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by durbin 7y ago
You may downvote me all you wish, I stick by my comment. haha. These are really bad takes.
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by durbin 7y ago
Reading these comments has actually made everyone in the room less intelligent.
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by durbin 7y ago
Wikibuy was already acquired by Capital One.
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by durbin 7y ago
AutoCAD is a 3D program. Electrical and Mechanical Engineers that work in the AEC industry use AutoCAD. "Bridge Builders" aka structural engineers use AutoCAD.
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by durbin 7y ago
A lot more professions use AutoCAD than just Architects. Mechanical Engineers, Structural Engineers, Electrical Engineers, Aerospace Engineers, etc.
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by durbin 9y ago
You can get one from a local 7-11 or store in your area. Currently just in California and Texas but should be in most locations shortly. https://www.soylent.com/stores/
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by durbin 10y ago
Also, my friend's mom, Ms. Akans, cosigned my loan for my first computer when I went to college.
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by durbin 10y ago
My mom was a court transcriptionist so that she could work from home and take care of my brother and I. Even though we hovered around the poverty line I had 24/7 computer access from the age of seven.
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by durbin 11y ago
Source code link?
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by durbin 11y ago
Abbott Nutrition and other meal replacement drinks DO NOT provide you with a nutritionally complete meal, Soylent does. It is as simple as that.
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by durbin 11y ago
Whenever I hear anyone talk about Soylent as a utilitarian product made for boring people it always makes me think of the Volkswagen Beetle. Everyone initially thought they were utilitarian cars and only boring people should buy them, until
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by durbin 11y ago
I always get that I look younger by like 10 years but this algorithm nailed it exactly. Bummer.
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by durbin 11y ago
Scoreboards will take a bit longer to react than the announcers and goal horn.
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by durbin 12y ago
"One of the most frequent questions I get from journalists during interviews is “how do you have time to do everything you do? You run Fon, you are an active angel investor in so many companies, you teach at Columbia University, speak
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by durbin 12y ago
How one extremely successful entrepreneur manages his time. - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8574978
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How one extremely successful entrepreneur manages his time(english.martinvarsavsky.net)
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by durbin 12y ago
I appreciate people that follow the Charles Bukowski mantra of life and "Find what you love and let it kill you." However, the most depressing part of this article was in the last paragraph where Melton says, "And so you have
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by durbin 12y ago
Someone needs to get the NYTimes data visualization team to clean this up. Doesn't do the enormity of the number justice by folding the last column into four columns when the rest are a single column.
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by durbin 12y ago
It is funny you mention this in regards to RapGenius because I always thought about how difficult this transition is for rappers themselves. If you build an audience as a rapper talking about the struggle then its difficult to maintain that
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by durbin 12y ago
Then 95% of the people on Reddit have had their lives destroyed.
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by durbin 12y ago
Many people consider the Finnish founder, Michael Widenius, to be the main author of MySQL and it was named after his daughter My. I would definitely consider it to be Finnish software at the very least equal to, if not more than, Swedish.
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by durbin 12y ago
Not as surprising when you realize that 95% of tech startups in Silicon Valley are built on a foundation of Finnish software - Linux and MySQL.
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by durbin 12y ago
Whether there are laws in place or not, at times it is much smarter to pick the candidate with lesser credentials that has higher upside potential. In sports the intelligent teams don't draft the guys that have the best statistics righ
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by durbin 13y ago
I would like to counter this advice by saying that I don't think acquiescing to the whims of walled garden rulers is the best solution. If your vision was to create what you have already created, how could you modify it to a product th
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by durbin 13y ago
I disagree, you don't need to say anything derogatory about Apple but saying that it is a blessing in disguise that Apple didn't let you into their walled garden when you have a much larger and open playground in Android is a very
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by durbin 13y ago
Forget Apple, make an Android app.
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by durbin 14y ago
No.
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by durbin 14y ago
Partner with a designer.
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by durbin 14y ago
Belgian papers sued Google a few years ago over similar uses of their content. It sort of backfired on them when google stopped crawling their pages. The internet and Google are more powerful than the German print media. http://blogs.wsj.
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by durbin 14y ago
This is exactly the same stance that allowed Netscape to win the browsers wars initially by being more user friendly. Arrogant and 'misguided' technical people wanting to see developers shamed for not conforming with strict HTML standards.

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