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Light sentence for 200 seniors who cheated on finals(click2houston.com)
3 points by yangez 15y ago|1 comments
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by yangez 15y ago
If you collect emails with an opt-out method you shouldn't complain when some people flag you for spam. Paying customers didn't unsubscribe because they obviously had a higher level of engagement with the service. Of course free users won't
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by yangez 15y ago
Google donates to many people on both sides - it doesn't mean they support SOPA. For example, they donated more than 6x that amount to Zoe Lofgren: http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cycle=Car...
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by yangez 15y ago
Majority rule can become toxic by steamrolling minorities. For instance, just because the majority of the United States is caucasian doesn't mean the U.S. should pass laws favoring white people over other races. Incidentally one of the reas
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by yangez 15y ago
Do you really think that any SOPA supporter is going to say they want to stifle innovation in favor of more litigation? "There are PLENTY of senators and other opinion leaders who would nod at these points" This is exactly what I'm saying.
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by yangez 15y ago
Just because a congressman opposes SOPA doesn't make his statements magically profound. Although the direction of his statement is intelligent, his four points at the end are far too vague to be useful. Phrases like "consider instead promot
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by yangez 15y ago
On a surface level, most of the items on this list are pretty absurd. Sites like Facebook, Amazon, and Youtube aren't immediately going down as soon as SOPA passes, except the torrent sites. There's a good chance they won't be affected at a
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by yangez 15y ago
"It’s called mydunks.it. It’s better than NBA jam. It’s a universal 'like' button for the web, but instead of ‘likes’ it’s 'dunks.'" I just about spat out my coffee until I realized he was joking.
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by yangez 15y ago
If SOPA's passed, what kind of example would the United States set for the rest of the world, especially after all our criticism of China's internet censorship? http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111208/07411217009/chines... The effects o
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by yangez 15y ago
Thanks - I think that was it. Phenomenal book.
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by yangez 15y ago
It's a great emotional tool to bring tangible people into the discussion. Although having powerful statistics and logic is nice, it's appealing to see the faces of real people that would be affected by this bill. I can't find it now, but th
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by yangez 15y ago
Point taken. Just wanted to bring up the idea that there are other considerations besides just productivity that might affect a company's policies.
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by yangez 15y ago
In my experience, face time is very important in an organization and it's not just about productivity. It's very hard to effectively motivate people and align the company's vision if half of your employees aren't even there.
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by yangez 15y ago
Wow. His simple tone belies the brilliance in his writing here. I seriously doubt he just spent 5 minutes scribbling this out as an afterthought. He gets a few key ideas across: - he doesn't understand torrenting and so is helpless against
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by yangez 15y ago
Is this true? I was under the impression that if we used Stripe's javascript function to tokenize credit cards, we get to skip a lot of PCI compliance stuff we would otherwise be responsible for.
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by yangez 15y ago
7-8 for sure. Anything less for a sustained period of time and I lose a ton of productivity. I was seriously considering going on a polyphasic sleep experiment for a while to cut down on the hours, but after doing a lot of research it didn'
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by yangez 15y ago
Nah, this is like playing chess on the wrong board. It's a waste of time and no one gets anything worthwhile accomplished.
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by yangez 15y ago
This whole thing is really juvenile. The Zendesk guys look a lot worse here, but by making such a big deal out of it and turning it into an obvious PR stunt the Freshdesk folks aren't doing themselves any favors either. I understand it's di
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by yangez 15y ago
I'm curious. In your experience, was it just those activities (Violin, cello, piano, etc) that were beaten to death and no longer desirable, or was more about the uniformity of Asian applicants? For example, if a white kid had the same pian
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by yangez 15y ago
Consider describing the service more on the front page in terms of what it does and how it works. Currently, without logging in, I have no idea. Does everyone pitch in to cook pot luck style? Do you deliver these meals to different places f
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by yangez 15y ago
There was something called Kung Fu Chess a while back that was this exact same concept. It was really fun, but I think it shut down in 09. Best of luck with this one.
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by yangez 15y ago
Is it possible to parse page content when bookmarking and automatically assign it an appropriate category or pre-populate a few tags? I would find this highly useful, but I don't know how practical it would be to develop.
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by yangez 15y ago
I got rejected. The application was so long ago that I don't even remember it. Does anyone have a link to the original application form so I can see where I can improve it for next year?
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by yangez 15y ago
It would be nice if Ruby was one of the permitted languages.
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Ask HN: How do you learn web design?
3 points by yangez 15y ago|2 comments
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by yangez 15y ago
Daniel Pink also has a book called Drive which goes into this in detail. Highly recommended read.
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by yangez 15y ago
This is counter-productive and just adds another good reason to turn to Google+. Despite switching costs, it's hard to like a service that coerces you to stay by preventing you from exporting your own data.
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Show HN: cvisual.ly - Resume / business card hybrid. Useful?(cvisual.ly)
1 points by yangez 15y ago|1 comments
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by yangez 15y ago
Anyone else notice how good of a writer this guy actually is? Throughout the article he takes you through an emotional journey that very effectively portrays AOL as a soulless monster. (The third-to-last paragraph is a very good example of
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by yangez 15y ago
In this case the "physical robbery" parallel would be losing your key to a safety deposit box, and then suing the bank when your stuff is stolen. Don't get me wrong, I don't love banks either, but here the bank's security didn't get comprom

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