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by amikula 11y ago
Checkr (YC S14) | San Francisco | Full Time | Onsite Checkr is hiring full stack developers to help us disrupt the background screening industry! Our clients include Uber, Instacart, Handy, Zenefits, iCracked, Caviar, and more. Our stack is
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by amikula 12y ago
Nice story. I'm disappointed that it didn't end with some helpful tactics for ducks you could put in your own projects, though. I also would be interested to hear the real story of what happened to the author to inspire this write
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by amikula 12y ago
From the original comment: > Problem 1: ISPs trying to charge to (de)prioritize packets. > Problem 2: The two biggest ISPs suck, and should be broken up, and/or it should be mandated that competition is much easier. My point is t
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by amikula 12y ago
Personally, I think that solving problem 2 is the most important, and problem 1, if it is truly a problem, could be solved by a competitive free market. If it's truly possible for new competitors to enter the market, then if problem 1
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by amikula 12y ago
In the last 6 months, I've had my 15" late 2011 model MBP repaired three times for this exact problem. After the first failure, they haven't charged again for the subsequent motherboard replacements. I guess so many are faili
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by amikula 12y ago
OpenX Technologies - Pasadena & Menlo Park - Full Time - Python Back-end developers and Django developers I'm hiring both back-end (REST API) Python developers and Python web application developers (Django) for full time work in ei
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by amikula 12y ago
While I applaud the spirit of the Freedom Clip, I have a better idea if you object to the DRM in Keurig's new product: Don't buy Keurig. There are plenty of alternatives. Why participate in the ecosystem at all if it means buying
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by amikula 12y ago
It seems to me that Glass wouldn't have suffered half the backlash it got if the original release had excluded the camera. Even if everybody was just grumbling about how useless the product was without a camera, people still would have
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by amikula 13y ago
I think in Optimizely's case, the most important factor is making sure that there's no statistically significant correlation between higher response times and A/B testing. In other words, if the higher response times result a
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by amikula 13y ago
At least this would make it easier for a company to justify digging in and fighting a patent. If they're confident they can win, they can anticipate legal expenses being reimbursed. A lot of companies who today are on the fence about w
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by amikula 13y ago
The United States needs any viable third party. Unfortunately, the Republicrats have a lock on our political system, and the only way to get a viable third party is to change the rules about how we vote. Specifically, first past the post vo
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by amikula 13y ago
To me, this is a strong sign that the patent holder should at least run a substantial risk of getting charged for legal costs if they lose. It might require a bit more due diligence on the part of the patent holder in genuinely enforceable
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The Surrounding Game: A Kickstarter documentary about the game of Go(kickstarter.com)
1 points by amikula 14y ago|0 comments
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by amikula 15y ago
Well, it is all about "pay what you want". I'm sure you'll figure something out.
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FreePress petition for Congress to investigate Carrier IQ(act2.freepress.net)
1 points by amikula 15y ago|0 comments
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by amikula 15y ago
Can someone explain to me why this is so highly ranked? If I wanted to read Wikipedia's robots.txt, I don't need HN to suggest it to me. It's got a bunch more stuff than I might have expected. Other than that, what am I missing?
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by amikula 15y ago
Actually the people who had the wealth to build the non-human labor force become the rulers of our society. Their corporations will become the new governments and campaign against one another for control of resources. What happens at that p
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Sears revamps their zombie site for halloween 2011(sears.com)
4 points by amikula 15y ago|0 comments
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by amikula 15y ago
Very interesting. Also interesting is that the blurb on the search result page was truncated before the important information I was looking for could be revealed. I wouldn't have clicked through to the Wikipedia page if the excerpt had ende
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by amikula 15y ago
"Ever hit ⌘Q and accidentally quit an application when you really meant to press ⌘W and close a window?" At first I was really puzzled when I read this sentence...Q and W are so far apart on the Dvorak keyboard! ;-)
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by amikula 15y ago
I completely agree that software patents should expire in 2-3 years. Even a 2 year advantage is an eternity in the software market.
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by amikula 15y ago
vi is still around, but it lacks the plugin architecture of vim. So it's highly doubtful that anyone would find it usable for writing code anyway.
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by amikula 15y ago
Fascinating concept. What if humans wrote the tests, and a genetic system like this used a specialized language (machine code or JVM bytecode, for example) to write a solution? What level of sophistication could a system like this attain?
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by amikula 15y ago
There's one simple phrase I like to keep in mind when thinking about software patents. Its mere existence demonstrates that patents are not serving their intended purpose: "accidental patent infringement"
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Google releases gingerbread for Nexus One, ignores critical battery life bug(code.google.com)
1 points by amikula 16y ago|0 comments