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Was the query for a domain name or just hacker+news? How do we know? Does make any difference? I don't think of this site as "Hacker News". I think of it as ycombinator, and the su…

How about the CFL?

Oh, the humanity!

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What is evolution? Is it adding features? (to use the software lingo) Or is it subtracting ones that have no real benefit, striving toward greater efficiency? Like terse lines of c…

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Well, this is why NFL Films and the old programs they produced in the 70's and 80's are so cool. NFL Films had it all. Every angle, every sound plus the all-22. They could do the f…

I'm guessing the reason this was downvoted was the first paragraph. It was meant as sarcasm. Bing fans on HN I did not expect.

Perhaps it's worth considering that if a new network is extremely slow compared to the present "expensive name brand hardware"-powered internet then it might not attract as much at…

In your opinion.

I'd still take the bet. In the world of bacteria, there is no need for the SEC, lawyers or fear of liability. It's the fact that their needs are so few - they can seemingly live al…

It takes balls to say anything bad about Javascript, CSS and "web apps", especially to an audience full of web designers. If I could upvote you I would. But my browser does not sup…

Great example of an idea that was initially widely rejected only to be later widely accepted. How many times does that happen in science? Seems to me that the biological reality is…

Not protocols, but usage. Not emotion, but common sense. If Skype, a peer to peer network that uses a proprietary protocol and third party servers (neither of which is a prerequisi…

I read that Xerox did this between two of their buildings many years ago. Apparently it ran across some portion of a motorway and they had to turn if off occassionally. I've forgot…

I think it comes down to what the goals are. If the goal is to connect peer to peer with a small group of people you know in person and can trust, I see great potential. People con…

Blocking is not done via robots.txt. It would more likely be IP-based. Impossible to block Google? Probably true. But only because they have been allowed to grow so large as to be …

If you want to build a search engine, there's no need to crawl the web. Just crawl Google. That's what Microsoft did. The inequities of crawling are in my opinion a huge issue with…

I find it amusing to read an article that talks about a potential 100bln IPO and at the same time asks how this company will make money. If that is still an open question then some…

One more try to get through to you then I'm giving up. Here goes. What are the arguments _against_ open source? What if someone says, "Open source means poor quality"? You can look…

Maybe simplicity is a choice. Imagine you consult with two colleagues asking for an explanation of a problem. Colleague 1 begins, "Well, it's complex, ...." Colleague 2 begins, "It…

No. I explained what I meant and you still don't seem to get it. Read what I said about the naysayers again. You asked for the historical evidence I mentioned and I gave you the ex…

I agree with this, although I'd go even further. If this app's sole purpose is to retrieve a couple of numbers (surface temperature and relative humidity) why do we need graphics? …