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by verysimple 15y ago
The title of this story is over the top. The document confirms nothing. It says "someone claimed some flying saucers have been recovered. We decided it's a matter not worth pursuing."
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by verysimple 15y ago
This law basically says that if you do e-commerce, you better not have your service hosted in France. If you're not hosted in France, you might as well not pay any taxes in the country. Nice playing french government, genius move.
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by verysimple 15y ago
I don't know why your answer was downvoted, you are spot on.
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by verysimple 15y ago
Notice that many of these services offer copyrighted contents online. I think the primary issues they had with doing business outside the U.S. is that there are less copyrighted laws to adequately protect the material and that sort of busin
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by verysimple 15y ago
and would probably be cheaper.
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by verysimple 15y ago
direct link to the google preview http://docs.google.com/gview?url=https%3A%2F%2Finformation-t...
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by verysimple 15y ago
I'm not a typographer, but I am a reader and I don't agree with his opinion that the list with hanging bullets makes it more legible. I find them slightly confusing. Maybe it's my programming background, but it just makes sense to indent so
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by verysimple 15y ago
This wikipedia article shed some light, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoid , but yes that seems to be a more accurate depiction of the physical Earth. Pictures of planets taken from outter space, usually also capture the gases trapped by t
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by verysimple 15y ago
No he's suggesting to allow people to log in with their email and let them pick whatever username/nickname they want. Think Stackoverflow for example.
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by verysimple 15y ago
It's not too late to change its name.
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by verysimple 16y ago
Come on young rubyist. embrace the dark side. You will like it. /jk I adopted Python because I was told Ruby is the dark side. oO
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by verysimple 16y ago
I had a reply that said a few things along those line, deleted it. Yours is much better. Just wanted to add a few things: 1- some contributions in this world are only accidentally world changing (see various open-source software). They we
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by verysimple 16y ago
In this context it is. There may be some serious implications when saying that x or y pattern in language z is considered harmful. In Java accessors are almost mandatory if you intend for your object's properties to be publicly available (e
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by verysimple 16y ago
Also, many (not all of them) designers don't understand the difficulties of usability, and sometimes mistakes it with "shiny". Usability of a desktop application is way more complex than a website[...] I think usability is a blend of user
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by verysimple 16y ago
Zed Shaw has some guidelines about that http://learnpythonthehardway.org . You'll learn some basic programming in a very good and versatile language. I learned web programming a few years ago. In my opinion, I gained about a 3 weeks head-s
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by verysimple 16y ago
How about having a news thread dedicated to articles considered off-topic, that yet still manage to garner enough interest from the HN crowd. That of course does not nullify the guidelines, people should keep posting using their best judgme
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by verysimple 16y ago
Hahaha man, are you a comedian? I can't even downvote you. Why would you think I would care to? lol.
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by verysimple 16y ago
Looking at that thread, I think I understand what's going on, which was really not very clear from your intervention. I thought you were being petty about terminology. I could not understand why you were bugging me for my use of the term g
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by verysimple 16y ago
I just told you I was not trying to be literal. I used the term because the assumption is that HN is for good hackers in the sense that it is employed in the guidelines, intellectually curious people. Obviously this is seriously bugging y
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by verysimple 16y ago
Eh, I try to be a nice guy, I like to assume the best of most people. Of course the voters are good hackers.
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by verysimple 16y ago
Dude, I'm just another HN reader who decided to support this cause. If you made a point in your original message, I most certainly did miss it. You have issues with paypal and email? That's your prerogative. Maybe Geohot didn't expect peopl
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by verysimple 16y ago
I don't think I have a problem with it yet, because I'm rationalizing. It somehow makes sense. I'm not sure I would feel the same if someone I cared for decided this would be the solution to their problem though. I suspect many people will
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by verysimple 16y ago
Taken from http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: a
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by verysimple 16y ago
You know, nowadays opening a random one-time email account takes less than 5 minutes. Just go to hotmail and register as oks03wsdjf. You can do that and find out how you can donate.
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by verysimple 16y ago
It would also be good to let Sony itself know this. So that when they wonder why their sales went down, they wouldn't pretend to attribute it only to competition and market trends.
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by verysimple 16y ago
The problem with blaming a mob is exactly that. You're blaming a 7 year old and you can't really point a finger. I suppose blaming the victim is easier. It allows people to cope with an injustice that has them wonder what they would do if i
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by verysimple 16y ago
Somehow I feel for the Chinese government (not really). They're caught between a rock and a really hard place. On one hand they have to control the flow of info over 1.5 billion people and it's getting increasingly hard. With every piece th
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by verysimple 16y ago
The analogy is actually directed more to the "slow down people's engagement on the site" part of the sentence. The part about people opening anonymous account is a fantasy that presumes that people care. We've been spammed through email f
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by verysimple 16y ago
Given that many entrepreneurs just keep failing and then trying again and again and again it doesn't make much sense to me at all. There is no risk. I used to work for a web design shop. My fellow programmers and I hated the fact that our
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by verysimple 16y ago
To answer the question: No. ... That alone isn't going to derail the Facebook juggernaut, but it might slow down people's engagement on the site as they realize maybe a private, unknown email account is a better way of sending sensitive me

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