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by zck 16y ago
I can imagine that, for example, TGI Friday's would pay a decent amount for an ad on a meeting request to eat out at Chili's or Ruby Tuesday's.
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by zck 16y ago
The link still shows up in my browser as http://xn--4gbrim.xn----rmckbbajlc6dj7bxne2c.xn--wgbh1c/ If I copy and paste http://وزارة-الأتصالات.مصر with or without http:// , though, it works fine.
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by zck 17y ago
I agree; I'd rather look for a task than have to search for an application by name. Of course, there's no reason it couldn't be hierarchical and have a search box.
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by zck 17y ago
They do save money by having a lower recidivism rate. I do wonder how much it costs compared to other types of prisons.
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by zck 17y ago
I was amused that the author parodied pg's use of footnotes, but I'm wondering who else's writing style I'm missing because I don't read their work.
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by zck 17y ago
You already have circular buttons, how about a smiley face on top (upvote + bookmark), a frowny face on the bottom (dislike), and a "meh" face in the middle (skip)? It's a lot more intuitive than what you've currently got, I think. Your cur
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by zck 17y ago
This is not a Boy Scout merit badge, like the new Entrepreneurship merit badge ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1296517 ); it's for Cub Scouts -- that is, boys younger than 11 years old.
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by zck 17y ago
The 2000 pounds isn't just for software: >Speaks4Me is currently sold on a portable, touch screen media player imported from the Far East. But the company is finalising a "software only" price...
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by zck 17y ago
Reddit open sourced their codebase, but obviously didn't shut down.
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by zck 17y ago
Show him videos on youtube of various science experiments or lectures. When he seems interested in an idea, work with him to create an experiment, find the items, and perform it.
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by zck 17y ago
I think it's bad aesthetics. There must be ways to make bills similarly difficult to counterfeit while still having designs that don't look like they were designed by a committee of blind bureaucrats.
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by zck 17y ago
All the new dollar bills seem like they were designed piecemeal, with little thought as to how they coalesce into one image. Independence Hall is cut off on the right by the giant 100. It's not cut off on the left. Who cares about symmetry?
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by zck 17y ago
tlb says it was "gradual": http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1283439 .
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by zck 17y ago
Was there a large jump in traffic, or are they just not willing or able to host a site of this size?
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by zck 17y ago
Interesting; I have noticed that once the threads page loads, it generally works fine the second time. I've been trying not to hammer on it too much to see when it works/doesn't work, though. I guess it's one way to tell if the server's b
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by zck 17y ago
For a few days, I've had the problem where the threads page (e.g., http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=zck ) takes a long time to load (> 30 seconds), and sometimes doesn't load at all, ending up with just a blank page -- no html is
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by zck 17y ago
Yes; generally, quality of work and how much a professor likes a student are positively correlated. So, if a professor likes grading good papers, ey will accept papers from late students ey likes.
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by zck 17y ago
>When trying to close an online account, [users'] information and connections aren't ... erased; they're just unpublished. By deleting all your data, Suicide Machine says, your private information is snuffed out on website servers. Do a
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by zck 17y ago
For me, counting down days from 365 to 1 produces "Thank goodness it's May syndrome".
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by zck 17y ago
I wasn't sure how long you guys have been in stealth mode, so I thought you might've applied before the RFSs came out.
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by zck 17y ago
This is, I'm assuming, a startup responding to RFS 1: The Future of Journalism ( http://ycombinator.com/rfs1.html ).
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by zck 17y ago
He's not making an assumption about cost == money at all. In fact, he says "...when an economist considers price, they consider the total price, including some intangible things like the time it takes to set up, reeducate everyone, and conv
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by zck 17y ago
So whenever you need stamps, buy forever ones. But don't buy a lot of stamps and hold them for the future, 'cause you could have done better investing that money and buying stamps as you need them.
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by zck 17y ago
Too bad this graph was made with no regard to the actual numbers. Compare Food & Beverage to Clothing & Accessories. Food has 0.2% ($1,022) online, while clothing has 0.9 ($2,115). So twice as much in dollars, and four times as much
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by zck 17y ago
Wrong doesn't necessarily correlate with "non-mainstream". There's a point to be made here, but all I'm getting from this article is "famous people can be incredibly wrong too".
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by zck 17y ago
Are any of these non-mainstream opinions? Of course the first three are now, but that doesn't matter (I don't care to think what "mainstream" opinions of computing limits are). I'd wager you can't find a successful person from one hundred o
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by zck 17y ago
Take the contrapositive: If you're successful, then you have a non-mainstream opinion.
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by zck 17y ago
>It should be remembered that Viaweb had not only great developers (the functional stuff in Viaweb is cool!) but also a pretty big idea. Viaweb is really a bad example for "ideas don't matter". Except the initial idea was "put art galle
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by zck 17y ago
I imagine this might have an unplanned benefit to sewers -- you can use a smaller needle for the thickness of thread you're sewing with. Even using a threader requires you to pull the string through doubled. However, it looks like the eye o
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by zck 17y ago
That is eight liters of pure alcohol. From the source of the wiki page Arun2009 linked to: http://apps.who.int/whosis/database/core/core_select_process...

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