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It looks like they've got that covered: "If we, what3words ltd, are ever unable to maintain the what3words technology or make arrangements for it to be maintained by a third-party (with that third-party being willing to make this same commitment), then we will release our source code into the public domain. We will do this in such a way and with suitable licences and documentation to ensure that any and all users of what3words, whether they are individuals, businesses, charitable organisations, aid agencies, governments or anyone else can continue to rely on the what3words system." -- https://what3words.com/pricing/

I clicked through this hoping that someone had done a 'Show HN' for a literal plate of meatballs.

That's been widely reported in the past.

this is the point of that terrible 'threading' strategy, actually, if i guess what they are doing correctly.

it would probably also make sense that they made something like this while they were trying to figure out what sort of newton-like object they should make

other languages also use things metonymously, so maybe hating human cognition is a safer bet.

jack9: you might want to think about how your tone is coming off to people reading your text -- "You're serious and I'm not..." -- if you're surprised by how people react to it.

maybe write a `Dear "Dear 'Dear Github'"` letter"?

I think you can assume that was his goal (an indirect reference to the cultural revolution that works in the way you say.)

Brussel sprouts used to be more bitter than they are; farmers have actively been breeding better tasting brussels sprouts. Lots of people who used to hate them and didn't eat them for a number of years find them more pleasant when trying them now.

Many objections to ideas around social benefits are not around the practicality of it, but whether non-citizens could 'unjustly' get it. It makes sense from a branding point of view, at least in the American & Western European political milieu.

'they'?

When I was first started out in programming, someone gave me the advice "never work at a company where you're a cost, always work at a company where your output is [directly tied to] the profit."

It seemed like a truism, and was somewhat memorable. To date, the only really bad jobs I've had in programming/engineering/what have you were ones where my work output was seen as a cost and not as a product or service, so anecdotally it's worked out.

you can detect heartbeats in infrared light easily, no fancy processing required -- see http://www.google.com/patents/WO2004078028A2?cl=en and http://www2.ece.ohio-state.edu/~anderson/Outreachfiles/Pulse... for examples.

There is an actual vitamin K.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_K

I would guess that someone switched NAICS code 33411 "Computer and Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing" for NAICS code 334411 "Electron Tube Manufacturing," but that's just a guess.

Not a business book, but "Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things" by George Lakoff is a great guide to how humans think about categories and other related topics rather than how as computer professionals we're trained to represent those relationships.

Actually, I think lutorn's point is that most people (including him) do not do a full riffle shuffle when they set out to shuffle cards, thus preserving the order of segments of the cards.

On the other hand, this is probably precisely why this is being built in Arizona and not in California.

If I were to guess, the regulatory burden of putting something up like this in Arizona is probably way lower than putting it up in California. So, not that odd given that both sides are plugged into the grid and California already buys power from far away (like the Pacific NW.)

This would be a great science fiction story with the hook that he's a sim of an actual person created to participate in social games

There's also an difference between the michelin system, where most restaurants get 0 stars and getting even one star is a biggish deal, and rating all restaurants from one to five, which is what the system used in the us seems to do.

Like the rating system on the web, it's useful for rating all things, not just the highest ranks.

The Michelin guide is also not particularly useful as a global system because it's heavily weighted towards french cuisine -- http://www.urbanspoon.com/blog/14/Fixing-Michelins-French-bi... -- and only serves major tourist destinations outside of europe -- six cities in the US for example.

The Michelin green guide, which is more the equivalent of other rating systems, does use a 1-5 scale.

Yeah, every time I see someone being rude to a waiter, my first thought isn't about the waiter rule, it's whether this person didn't watch fight club.

yes, if suddenly they added support for t-mobile and sprint. but it could also be something like upgrading / changing how their point-of-sale systems work to give an improved customer experience. that would make a lot of sense for a store anniversary, for example

I think part of it is Portland -- Anecdotal, but I know a large number of people in the area who are relatively good at dev and used to work for HP or another local company and are now unemployed or underemployed and have a house that's severely underwater.

A few Seattle companies I know of have hired portland telecommuters because they've had trouble finding good talent up here. I have no idea how much that is happening outside of my experience.

It seems like so many of the other articles about 37 signals go roughly "37S wrote this blog post that proves that they listen to no one other than themselves and are in the process of shooting themselves in the foot," so in that sense, it is worthwhile to HN to see that do have people who are listening to customers / drawing inference from data / &c.

Or: it's on the list of automatic hack scripts that all the scriptkiddies use and it's being fired off as an attack because its on the list and not because there's something relevant actually happening.

is there a reason you can't write a script to make the links rather than zipping it up?

Gist has been great for me in keeping track of the business and volunteer contacts. I feel smarter and better informed during business conversations from using it, it finds a lot of things i previously had to research before meetings automatically. I haven't even given it all the information that it presumably would like[1] and have a distinctly suboptimal (for it, not for me) usage pattern[2], and it still does a wonderful job.

I can't recommend it highly enough.

[1] it correctly divines that i'm not giving it all the information about my email accounts -- i limit it to my business emails. [2] i don't log in except when i need its information, basically. presumably the firefox integration would fix this, but i use chrome regularly.

actually, there's huge opportunity in GIS right now where your skills would probably be really handy.