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villagefool

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    Comment #4738172

    A similar 'thing' done using SMS (by Hilary Mason in 2010), code included http://www.hilarymason.com/blog/sms-to-e-mail-gateway-the-sm...

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    Comment #4735473

    Putting aside the issue of posting about oneself, I wonder if there is research data whether not keeping track of others/society makes one less achieving or more...

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    Comment #4620424

    Where can I get that shirt?

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    Comment #4225874

    Agreed, the actuall time measurements are missing for the comparison.

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    Comment #4144044

    By the way, how much of this post is IndexTank's own story?

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    Comment #4143928

    A bit ironic that he sarcastically referees to HN as "Hacker Noise" but then at the end invites people to discuss the post on it.

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    Comment #4116082

    >> - put media specific folders in the public folder (maybe at different price tiers) and turn it into a flickr/soundcloud/youtube competitor! Is it really a good idea to open mult…

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    Ask HN: Event loop vs. Threads

    Hello, At my work place we have a lot of legacy C++ code that uses threads to parallelize things. We are considering to switch to Node.js and searching for sources comparing the Ev…

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    Comment #3948620

    Interesting service, never heard of it. I am actually looking for a library/framework rather than service, I was hoping there is some "visual editor" for defining what to scrape/cr…

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    Ask HN: Web crawler generator

    I am looking for a web crawler generator, that I could prototype what I would like to crawl using a visual dom explorer type of interface, is there such a thing? anything recommend…

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    Comment #3946194

    But that doesn't explain why Python and not C#. Can't a C# programmer be up-and-running with Python in a day or two too?

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    Comment #3939812

    "After that Gmvault will automatically authenticate itself using the credentials stored in $HOME/.gmvault (or %HOME%/.gmvault for Windows). " how are the credentials stored offline…

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    Comment #3888718

    Is there an online open archive of YC applications?

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    Comment #3883472

    You are profitable, and have a large base of users. So what is the funding for?

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    Comment #3878166

    Can someone please explain what "...Kevin came to it organically based on the Burbn data" means?

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    Comment #3827555

    Trying to read your docs and examples to figure what is in the framework (Leaderboard is a Meteor object?) and how it works. An image showing the sequence/flow of data between clie…

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    Comment #3821502

    Is it still true? can you actually do much nowdays (in that scale) on a cheap PC? it seems like heavy machines/cloud access is crucial

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    Comment #3815784

    didn't those guys hear about Github ;)

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    Comment #3811026

    Sorry for the ignorance, but who is Nolan that is listed as the second lecturer of the course? (tried Googling)

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    Comment #3810591

    You only have two eyes, so why so many screens? just flip desktops...

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    Comment #3806982

    In the image he looks like a borg.