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Why Internet Services Aren’t Achieving Ma Bell’s Reliability(nytimes.com)
7 points by yagibear 16y ago|0 comments
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by yagibear 16y ago
I'm surprised I can't yet find a service that rates the reading level of books so as to guide selection by early readers (typically children, but also learners of foreign languages). Amazon? Startup?
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by yagibear 16y ago
Possibly for consistency with functions that take varargs, e.g. sprintf
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by yagibear 16y ago
Business plan from around that time: http://www.scribd.com/doc/24386920/Original-Executive-Summar...
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by yagibear 16y ago
The summary still doesn't provide any pricing information. A rough estimate: Paying back $27B over 14 years (2020-2034) is about $2B p.a. (ignoring interest!) & with about 20M Australians = $100 p.a. per capita earnings for NBN Co. Pr
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Worm Was Perfect for Sabotaging Centrifuges(nytimes.com)
51 points by yagibear 16y ago|13 comments
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Bargaining Stirs Up Extra Brain Activity(nytimes.com)
2 points by yagibear 16y ago|0 comments
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by yagibear 16y ago
ditto
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by yagibear 16y ago
Summary: Thomas Hazlett of George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the growing rivalry between Apple and Google. It is commonly argued that Apple with its closed platform and tight control from the top via Steve
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Hazlett on Apple vs. Google rivalry [EconTalk](files.libertyfund.org)
1 points by yagibear 16y ago|1 comments
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by yagibear 16y ago
How to read the article in 5 seconds: Read the independent claims.
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What Happened to Yahoo(paulgraham.com)
688 points by yagibear 16y ago|270 comments
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Raising Capital and Business Building options(ricrichardson.blogspot.com)
2 points by yagibear 16y ago|0 comments
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by yagibear 16y ago
Previous appearance on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1336052
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by yagibear 16y ago
Same DNS problem from Optus in Australia, though server requiring hostname is readily solved by entering details in hosts.txt
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by yagibear 16y ago
If so, then what is the reference point against which the distortion is measured?
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by yagibear 16y ago
These figures will be distorted by many on HN who are building equity in businesses rather than drawing income.
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Orange Dwarf Star Set to Smash into The Solar System(technologyreview.com)
37 points by yagibear 17y ago|12 comments
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by yagibear 17y ago
I liked the quadrilateral (as opposed to quadratic) touch.
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by yagibear 17y ago
Googling for "Customer Buying Hierarchy" shows no other references to this, other than this blog entry & related videos. Can you provide some other pointers to where others might use this concept?
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by yagibear 17y ago
A diamond in the rough! (in the literal sense) Great to see the spirit of curiosity and intellect alive in the most unlikely of circumstances.
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by yagibear 17y ago
A better principle is ABQ, since few things have a neat single root cause that some magic number of questions converges on: "5. Why? - I have not been maintaining my car according to the recommended service schedule. (fifth why, a root caus
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by yagibear 17y ago
I'm surprised they don't also/instead allow docs to be tagged.
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by yagibear 17y ago
See also prior discussion http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=846451
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by yagibear 17y ago
Compatibility with IPv6 is much more important than saving a couple of bytes, IMHO. Better to keep as a string.
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by yagibear 17y ago
Web site: http://www.logicomix.com/
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Logicomix - A Comic Book About Logic, Math and Madness - Review(nytimes.com)
32 points by yagibear 17y ago|8 comments
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by yagibear 17y ago
This article doesn't reveal much because it confuses 2 different scenarios: 1. The research result that a small amount of offtime, e.g. "In the Boston Consulting study ... guarantee each consultant one uninterrupted evening free each week",
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by yagibear 17y ago
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://blog.pmarca.com
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by yagibear 17y ago
disambiguate

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