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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…

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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 ea…

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 …

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 expres…

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 prod…

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 a…

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 organizatio…

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 …

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 cho…

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 …

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 …

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.

> 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. Clou…

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…

Arguably Posterous fits this criterion.

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…

Which one is "hacker" and which one is "developer"?

> 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 …

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 retr…

> 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 …

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" compatib…

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 …

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 readin…

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 yo…