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by zach 17y ago
"Hype: you're doing it wrong."
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by zach 17y ago
Wow, it's the outsourcing version of the urban legend where you get something of extraordinary quality at a low price from a foreign land, only to discover... http://www.snopes.com/critters/lurkers/mexicanpet.asp http://www.snopes.com/ho
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by zach 17y ago
Fake Steve has been on a leave of absence too, of course.
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by zach 17y ago
Thanks for a very thoughtful reply which has encouraged me to reassess my initial impressions of the book in a way that is fairer to the material. It's difficult to separate a novel such as this from its circumstance and reception and I ce
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by zach 17y ago
Yeah, and maybe this is the point of American Beauty and Donnie Darko as well, but not in one of them can I get past the insufferable protagonist. I just can't appreciate stories I wish were over already, even if they are actually brillian
846.
by zach 17y ago
Few things embitter people more than being this close to money they can't have.
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by zach 17y ago
I disagree. Goto is the Comic Sans of keywords, a tool which may be used tastefully but ends up far more commonly abused to horrible effect.
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by zach 17y ago
I used to think Google just providing horrible customer disservice by canceling accounts without explanation, but now I at least have some insight on the situation. Once you provide specific reasons, it invites bargaining and hair-splittin
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by zach 17y ago
Are the first two items things you miss from Windows? They were for me, but I wouldn't want them added to 10.6...
850.
by zach 17y ago
I wonder if there are highly-paid "educational supplement optimization" consultants who get low-ranking learning institutions higher in the annual results...
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by zach 17y ago
That is a nuance that doesn't show up in the crudest statistic, motor vehicles per capita, because the USA has a huge fleet of working vehicles. In fact, it uniquely has nearly as many "goods vehicles" as passenger cars in the latest figur
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by zach 17y ago
Efficiency, effectiveness, experience. They don't have to all be generations, they can co-exist. Cars : Compact, SUV, sports car Laptops : Acer, MacBook, MacBook Air Grocery Stores : Costco, Whole Foods, Wegmans
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by zach 17y ago
I was at the event yesterday and they showed a bar with two cameras in the middle, which you can see in the video. The nice thing about the Xbox 360 and PS3 for these kinds of input devices is that they're multicore, so the budgeting is pre
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by zach 17y ago
I did end up setting up my startup domain with GMail. It made me want to make a "regular" GMail account, but I still couldn't get past the name thing.
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by zach 17y ago
Is it weird that I still don't use GMail much because my customary username (not this one) was taken by the time I finagled an invite? I don't really have a second choice, so I just stick with Yahoo! Mail. I guess I'm more vain than I thi
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by zach 17y ago
Making MySQL do GIS is somewhat like training a dog to sing. Even within its limited repertoire, the performance leaves something to be desired. Yet still, you have to admire the resourcefulness involved.
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by zach 17y ago
Why is marijuana legalization always the example? "You know, there are a lot of ways we can stabilize Medicare, for example by legalizing marijuana..." I'm just saying!
858.
by zach 17y ago
Looks like the same emails I was pulling up after switching from SVN and discovering my gigabyte-plus census files were exhausting Git's memory. Sadly, in the game industry many of us are stuck with Perforce just because it handles giganti
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by zach 17y ago
But recognize that deals fall through. How many of us are in that club...
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by zach 18y ago
> This argument is as old as the hills. Of course. It's the "disproving a generalization from its exceptions" argument fallacy.
861.
by zach 18y ago
2015: Your DNA on a t-shirt for $30 at a mall kiosk.
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by zach 18y ago
It's interesting that eBay does seem to be the first web auctioneer of any note. As many have pointed out, others sold books on the web before Amazon, there were many search sites before Google, etc. But eBay basically invented it and has
863.
by zach 18y ago
The test suite has broken 1500 tests (1504, to be precise). Maybe "surpassed" would be a better verb here.
864.
by zach 18y ago
As if millions of tweets were suddenly silenced.
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by zach 18y ago
I'm sorry, I tl;dr'd at the mention of Thomas Friedman. What did the point end up being?
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by zach 18y ago
Makes sense - calls to toll-free numbers always have ANI (number ID) even if blocked, so just redirect calls to a toll-free number.
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by zach 18y ago
And concentrate on numbers over 31 -- many "lucky numbers" are birthdates.
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by zach 18y ago
Well, Langley Steinert and Olin Shivers, who both gave great presentations, were nonetheless the only local speakers apart from VC and law firm partners, right? Everyone else was flying in anyway. Good question, though. I went to the Ha
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by zach 18y ago
People who live off the beaten path love Amazon, and especially Amazon Prime. The big box retailers are still good for everyday stuff, but you really appreciate the convenience, price and selection Amazon offers when you have severely limi
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by zach 18y ago
Remember when many here (including myself) were at best skeptical of what Arrington called "Clown Co.?" Mea culpa: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5694 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5972 That certainly would have made an inte

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