Firehed

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by Firehed 14y ago
I'd speculate that it's less about politics and empires, and more about not getting too many cooks in the kitchen. It's easy to blur the vision for your product when you have opinions coming in from five thousand people, never mind having t
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by Firehed 14y ago
Let me guess - you're a male in your mid-twenties or maybe early thirties? (me too!) Once you start having a family, kids, house, etc., you're going to be far less inclined to bounce around the country or world for your job, even if those f
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by Firehed 14y ago
I think you totally missed the point: geography generated higher clicks on this ad because people were overwhelmingly more interested in the location of a job than what it was for . Because Diabetes AutoMeters Inc™ that Raganwald thinks
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by Firehed 14y ago
They don't prioritize finding historical data, which is why the permalink URL is all the more important. There are (or at least were) third-party services dedicated solely to finding older Twitter data. Again, this is no different than an
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by Firehed 14y ago
Anyone looking to actually verify the source (this is at least partially why they're cited, right?) is going to have difficulty locating the original tweet without the permalink. The original tweet, along with the link, can be deleted - but
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by Firehed 14y ago
Ironically, I'd be much more likely to harm someone with moonshine than with an XL magazine. In any case, the stand I'd be taking is about the absurdity of trying to ban 3d printing of specific devices, not about gun rights. I can't think o
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by Firehed 14y ago
As someone else pointed out, including suicides in gun death statistics is pointless: they would have found another method had guns not been available. I looked into the stats briefly on murders per 100k by country, and the US was somewhere
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by Firehed 14y ago
When that happens, I'm immediately printing off several high-capacity mags out of principle, and I don't even own a firearm (thought about it, but I don't have time to go to a range so the liability isn't worth it for me). While I understan
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by Firehed 14y ago
In the same way that code isn't data. Yes, it's bytes in memory like any other data, but it's the means rather than the end. You care about the data, and the query (or code) is what you use to get it.
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by Firehed 14y ago
People seem to be confusing "NoSQL" and "non-relational". Mongo happens to be both, but there's nothing fundamental that puts the two together. You may not get the full capabilities of SQL with non-relational data (JOINs, etc), but there's
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by Firehed 14y ago
I'll confirm San Jose being way too hot. I lived there during our YC summer and it was 90-100 every day. Palo Alto and Menlo Park are incredibly comfortable 10+ months out of the year, and maybe a light jacket the rest of the time.
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by Firehed 14y ago
I don't have a source for this, but as an interviewer, simply thinking about what I can get from a riddle indicates it's probably true. I have a mental checklist of about fifteen items that I try to get answered when interviewing a candida
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by Firehed 14y ago
It usually takes a tragedy to actually accomplish anything in government (occasionally just a wildly outlandish remark, but I digress). Progress is still progress, even if the event that got the ball rolling should have never happened. Also
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by Firehed 14y ago
I'm not about to install that extension and find out myself as that could cause some... serious problems... but that was my first thought as well. What's to stop this from doing something nefarious? Its sandboxing privileges are not remotel
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by Firehed 14y ago
> It is a sign that people are willing to delegate their responsibility to someone else making decisions (or answers, if you prefer, but that is the very same thing in the end) for them. This is basically the entire premise behind a rep
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by Firehed 14y ago
It's a problem with ACH in general. However, debits from consumer accounts (or, more accurately, those initiated with a "PPD" code) can be refuted for something like two years. By submitting a file straight to the networks, I could also deb
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by Firehed 14y ago
You think MAC spoofing and editing your hosts file to get around a paywall has gone mainstream? I'd be astonished if there were two HN readers on most flights.
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by Firehed 14y ago
This... is not going to end well. I wouldn't look forward to going in tomorrow if I worked in that office.
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by Firehed 14y ago
On my last flight, the price had been raised to $20 or so. I'm not sure if it was holiday price-gouging or they've simply raised their prices, but in either case I was not pleased - especially as the service quality seems to have gone down
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by Firehed 14y ago
They don't have to weight everything equally, but as I previously stated, politicians that actually want to do good and not just get re-elected (I hear some exist) might actually care about their precedent-setting decision and how it will i
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by Firehed 14y ago
The arguments I've heard may be difficult to pull off, but they do make sense. One cited a lot of deep in the money call options expire soon, and the folks that wrote those options have a lot to lose if the stock is high when they expire
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CES: Worse products through software(hypercritical.co)
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by Firehed 14y ago
A comment above addresses this well: shell companies, which is really the problem we should be fixing. Granted, the definition is probably still difficult to legally define despite how obvious it is when you're looking at one.
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by Firehed 14y ago
I'm not sure it would be wise to provide the private key for www.whitehouse.gov to Akamai to attempt such a configuration, no matter how trustworthy they are. They need to fix the routing internally (slower, but safer).
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by Firehed 14y ago
I fail to see a problem with voicing your opinion to an elected official, even if that person is not representing you. Especially when one state making a decision can set a precedent for others. Although I do think that the votes should be
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by Firehed 14y ago
Not if you went to grade school in America! /wishes I was joking.
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by Firehed 14y ago
No, of course not. But if they've created this platform to make our voices heard, I expect them to listen. Just like writing my elected officials, every White House petition I've signed has gotten me either no response or a tactfully-worded
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by Firehed 14y ago
Middle men only exist when they add value to the equation, except in extreme circumstances. People that want to do everything themselves can do so, but they may not have the resources (time, skill, or money) to be effective at all that stuf
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by Firehed 14y ago
I've received no emails as a result of signing any petition. I think this is just a much more direct way for the government to pretend it cares what we want while continuing to do whatever it pleases.
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by Firehed 14y ago
I regretfully disagree with you, in regards to the case playing out actually being helpful to the cause. The public, by and large, doesn't give a damn about this kind of thing. His suicide, tragically, appears to have helped the cause - th

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