spokey

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by spokey 15y ago
Ya know, I'm usually a fan of alternative history and "what if" kinds of futurism, but these people can't be serious. A breakup of the United States, let alone one that sees the US divvied up between Canada, China, the European Union and
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by spokey 15y ago
Link?
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by spokey 15y ago
Hi Jori and Karri. Kippt does look promising. I have a little bit of a meta-question for you. Do you have any tips or advice you could share about getting covered on RWW with an early stage app? Based on a cursory look I think you'll agree
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by spokey 15y ago
It's less that no-one knows who _why is and more that good people everywhere don't bother to try to find out. The community is willing and able to support his preference to remain "anonymous". I assume with enough Googling around you could
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by spokey 15y ago
Are you a native English speaker? I'm not the OP here, but I'm curious if you've never heard the idiom or the if the idiom just rubs you the wrong way. > Replace god in this expression by gays, Allah, children, science, music, bits or w
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by spokey 15y ago
The importance of being able to actually reach potential customers, and how to do so profitably (ie. cost of acquisition). No matter how well you can covert or how sticky your product is, you need to be able to get to them first. Most hacke
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by spokey 15y ago
I have an ASUS (my second in the EEE line) with exactly the same keyboard. You get used to it, or at least I did. I actually think the chicklet-style keyboards on recent EEEs are among the best laptop keyboards I've used. A much bigger prob
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by spokey 15y ago
I'm not sure I understand what it would mean for this to be "a hoax". Someone made and released it, right? I thought the point of Anonymous is that it is not a specific organization or group. Whoever made this video could claim to speak fo
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by spokey 15y ago
I'm high on the introversion scale (and work from home, the cafe, etc. with some regularity) but I agree with the grandparent post. I like having a space dedicated to work and the ability to collaborate with my coworkers in person.
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by spokey 15y ago
While it seems self-evident that a willingness to plow thru obstacles is a good trait for entrepreneurs to have, I think the specific example selected for the article is a poor choice. I have a word for the kind of person that would volunt
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by spokey 15y ago
I hope this doesn't sound condescending because I'm very, very far from an expert in this field, but you might want to spend some time researching conventional methods of business valuation. I'm pretty sure your expectations are a little o
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by spokey 15y ago
I think this could be a valuable service, but $99/test seems quite high (compared to similar services targeting desktop instead mobile users). At $500 to run Nielsen's recommended 5 person test, running my own tests starts to look like a v
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by spokey 15y ago
I'm a little confused by your question. Are you looking to spend $100K or to generate $100K annually? If the latter, the company is probably "worth" 2 to 5 times $100K.
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by spokey 16y ago
> There are not 10 herokous or similar 1. Salesforce's Force.com 2. Amazon's EC2 3. Google's AppEngine 4. Microsoft's Windows Azure 5. VMWare/Salesforce's VMForce 6. Makara 7. CloudBees 8. PiCloud 9. PHPFog 10. DuoStack I'm not sure it'
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by spokey 16y ago
I'm a couple of years younger than Julian Assange and commonly use two spaces after each sentence, purely out of muscle memory. (I took a "keyboarding" class in 1987 or so using an IBM Selectric typewriter and that's the way I was taught t
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by spokey 16y ago
Arguably Posterous fits this criterion.
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by spokey 16y ago
I'll suggest that the other stuff causes enterprise software to be of low quality. Not all enterprise software sucks, although much of it does. Often there are non-sucky options in the space, but they have less market share in no small pa
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by spokey 16y ago
Which one is "hacker" and which one is "developer"?
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by spokey 16y ago
> If you only give someone a public key, > how can they authenticate you based > on that? You must be giving them some > piece of private data, or else anyone > could authenticate as you. That's not quite the way it
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by spokey 16y ago
If I'm using it right, it looks like more than 7.5 million papers were submitted to PubMed in this 10 year period. Only 0.01% of all papers were retracted and only 0.003% were retracted due to "fraud". This seems like an exceedingly small
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by spokey 16y ago
> Also, there are major trademark, patent, and copyright issues that need to be settled before anybody can safely fork Java and stop adhering to the spec. One would certainly have trademark issues with the name Java, but I'm not certain
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by spokey 16y ago
I thought that went the other way: you need a patent license to author and/or run the TCK. You can create a Java compatible VM (many have) but you can't run the "official" compatibility test without Sun's, now Oracle's permission, and there
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by spokey 16y ago
I haven't been active with Java for more than 5 years, and I haven't been active in the ASF for longer than that so I may be missing some of the nuance here, but isn't it possible maybe even probable that this is simply the point where Java
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by spokey 16y ago
For what it is worth I'm pretty sure Land of Lisp author Conrad Barski is an HN user as well. I think we talked at an HN meetup (but I don't know his id offhand). If you are reading this Conrad, congrats! The book looks great and seems very
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by spokey 16y ago
I agree. It's clearly not something that can be entirely reduced to formulas and numerical relationships. Moreover, an intuitive "design sense" is probably faster and will carry you farther than any set of specific guidelines. But this does
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by spokey 16y ago
Precisely. This is the typographic equivalent of advising "don't use colors that clash" without specifying what "clashing" means. I actually think you could teach objective if subtle rules about this (for instance, compare the lowercase 'n'
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by spokey 16y ago
No. Just to add to the list of alternatives, I don't know where you live but several states have some sort of "talented and gifted" magnet school that might be more challenging/engaging for you. Many cities do as well, but you're probably w
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by spokey 16y ago
Spot on. I missed the 2 part, which makes this question much more interesting. By the way, I think I do could it in one drop; drop one from floor 1. If it breaks the answer is 0, else 1 because I don't think many eggs could survive a tw
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by spokey 16y ago
Their statistics cover a much more engaging domain than most.
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by spokey 16y ago
Is the answer you're looking for a binary search algorithm, or do you have some lateral thinking solution in mind?

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