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There's a reason for the website Explain XKCD.

I'm curious, what are some of the complexities involved in a timekeeping system?

Not that his advice is bad, but these statistics are a bit biased. Trains make for some pretty unusually difficult channel conditions.

The purpose of the clock is going to get lost, and eventually there's going to be holo-documentaries on how the 20th century "Americans" predicted the end of the world.

This site is actually pretty cool. 5 different versions of the chicken dance. I appreciate that.

If the reason you're working there is to learn about the coffee business... then yes. If you want to know about the margins, and business side I assume you would inquire about those things from your Manager. If you're curious about sourcing etc (things corporate might take care of) I think our analogy is broken. Working at a startup will let you in on some of the inner workings of a startup, if you that's what you're looking for.

I didn't really find the article that interesting, however looking at this http://xamarin.com/ company I'm extremely intrigued by the product.

Amazing.

I've only been here for almost 2 years (well close enough to 2) however I would say the average HN thread is still more insightful than the average Reddit thread (including filtered sub-Reddits)

Yesterday morning I would've called this guy a cranky old man... but doing some coding last night made me want to kill something. Coming from an Active Record background I tried using Linq to SQL. My application has a WPF front end and a Windows service on the backend. Passing the same object between the 2 is driving me insane. The problems are so much more cryptic, and the code I had to write to go around it completely negates any reason for using it in the first place. I'll be ripping it out tonight.

Of course then there is the saying "No good deed goes unpunished."

Legal pressure on the author.

The post linked to in this thread has been literally the most interesting thing I've read, in quite a while. Thanks for linking me to more :D

Whats the worst that will happen? They're already sending him home.

Is there a particular reason people are focused on revenging Sony?

In my opinion yelp has no (exclusive) right to the user contributed data contained in its site. Google should not have to provide attribution to "yelp" if they scrape my yelp review, it should provide attribution to me.

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I wish someone would do a fast food chain that dishes out the croque monsieur. It was my favorite part of france :D

The future economy may not (I'm guessing will not) be bitcoin. It will probably have a few very different ideas built into the core of it. But the foundation is being laid right now as we discuss the problems of bitcoin.

Now if only they can figure out how to do it without surgery.

I have very no experience with clojure, but this posts reads like an infomercial about it. Do you know if it is possible to develop for android using it (since it compiles on the JVM)? I ask from the perspective of someone programming in C# for the last 5 years.

I wish Amazon would do this as well. I want 1 click flights, and something that almost all these booking sites lack... awesome customer service. These are 2 things Amazon can do well.

Why don't they publish the data in a quick and dirty no frills way, and let hackers like myself pretty it up? Data.gov has a lot of value, and I'd love to contribute some of my free time working with it.

Most people I have cold emailed have not replied from inMail. I find people are more likely to respond when you email their work email directly. It feels more personal. You can usually figure it out using the name, than researching the companies email naming scheme. Most places are either Joe.Schmoe@xyz.com or Joe_Schmoe@xyz.com just do a google search for something like "jones@xyz.com" or some other common last name if it is a big company. This will usually help you figure out the email. Then just send the email to the address.. if you get the wrong joe schmoe 8/10 they are used to getting email for the other guy, so they just forward it along.

I think as long as we still view it as a machine, the issue with never be taken seriously.

I wish they had prices, and was less specific. Sometimes it will be Friday, and I'm like "Man i don't care where I go, but I want to go on a weekend vacation."

I think they spent 8.5 billion dollars for the skype brand. It also reduces competition. In the article it sounds like Microsoft Research has a good amount of tech of their own. I almost wonder if Microsoft Research has the next big thing, and they're planning on using skype to put it out there.

I wonder how effective google is filtering spam IM requests?

I wonder if that would actually work against them. Assuming the government has some system that is reading all emails sent to country x, they may specifically sniff emails that match a certain signature... such as one that was encrypted. Its probably less revealing to setup a code around every day language and problems.

Maybe its possible to use that to the networks advantage? If manipulating the data means you need to provide additional computation power/storage... maybe its possible to find a balance?