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by xirium 18y ago
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=206538 Also see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=116121
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by xirium 18y ago
Exponential backoff also works exceptionally well in the case of dead batteries.
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by xirium 18y ago
> the major cost center for PCs is hardware, not software Microsoft has increased the cost of Windows licences while the cost of hardware components has decreased. The result is that the "free" copy of Windows that comes with pre-built
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by xirium 18y ago
This possibility has already been discussed on this forum. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=183541
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by xirium 18y ago
Watch out for large operating system updates, large application updates, email sending zombies and open wireless networking connections.
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by xirium 18y ago
http://www.ycombinator.search.xirium.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=182746 - Why You Must Be in Silicon Valley http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=174298 - Ask YC: Where to startup? (If not the US, then
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by xirium 18y ago
Where IT is seen as a cost without benefit, developers are second class staff. When managers are non-technical, any request for time or resources may be seen as prevaricating.
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by xirium 18y ago
I also wonder if "do no evil" includes not peeking at the fellow's gmail account.
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by xirium 18y ago
> they're transitioning from traditional analog video to IP-centric solutions and have no expertise. Its astounding how little expertise they have in Internet Protocol, encryption, non-repudiation, codecs and RAID.
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by xirium 18y ago
I've seen this sentiment elsewhere: http://www.bash.org/?414593
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by xirium 18y ago
I hoped that they'd solve a superset of this problem where you want a set of items from one of more sellers. This arises because some sellers split items and each item gets different but overlapping auction period. You'd prefer to buy two o
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by xirium 18y ago
> I think some math needs to be done on what the optimal auction structure is given participants arrive and leave at random times. EBay implements a second place auction which works well given that all participants may not be present at
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by xirium 18y ago
Null terminated vtables. That's horrid. The performance must be terrible.
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by xirium 18y ago
Taxes may be levied unfairly and they may provide facilities that individuals don't use. However, they are for collective benefit, public ownership and with nominal charge for use, at most. In the case of recordable media levies, the law en
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by xirium 18y ago
In UK law, theft is when someone is permanently deprived of something. The thief doesn't have to gain from the act for it to be theft. The similarity between theft and arson would be that rightful owners would be permanently deprived in bot
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by xirium 18y ago
> Canadians pay levies on recordable media I find this concept very objectionable. If I buy a blank CDROM for the purpose of distributing my own software then music companies receive some of the proceeds of the sale because I could have
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by xirium 18y ago
Or http://www.ycombinator.search.xirium.com/cgi-bin/fight.cgi?q...
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by xirium 18y ago
With 10 fingers, you can count to 2^10.
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by xirium 18y ago
Also see http://www.ycombinator.search.xirium.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?... to exclude items before making a custom RSS feed.
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by xirium 18y ago
From the article: they're constantly trying to play catch-up with others. That hasn't changed. Microsoft has rarely been the first mover in a market. The difference nowadays is that consumers are becoming more educated. There was a time whe
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by xirium 18y ago
Ask you asking because you have an idea for startup which involves other people being near public transport? Ask you asking because you are considering re-location?
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by xirium 18y ago
There's a variation of this prank which requires the victim to be drunk - and a fortuitous arrangement of rooms. A student returned to his fourth storey room in a very drunk state and fell into a comatose sleep. While he was asleep, his fri
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by xirium 18y ago
If you like this then you'll probably like mudsh ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=186849 ).
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by xirium 18y ago
You can weight user importance with a ranking algorithm ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank ).
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by xirium 18y ago
> bank transactions in Brazil Banks in Brazil routinely issue each customer with a duress PIN to mitigate the situation of a customer being frogmarched to an ATM at gunpoint. This is in addition to ATMs being unavailable in early hours
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by xirium 18y ago
I didn't know that dictionaries also do it. Nor did I know that fake entries were also known as mountweazels (after the surname of a ficticious entry) or nihilartikels. How very cromulent ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromulent ).
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by xirium 18y ago
It is rumoured that some encyclopedias give biographies of ficticious people to enforce collective copyright. This wouldn't concern you if wanted information about a historical figure. However, it would be very problematic if you worked for
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by xirium 18y ago
> I'm shocked that another company would buy the rights to the Pets.com puppet. There's a precedent in the UK. A company in the UK that provided a digital television service ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITV_Digital ) used a monkey p
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by xirium 18y ago
Dup. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=201755
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by xirium 18y ago
Also see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=202585 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=80353

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