badave

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by badave 12y ago
It's pretty obvious that its company v. consumer these days. Its a war throughout the world - businesses can easily corrupt public servants in all walks of life. Is there a way to eradicate corruption?
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by badave 12y ago
It seems like from this it would only take a few minutes to put this on an existing site. What sets you apart from the other instant and "easy to set up" checkouts I could use? Is there a lot of customizability that one can easi
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by badave 13y ago
I wrote a lot of the code for https://www.airbrite.io/ , which we are quietly launching on hackernews today. The dashboard is all backbone, the backend is all node.js. We wanted to build something that could become a core to
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by badave 13y ago
It's not just booting a computer though. Hypothetically, if Silicon Valley is wiped from the planet tomorrow at the same time as a massive EMP killing all electronics on earth simultaneously (extreme), its assumed we could get most of
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by badave 13y ago
While I do like that everything is moving towards paperless, I hope we keep archives of all our knowledge in some permanent form. Should a world wide power failure or some other catastrophic event occur and we were "sent back to the s
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by badave 13y ago
How did you pick the font? I find myself having problems figuring out is a single letter is a l or an i or a j sometimes. Seems like there's a lot of fonts out there with better readability.
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by badave 13y ago
It might be the first thing they do, but if they don't check their email immediately you have until they print/download. That window of 5 minutes to 6-8 hours or even over the weekend is worth using Google Docs alone.
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by badave 13y ago
I've been emailing my resume using the Google Docs url (read only) and it works well. There are rarely any issues with someone being able to open it, versus a pdf or doc. Those might cause issues if you don't have Word or Adobe
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by badave 13y ago
Oh yes. We do live in slavery. Money is the only key to our chains.
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by badave 13y ago
The answer is just a flat and obvious, "No". Firstly, symbols have been around for thousands of years. Our written language is built around them, and our everyday life is surrounded by them. These aren't going anywhere and a
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by badave 13y ago
I thought they shut down Geocities years ago?
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by badave 13y ago
It's been down since 1999.
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by badave 13y ago
Aaron Swartz would be proud of you.
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by badave 13y ago
When they come out with new algorithms for searching, they are completely replacing their old engine, correct? Are they rewriting the core? Or is this more like v1 was PageRank, v2 was Caffeine, and Hummingbird is v3? Is a lot of the cod
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by badave 13y ago
Microsoft's direction under Ballmer has been underwhelming, especially the lack of innovation in the tablet and mobile spheres. I'm curious to see if his successor is someone future thinking and if he/she will be able to bri
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by badave 13y ago
At the time they felt very strongly about it. The employees were adamant about the fact that they had a certain way of doing things and they were concerned that Microsoft would disrupt whatever it was they had. I don't know if it was
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by badave 13y ago
Yahoo -- I think they were concerned about getting infected by M$'s culture.
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by badave 13y ago
Except none of those places are Silicon Valley or San Francisco. There are few major hubs of startup activity, the other major one being New York City. The atmosphere and population density of ambitious programmers and like minded designe
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by badave 14y ago
It's a play on "seller-y".
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by badave 14y ago
Hahah on the Celery part. Its a play on the idea of a "seller-y" though.
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by badave 15y ago
Oooh, sorry, I messed this one up. To clarify, I live in a 2br with a friend and it's $4k a month for the both of us. $2k a person.
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by badave 15y ago
I live in San Francisco and it is probably 138% more expensive than Miami, FL. A cheapo 1br in the city runs around $1200 a month. Nice places cost $1500-2500 a month. I'm paying $2k a month myself but it's a really nice place w a Golden
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by badave 16y ago
Hehehe, and 83% of brains are only used to watch porn...
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by badave 16y ago
Does anyone know where I could find out how Facebook does their suggestions? It'd be interesting to compare LinkedIn's method to Facebook's.
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by badave 16y ago
Don't forget about Cassandra, which they developed just for scalability issues that they were having, and is now used at Digg and other sites (I think reddit uses it for something as well now) http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=24413
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by badave 16y ago
Depends on what you are coding. Sometimes when I'm coding for fun I don't want to think.
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by badave 16y ago
I think you have to choose to turn it on. Your browser will ask you if you want to supply your location to the website and you can say yes or no. Here's an example: http://html5demos.com/geo You don't have to share your location and you
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by badave 16y ago
Local on the Internet is the next big thing and Facebook is wise to step up and take it on before something else gained more ground on it. I don't believe in "checking-in" nonsense, but I do think that being able to get in touch with peopl
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by badave 16y ago
The problem is the original headline. The headline makes it sound like Obama is bemoaning iPads and Xboxes. It's sensational, it grabs your attention, and you wonder why he's bemoaning technology. And then you get to the article, which i
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by badave 16y ago
Well, something can only grow exponentially for so long.... It's growth might be dying. It might be reaching its teenage years. Unfortunately it's only a matter of time before its a big company that can't keep its startup mentality.

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