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by yajoe 14y ago
The sarcasm may not have been overt enough -- I personally find their reasoning dubious as well. One point. People who are advertising often aren't the same people who made the existing content. They want you to discover content you other
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by yajoe 14y ago
At least in my industry (I work with digital media and ads), part of the terms large advertisers insist on is being able to advertise new content on existing content. Part of the reason for that is people's eyes are on existing content,
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by yajoe 14y ago
There is a similar dilema in the creative writing field: "I don't know the right way to say this idea" or "I have writer's block." The general advice from the workshops and masters is to write something , even if you know it's terrible, s
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by yajoe 14y ago
You may be on to something. Of the companies in your query, only Microsoft has results on the same scale as the 'engineer' query (6-8% of jobs posting). And, Microsoft has a downturn that is visually similar as the 'engineering' query. S
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by yajoe 14y ago
Thank you for espousing the Maven opinion. I would take your argument a step further and explain that mvn fits into common development workflows much the same tr fits into the word-counting example. Mvn is composable. Let me illustrate wh
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by yajoe 14y ago
This is a delicate topic with a lot of factors. I don't know if I would call a suicide due to depression 'ragequitting.' Quitting, in general, is a healthy and normal action. It's why we all ended up doing what we're doing today (we had t
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by yajoe 14y ago
You are spot on. I was at Microsoft during one of these protocol discussions. I worked on a popular (and contentious) directory product for whom interoperability (or lack thereof) was the product's bread and butter. For the mid-2000 rele
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by yajoe 14y ago
Your blog post is interesting. How does tweeting about your post help the open source developer? This is in the cached version, and I see that you've since removed it. I'm also genuinely curious about your association with svbtle. Lookin
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by yajoe 14y ago
The fact that some are offended by the deal you made the anonymous internet tells me you are on to something. Thank you for experimenting and being creative. A couple thoughts: * If you have a month to work on a project, consider taking th
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by yajoe 14y ago
Thank you for sharing. This is one of the gems for which I subconsciously mine every day I come to HN.
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by yajoe 14y ago
I appreciate the effort. I think you would do well to work down Joel's reading list. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/navlinks/fog0000000262.html I'd like you to think about the TDD article harder -- testing isn't easy, and asserts aren't s
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by yajoe 14y ago
Neither SSL or cryptography are broken. However, it's widely known that the government has its hands on most root-level private keys. All of cryptography comes down to how well we manage keys, whose weakest link is humans :) Having the in
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by yajoe 14y ago
I think the government is sniffing packets directly. It's much easier to feed through whatever content analysis engines they have today than try to access remote systems routinely. SSL? When the government has access to most of the inter
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by yajoe 14y ago
Unrelated to the blog article, I hadn't heard of Pixlee until now. The company appears to scrape Instagram and try to measure brand awareness/usage/trends/______ by analyzing the pictures. Probably advertised as "Twitter-like sentiment an
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by yajoe 14y ago
The site looks gorgeous. Very pleasing. However, on my computer I often scroll up and down with flicks just as often as I highlight text to focus. It's usually when I'm skimming. Boy was I surprised when the article disappeared because I
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by yajoe 14y ago
I love this comment :) What pains me is just this year I've heard in 3 separate occasions for 3 separate startup businesses {industries: ['transportation', 'social', and 'mobile ads']} people propose "Let's do the Instagram strategy." It m
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by yajoe 14y ago
This. I love crazy projects and Show HN's until the cows come home, but this one is dangerous that I must repeat the warning to others. I cannot emphasize how important it is to understand that people who trade using price action ( http://
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by yajoe 14y ago
It's tough balancing "fair" in this case. Is it fair that my family in the northeast is without power while I read HN? Probably not. I would support changing as many deadlines as possible to be compassionate and to remove any incentive f
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by yajoe 14y ago
One data point: I work on the Kindle and have a pretty good understanding of how the device works. I'm not aware of how to wipe the device remotely. It's possible to revoke licenses for DRM content, but I have no idea how to remove all bo
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by yajoe 14y ago
There are many people leaving Microsoft right now. Mostly good people. There are four types of people who stay at Microsoft: 1) Top performers who are on a fast-track (<1% of workforce) 2) People who can't get jobs elsewhere (30%) 3)
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by yajoe 14y ago
This petition offends me because it omits some important facts, namely the couple bought a foreclosure... See http://www.heraldandnews.com/members/news/frontpage/article_... I helped a friend through a foreclosure recently, and throughout
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by yajoe 14y ago
I know about the stories and how looking at them for narrative looks like a change in POR, but who from Amazon confirmed it? They never named names because controversy sells more eyeballs. And because of them we had to make opt-out more p
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by yajoe 14y ago
Amazon didn't cave, this was just miscommunication with a few shills weighing in to create FUD. There was always going to be a way to opt-out. Amazon wants to make customers happy. How to think of LCD ads: http://news.ycombinator.org/ite
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by yajoe 14y ago
KSO ads aren't served by ad networks, and Amazon prohibits ad networks from having access to the ads for the very fear you mentioned. The only data recorded are impressions and ad-specific aggregate usage -- how many times did people wat
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by yajoe 14y ago
The KSO-enabled LCD tablets are following the same playbook as KSO-enabled e-Ink devices. Just as you can opt-out of e-Ink, you will be able to opt-out of LCD. The difference is we've found the vast majority of customers don't value opt-o
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by yajoe 14y ago
There were both touch and non-touch Kindle e-ink readers announced. The non-touch Kindle does not have the "Paperwhite" screen but it is super fast and light weight, and it's now $69... I've been waiting to take my Kindle Paperwhite home f
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by yajoe 14y ago
I can confirm this. The Surface and WP8 also were announced hastily at the beginning of the summer in response to competitors and not because they were ready. Amazon originally had Sept 5 for their announce, and Nokia scheduled over it bec
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by yajoe 14y ago
The slog is awesome. To those outside of Seattle, the Stranger is Seattle's alternative "magazine"/"newspaper"/"culture digest". My favorite choice line: > This world of business, these job creators, have specialized to the point wher
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by yajoe 14y ago
Congrats on shipping, and thank you for being part of the community. I would also second the feedback that requiring an email is undesirable. I know you are doing it so you can count reach and demographics easier and eventually sell those
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If you are curious, this is a reskin of hotmail.com. It's still a separate codebase from the Exchange-backed OWA. Check out the preview of Office 365 and compare it to this experience, and you'll notice that the two are subtly different.

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