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The Advantages of Using Multiple Hard Drives in a PChttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85ce85d6064207ac7797b6b773e939&url=https%3a%2f%2fsmallbusiness.chron.com%2fadvantages-using-multiple-hard-drives-pc-47340.html&c=8313012356115776584&mkt=en-usMost business PCs come standard with a single hard drive that's more than large enough for the typical user at work. However, in some cases, a single drive may not be the best choice for your ...May 21, 2012 3:20 AM
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The Advantages of Using Multiple Hard Drives in a PChttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85d51f31504205b33a3271350c2319&url=https%3a%2f%2fsmallbusiness.chron.com%2fadvantages-using-multiple-hard-drives-pc-47340.html&c=8313012356115776584&mkt=en-usMost business PCs come standard with a single hard drive that's more than large enough for the typical user at work. However, in some cases, a single drive may not be the best choice for your ...May 21, 2012 3:20 AM
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My mission to solve the problem with Facebook, Google+ etc.https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3838747Now I know everyone has their own issues with the current state of social networks. Some have issues with privacy, some have issues with too many friends, some have issues with spam. My issue is with all the above, but more importantly I am sick of the fact that I look like everyone else and I don't own the content. I am being controlled and it needs to stop.I am tired of feeling like I live in an apartment complex where I have no control over how things function or look. It's not even like a complex anymore. It's more like a prison.Best quote in a long time..."If you aren't paying for a product, you are the product."Your data is being sold to advertisers so they can find sneaky was to throw their ads in front of your faces. And who is going to take the time out to actually go through on FB and customize your ad experience so they are relevant to you? Not me.For the past year and a half I have been working on a solution to solve these problems and many others. It's been a very difficulApr 13, 2012 8:39 PM
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Advice needed: what's a destitute hacker to do?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3715834First of all I ask that anyone commenting please leave off criticism of how I got into the situation I did. Trust me, I've already thought over millions of times how I must be an idiot to have gotten into the situation I'm in, and if I could go back and make different decisions I would. But right now I'm not exactly in the best shape to handle criticism, and don't need to be convinced of anything. What I really need is advice for improving my situation, or any info about programs or employers, etc. that I don't know about. I never had a course in high school or college on how to deal with poverty, even though that might have been really helpful right about now.I graduated from a state university in 2009 with a degree in Computer Science. I graduated with honors and a 3.81 gpa. My gpa could've been a lot higher, but I struggled with untreated clinical-level anxiety throughout school which lead to severe procrastination or simply not turning in certain projects. I got a 1520 on my SATs, Mar 16, 2012 11:47 PM
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Ask HN: Review my idea - Hosting SEOhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3690713Background: This idea was borne out of an internal tool I created to figure out and validate SEO strategies for websites I own. I figure since it works for me, I could try and sell this to a different industry/niche - in this case 'hosting'. This tool currently does not have an UI - I run sql queries directly on the mysql server to get my information. I have created a mockup UI to show how I expect it to work.UI for explaining the app functionality - http://axemantech.com/HostingSEO/Pain point it solves: Currently there are many seo apps that show serp rankings, on page and off page seo stats but seting up the system is generally painful. I dislike having to add keywords for my website, add data for my competitors, etc. This generally happens because these SEO apps are generic.How to solve this: Since this app focuses on a specific niche, it will already be setup with all the potential keywords for the niche (and will continously add new ones). All the data that the customers (people pMar 11, 2012 5:25 PM
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What was Google thinking(Contains text from the blog)https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3460094This is the text contained in http://blog.mocality.co.ke/2012/01/13/google-what-were-you-thinking/blog as written by Mocality CEO You can follow the blog link to read the full story(of which I propose since it is of better quality) but just in case you can't access the site here is some of the contents that the blog contains. Note: Some resources such as images might be missing and also I didn't have enough time to format the content properly============================================= Links to some of the resources contained in the blog ============================================= https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/mocality-wordpress/audio/douglas.mp3 http://blog.mocality.co.ke/files/2012/01/Incoming_Call-Redacted-20111221-1133502.pdf ============================================= I’m very proud of the business that we’ve created here at Mocality, but I’m especially proud of two things:1. Our crowdsourcing program. When we started this business, we knew that (unlike in the UK or US, Jan 13, 2012 11:12 AM
