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Explains why Rudderstack changed their license to Elastic a few weeks ago!

The essay makes this central claim but then spends most of the time talking about writing leading to better thinking (which I think is well proven). Does anyone know of research that backs up the main thesis?

"Reading about x doesn't just teach you about x; it also teaches you how to write."

Yeah that was my favorite as well. And the one about perfect recall memory (remem) was perfect too. He's so good at examining all human implications of a single technological idea. And the prose is quite remarkable for sci-fi.

For me it was:

* Exhalation by Ted Chiang

* Ride of a lifetime by Bob Iger was a close second

The causation does exist but in a different direction (see the GP's post about storks and chimneys).

Good point! There is a robots.txt that prevents the site from getting indexed now: http://hn.getpageback.com/robots.txt

Thanks for the comments. Our crawler does respect the robots.txt standard and the nofollow tag. Seems like noarchive is what google recommends. Will look more into it.

Although we do put a banner on the index page - we don't have them on each page. Thanks for pointing it out - will fix!

Thanks, fixed! The content-type header was missing the encoding on the S3 object!

That's a valid concern. I believe this service is very similar to Google cache and the copying should be permissible under fair use [1]. But IANAL :)

[1] http://fairuse.stanford.edu/case/field-v-google-inc/

edit: we also respect robots.txt!

This is my attempt to solve the problem of sites becoming unavailable when they make it to the HN front page. It is also a trial balloon for a new service that I am developing. AMA! :)

I wrote an app that does something similar but albeit not as pretty :)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appsmithy....

Thanks for the feedback! We are split on whether we should exclusive make it a habit-building app. Lots of people use the app just for logging. Goal setting would definitely make it more useful - we have to figure out how to implement it without forcing it on people who don't need it. And yes, the design needs work :)

I made something similar for android for my needs - although it is not as pretty :)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appsmithy....

Agreed. You can confidently negotiate if you've got nothing to lose. Another way to achieve this is to have multiple offers. You come out ahead when you have competing offers - get them in a bidding war.

Also you can be a total hard-ass when negotiating with HR - you won't offend your future boss or team in the process. They usually are not involved in the negotiation process.

immigration

Thanks for the feedback. Yes, I looked at the US/Canada radio market size and I am consciously going after a niche. I've been trying to get local stations to try out the MVP before I start dealing with the "consolidated" players. Getting a Clear Channel or a CBS Radio on board would be great but I fear I'll run into the problems that you point out :)

I have also written a blog post that discusses the webapp in more detail: http://www.appsmithy.com/2011/01/22/introducing-contestfm-au...

Patrick, what service are you planning to use for billing (presumably recurring)?

Of course, but many people will never switch. And even if they do, you will be in a line that is shorter than others.

Here's the trick I've successfully used during peak hours. All things being equal, pick the longest line next to a closed lane, wait for the closed one to open (supermarkets will usually open additional lines when they think they are getting longer), and then quickly switch.

Wouldn't allowing downvotes on submissions (or a spam flag a la craigslist) solve this problem?

Long time lurker so I had to create an account to post this. I wonder if there has been a spike in sign ups today :)