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A nanosecond is 1 billionth of a second. A millisecond is 1 thousandth of a second.

1/1000000000 vs. 1/1000

Six orders of magnitude.

Edit: your point may hold true as I'm not sure SSD access or seek times are in the 10ns range.

They should qualify their statement to indicate this resolution only applies when it is hooked up to a significantly better display. I don't think the anticipated typical use case for a Chromebook is to hook it up to better displays as some sort of media center.

They are misleading by specifically mentioning 1080p video playback performance when the display has only 768 vertical pixels.

> The fact that a single person is allowed to own an international crossing is laughable. I know they probably can't take it away from him, but that it happened in the first place is a joke. I hope that this never happens again.

Why laughable? If the owner of the bridge does not provide good enough value and operational efficiency, then competing bridges will be received with favor instead of skepticism. If the government owns the bridge/infrastructure and does not provide acceptable value or efficiencies, it would likely be even harder to create an alternative.

With 1,000 years, feel free to think bigger: teleportation!

OSX does not lead the market.

You don't find it interesting that one of the largest DNS service providers has had a major outage rendering browsing many websites virtually impossible for several business hours? Not every site I am interested in using is maintained by readers of HN who should (perhaps) know better.

Do you have a link to info on such beds?

Two orders of magnitude (which isn't all that "many") would make that 2,400 people working on the Visual Studio shell. Although its likely there are many more than pictured, I can't imagine it being thousands.

Possibly just the VS team without any .NET and language teams.

Twapping?

> I'll be there 'apping'

Let's hope this doesn't become a verb. Tweeting is bad enough, but "apping"?

I agree. The chosen name of app.net is simultaneously generic and borderline misleading (I too thought it might be some framework or app development tool). This alone is enough to make me a bit skeptical of app.net's leadership. They might as well call it acloudservice.com and it would have a similarly worthless conveyance of meaning.

> Strangers, even unvetted ones, almost never pose a danger to children. The vast majority of harm done to children is done by friends and family. Having more strangers around makes your kids safer, if anything.

I hear this a lot and my guess is this is simply a function of how much time family and friends spend with a child (in relative privacy) compared to complete strangers. The surface area of attack is way smaller for random people; they don't have the "reasonable" opportunity.

I'm sure the end goal for FullContact is ROI. Or at least, it should be if they want to stay in business. They are making the bet that true, off-grid vacation each year will help their employees be more productive, efficient, loyal, etc, which certainly is a return on the $7,500 (+ time) investment.

I don't believe my mother and I should be allowed to marry, no matter how good the sex is.

> For the most part it's a company whose core business model is "leverage unfathomably vast marketing resources to coerce large numbers of people into making the least healthful dietary choice available to them at any given moment".

They don't coerce anyone to eat their food. What a ridiculous hyperbole.

All this pre-retina? I find pre-retina text display blurry to the point of distraction after long periods of reading. Also, how do you hold your iPad? I like the newest and cheapest Kindle's size and weight for holding it an almost any position for long periods of time.

RESTful SOAP? To read anything you have to POST the SOAP envelope.

I believe the author of this has refined/updated some of this thoughts since that first post.

Your comment seems rather irrelevant to the article. Please read it for context.

I'm not sure about always having a likely option selected by default in a select list. The user may gloss/skim over it without verifying the default value is their desired value. And, with a valid value selected, no validation warning or error is raised. On a very terse form with few inputs, this might be ok, but the example he gave had many inputs and involved money transfers. Seems like a bad idea in that context, especially for users new to that form.

> People say like to say the constitution allows anonymous speech but it doesn't by any stretch

Source?

Employees are payroll taxed, that is different and regardless of the company's income, net or otherwise.

How are they not being taxed twice? A company (which has owners) pays income tax on their profits, so the company and therefore, owners, have less capital remaining. Then, if the owners want to cash out anything from the post-income-taxed margin, they'll have to pay capital gains as well.

Do they have to go through this same process when looking at certain logging data, such as, web server GET requests? Those would show file names.

> It tells us that they looked at customer data

Have you ever supported a product that has external users? Eventually have to see their data in some way, shape, or form. Whether it be a username, email address, ip address, user-agent strings, filenames, etc; there are times when troubleshooting, verifying functionality, validating report data, etc where you will have to look at at least some subset of actual customer data somewhere. It is simply unrealistic to think otherwise.

How would you go about providing customer support or auditing without looking at the customer data required to complete such tasks?

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Cat.jpg from an unknown user of Basecamp. This tells us nothing about anyone. Get over it.

Way to miss the point of the post. This person won't hire anyone because it is too expensive to run a company with employees. The point is, Hungary has created an environment that greatly threatens the profitability, and therefore, sustainability of private companies. If the company doesn't exist, no oneis hired.

Actually he says he wouldn't hire anyone, because he won't be attempting startups in the first place. You shouldn't get in trouble for your hiring policies when it is simply: "I don't have employees."