago
> 1. Expose the absolute minimum number of services (and even then only software with a good security reputation). Perform a minimal install of your operating system then source compilation of latest services, with minimal features enab
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by xirium 19y ago
Ingress and egress packet filtering ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egress_filtering ). Remove default route on all internal servers.
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by xirium 19y ago
Gnome's GConf works with BerkeleyDB. Some KDE apps also use BDB. You could be a winner.
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OA5 Business Processes(mdsalunkhe.tripod.com)
2 points by xirium 19y ago|0 comments
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by xirium 19y ago
If you want to learn about technology then work at the smaller company. If you want to learn about business processes then work at the larger company. However, you'd learn more from the smaller company if it only had 7-10 people. Furthermor

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