MattLaroche

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by MattLaroche 15y ago
Quitting on stage was a misunderstanding. He didn't retract his rant's meaning, he basically changed the privacy settings back to what he meant them for. So no retractions at all.
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by MattLaroche 15y ago
When I click through to the Posterous site, I see: """ This site is password protected This site requires a password for access. Unless you select "Remember me on this computer", you will be logged out of this site when you close your brows
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by MattLaroche 15y ago
Disclaimer: I work at Palantir Technologies. These are my own opinions and not my company's. The Palantir post is great for how to handle yourself when you are already there. Steve Yegge's "Get That Job at Google" is a great how-to-really-p
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by MattLaroche 15y ago
Posting where you cribbed the story from doesn't make things better.
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by MattLaroche 15y ago
This is rajeshvaya's hobby: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rajeshvaya . Flag away on his submissions!
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by MattLaroche 15y ago
I can remember the post that finally pushed me to unsubscribe from TechCrunch: http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/20/why-we-often-blindside-comp... . It's by Michael Arrington, and it's one step short of a hatchet job on Caterina Fake. It's not
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by MattLaroche 15y ago
Do you agree with how terrible it is to straight out copy and paste other peoples' work? http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/php/30-php-best-practices-...
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by MattLaroche 15y ago
I find your straight copy-and-pasting of other people's work deplorable and I'm looking forward to your banishment from Hacker News. I know you're now ending your articles with a "source" - but why create your own articles instead of just l
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by MattLaroche 15y ago
rajeshvaya - it appears itechtalks.blogspot.com likes to repost articles directly copied from other sources without attribution. I find this behavior reprehensible.
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by MattLaroche 15y ago
This launched late May in Portland Oregon: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/google-offers-beta-st... And it launched in NYC and the SF Bay Area over a month ago: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/google-offers-beta-la... So w
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by MattLaroche 15y ago
Dupe a dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2913709 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2914021 Although the others linked through Reddit and Digg redirects.
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by MattLaroche 15y ago
To be fair, the Digg link on your submission doesn't make sense to me either.
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by MattLaroche 15y ago
Dupe of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2913709 . Also - why link to Reddit instead directly to the article?
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by MattLaroche 15y ago
Even better - this is for new contracts. People can always just not sign up for AT&T in the first place!
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by MattLaroche 15y ago
Perhaps, but I don't believe that $20 a month will be easily swallowed during a time of low consumer confidence.
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by MattLaroche 15y ago
This seems shortsighted to me. I'm already seeing non-tech friends using messaging apps that don't go over SMS - with the mass adoption of smart phones, this hopefully is the nail in the coffin for SMS.
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by MattLaroche 15y ago
> But I do need some sort of help (and I think therapy is a little overkill). One on one therapy may be overkill, but don't rule out a coach or a group. Seriously - if this is something that you find you can't overcome from practice and
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by MattLaroche 15y ago
This isn't about Google's bond-worthyness or financing corporate debt, but instead about their stock's perceived value. (The article talks about GOOG being rated "buy" versus "sell", not AAA or B which are bond terms.) S&P ratings do af
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by MattLaroche 15y ago
Is this a tangential question or a response to something you feel the article implied? The way I read the article is "Teenagers are going to have sex. Parents can either treat their children with respect and become emotionally closer with t
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by MattLaroche 15y ago
What a troll of a headline (of course, I clicked it, so it worked). It'd better read: It's Official: Apple's WebKit Is Now More 'Open' Than Google Android. I wonder how much of this will be rectified when Ice Cream Sandwich is open sourced.
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by MattLaroche 15y ago
My "No, and I don't want to" should count as "No, but I've never heard of it."
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by MattLaroche 15y ago
Passion cannot be faked. And you can't buy true passion. Even if someone offered me $10 billion a year to do something, I'd be passionate about the money and not about my job (well, unless my job is interesting). As others have said, if you
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by MattLaroche 15y ago
There's a huge difference to being a renter and the person renting out the place. Every story questioning AirBNB as a service I've seen has failed to differentiate from being a landlord and a renter. Even before this, I would not have rente
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by MattLaroche 15y ago
Being Geek by Michael Lopp (Rands) - because sometimes, being as awesome as you can at your core job doesn't mean you'll be taken care of in your career.
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by MattLaroche 15y ago
One of the downsides of simply merging items, with different URLs, is that the different articles might both be worth posting because they cover different aspects of a story. So it'd be great to see multiple URLs on one item. Also, there'd
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by MattLaroche 15y ago
The article does not do a good job bridging that concept. Even with this statement, I'm still scratching my head with what you're saying. Google doesn't want to be a bank. Google+ is not a PayPal competitor. Google doesn't want to make loan
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by MattLaroche 15y ago
This article is nonsense. The logic seems to go roughly like this: Google+ needs your real name. What needs your real name? Your bank! Google+ is going to be your bank! By the same logic, Google+ is also going to be Customs, Immigration, yo
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by MattLaroche 15y ago
I'd post on the page this bookmarklet is hosted, but there's no commenting on it, so I'll post here instead: This is great! MG was one of the reasons I was tempted to unsubscribe from TC. His headlines are over the top to drive traffic, and
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by MattLaroche 15y ago
This was an easy OS upgrade, but I have two complaints nevertheless: 1. App Store had problems loading this morning - I could tell they were hit hard, and certain elements both on the App Store featured page and the Lion page didn't load un
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by MattLaroche 15y ago
Sweet jeebus - thanks!

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