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Cost. I run a small Chicago area “private” meetup (in the sense that one needs to be invited, it’s not publicly advertised) for small business owners. We do workshops on how to adv…

Oh my goodness, thank you! I have been searching for a source of the small icons as an example to show the computing classes I lecture, and I finally found my rotating favorite one…

+1, I would be interested. I think you should check out the Light Table kickstarter[0] which originally had a similar premise to yours, and raised several hundred thousand dollars.…

Unread RSS Reader. Godawful poll timing. 6103 requests in 52 days is about one poll every 736 seconds _on average_, but they're hugely spread out. WTF? Put it this way: the list of…

Surprised nobody has mentioned it, but my favorite movie of his was Pride and Prejudice 2005 edition. He plays the father role extremely well - you can feel the emotion in the room…

> If you understand that this is primarily an exercise in marketing and not tech, then you'll be on your way A solid gold insight right there. I graduated into a bad economy as wel…

It is what happened to each of the wives of King Henry the 8th. It's a famous rhyme intended to make it easy to remember the order of what happened to them: https://en.wikipedia.or…

I don’t necessarily know if the famous graph is accurate - I don’t think the divergence in beliefs is so extreme as that graph indicates, but it is undeniably true that on a worldw…

This article strongly reminded me of the "helicrane" system developed by NASA for the last Mars probe, which oriented itself by recognizing the terrain below it and using that to o…

Glad to see someone else had that problem too - I spent hours reading through the Twilio documentation to try to figure out if transactional sms was allowed because all I kept seei…

A pretty insightful look at how Google thinks about its ads - I was surprised by the System Challenges slide - it looks as if they’re having hardware concerns about the Ads fleet? …

There is one thing you should always remember: Never accept responsibility, without the authority to change things. You are being given the responsibility to manage all of this, wi…

Argonne is a highly regarded national lab; results from there would be highly credible. Also an Argonne staffer has gone on record[0] saying that they're attempting to replicate, w…

>Would you live in an apartment 15 feet wide and 50 feet deep? For laughs, I just measured the width of my home's hallways and rooms. I don't see why 15x50 feet apartment isn't doa…

Quote from article: Reddit CEO Steve Huffman… is apparently unaware that Reddit's success is because of the posts by the users that use the service in all of its forms If Reddit st…

Millennial: same feeling here. When I talk to people of my parents generation they always talk about how cars let them roam about and give them freedom. I never felt the same way, …

I’ve been in and out of the Wordpress ecosystem for almost the last 20 years. Most “developers” on Wordpress/woo commerce/other popular wordpress plugins are very limited in what t…

Very inventive. Admittedly when I read the first few paragraphs, I was thinking “he’s got to have $40K of iPhones doing image processing” but you made a good point about being able…

A good, reliable api to archive web pages in multiple formats and extract the article text. The best are very expensive - look up Diffbot, it’s the best I’ve found but at $299 a mo…

+1 Would be happy to come as well.

Not knowing anything about Italy myself, can you expand or link to something describing the problems? Would like to learn more.

+1. Would strongly encourage a gofundme for this. I know many HNers including myself would be happy to pitch in to help retire any debt you have remaining from this.

> As someone who is speaking with a handful of people stuck in this situation, what direction should I guide them towards Get experience. By any way possible. Have them build an on…

I once interviewed at Northern Trust for a programmer role. Interview was 2 hours long divided into 4 - 30 minute segments each with different interviewers. None of the interviewer…