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by Shebanator 7y ago
This is a great story, definitely made things a little dusty for me. Thanks for sharing. My own experience with him was also special - he was such an amazing kind, generous, and insightful person. And he would easily qualify for my "te
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by Shebanator 7y ago
Some of us actually did know him. I did, albeit not as well as others here, and I see no harm and much good in people celebrating his accomplishments in his chosen career.
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by Shebanator 7y ago
Love how they write an article about their own company's bankruptcy, complaining about pensioners and discusses getting out from under pension obligations as a purely good thing, and never once mentions the economic impact on those pen
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by Shebanator 7y ago
I have a rule of thumb I tell my friends when they ask me questions of the form "X is so lame, why can't GPM just do Y?". The answer, almost always, boils down to laws, regulations, and contracts. This is one of those times.
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by Shebanator 7y ago
I worked on GPM prior to the youtube merge, and for a short time after. We did a lot of things: when I first started there it didn't offer streaming subscriptions at all, or radio, or....
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by Shebanator 7y ago
As someone who worked on Google Play Music for many years, I'd like to point out that a lot of the UX criticisms here are really just personal preferences, and those preferences are based in very large part on the way you listen to mus
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by Shebanator 7y ago
Its not just BofA - Amex does a great job of classifying your transactions and giving you monthly and yearly reports on your spending. Other banks with "premium" credit cards do similar things.
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by Shebanator 7y ago
This is one of my favorites as well!
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by Shebanator 7y ago
An interesting article, which I think accurately describes my brief time at Microsoft during the Ballmer era (our startup was acquired after the bubble burst). But his definition of "made men" seems very vague and very convenient.
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by Shebanator 7y ago
Numbers is actually the best spreadsheet for stuff where presentation matters. For example, me and my friends use it for our D&D (and invisible sun) character sheets - the formula language is powerful enough to do what we need, and its
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by Shebanator 7y ago
rip off seems a little strong. this is an excerpt from a book on a different but related topic, and he is using the octupus as a way to make a larger point. The author probably has read the book in question and others to help them make thei
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by Shebanator 7y ago
If anything, the bay area numbers seem on the low side to me.
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by Shebanator 7y ago
Glad you like it. We're hiring :-)
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by Shebanator 7y ago
Thanks for the idea. But given my experience I've kinda soured on Porsche, plus parts are so damn expensive. My plan is to take part of the settlement and get/make a track-prepped miata. Edit: But of course if someone feels so sor
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by Shebanator 7y ago
I've owned many, many BMWs over the past twenty years. I spent way more time and energy fixing quality issues on those BMWs in their first year than I have on my Tesla. The Porsche Boxster I bought in 2015 was much better than the BMWs
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by Shebanator 7y ago
Poor amazon and microsoft, unable to afford to build their own silicon
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by Shebanator 7y ago
This is touched on in the article: "They are interesting because with just three initial functions (successor, constant and projection functions) closed under composition and primitive recursion, one can produce most computable functio
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by Shebanator 7y ago
There are good reasons why those early Leafs are so cheap. Namely battery packs that lose effectiveness very quickly due to lack of cooling. Stay away.
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by Shebanator 7y ago
And sometimes when people aren't that good at their jobs, they blame external causes instead of accepting responsibility for their own performance. (Note: I do realize that discrimination and bad managers are real things, but then agai
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by Shebanator 7y ago
The key thing is that you can set up a separate website for payments with iOS devices, but you can't embed or link to that website within your iOS app. I've seen apps rejected because their technical support website was linked fro
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by Shebanator 7y ago
Sure, but that is equally true for products like protonmail that use end-to-end encryption and for those that don't do any encryption at all.
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by Shebanator 7y ago
Keep in mind that $50M then is about $130M now, adjusted for inflation.
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by Shebanator 7y ago
Diabetes is actually more of a continuum than a pair of diseases. I was diagnosed with a Type 2 variant (low insulin output and high insulin resistance) when I was in my twenties, and I was very skinny at the time. I can't tell you h
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by Shebanator 7y ago
Armadillo Willy's is an awfully local reference. They only have a few locations relative to the other chains mentioned in this thread, and the furthest from the South Bay is in Dublin.
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by Shebanator 8y ago
I agree 100% on why I purchased FSD at $2k. But I'll add that I almost never use Autopilot, as I've had too many negative experiences with it. I do frequently use (and generally love) the smart cruise control feature, though - ste
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by Shebanator 8y ago
Users on these phones generally don't have google accounts. Of course some kinds of Assistant commands won't work without such an account, e.g. scheduling appointments in your google calendar. And these phones don't run Chrom
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by Shebanator 8y ago
KaiOS is not a google-developed OS. kaiostech is its own company with offices in several countries. Google gave them financing but it isn't fair to them to paint them as some sort of vassal - Google funds lots of things.
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by Shebanator 8y ago
Exactly this. T9 input is difficult for most people, but especially for the customer base of the Jio phones: a lot of the people who buy these phones are looking for content in languages they aren't necessarily fluent in, and some are
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by Shebanator 8y ago
Adobe used to lay people off pretty much every winter to make their Q4 numbers look better, then hire many of the same folks back a few months later. It sucked. From what I've heard they don't do this is as much now that their bus
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by Shebanator 8y ago
Do you think that is only a problem in government? Fads are a fundamental part of human nature. In tech, we have many examples: Agile, Ruby on Rails, React, RISC, OOP, microservices, and so on and so on. All have some real benefits, but als

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