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MovieCat! is an iOS trivia game with an entertaining cast of charactershttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85d1a1c9ca4fa19eb5ae1125f04795&url=https%3a%2f%2fthenextweb.com%2fnews%2fmoviecat-is-an-ios-trivia-game-with-an-entertaining-cast-of-characters&c=6771674343945302246&mkt=en-usWe do not often review games here at TNW but we find ourselves making an exception for FilmWise’s unique take on movie trivia games for the iOS platform. We took a look at FilmWise Invisibles for the ...Oct 23, 2011 11:32 PM
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MovieCat! is an iOS trivia game with an entertaining cast of charactershttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85d3e18fc34b4290b70751f41c4233&url=https%3a%2f%2fthenextweb.com%2fnews%2fmoviecat-is-an-ios-trivia-game-with-an-entertaining-cast-of-characters&c=6771674343945302246&mkt=en-usWe do not often review games here at TNW but we find ourselves making an exception for FilmWise’s unique take on movie trivia games for the iOS platform. We took a look at FilmWise Invisibles for the ...Oct 23, 2011 11:32 PM
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MovieCat! is an iOS trivia game with an entertaining cast of charactershttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85e048693748e5a84d5afc89e1d064&url=https%3a%2f%2fthenextweb.com%2fnews%2fmoviecat-is-an-ios-trivia-game-with-an-entertaining-cast-of-characters&c=6771674343945302246&mkt=en-usWe do not often review games here at TNW but we find ourselves making an exception for FilmWise’s unique take on movie trivia games for the iOS platform. We took a look at FilmWise Invisibles for the ...Oct 23, 2011 11:32 PM
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MovieCat! is an iOS trivia game with an entertaining cast of charactershttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85dc1b245148d2b86a87cab8e8a80e&url=https%3a%2f%2fthenextweb.com%2fnews%2fmoviecat-is-an-ios-trivia-game-with-an-entertaining-cast-of-characters&c=6771674343945302246&mkt=en-usWe do not often review games here at TNW but we find ourselves making an exception for FilmWise’s unique take on movie trivia games for the iOS platform. We took a look at FilmWise Invisibles for the ...Oct 23, 2011 11:32 PM
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MovieCat! is an iOS trivia game with an entertaining cast of charactershttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85d7f54ea54990a547546994780b96&url=https%3a%2f%2fthenextweb.com%2fnews%2fmoviecat-is-an-ios-trivia-game-with-an-entertaining-cast-of-characters&c=6771674343945302246&mkt=en-usWe do not often review games here at TNW but we find ourselves making an exception for FilmWise’s unique take on movie trivia games for the iOS platform. We took a look at FilmWise Invisibles for the ...Oct 23, 2011 11:32 PM
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MovieCat! is an iOS trivia game with an entertaining cast of charactershttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85e488f0eb41b0bf0f04a7f283709b&url=https%3a%2f%2fthenextweb.com%2fnews%2fmoviecat-is-an-ios-trivia-game-with-an-entertaining-cast-of-characters&c=6771674343945302246&mkt=en-usWe do not often review games here at TNW but we find ourselves making an exception for FilmWise’s unique take on movie trivia games for the iOS platform. We took a look at FilmWise Invisibles for the ...Oct 23, 2011 11:32 PM
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MovieCat! is an iOS trivia game with an entertaining cast of charactershttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85d600ca2d469e82e054690b38ed7c&url=https%3a%2f%2fthenextweb.com%2fnews%2fmoviecat-is-an-ios-trivia-game-with-an-entertaining-cast-of-characters&c=6771674343945302246&mkt=en-usWe do not often review games here at TNW but we find ourselves making an exception for FilmWise’s unique take on movie trivia games for the iOS platform. We took a look at FilmWise Invisibles for the ...Oct 23, 2011 11:32 PM
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Why Cork Is the Most Amazing Material in the World to Keep Your Wine Tastyhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88c50f0d154816bd5f6c6310b556ca&url=https%3A%2F%2Fgizmodo.com%2Fwhy-cork-is-the-most-amazing-material-in-the-world-to-k-5837079&c=5508883383522759810&mkt=en-usThere’s a reason the screw cap hasn’t dominated the wine stopper industry: Cork still kicks the ass of stamped aluminum for the good stuff-and not just for nostalgia’s sake. This is what keeps our ...Sep 5, 2011 9:00 AM
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If Software Is Eating The World, Why Don't Coders Get Any Respect?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2919708Software, as Marc Andreesen said in his famous editorial, is becoming a larger and larger part of our daily lives. Given how important software is, then, you'd expect computer programmer - the task of developing and maintaining software - to be one of the highest-paid, most-wanted jobs. It isn't. Why not?"Hold on", you say, "isn't programming a high-paying job"? Sure, next to the average American worker. But the average American worker is a college dropout. What if you compare programming to jobs for other highly skilled professionals?Consider a 35-year-old, senior Google engineer. He probably makes about $150,000, which is enough to buy a good house and raise a family. But Google wouldn't hire a random guy to fill that job - this engineer probably has an Ivy League or other elite degree, fifteen years of work experience, a very high IQ, strong drive, and numerous other skills (anyone who's been through the Google hiring process can tell you how hard it is to get in).As a doctor, howevAug 24, 2011 6:34 AM
