quoderat

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• Ask HN: How do I delete my account?

  by quoderat on 8/27/2009, 4:19 PM with 7 comments

• The Truth About Lying

  by quoderat on 8/27/2009, 4:02 PM with 3 comments

• Rock Band's Cultural Shift

  by quoderat on 8/19/2009, 6:55 PM with 1 comments

• How Technology Is Changing Innovation

  by quoderat on 8/17/2009, 3:36 PM with 0 comments

• Seven Lies About Lying (Part 2)

  by quoderat on 8/7/2009, 9:09 PM with 0 comments

• The Internet's Conscientious Objectors

  by quoderat on 8/7/2009, 5:29 AM with 0 comments

• Lies About Lying

  by quoderat on 8/6/2009, 7:32 PM with 6 comments

• Now Is The Time To Haggle

  by quoderat on 8/2/2009, 5:20 PM with 1 comments

• Gaia In The Light Of Modern Science

  by quoderat on 8/2/2009, 3:56 PM with 0 comments

• Stealing A Penny From Every Transaction

  by quoderat on 8/1/2009, 7:23 AM with 1 comments

• If I Were A Rich Man

  by quoderat on 7/31/2009, 8:14 AM with 0 comments

• HTML 5 Spec And Disparate Impact In Practice

  by quoderat on 7/28/2009, 4:24 PM with 0 comments

• Removing A Tattoo With Lasers

  by quoderat on 7/28/2009, 2:02 PM with 0 comments

• Core Human Skills

  by quoderat on 7/28/2009, 5:20 AM with 0 comments

• Internet Service Provider, Indeed

  by quoderat on 7/25/2009, 6:37 PM with 0 comments

• It’s Time To Pony Up. Why Good Websites Shouldn't Be Free.

  by quoderat on 7/25/2009, 4:51 AM with 3 comments

• Strange Science? There's An App For That

  by quoderat on 7/24/2009, 9:58 PM with 0 comments

• The Myth Of Search - What Search Engines Don't Find

  by quoderat on 7/24/2009, 4:14 AM with 0 comments

• Sanitizing Agriculture

  by quoderat on 7/24/2009, 2:03 AM with 2 comments

• Support Should Never Be Necessary

  by quoderat on 7/23/2009, 5:53 AM with 0 comments

• California Will No Longer Be Able To Produce Fruit In 100 Years

  by quoderat on 7/23/2009, 5:23 AM with 0 comments

• Web 2.0 Collage Knows Where You've Been

  by quoderat on 7/22/2009, 7:49 PM with 0 comments

• How To Upgrade Human Values

  by quoderat on 7/22/2009, 1:28 PM with 0 comments

• Why 2024 Will Be Like 1984: Amazon And The Kindle

  by quoderat on 7/22/2009, 6:15 AM with 18 comments

• Productivity Increases Going To The Already-Rich

  by quoderat on 7/21/2009, 1:26 PM with 0 comments

• Worst Evolutionary Designs

  by quoderat on 7/21/2009, 12:00 PM with 0 comments

• The Evolution Of The Honda Accord

  by quoderat on 7/20/2009, 6:54 PM with 2 comments

• Save That Midnight Oil

  by quoderat on 7/13/2009, 5:54 AM with 0 comments

• The Art And Skill Of Working With Bureaucrats

  by quoderat on 7/12/2009, 7:41 PM with 1 comments

• Chrome OS Could Offend The Open Source Community

  by quoderat on 7/10/2009, 4:23 PM with 1 comments

• Quibbles With Quants

  by quoderat on 7/9/2009, 4:44 PM with 0 comments

• A Bunch Of Interesting Nerdy Interviews

  by quoderat on 7/4/2009, 2:38 AM with 1 comments

• You've Got Blackmail: The AOL Account That Wouldn't Die

  by quoderat on 7/3/2009, 8:20 PM with 23 comments

• MySpace, Facebook And White Flight

  by quoderat on 7/1/2009, 5:53 AM with 0 comments

• Embarrassing Questions On Global Warming

  by quoderat on 6/30/2009, 6:16 AM with 13 comments

• Don't Get That College Degree

  by quoderat on 6/30/2009, 3:14 AM with -1 comments

• When Did Enterprise Software Development Become A Commodity?

