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Re:Tech Journalism is Broken on Sunday October 14, 2012 @09:50PM (#4653334)
the pando daily sock puppets need a lesson in subtlety
Re:Watch a VC use my name to sell a con on Monday November 28, 2011 @10:53PM (#3288959)
when I re-read it I can see that is it more that he doesn't give a fuck. and thanks for clarifying with him.
Re:Watch a VC use my name to sell a con on Monday November 28, 2011 @10:14PM (#3288844)
wait, does jwz really expect us to believe that he doesn't know who arrington is? I mean, the techcrunch conference afterparty two years ago was at his night club .. and I am pretty sure i saw both of them there.
if 'the social network' ever becomes a trilogy you might see him in the background of a scene or two.
Re:The Rumors Are True. I am Leaving TechCrunch. on Friday November 18, 2011 @11:52PM (#3254625)
ok, we get it, you are awesome and important and now need a job.
Re:Google X on Monday November 14, 2011 @05:14AM (#3233518)
It is purely a "I knew about this story, just so you know" pissing contest between tech 'journalists'.
Re:How I would create a couple of million jobs--for $53B on Monday August 08, 2011 @03:22PM (#2861225)
very naive assumptions about what it costs and what it takes to train the unemployed (which isn't the problem to begin with, but that is a separate issue)

put simply, if it only took 3 months and $4k to train people to be ready for startup tech jobs, then everybody would already be doing it

Re:See how many times a URL has been shared on Facebook on Monday March 21, 2011 @01:24PM (#2350656)
who the hell shares a link to facebook on facebook?

"hey guys check this out"

Re:RIP Digg on Saturday March 19, 2011 @08:49PM (#2345174)
the diff is that groupon is a cash machine. digg never was
Re:Overview of Text Extraction Algorithms on Saturday March 19, 2011 @02:00PM (#2344238)
I wonder why anybody from HN here read that article and decided to submit it and not the original source
Re:Overview of Text Extraction Algorithms on Saturday March 19, 2011 @01:58PM (#2344233)
dump it on github - someone will come around and clean it up for you

what is it written in?

Re:I think tumblr has a huge security hole on Saturday March 19, 2011 @09:14AM (#2343511)
there are dozens of pages that have been exposed on this one server. I have no idea how the opening tag can get mangled in so many different files
"Advanced Persistent Threat (APT)", gimme a break

Too much corpspeak, not enough real information.

Re:Airbnb on Thursday March 17, 2011 @11:55AM (#2336545)
you will face the same obstacle in all marketing
Re:Is This The Girl That Hacked HBGary? on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @10:17PM (#2334827)
so she goes to extraordinary lengths to coverup her online activity, but grants an interview to a national news outlet where she divulges a large part of her personal history?

obvious troll is obvious

Re:Airbnb on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @09:01AM (#2331816)
post it as a separate thread and a show hn
Re:Japan suspends work at stricken nuclear plant on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @04:17AM (#2331272)
Is it true that there is no japanese word for 'looting'.

This all came up from a joke, we were watching the news broadcasts, and my friend said 'you know there is no looting in Japan' and I said 'that is because they don't have a word for it'. I ended up looking it up, and it seems true - can you confirm?

Re:AOL Asks Us If We Can Tone It Down on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @02:49AM (#2331112)
depends, do you as a reader want to know if public relations people are attempting to manipulate the sources of your news?
Re:AOL Asks Us If We Can Tone It Down on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @02:43AM (#2331099)
were you expecting the moviefone/AOL email to say "CHANGE THE FUCKING ARTICLE"

off course they are subtle about it, it is so they can deny it later - but the recipient and the sender (and people reading it now) all know wtf is going on and what was being asked

The backup generators that they bought on site had the wrong types of plugs on them.

When this is all done, I am sure that most of the problems at Fukishima will be found to be administrative rather than design.

As an aside, that plant was designed to withstand an 8.4 earthquake. Design requirements and actual strength are two different issues. Even a complete meltdown, such as at Three Mile Island, should be contained.

yes only certain types of special glasses. you can buy them from my online store for $29.95
I hope you don't write any webapps that I use
Re:PyCon 2011: How Dropbox Did It and How Python Helped on Monday March 14, 2011 @05:00AM (#2321815)
does anybody know if AppEngine supports any() and itertools ?
slideshare really need to drop the flash and do a html+js implementation

it is just an image slideshow, afterall

Re:First dump of Anon BofA Documents is up on Monday March 14, 2011 @04:55AM (#2321803)
having the words 'bank of america' in the title likely goes towards it being marked as a possible phish
Re:The Walled Garden Has Won on Sunday March 13, 2011 @06:32AM (#2318903)
ye but what I am saying is that the analogy isn't 100% correct. It is more like going into your house and telling you that you aren't allowed to read the book anymore

I didn't say I agree with it, that is just the way it works

Re:The Walled Garden Has Won on Saturday March 12, 2011 @04:06PM (#2317503)
no because you own the physical paper but only a license for the content
Re:HBGary planned to "blow the balls off Nmap" on Friday March 11, 2011 @08:02PM (#2315598)
or people who register a domain name first

and then do nothing with it

Re:Twitter to developers: no new Twitter clients on Friday March 11, 2011 @07:24PM (#2315518)
That, and I don't know why they can't just be straight out and say what they mean, instead of wrapping every quasi-statement in 'developers ask us if they can..'

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