kb101

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by kb101 15y ago
Well if it works for you, then more power to you. For me, I'm not here or on any other message board to "get shit done"... if I am getting shit done then I'm not surfing the Internet, by definition. I come to sites like this to learn stuff
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by kb101 15y ago
I agree with the poster 100%. Originally I was very enthusiastic about the site, and happy I had found it, but ultimately I realized that every time I visited or attempted to add my input to a thread, I came away feeling depressed and/or a
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by kb101 15y ago
This must be the only place on the web where saying thank you gets you pissed on. I'm going back to lurking, can't figure this place out. Please downvote my "karma" to zero & adios.
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by kb101 15y ago
You make a compelling point. But not everyone has such a thick skin or is that relaxed about getting vented on... maybe if downvoting cost karma and there was a karma threshold for being the recipient of a downvote? That could be intere
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by kb101 15y ago
The cool thing about crashing the HN conference is you don't have to go to school for twelve years to pick up some tools and start hacking away (pardon the double entendre).
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by kb101 15y ago
The other thoughts I had on this subject are a little more radical but I'll say them anyway: why not get rid of downvoting entirely? I'm a new enough user that downvoting isn't even an option for me and I can't say that I miss it. This si
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by kb101 15y ago
Hacker News seems to be evolving and becoming many things to many users. Why not leverage that instead of trying to restrict it? Regardless of whether things are "on topic" or not, the site has two things going for it that other communiti
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by kb101 15y ago
This is great stuff, thanks very much for posting this.
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by kb101 15y ago
I guess the message that this sort of moderation (whether done by human or by algorithm) sends is "don't come here unless you already fully understand and appreciate the ethos and mission of this site, and don't post unless your contributio
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by kb101 15y ago
As a new user, I can say that what attracted me to the site is its quality and the number of links that lead me to the edges of my understanding of a given topic... I feel pushed to learn more. At the same time, I would like to contribute a
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by kb101 15y ago
The line of reasoning applied here escapes me. In what way are the hardware and consulting business lines distractions to one another? It's like saying a car company's manufacturing business is going to get distracted by the company racin
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by kb101 15y ago
Unfortunately, the board is close to dysfunctional. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/22/us-hp-board-insigh... http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/22/business/voting-to-hire-a-...
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by kb101 15y ago
With all due respect, "worth more separate" is a destructive business philosophy. Unless your line of business is buying up other companies, building up value, and spinning them off. Be that as it may, the differences between IBM and HP ar
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Hackers could have taken over AWS(theregister.co.uk)
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Steve Jobs Watches Over Us(watchedbysteve.tumblr.com)
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by kb101 15y ago
That graph doesn't really pack any punch. Leaving politics to one side, this graph http://www.lcurve.org/ and this article http://www.vanityfair.com/society/features/2011/05/top-one-p... have more interesting numbers that better highli
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by kb101 15y ago
Not at all. Setting up trusts like this is what family offices do for wealthy people. The goal is to legally structure everything so that the total tax bill is minimized. High net worth individuals never just have a big fat bank account a
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by kb101 15y ago
What amazes me is that we are seeing this happen around us so rapidly; near-total automation is on the visible horizon. "At some point there is not a lot left to do" reminds me of the story "With Folded Hands" by Jack Williamson. http://w
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by kb101 15y ago
And while Amazon is stuck with maintaining both computer and physical infrastructure, Google will have effectively offloaded the physical infrastructure to the free market. Not only that, but while Amazon must seek economies of scale and e
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by kb101 15y ago
This set me to imagining: every item in the store is dropped into a box before being put on the shelf. The box contains cameras on every interior face to snap a set of 360° views of the item. The UPC code is scanned and entered into inven
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by kb101 15y ago
Engadget has the side-by-side specs up now: http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/26/nokia-lumia-800-vs-nokia-...
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by kb101 15y ago
I recall working at a growing company that suddenly stopped blowing its forecasts out of the water and sales began to tank (part of an overall market downturn). C-level executives were slaughtered and we were soon treated to a blustery, mi
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by kb101 15y ago
Dang! Blackberry even has to take shots in a Nokia thread? Well, allow me to retort! At least Blackberry has copy and paste! And network security! And BBM! And, um... that's all I got. It seems to be de rigeur to hate on Blackberry
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by kb101 15y ago
Interestingly enough, the only big thing they really missed was the rise of the personal computer and the Internet.
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by kb101 15y ago
Your sentiment is clearly well-meant, but that course of action just as well could result in a disaster as it could a happy outcome. From a data aggregation perspective, it is (unpleasantly) fascinating to me that a programming choice in an
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by kb101 15y ago
Phone numbers and addresses are fast becoming like email addresses. In the same way that you can assume putting your email address into any website form that requests it will eventually result in spam, putting your phone number into any ph
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by kb101 15y ago
One interesting tech angle to this story and the other wars in the Middle East (Iraq and Afghanistan): the rise of remote-controlled warfare. http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/middle-east/... Comparing Iraq, a messy invasio
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by kb101 15y ago
Wow, that is cool. A sentient testing grid to take over the world, built of custom Legos made from balsa wood. I want one. Never mind selling to Fortune 500 companies, you should offer these as kits on the Maker Shed Store for individual
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by kb101 15y ago
This guy is being way too hard on himself. Running out of cash is hard and painful enough, no need to unduly heap blame upon oneself. If people at IBM were talking to him about a deal, then they weren't doing it to coddle his startup or b
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by kb101 15y ago
Cnet's article calls the memo "highly critical" but it seems pretty clear that he wasn't trying to rant so much as issue what he sees as a clarion call to action at a company he loves... and he took care to begin by praising Google for doin

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