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Ask HN: Can I help you be more awesome today? (No strings. Inquire within.)https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2767448This last week has been absolutely ridiculous for me. I'd like to make it up to myself by doing something meaningful for some strangers. I like this community a lot and want to see if there's anything I can do to make you a little more successful. No strings. To give you an idea of what I might be able to help you with, let me tell you a few things I've done to help others...- Last night, I volunteered at TEDxMIA's screening of TEDGlobal where I fulfilled their video stream management and multiplexing fantasies,- I've built network operations center monitoring software for proprietary wireless protocols. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnleO8H4lyY)- I regularly brainstorm with others in the SoFL entrepreneurial and tech circles as we look for ways to grow our community and attract talent to our market.- I'm an early adopter, enjoy playing with new tech and can provide strong, constructive, specific feedback.- I understand good design from bad design. Aesthetics are not lost on me.- I hJul 15, 2011 2:25 PM
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Ask HN: What is Gravity?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1629794While watching a documentary that mentioned gravity (forgive me the particulars escape me at the moment) my 8yo son reached across my lap and tapped the space-bar pausing the video. He then turned toward me and asked, ‘what is gravity?’Now, in our house we require explanations for actions because we are becoming, sadly too late in life, convinced that being on purpose is paramount. Because it is our opinion that if you do not understand, even at the most base level (epistemological questions aside), why you are doing something then you will never have any power over what you do. When any of us does something that results in negative consequences we try to be in the habit of either tracing down the root of our reasoning or admitting that we had none.To this end we have made much of the distinction between description and explanation. Briefly; all explanations include description but not the reverse. When we ask one another for an explanation and instead receive only description it has bAug 24, 2010 2:04 PM
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Ask HN: Does changing locales to fix productivity doldrums work for you?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=757407The article about the creative bliss of moving to an attractive, cheaper foreign environment to bootstrap a startup:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=756570... got me thinking on a somewhat tangential question: Does moving around to change your environment actually help you work? Or is it solving the wrong problem the wrong way?From a personal state-of-mind angle that the author is pushing, I guess I'm not entirely sold on the fact that a change of scenery will let a hundred flowers of creativity bloom - in a sustainable way - to an extent that confers upon a startup a meaningful economic advantage. The cost differences might, but I'm not so sure about the aesthetic/spiritual quality.I've moved around a lot in my 23 years. I emigrated from Russia with my parents when I was 6, and moved around the US several times during childhood. Within the last few years spent in Georgia, I've moved several times within the general area I inhabited, including twice within Atlanta. When I was young,Aug 12, 2009 5:53 AM
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Ask HN: Do you think primarily in English?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=387921Rather, do you think primarily in your native language, or more in terms of abstract imagery?I've noticed that rather than forming images in my head to represent ideas, I will instead often think in English. For example, if I'm working through a logic problem, I will repeat the various elements of the problem in my head in English repeatedly until I solve it.I'm unfortunately unilingual. English is the only human language I have ever learned. I've noticed that when I speak phrases in Spanish, I'm actually speaking English in my head. It's like a lookup table. By that I mean, let's say I want to communicate "How are you?". Rather than attempting to reason through this task in Spanish (by trying to communicate the individual elements "how", 'in what way', "are", 'your state of being', and "you" 'the person I am communicating with'), I try to remember the phrase in Spanish that corresponds to the ordered set of words "How are you?". So it is rote memorization -- I'm not thinking in SpanisDec 6, 2008 6:54 AM
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Torrentspy shutdownhttp://www.torrentspy.com/Friends of TorrentSpy,We have decided on our own, not due to any court order or agreement, to bring the Torrentspy.com search engine to an end and thus we permanently closed down worldwide on March 24, 2008.The legal climate in the USA for copyright, privacy of search requests, and links to torrent files in search results is simply too hostile. We spent the last two years, and hundreds of thousands of dollars, defending the rights of our users and ourselves.Ultimately the Court demanded actions that in our view were inconsistent with our privacy policy, traditional court rules, and International law; therefore, we now feel compelled to provide the ultimate method of privacy protection for our users - permanent shutdown.It was a wild ride,The TorrentSpy Team"Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and order [...] and the lMar 29, 2008 11:35 PM
