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by adgar 14y ago
OAuth scopes kick ass. You don't even need to give up name or email to an application with Google's implementation, IIRC.
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by adgar 14y ago
> Bottled water is an entire industry that was built on selling us plastic bottles filled with an abundantly free resource by convincing us we needed it through, you guessed it: advertising. I drank the bottle of water on my nightstand
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by adgar 14y ago
> how much more time should they have taken, and what difference would it have made? Enough time to read the fucking jury instruction about prior art, challenge the foreman's assertions about it, and ask for instruction or clarification
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by adgar 14y ago
> Don't blame the jurors. They're just regular folks who are earnestly trying do their best as though they're performing a civic duty. In reality, they're being played like a fiddle. I blame them a fair amount. They had hundreds of ques
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by adgar 14y ago
I guess I was a bit brief. The discussion of the "bullshitting" article ended up centering around the question of whether startup founders are deliberately lying/deceiving or just paint rosy pictures for themselves and live in those picture
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by adgar 14y ago
pg has a lot invested in the idea of startups. He doesn't have anything invested in what they create. That's the disconnect you're seeing here. That the startup world permits such a disconnect is another problem entirely. To downvoters: how
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by adgar 14y ago
This is why DBAs are a thing. Just sit back and enjoy the rediscovery of relational datastores in the blogosphere. The "thought leaders" are going to slowly figure out things like your post that were worked out properly in the 80s.
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by adgar 14y ago
See the other front page story about startup founders and bullshitting.
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by adgar 14y ago
> Heroku seems to be like a more useful Google App Engine, a good place to host a blog or experimental project if you're not into dev-ops. Considering Heroku is single-homed, I find it hilarious that you say it's less of a toy than GA
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by adgar 14y ago
> When it comes to entrepreneurs specifically, more often than not these white lies are nothing more than a sincere effort to generate positive momentum 'out of thin air' when facing the harsh realities of entrepreneurship. Which is why
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by adgar 14y ago
>> "Retina" displays at sizes larger than 4"
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by adgar 14y ago
It sounds like your parent poster is saying it shows the splash screen over all applications and there's nothing you can do about it. Which is needlessly inconsiderate.
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by adgar 14y ago
The users you describe typically pirate Photoshop in my experience.
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by adgar 14y ago
Yes, just over 100k is about right. My fresh out of undergrad offer to one of Microsoft's major competitors was almost identical to my colleagues' MS offers. Mine was to a competitor who is also known for offering below-market salaries alon
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by adgar 14y ago
On these forums, that means an acqui-hire is a success.
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by adgar 14y ago
It's not a completely new anything, it's a password on your phone.
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by adgar 14y ago
> I expect a little more thoughtfulness on a top comment in HN. Why?
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by adgar 14y ago
> Two-Factor authentication sucks. It's too hard for users. It must be easier to build a startup on the assumption that your users are incompetent mouthbreathers. Respecting your users is hard work :-/
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by adgar 14y ago
Hangout?
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by adgar 14y ago
> Why isn't all of the repeatable stuff outsourced in bulk, while still enabling the founders to develop the product and own equity? Because then it would be painfully clear how little value the products bring.
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by adgar 14y ago
It is effectively impossible to show causation in this field.
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by adgar 14y ago
This is seriously worth checking out. For it to be really useful for geeks, the keyboard shortcut interface has to be masterful (ie: worth learning). Or, like others are suggesting, at least replicate significant portions of vim. Doing 95%
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by adgar 14y ago
OP is referring to very real, disturbing sentiment that tops many discussions of Julian Assange's charges. Hop over to reddit sometime for real fun. I did not think OP agreed with that sentiment. But he did brush right past it without addre
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by adgar 14y ago
> Lots of people are trying to point out that Assange isn't being accused of rape, but some sort of "not-using-a-condom" silly rape law that is only the law is whacky Sweden, herp de derp feminists de derp political correctness gone mad
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by adgar 14y ago
And the search providers which helped him find the libraries? God knows Github search didn't do it.
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by adgar 14y ago
> Now that they're equally evil nuance at its finest
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by adgar 14y ago
If the client allowed us to pick someone other than pg as the root, then people could comment however they like and more easily view the comments they value. Given HN's current latency, though, you'd need a few orders of magnitude more reso
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by adgar 14y ago
> HN has had top stories telling programmers not to care about corner cases or to assign a very low priority to them. That's because HN focuses on startups. Startups have extremely little time, money and resources. Microsoft has over 94
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by adgar 14y ago
Have you ever worked for an organization as large as the State of Massachusetts? That might be a useful bit of experience upon which to base your opinion.
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by adgar 14y ago
> It's not like there's some Great Cambridge Hive Mind at work. This is a common motif in internet outrage, and it's not surprising to see it every day on HN which is startup focused. Massachusetts' government is not 1 giant perfectly-i

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