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by yid 15y ago
Actually, the entire situation reads eerily like the Trainspotting novel. Looks like all the Francis Begbies are out in force.
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by yid 15y ago
Social news voting reflects the opinions of the masses. A specialist's authoritative, reasoned opinion is unlikely to be recognized as such, unless it happens to go along with the momentum of public opinion. It's hardly a problem unique to
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by yid 15y ago
My understanding is that media and copy may be subject to copyright, but not layouts of websites. I don't think copying a wireframe CSS design or page navigation mechanics or general theme is legally copyright infringement (I could be wrong
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by yid 15y ago
Interesting -- so are you ruling out the possibility of storing the data in the future for features like periodically checking for updates in my rate? That sounds like a killer feature (that I would even be willing to pay a subscription for
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by yid 15y ago
Just curious -- how are you guys storing all this super-personal information, or is it ephemeral while you make API calls to various insurance provider backends? That's quite the identity theft kit that I'm being asked to upload to a site c
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by yid 15y ago
Why would they need permission?
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Ask HN: Why hasn't HN been converted to a social network?
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by yid 15y ago
On the contrary, "by definition" has a very clear meaning in mathematics and logic. On HN and other forums with logically-slanted people, it's used to reduce ambiguity in drifting debates like this one.
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by yid 15y ago
Not sure what you mean -- Flickr has a vibrant social network of amateur/pro photographers. These people may not "know" each other in meatspace, but it's a valid (and large) social graph nonetheless.
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by yid 15y ago
The OP's post was about standards in a democratic/free country. You're referring to an oppressive regime.
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by yid 15y ago
A break-in, by definition, is criminal regardless of the motivation. This would be like breaking into city hall to stage a protest -- the protest part is democratic, the break-in part is criminal.
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by yid 15y ago
On a related note, anyone have any advice on how to tell your new employer that you're taking off for burning man? I ...uh...have a friend...
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by yid 15y ago
Sounds a lot like gmail.
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by yid 15y ago
No wonder at all, although tech is far from the only field with big heads.
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by yid 15y ago
I think OPs complaint is that the service purports to find "great" programmers where they really mean "adequately competent to perform most tasks and able to learn". Another case of marketing speak annoying the nerds.
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by yid 15y ago
For what it's worth, I am, and I still get a 0.
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by yid 15y ago
Don't forget the cascading error introduced by the news cycle: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1174
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by yid 15y ago
California, too.
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by yid 15y ago
You seem to have not heard of the field of software reverse-engineering. If you think obfuscated JS is hard to understand, keep in mind that people like DVD Jon typically reverse-engineer algorithms out of optimized assembly.
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by yid 15y ago
> Is it really that difficult to see why this matters? Yes, it is. Even the craziest wingnut can plausibly say that the US was after Iraqi oil, but a conspiracy theory to blast into Afghanistan and stay there for a decade seems like i
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by yid 15y ago
There's a huge difference between vaccinations themselves being a CIA plot, and a vaccination drive being a CIA plot. I have no problem with the latter.
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by yid 15y ago
> Could I then sue the insurance company as well, for helping my tenant break the conditions of their lease? The decision to break the conditions of the lease was solely your tenant's decision. Any sane insurance company will either ver
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by yid 15y ago
Interesting -- I didn't know they were that cheap. (BTW the cheapest one is $60 + shipping).
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by yid 15y ago
I believe I speak for all Linux users who need to keep Windows around just for Netflix when I say "shhhhh....."
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HTML5? The bug can sometimes be in the browser.(blog.twodeg.net)
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Startup focused on medical communities looking for UI/UX help
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Extracting secondary information from social network posts(blog.twodeg.net)
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by yid 15y ago
Misnomer -- this isn't an enterprise version of Facebook, a la Yammer, but a portal for how businesses can use Facebook. The title of the page is "Learn how to grow your business with Facebook's powerful marketing tools"... (Yammer employee
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by yid 15y ago
Sorry to be the one to ask this, but why can't you start this as an open-source side project? I'd be more inclined to support improvements to a core product rather than support another (what seems like) pie-in-the-sky project -- I'm referr
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by yid 15y ago
> web pages aren't magazines, and they shouldn't be. Um...why not? I happen to quite like Flipboard-style magazine layouts. More importantly, why does anyone feel qualified to comment on what the web "should" be? The technology is power

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