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The only concrete use case you've offered “is unlikely to deliver substantial gains to the industry when compared to alternatives” such as shared databases, which don't require any…

This is exactly what the website of BILD, a major German tabloid, is doing. They will not serve you content if they detect an ad blocker.

I regularly hear that if I could install it on my own server argument and wonder if you think you can handle security and administration much better than someone who's paid to do i…

If you solve an unknown problem (ie. an issue nobody is concerned about) you will have a very hard time to market it and show people how they need it. There were solutions for this…

The author procures a scenario in which Google is going to collapse rather sooner than later. The last numbers I heard from Google reported an upwards trend in revenue [1] and with…

I guess that caused more trouble for your dad than it did for the shop owner, economically at least. Plus he would probably brag about your dad to other shop owners. (I agree that …

While true there might be a slight portion of outcome bias -- the tendency to judge a decision by its eventual outcome instead of based on the quality of the decision at the time i…

That search engine is still Google’s most important and profitable product, to my knowledge. While I agree that its search engine is its most popular product it is not profitable i…

> I haven't came across anything I need them to do that hasn't been covered in some plugin somewhere. If you cannot name at least 5 things you dislike about the tools and languages…

The ideas brought up on that site are frequently gamed in the pickup scene. Crash 'n' Burn is the practice of trying impossible sets (ie. girls) with the assumption of being reject…

I believe your claims but is there any evidence to back it up (and is that possible on fuzzy metrics such as palpable sense of disconnect )? From your other comments I understand y…

Duplicate of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1750728

I think you are overdramatizing Facebook's importance quite a little bit here. It's not like your friends will hate you when you quit and I have seen plenty of people quit online s…

If I understand correctly, Ruby our universe with algo's and math's (Rouwam) tries to bundle all algorithms obtained from Wikipedia as a Ruby package. I'm unsure about the handines…

He doesn't: It's too bad you don't have any income, because if you did, you could write off all kinds of startup expenses as a business expense. (emphasis added)

He basically says: Do not let fear overwhelm you. Just do it. Listen to paying customers. Then just do it. And drugs.

A property which is exposed by the article's solution too: >>> x = (lambda: (yield 1))() # generator with one step >>> y = tuple(x)[0] >>> y 1 >>> list(x) # exhausted [] >>> x = (l…

shameless plug I have been working on a similar thing in the last few days: http://github.com/lehmannro/commithero It's based on the commit history rather than local actions and sh…

I'm genuinely interested: is there anything I don't spot or which is not yet rolled out to my account about Google Contacts? If I remember correctly it is a standalone site for qui…

Assume that the caller or user is an idiot I think this is not helpful at all, probably harmful. There might be use cases for my code I did not even think about and third-party pro…