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by danko 7mo ago
Just wanted to say: thank you for making and maintaining this. I’m sorry that so many of the initial comments on this HN post are from one person complaining that their submissions didn’t get accepted. That’s the thing with the personal w
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To Build a Retro Sonic World, Learn Some Retro Copyright Law(continuous-wave.beehiiv.com)
3 points by danko 1y ago|0 comments
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by danko 2y ago
A slight spoiler, but there's a reason why some spaces are '?' - they hint that one specific type of creature may be nearby. (Think of the one that looks like a Beholder from D&D). For the walls - think of them as an HP
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by danko 6y ago
Prost and Senna were evenly matched – that's why the racing between them was so great, and why the rivalry was so pitched. Senna was faster than Prost in qualifying and over a single lap, and vastly better in rainy conditions. Prost
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by danko 6y ago
Bingo. It was that kind of thinking that put Neville Chamberlin in the dunk tank of history.
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by danko 7y ago
Not to put words in OP's mouth, but I'd guess the weirdness is in a couple of things: 1) Jimmy can go deep on some extremely obscure corners of the industry (e.g. interactive fiction movements that maybe only a few dozen academic
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by danko 7y ago
For the NY Times, the assertion that most of their revenue comes from advertising just isn't true. 60% of their revenue now comes from subscription fees, and advertising's slice of their revenue has shrunk consistently. https:&#
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by danko 7y ago
Try passing along a vinyl or CD or VHS or DVD collection when you die. See how fast it ends up at a flea market, or on the curb waiting for the trash truck. ALL digital goods are ephemeral one way or the other, unless you're an actua
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by danko 7y ago
It's true there's a non-zero chance the property market implodes, but the shift to remote workers is exactly what WeWork is counting on. Many (even most) people chafe at working in their living space 100% of the time, and squatti
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by danko 7y ago
The implication here is that a lot of value associated with 2019-era VC-funded startups is derived from the revenue they receive by selling to other VC-funded startups .
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by danko 7y ago
If we're keying off of personal anecdote, allow me to be a single point in favor of the touch bar. I actually like the thing, and find it useful. Yes, I do!
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Why Yammer Believes the Traditional Engineering Organizational Structure Is Dead(firstround.com)
2 points by danko 10y ago|2 comments
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by danko 11y ago
I put my money on the former. 4chan is... itself. But it is definitely a vibrant community. And Poole himself has some thoughtful, unique insight into what makes a community vibrant and what kills it.
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by danko 11y ago
It's interesting how this article conflicts the narrative (and indeed, Fitzgerald's own narrative) about his life. The narrative was that they lived fabulously until the simultaneous stresses of the the stock market crash and Zel
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by danko 11y ago
There are many, many objectives for which the F1 rules need to account. Competitive balance is one of them. Providing interesting and relevant technical challenges for automakers and teams is another (and was a major driver behind the recen
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by danko 11y ago
For those who need the context -- when Reddit had that big bust-up last week about banning subreddits like /r/fatepeoplehate, aggrieved commenters were recommending that others migrate to voat.co. That effectively means that voat
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by danko 11y ago
To be clear here, it's not a single thumb drive (as the title implies) but a network of thumb drives distributed through an ad-hoc parcel service. Frankly, it doesn't sound that different than the old shareware and disc-based mul
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by danko 12y ago
Exactly. One could easily come up with a corollary: "The worst startup ideas are the ones that seem like bad ideas and really are." Which is a truism that probably applies to most startup ideas.
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by danko 12y ago
Perestroika is the era in Soviet history when the USSR began to 'thaw' in its relationship to the West and reform its economic policy to be less collectivized and more capitalistic. In this case, Microsoft would be the USSR and it
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by danko 12y ago
And it was the perfect choice, precisely for what it said about his character at the beginning of the show. Walter White, the put-upon high school chemistry teacher living in quiet desperation, driving around in a car generally perceived t
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by danko 12y ago
I think that's what he was driving at with the following quote: "Many people in the car business do not understand that a vehicle has an image. To them, a vehicle is a collection of attributes. If your attributes are better than t
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by danko 12y ago
Read the article. He mentions that "someone suggested to them to audit and they found 'Millions and millions of dollars of error not in our favor.'" Shady accounting practices were used to intentionally mask earnings t
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User Onboarding: How Major Services Do It(useronboard.com)
1 points by danko 13y ago|0 comments
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O'Neill: WTF Is An Architect, Anyway?(brianoneill.blogspot.com)
2 points by danko 13y ago|1 comments
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by danko 13y ago
But isn't a better sounding boot beep also form? Isn't this really just somebody choosing form over form? Just because the engineer was an engineer doesn't make his aesthetic preference (a better-sounding boot beep) any m
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by danko 13y ago
I think the issue here is with the marketing costs necessary to actually get people into theaters. It's so difficult to actually convince folks to get out of their homes for filmed entertainment that it generally takes a $50-$80 MM ma
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Everything there is to know about startup competition.(medium.com)
3 points by danko 13y ago|0 comments
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by danko 14y ago
This is the sort of thing that makes me fear for the Parses, Kinveys, and StackMobs of the world. Today it's Azure -- how many tomorrows is it going to be before it's Amazon or Rackspace? Once the major cloud hosting players are in on the
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by danko 14y ago
The article makes an excellent point: you can really only demand "startup hours" out of your employees if you can offer "startup perks" (i.e. (a) an extremely favorable work environment, (b) interesting work, and (c) the possibility of the
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by danko 14y ago
No matter how fulfilling or worthwhile something is, there will always be tedious parts. Always . It's a refusal to accept this that prevents people from completing tasks -- they hit the inevitable wave of tedium, and they can't grind thr

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