gabrielroth

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by gabrielroth 15y ago
Do you have a soul at all?
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by gabrielroth 15y ago
Other things being equal, more choice might be better. But other things aren't equal, thanks to (a) economies of scale, which make insurance cheaper for larger pools, and (b) favorable tax treatment for health insurance when it's part of em
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by gabrielroth 15y ago
The words 'Software Developer' are in 260% type at the top of the page. If they're looking to weed out unsuitable candidates, TLDR might be a feature rather than a bug.
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by gabrielroth 15y ago
Oh hey no you're right, sorry.
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by gabrielroth 15y ago
That's from the next post. Were you reading in Safari Reader? It's running the posts together ...
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by gabrielroth 15y ago
That doesn't surprise me at all. What would surprise me would be if he copied the actual text provided for him by a PR firm, as the OP suggested Lohr had done. Like every other daily newspaper, the Times produces some rushed, lazy journal
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by gabrielroth 15y ago
I'm not defending the story as a masterpiece of journalism or anything, and I'm sure it was pitched to the reporter by an interested party. But you shouldn't blame 'such clunkers as "To generate story 'angles,' explains Mr. Hammond of Narra
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by gabrielroth 15y ago
The idea from the book that seems most obsolete to me is that a web startup founder could gain a competitive advantage by using Lisp. (Not that a Lisp might not be the best choice, but your competitors are more likely to be using it too, an
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by gabrielroth 15y ago
The poster above was asking specifically about software patents.
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When are patents obvious?(juliansanchez.com)
2 points by gabrielroth 15y ago|0 comments
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by gabrielroth 15y ago
Well, smart people have made that argument ( http://www.amazon.com/Life-You-Can-Save-Poverty/dp/140006710... ) but it's not the argument I'm making.
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by gabrielroth 15y ago
I comment on HN because I enjoy it. But I suspect that some people add money to Jonathan's Card because it gives them a feeling of virtue. I'd like to interfere with that feeling.
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by gabrielroth 15y ago
Thanks for the response. My question wasn't really directed at you—I can see all kinds of ways you could justify the project, including just curiosity. My question was for the people who are putting money on the card. I hope one of your o
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by gabrielroth 15y ago
I'm kind of playing devil's advocate here and kind of not: How can you justify spending $n to buy coffee for someone with a smartphone instead of donating $n to someone with fewer resources and greater needs?
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by gabrielroth 15y ago
A meta-comment on the answers to this question: For various reasons, a disproportionate number of HN commenters are fans of "Austrian School" economics. You'll see links to papers from mises.org, books by Murray Rothbard, etc. Without passi
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Consumer surplus from the internet(marginalrevolution.com)
2 points by gabrielroth 15y ago|0 comments
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by gabrielroth 15y ago
Re your point one: This service wasn't for help with what an American would call term papers. It was for help with exams , which you have to write yourself (unless you hire someone to impersonate you, which I'm sure is not unheard of in bi
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by gabrielroth 15y ago
Here's something that's easy to forget: Everyone else at a Hackspace or a meetup or a user group is there for the same reason as you. If they just wanted to write a bunch of code they'd be at home in their bedroom. If they go to one of thes
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by gabrielroth 15y ago
Good comment; I agree with almost all of it. I would add, though, that it would also be possible to invent a legislative solution that's not absurdly narrow, for instance by providing an inexpensive and reasonably prompt means of arbitratio
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by gabrielroth 15y ago
My understanding is that the person who asked that question wants to measure the value YC is adding, separate from YC's ability to select promising teams. Obviously there's no way to separate those things, so s/he suggested an absurd experi
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by gabrielroth 15y ago
This is an issue that comes up over and over. The real problem is a mismatch of supply and demand: there are lots of ideas out there, and not enough developer hours to bring them all to fruition, so a guy with an idea will need to offer mor
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by gabrielroth 15y ago
Just responding to your 'for once': U.S. publishers have long had this kind of trouble with Canadian obscenity standards. In many ways the U.S.'s free-speech regime is pretty broad-minded compared with other western democracies. I suspect y
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by gabrielroth 15y ago
> So we're discouraging asking questions now? That's a troubling stance. It seems pretty obvious that some questions are better not posted on a discussion site, because they bring down the value of the conversation.
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by gabrielroth 15y ago
You might want to put 'Hacker News' in the app's title, though.
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by gabrielroth 15y ago
That's one way in which a discussion community like HN is different from an open-source product-user community.
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by gabrielroth 15y ago
He's a product guy. He would have run some kind of company making some kind of consumer-electronics item that would attempt to be the best in its class. Without the talent, resources, brand, and exposure of Apple to work with, he might or m
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by gabrielroth 15y ago
It's an idea that was discussed here recently, and its adoption by Google is a sign that it's got some traction in high-profile places.
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by gabrielroth 15y ago
I think the post makes the distinction very clearly. First we hear about Netflix doing this surprising thing on purpose. Then we hear about the Stack Exchange guys pulling out their hair to fix a recurring problem. But "even in our time of
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by gabrielroth 15y ago
Good thing it has them for comments!
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by gabrielroth 15y ago
You're confusing dynamic range compression with digital file compression. Totally different things. The only thing they have in common is that they make something smaller.

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