  by quoderat on 6/29/2009, 5:47 AM with 0 comments

• Howard Hughes And The Atomic Bomb

  by quoderat on 6/28/2009, 4:56 PM with 0 comments

• The Edge On Brain Time

  by quoderat on 6/27/2009, 6:27 PM with 0 comments

• Risk Of Major Social Upheaval If Bank Bonanza Continues

  by quoderat on 6/26/2009, 10:03 PM with 0 comments

• Physics And The Limits Of Elven Vision

  by quoderat on 6/26/2009, 6:48 AM with 0 comments

• Evolutionary Origins Of Your Right And Left Brain

  by quoderat on 6/25/2009, 8:34 PM with 0 comments

• Google Banishes Nicholas Carr From The Index

  by quoderat on 6/24/2009, 8:34 PM with 15 comments

• Weaker Copyright Benefits Everyone, Study Shows

  by quoderat on 6/20/2009, 5:33 AM with 0 comments

• New Glimpses of Life's Puzzling Origins

  by quoderat on 6/17/2009, 5:55 AM with 0 comments

• Wall Street's Toxic Message

  by quoderat on 6/12/2009, 5:44 AM with 1 comments

• How To Modernize Capitalism

  by quoderat on 6/8/2009, 6:45 AM with 0 comments

• Did Aging Evolve To Prevent Epidemics?

  by quoderat on 6/7/2009, 5:00 AM with 0 comments

• Particles Larger Than Galaxies Fill The Universe?

  by quoderat on 6/6/2009, 9:06 AM with 21 comments

• Complexity, Redunancy and Reliability

  by quoderat on 6/5/2009, 4:31 PM with 0 comments

• Dawn of the Personal Computer: From Altair to the IBM PC

  by quoderat on 6/3/2009, 4:40 AM with 0 comments

• A Curmudgeonly Look at Google Wave

  by quoderat on 6/2/2009, 6:28 AM with 0 comments

• The Economics of Star Trek (real economic analysis)

  by quoderat on 6/1/2009, 6:51 PM with 0 comments

• The Science and Pseudoscience of Global Warming

  by quoderat on 6/1/2009, 5:35 AM with 21 comments

• Canon Employees Are Forbidden to Sit Down, Walk Slowly

  by quoderat on 5/31/2009, 4:42 AM with 50 comments

• From Bangkok To Berlin, Hard Times Hit Sex Trade

  by quoderat on 5/28/2009, 6:42 PM with 0 comments

• 25 and over

  by quoderat on 5/27/2009, 7:25 AM with 3 comments

• A field-based approach to trusting expertise

  by quoderat on 5/23/2009, 4:06 PM with 0 comments

• Why is MySQL more popular than PostgreSQL?

  by quoderat on 5/21/2009, 4:09 AM with 35 comments

• Any HN users worried about coming bandwidth caps effecting your businesses?

  by quoderat on 5/13/2009, 7:25 AM with 3 comments

• Color-shifting cuttlefish inspire TV screens

  by quoderat on 5/13/2009, 4:30 AM with 1 comments

• Trolling someone online? Bill would slap you with jail time

  by quoderat on 5/12/2009, 7:07 AM with 0 comments

• Gagging on Google

  by quoderat on 5/10/2009, 7:04 AM with 12 comments

• Google, Apple, Microsoft knuckle under to telcos

  by quoderat on 5/9/2009, 2:07 PM with 0 comments

• Senator to FCC: Time for black-and white net neutrality rules

  by quoderat on 5/7/2009, 8:27 PM with 0 comments

• Generalizations, truth, and rationality

  by quoderat on 5/4/2009, 2:57 PM with 1 comments

• The end of personal finance

  by quoderat on 5/3/2009, 10:02 AM with 2 comments

• How the bums lost the class war

  by quoderat on 5/3/2009, 5:55 AM with 0 comments

• Smugness, Facebook, and artificiality

  by quoderat on 5/1/2009, 4:57 AM with 0 comments

• Cable companies want to make you pay to watch shows on Hulu, etc.

  by quoderat on 4/29/2009, 5:54 AM with 0 comments

• Know when your email got to their Blackberry

  by quoderat on 4/28/2009, 8:49 PM with 0 comments

• Rules no one teaches but everyone learns

  by quoderat on 4/27/2009, 6:11 PM with 26 comments

• What killed Pontiac?

  by quoderat on 4/27/2009, 5:42 PM with 2 comments

• Report: Personal Internet use at work out of control

  by quoderat on 4/27/2009, 4:31 AM with 5 comments

• In defense of common English

  by quoderat on 4/26/2009, 7:02 PM with 1 comments

• Wall Street pay bouncing back

  by quoderat on 4/26/2009, 5:00 PM with -1 comments

• Percent of those who say global warming news is exaggerated, by political affiliation

  by quoderat on 4/26/2009, 7:11 AM with 5 comments

• The Goldman conspiracy, or how to buy a government

  by quoderat on 4/24/2009, 3:31 PM with 0 comments

• OQO's Brutal Lesson: Innovate and Die

  by quoderat on 4/24/2009, 12:07 AM with 5 comments

• Why Do Organic Eggs Come in Plastic Containers?

