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darrhiggson Poll: What would it take for another company to poach you?

I'm happy freelancing ~10hrs a week and earning about the UK's average wage. Three days a week at a company would be perfect.

darrhiggson Mt.Gox does not mean "Mount" Gox

I saw this yesterday when I was investigating the Union Flag. It seems as though the Union Jack story, one which my dad (a now retired naval commander) has told me many times, is not a true as we're led to believe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Union_Jack#Why_not_Union_J...

darrhiggson I'm a shut-in. This is my story

Yeah, the one I get is:

"Me and 'X' have been talking and we think you should do 'Y'"

Great, now I have groups of people talking about me.

darrhiggson Amazon Profits Fall 45 Percent, Still the Most Amazing Company in the World

Is amazon.es for latin america? AFAIK .es is España, and although it's ≈45MM, it's hardly a massive market WRT latin america.

darrhiggson Billionaires

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

It's not like their money hidden in a vault. Furthermore they may have spent it, thus converting their money into a non-monetary asset like a home, yet it still counts when calculating wealth.

darrhiggson Layers with Carbonate Content Inside McLaughlin Crater on Mars

"This view of layered rocks on the floor of McLaughlin Crater shows sedimentary rocks that contain spectroscopic evidence for minerals formed through interaction with water"

darrhiggson Ruby: Singletons, Threads, and Flexibility

It's absolutely fine. As it's the mechanism for attracting a wider audience to something that benefit is being derived from, reminding them to up-vote the article seems mutually beneficial. You are not forcing anyone to do it.

darrhiggson What is the maximum length of a URL?

Don't do it that way then. How about a using /queries collection? You could create a query there and have the server return a link to the results using the 'location' header.

darrhiggson Harvard Scientist Proposes Refreezing Arctic to Prevent Global-Warming Disaster

I suppose that as good as this sounds, and I have heard about it many times [1][2][3], it boils down to opportunity cost. To me it will allow for a powerful counter argument when it comes to hitting emissions targets.

[1] http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~hemh/climate/Geoengineering_RoySo... [2] http://aircrap.org/uk-climate-fix-technical-test-put-on-hold... [3] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14936184

darrhiggson Show HN: Lekh Diagram, sketch recognition diagramming app for ipad

Brilliant!

Let me know if I can help you in any way.

Edit: spelling

darrhiggson Show HN: Lekh Diagram, sketch recognition diagramming app for ipad

Rajeevk, this is absolutely fantastic, great job!

But… why don't you support DOT as an export type? It would be so unbelievably awesome for me to prototype in Lekh and then finess with DOT.

Anyway congratulations on the release!

darrhiggson MIT’s Freaky Non-Stick Coating Keeps Ketchup Flowing

Did it never occur to them that they could just turn the bottle upside-down? Is that not why they designed the lids like that; so you could just stand them up on the lid?

darrhiggson Google’s most advanced voice search has arrived on iOS

Why would this be down voted when the blog post suggests you should do this?

darrhiggson There's only one exchange rate

http://transferwise.com/ does this.

darrhiggson Don't Fall Asleep at the Wheel: Successful Entrepreneurs Have Lives

You, are right; but there is ambiguity. 'Startup' is not never mentioned by the authors.

darrhiggson How To Cheat On Facebook Apps Permissions

This only solves half the problem. I recently tried this with yahoo reader, yet on the yahoo site there was a social reader widget with my friends and my reading history. I paused it when I realised but it seems you need to be aware of more than what permissions they have on the facebook platform; something many of my friends had not realised.

darrhiggson Buffett to buy 63 newspapers

The non-obvious thing is that if 6 years ago Ebitda was '100' and today it is around '10' then Mr. Buffet would have paid 40 rather than 900. Comparing the Ebitda makes you think the cost was 45% of 6 years ago, but if Ebitda has fallen in this period then, as in my example, the price is just 4.5% of 6 years ago.

If these businesses are able to survive the next few years and get to grips with all the new mediums of publication then Ebitda may well return to the levels of 6 years ago and then Mr. buffet would be sitting very pretty indeed.

Does anyone have the comparative Ebitda figures?

darrhiggson Google's Code Editor

Checkout the help menu, it has links to:

The documentation[1] And the old support channel[2]… …which is now officially at[3]

[1] https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guide [2] http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/apps-script [3] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/google-apps-script

darrhiggson Facebook Co-Founder Gives Up U.S. Citizenship

So it's not an island

darrhiggson Facebook Co-Founder Gives Up U.S. Citizenship

Singapore in not an island.