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tss

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About tss

Email and Jabber: tss@timsally.com

Recent public activity

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    Comment #281005

    I'll preface with saying that I am 18 and I support lowering the drinking age, but there is a fallacy that needs to be pointed out. A common argument is that if you are old enough …

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    Comment #275549

    I suggest you capitalize on your studied profession (music). Music and programming is an uncommon set of interests, and if you can talk about the parallels you see between them, it…

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    Comment #273522

    I'm curious if anyone can translate the letter from Google's legal department?

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    Comment #263473

    Stuff like this belongs on Reddit :-/

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    Comment #261429

    This is certainly much less significant then giving preferential page rank. Google controls what over two thirds of people see through search. If it doesn't appear on the first 3 p…

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    Comment #260131

    There is certainly solid legal ground for arguing that Google giving preferential search results to itself is an anticompetitive practice. It would be different if Google didn't co…

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    Comment #260024

    If they don't get the issue of Knol pagerank sorted out soon, they are going to be hit with a massive anti trust lawsuit. And they are going to lose. I'm curious as to why everyone…

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    Comment #258939

    Three major problems that I see right off the bat: 1.) Quality of Search-- In order to be successful, the quality of their search must be at least as good as Google (obviously it m…

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    Comment #258936

    Reddit is open source as well: http://code.reddit.com/ .

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    Comment #258862

    I'm not impressed so far. A search for "linux find and replace multiple files" returned zero results. On google it returns 280,000. Further reducing the query to "find and replace …

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    Ask YC: Share Your Lisp Resources

    All, I am an editor at the Open Directory Project (http://www.dmoz.org). For those that are unfamiliar with the project, it is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited director…

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    Comment #252141

    I usually just put my email into an image and leave it at that. As previous people have said though, it is only a matter of time before your email gets on some lift. Ultimately it …

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    Comment #251816

    Great visual design. Throw together a "getting started" or a "features" page with screen shots of the functionality that the website offers. In my opinion this is something that Wo…

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    Comment #251766

    I think this image really says a lot about the challenges an entrepreneur there with an idea there faces: http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/InternetMap/medium/wor...

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    Ask HN: Do Companies Tie Digital and Physical Security Together?

    This is a question for those with industry experience out there. I imagine that major companies today are concerned about their computer security. From my understanding, it is not …