  by quoderat on 4/23/2009, 11:22 PM with 0 comments

• Cargill and food prices

  by quoderat on 4/23/2009, 10:53 PM with 0 comments

• Privacy scams on Facebook -- "ghosts"

  by quoderat on 4/23/2009, 8:43 PM with 0 comments

• IPhone apps near billion mark

  by quoderat on 4/23/2009, 5:12 PM with 3 comments

• Useful web-based development tools

  by quoderat on 4/23/2009, 3:39 PM with 0 comments

• The difference between in loco parentis and loco school principals

  by quoderat on 4/23/2009, 3:17 PM with 0 comments

• Reality check: You're not going to make money from your blog

  by quoderat on 4/23/2009, 11:42 AM with 1 comments

• A second life for Biosphere 2

  by quoderat on 4/23/2009, 3:40 AM with 0 comments

• The Peter Principle lives on

  by quoderat on 4/23/2009, 3:01 AM with 0 comments

• There aren't 450,000 full-time paid bloggers

  by quoderat on 4/22/2009, 6:05 AM with 0 comments

• Study finds pirates 10 times more likely to buy music

  by quoderat on 4/21/2009, 2:55 PM with 35 comments

• The wail of the 1%

  by quoderat on 4/21/2009, 9:41 AM with 6 comments

• BitTorrent trackers closing en masse after Pirate Bay verdict

  by quoderat on 4/20/2009, 10:51 PM with 0 comments

• Why voice-acting in games is bad

  by quoderat on 4/20/2009, 8:35 PM with 6 comments

• A 100mbs connection in Stockholm is $11 a month

  by quoderat on 4/20/2009, 3:46 AM with 10 comments

• Map of high-speed rail lines planned for US

  by quoderat on 4/18/2009, 4:00 AM with 2 comments

• Things that do not make sense (2005)

  by quoderat on 4/18/2009, 12:34 AM with 17 comments

• Remembering the past is like imagining the future

  by quoderat on 4/17/2009, 6:11 PM with 0 comments

• The plight of the front-end web developer today

  by quoderat on 4/17/2009, 3:32 PM with 0 comments

• Start up valuation estimator

  by quoderat on 4/17/2009, 2:13 PM with 0 comments

• Six steps to a successful virtualization deployment

  by quoderat on 4/17/2009, 11:49 AM with 3 comments

• Lungs breathing outside of the body

  by quoderat on 4/17/2009, 8:19 AM with 0 comments

• Sixth nucleotide found

  by quoderat on 4/17/2009, 7:38 AM with 0 comments

• An interactive map of vanishing employment across the US

  by quoderat on 4/16/2009, 8:57 PM with 1 comments

• The structure of fraud - prescient piece from 2002

  by quoderat on 4/16/2009, 8:21 PM with 0 comments

• Cryptic consciousness

  by quoderat on 4/16/2009, 5:53 PM with 5 comments

• Are the good times really over?

  by quoderat on 4/16/2009, 3:49 PM with 0 comments

• Navy takes next step towards laser weapons

  by quoderat on 4/16/2009, 3:38 PM with 0 comments

• The use of bodily expressions for states of mind

  by quoderat on 4/16/2009, 1:39 AM with 0 comments

• by quoderat on 4/14/2009, 4:03 AM with comments

• Marx's important error

  by quoderat on 4/13/2009, 10:14 PM with 14 comments

• "The biggest enemy is tap water."

  by quoderat on 4/13/2009, 7:43 PM with 23 comments

• Is high IQ as much a burden as a blessing?

  by quoderat on 4/12/2009, 8:20 PM with 69 comments

• Why tax the merely well-off as if they were wealthy?

  by quoderat on 4/12/2009, 8:10 PM with 3 comments

• 50 years of bad grammar advice

  by quoderat on 4/11/2009, 5:16 PM with 40 comments

• Google in the middle

  by quoderat on 4/11/2009, 4:52 AM with 12 comments

• Should we still make things?

  by quoderat on 3/16/2009, 10:17 PM with 0 comments

• Crazy or not? Death of free internet is imminent.

  by quoderat on 2/17/2009, 11:50 AM with 0 comments

• Thinking biases are uncorrelated with IQ [pdf]

  by quoderat on 2/14/2009, 7:54 AM with 0 comments

• When sites like Digg and Reddit revert to the mean -- is HN next?

