jcroberts

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by jcroberts 16y ago
First of all, WELCOME! I don't profess to know a perfect path for you, but the basics for HN are fairly simple, and they also apply to learning lingo and the areas in which they are used (programming, marketing, seo, finance, ...). 0.) Read
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by jcroberts 16y ago
Paul, I noticed some of the people posting edits/fixes (spelling, line break) got down-voted, and others wanted to argue/disagree about it. Silly. Personally, I like having others point out my mistakes; it's the best way for me to know abou
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by jcroberts 16y ago
This is not a complaint, but simply a bug report. With javascript disabled, if you type something in the provided text box and hit enter, you end up with an error message: Not Found The requested URL /projects/autotag/php/search.php w
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by jcroberts 16y ago
I still prefer the hem line indicator. ;)
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by jcroberts 16y ago
cperciva, there are actually two common scams involving charities and paypal. The first is the risk of people donating to fake charities as you mentioned. The second is the risk of criminals using stolen credit cards to make donations to ch
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by jcroberts 16y ago
The article wasn't very useful compared to blog posts by google itself, but the discussions on what google can "understand" always reminds me of this: http://www.fun-images.com/thumbs/25-my-fucking-keysbig.jpg
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by jcroberts 16y ago
I wish it wasn't such an unpleasant shock for so many people, but very few people even think about how something actually works and the risk models being used. In the case of paypal Max Levchin (sp?) created a brilliant fraud detection (ris
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by jcroberts 16y ago
Ahhh, though you said "corporate account," I'm betting you actually mean a "Merchant Services" account. There are actually a number of different types of paypal accounts, each with their own set of rules and features. Paypal --very intentio
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by jcroberts 16y ago
> unfortunately paypal would not authorize any > payments (from my credit cards!) until they > had a confirmed (and thus accessible) bank > account. Please elaborate. I'm not sure what you mean by this, and there may be (
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by jcroberts 16y ago
jacquesm, There are two potential solutions. The first is having a separate bank account specifically for use with paypal. This gives your "real" bank accounts some degree of separation from the at-risk account you've used to become "verifi
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by jcroberts 16y ago
Some of this was covered by Dan Ariely in his TED talk on the "Predictably Irrational." http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_ariely_asks_are_we_in_control_o...
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by jcroberts 16y ago
I realize English is not your first language, but on this particular topic, one must be VERY careful with the terms you use. In classic rhetoric, the ability to control and define the terms is the means to control and define the argument.
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by jcroberts 16y ago
I don't know why you were down-voted, but I agree with what you seem to _mean_ even though your use of strong rhetoric distracts from your point. The trouble is one can define "institutionalized theft" as either widespread "illegal" sharing
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by jcroberts 16y ago
Votes, either up or down, are an expression of perceived value to the user. If I write something and you extend the time and effort to read it, then you will have an opinion of its merit based on your experience. Did I waste your time and e
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by jcroberts 16y ago
> Does it bother anyone else that piracy would force > an arbitrary low price point for books? > ... > Piracy is preventing the market from establishing a real > clearing price for books; In the above question about bein
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by jcroberts 16y ago
Seems like you were starved for attention and couldn't answer your own questions, so you decided to waive your female bait, twice, to see if you can sucker any of the dorks into helping you with your homework. Congrats on nailing two sucker
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by jcroberts 16y ago
If you want device specs for the Verizon Apple iPhone: http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=specs&id=2548&c=verizon... The database at pdadb.net has specs on a number of "known but unreleased" devices.
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by jcroberts 16y ago
uggh! The term "permanent" means "timeless," so a "timeless work" is the same as a work with "permanent impact." As for me, I can do genus quality work, and occasionally I can even do species quality work. ;)
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Company Structure And Scaling(bhorowitz.com)
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by jcroberts 16y ago
Beautiful. Absolutely Beautiful. It would be wonderful if it was implemented here on HN. Instead of having a page full of "Angel-Gate" stories, there would be only one, and it would include all the others. Similar for every other duplicate
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by jcroberts 16y ago
If even if reitzensteinm was talking about capacity-per-watt, he's still wrong. The specific drive he mentioned was the "Raptor" model but that's an old, slow, small (150G) and power hungry (9.5W) disk. The newer WD "VelociRaptor" 10K RPM d
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by jcroberts 16y ago
>In terms of online gigabytes per watt, SSDs will >lose out badly to traditional hard drives. Incorrect. You forgot time. Think about it this way (with very rough numbers); The traditional Raptor drive will move data at 7
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by jcroberts 16y ago
> And the "hackers as founders" thing is kinda > what Y Combinator is all about, yes? The only person qualified to answer this question is Paul Graham himself. If you read his essays, as well as the various FAQ's and simi
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by jcroberts 16y ago
It seems you misunderstood my statement. I never called your post irrelevant. In fact, it is relevant for this site. --I should have made it a bit more clear. On this site, "hackers as founders" is a strongly expressed correlation, and henc
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by jcroberts 16y ago
I will not say you are "wrong," in fact, I see your side of it, but you need to accept the fact that language changes ever so slowly. More precisely, language is self-encrypting. For example, you're posting to "hacker news" when this has no
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by jcroberts 16y ago
I mostly wanted to say I've enjoyed your blog in recent weeks, but only through your HN submissions (I'm not one to "follow" a blog). I know very little about monetizing web sites, so even I would not follow my own advice without having som
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by jcroberts 16y ago
Bastards! ;)
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by jcroberts 16y ago
> asteroid collusion I mean no offense, but that was one of the most hilariously accurate typos I've ever seen.
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by jcroberts 16y ago
"Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation." --Douglas Adams
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by jcroberts 16y ago
You might want to note that the most common "lorem ipsum" you find as filler text is actually an incorrect quoting of a work by Cicero. The actual text from Cicero might yield better results.

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