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by xirium 18y ago
> Bonus!!! The Unknown or exprired link when posting to Hacker News after typing for a long time. Definitely. I hit it after reading your comment. If you ever want a technique to discourage long and insightful comments, this is it.
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by xirium 18y ago
Implementing stateless protocols over stateful protocols over stateless protocols is powerful and minimises the leakiness of your abstraction. Interface (stateful) over HTTP (stateless) over TCP/IP (stateful) over packets (stateless) is des
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Small comment about the software business(forums.mysql.com)
1 points by xirium 18y ago|0 comments
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by xirium 18y ago
We could make spam uneconomic with a similar implementation.
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by xirium 18y ago
And did you know that you're probably replying to a bot that posts dozens of stories from alleyinsider.com ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=204760 http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=fromedome http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted
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by xirium 18y ago
Well, how does it work if people postdate copyright?
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by xirium 18y ago
Is Clean Room Software Development orthogonal to Test Driven Development or not? Clean Room minimises tests; Test Driven maximises tests. Clean Room minimises side-effects when code is written; Test Driven minimises side-effects when code i
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by xirium 18y ago
That's a sneaky trick with plenty of scope for abuse. If I postdate the copyright on a book by five years then, after 20 years or so, it will be harder to determine the true copyright expiration date. I'm not a lawyer but I've got a counter
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by xirium 18y ago
RIAs? Rich Internet Applications? Stick with JavaScript. Flash and Flex aren't currently supported on the iPhone or 64 bit browsers. Microsoft Silverlight is Windows only, which will arguably make your software inaccessable to a large pool
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Invent This Product(dilbertblog.typepad.com)
14 points by xirium 18y ago|17 comments
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by xirium 18y ago
The History Of Oil by Robert Newman ( http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5267640865741878159 ) also mentions the possibility of a US only depression.
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by xirium 18y ago
Its easier to learn programming when you're a kid. Its easier to learn natural languages when you're a kid. How long would it take an adult to learn a second natural language to conversational fluency? Some people can do it in six months or
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The Pros And Cons Of LifeLock(wired.com)
1 points by xirium 18y ago|0 comments
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by xirium 18y ago
no one will sue you for patent infringement till you have money, and once you have money, people will sue you whether they have grounds to or not. So I advise fatalism. Don't waste your time worrying about patent infringement. -- http://ww
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The Art Of Driving Your Competition Crazy(blog.guykawasaki.com)
1 points by xirium 18y ago|1 comments
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by xirium 18y ago
You're doing it wrong if it becomes a grudge match. See http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/03/the_art_of_driv.html (Yes, I am aware that Guy Kawasaki marketed the Apple MacIntosh at launch.)
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by xirium 18y ago
> every business dislikes competition. Not true. A struggling business dislikes competition. A healthy business likes competition. A competitor validates your market and frames a choice. With a competitor, a customer doesn't just have t
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by xirium 18y ago
A submitted article has high visibility and has no risk to karma. Contributing to a discussion has low visibility and risks karma. An RSS reader and a bookmarklet makes article submission semi-automated but insightful discussion takes more
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by xirium 18y ago
The next most easy option is to delay submissions by an hour or so. If two or more users submit the same URL in one hour then no-one gets credit. This would ensure that two or more bots monitoring the same blog would cancel each other. More
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by xirium 18y ago
> I doubt very much that Jobs is underestimating the effort or the risk. Apple has already acquired PA Semi, a chip design company ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=174301 ). Robert X Cringely implied that Apple could use the acqu
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by xirium 18y ago
This might explain some of the recent test posts ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=213701 ).
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by xirium 18y ago
From the article: what is keeping us tied to having our code in this format? If your source code wasn't in text then you may not be able to use your favourite text editor.
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by xirium 18y ago
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-touch the Microsoft Surface runs Windows Vista and costs between US$5,000 and US$10,000 and the hardware for an open source clone is between US$500 and US$1,000. You're not going to sell man
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by xirium 18y ago
Dup. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=214221
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by xirium 18y ago
There's a huge financial incentive to solve this problem; it would significantly improve the efficiency of many business processes and it would make it trivial to crack many contemporary forms of encryption. The solution is worth billions,
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100 donts from Paul Graham(ycombinator.search.xirium.com)
1 points by xirium 18y ago|2 comments
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by xirium 18y ago
This issue is being discussed on the Network Neutrality Squad Mailing List ( http://www.nnsquad.org/archives/nnsquad/msg01002.html ).
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by xirium 18y ago
> most of them are probably the "bandwidth hogs" that ISPs hate No, these are the bandwidth hogs that ISPs love. When they're downloading with NNTP from an ISP's server, they're not incurring a single byte of bandwidth beyond the ISP's
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by xirium 18y ago
As a stopgap measure, access http://www.ycombinator.search.xirium.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?... and then subscribe to the RSS feed.
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by xirium 18y ago
As a stopgap measure, try http://www.ycombinator.search.xirium.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?...

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