  by quoderat on 2/13/2009, 7:03 PM with 55 comments

• Because the banks are insolvent, Obama's TARP will also fail

  by quoderat on 2/12/2009, 4:12 PM with 2 comments

• More firms challenging legitimate unemployment claims

  by quoderat on 2/12/2009, 9:01 AM with 0 comments

• by quoderat on 2/12/2009, 9:00 AM with comments

• Time for a revolution in economic thought

  by quoderat on 2/10/2009, 10:50 PM with 0 comments

• Let there be retards - the Creation museum

  by quoderat on 2/10/2009, 5:03 PM with 0 comments

• Keeping your home directory organized

  by quoderat on 2/7/2009, 10:33 AM with 1 comments

• Half a second delay caused a 20% drop in traffic

  by quoderat on 2/4/2009, 3:51 PM with 41 comments

• Foreclosure helps homeowners and the economy

  by quoderat on 2/2/2009, 6:28 PM with 13 comments

• TARP artificially goosed GDP - would have been much worse

  by quoderat on 2/2/2009, 4:04 PM with 0 comments

• Tips for writing efficient Bash scripts

  by quoderat on 2/2/2009, 3:51 PM with 4 comments

• Social changes, not all bad, accompany recessions

  by quoderat on 2/2/2009, 6:45 AM with 0 comments

• Visualizing the growth of Target

  by quoderat on 2/1/2009, 9:36 PM with 0 comments

• We live in public (and the end of empathy)

  by quoderat on 2/1/2009, 8:25 PM with 0 comments

• Workforce shifts to part-time and gig work

  by quoderat on 2/1/2009, 7:37 AM with 0 comments

• What aliens can tell us about evolution

  by quoderat on 2/1/2009, 6:52 AM with 0 comments

• Norms, Minorities, and Collective Choice Online

  by quoderat on 2/1/2009, 5:24 AM with 0 comments

• The globalization of addiction

  by quoderat on 2/1/2009, 4:42 AM with 0 comments

• by quoderat on 1/31/2009, 8:29 PM with comments

• Terrible GUI design ideas

  by quoderat on 1/30/2009, 8:31 PM with 0 comments

• Site and MySQL backups via cron

  by quoderat on 1/29/2009, 3:07 PM with 0 comments

• From $80,000 a year to eviction

  by quoderat on 1/28/2009, 9:19 PM with 22 comments

• Bring back the unions?

  by quoderat on 1/26/2009, 10:20 PM with 0 comments

• More info leads to less knowledge

  by quoderat on 1/22/2009, 3:40 PM with 0 comments

• What we don't know we don't know

  by quoderat on 1/19/2009, 9:28 PM with 0 comments

• Remix by Lawrence Lessig reviewed

  by quoderat on 1/15/2009, 10:35 PM with 0 comments

• In the gig economy, everyone is a hustler

  by quoderat on 1/14/2009, 7:20 AM with 18 comments

• China factory workers heading home as global economy cools

  by quoderat on 1/13/2009, 9:58 PM with 1 comments

• Same jobs, less pay -- firms cutting salaries

  by quoderat on 1/8/2009, 5:46 AM with 0 comments

• Comcast bandwidth throttling active in all markets

  by quoderat on 1/6/2009, 9:48 PM with 0 comments

• Regulation is everywhere. Let's see who benefits.

  by quoderat on 1/2/2009, 11:45 PM with 0 comments

• A robot rights revolution

  by quoderat on 12/5/2008, 2:39 PM with 0 comments

• Engine flameouts and market regulation

  by quoderat on 11/13/2008, 3:14 PM with 0 comments

• Why the bailout will cost at least $350 billion -- we won't be making any "profit."

  by quoderat on 10/3/2008, 8:58 PM with 0 comments

• by quoderat on 10/3/2008, 2:54 PM with comments

• The crisis game we're all playing

  by quoderat on 9/18/2008, 5:22 PM with 1 comments

• Ebay is ripe for start-up competition

  by quoderat on 9/2/2008, 2:11 PM with 1 comments

• Why I don't use Vista

  by quoderat on 8/21/2008, 2:22 PM with 0 comments

• Questions you can't ask

  by quoderat on 7/24/2008, 4:05 PM with 52 comments

• On the boingboing dustup

  by quoderat on 7/3/2008, 1:56 PM with 0 comments

• by quoderat on 6/9/2008, 5:25 AM with comments

• Blocking ads is not stealing. Get a better business model.

  by quoderat on 4/10/2008, 5:48 PM with 10 comments

• Developer user-hostility and arrogance: a case study in what not to do

  by quoderat on 4/1/2008, 9:21 PM with 0 comments

• Orders of thought - beyond IQ

  by quoderat on 4/1/2008, 6:07 PM with 2 comments

• Five problems every OS should fix

  by quoderat on 3/22/2008, 6:12 PM with 0 comments