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by zck 16y ago
Look at the actual quote: "...some of the conclusions we drew are not quite as exaggerated as we made them out to be." The "the data that OKCupid gathered from Match.com's public filings and press kit were not completely accurate" line isn'
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by zck 16y ago
Dropbox? Carbonite? MobileMe? There are other options out there.
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by zck 16y ago
>For example buying 2 pastries instead of one gets you an extra one for free. Do this, but check the numbers based on what people currently buy. If most people currently buy two, offer four for three, as opposed to just giving away an e
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by zck 16y ago
This...doesn't seem massive. From the article: >I don’t have access to DNS settings to point MX records to Google Apps or set up CNAME forwarding for things like calendaring. But my claim means that when SeattleTimes.com decides to swit
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by zck 16y ago
They're marketing it to businesses as a replacement for traveling somewhere -- $15,000 isn't a lot to pay for that. If it lets one executive skip one trip, it's paid for itself.
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by zck 16y ago
If you're going to use the HN source, use the updated version: http://ycombinator.com/arc/arc3.tar It actually might be the easiest thing to set up.
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by zck 16y ago
"Hey YC, I'm interested in coming back this summer. I had a successful exit last time. We cool?" "We dig. You're in."
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by zck 16y ago
All your arguments are correct, however they miss the issue. For this person, the overall Windows 7 experience is flawed compared to the Apple OSX experience. You can say it's because of the games, or because Microsoft can't legally includ
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by zck 16y ago
Possibly so he doesn't have to waste time defending it; the argument will center on whether this kind of thing is a good idea, not whether this specific idea is good.
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by zck 16y ago
The last ability doesn't target. And I just added face-down cards as something else that wasn't "open".
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by zck 16y ago
RMS: 3RB Creature -- Activist Hacker R: Target permanent gains a chosen ability from another target permanent. Any player may play this ability. B: Choose an untargetable or face-down card in play. Tap it. It doesn't untap during its contro
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by zck 16y ago
It's incredibly useful. The actual definition of until from Arc: (mac until (test . body) `(while (no ,test) ,@body)) It's really useful for bodies of code like this.
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by zck 16y ago
How did you determine it was whimsical nonsense, and only whimsical nonsense that did not contain anything that needed to be acted on? Were you able to do so without reading it?
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by zck 16y ago
>Be honest - the email subject told you everything you wanted to know... From what I can tell by searching around, the actual subject title of this email is "CD Baby Loves you", not "CD Baby order shipped", so one does have to read this
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by zck 16y ago
I can't tell which one is the joke. The explanation is similar to the name pg gave to the markup language for Viaweb, RTML: >We made up various explanations for what Rtml was supposed to stand for, but actually I named it after Robert M
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by zck 16y ago
The "situation is fluid" link in the article is the same as yours. They didn't explicitly mention it, though.
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The economics of bail bondsmen(wilsonquarterly.com)
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by zck 16y ago
If you want to be considered a hacker, you have to...hack. That doesn't mean you have to have a github account. It's the new hotness, sure, but you can get by without it. What do you hack? No one would argue that someone who is a core devel
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by zck 16y ago
This is a mix of half-amusing misconceptions -- "Of course I'll spend eight minutes of my life watching your branded content" -- and details that advertisers should care about -- "I love the copy, but it feels off brand". Most of the pictur
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by zck 16y ago
At least by default -- check out the function sentence-end .
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by zck 16y ago
There's no evidence for it. It's wrong to believe a claim without supporting evidence.
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by zck 16y ago
That's still more than four triangles -- two right triangles next to each other that way make a larger triangle. One way to make only four triangles is: \ / \ / -------\----/------ \1 /
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by zck 16y ago
And that even strengthens his point -- that the terms are confusing even for people who know what they mean, never mind newbies.
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by zck 16y ago
If the government could change the way they pave roads to save money while still having the same quality of road, it would be good for them to do so. If they could make pennies for cheaper, it would be good to do so.
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by zck 16y ago
You might want to check out the custom DSLs made by livecoders. There's an old Wired article about them ( http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/07/71248 ), and this is a livecoding wiki: http://toplap.org/index.php/Main_Page
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by zck 16y ago
There's a difference between spartan design and bad usability. This blogpost is about the usability of the design, not how attractive or fancy the design is.
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by zck 16y ago
Digikey (now) has ads on Octopart, as well as an image in the search results instead of their name in text the way other result sites are shown.
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by zck 16y ago
You didn't know Kasparov played chess? Seriously, though, from what I can tell, Thiel is rated 2199[1], which isn't Master level. That's still enough to be the 21,246th best player in the world. [1] http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event
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by zck 16y ago
This isn't an extension of that; you're reselling the connection. It might be a different story if you convinced everyone to open up their router, but you're selling access.
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by zck 16y ago
Careful, this is probably against the terms of your contract with your ISP.

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