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   by alanh 11y ago

   > He called her parents to make sure they were OK with her plan to drop out of school. Then he gave her $1 million. Wow, that’s a heck of a narrative. I would never criticize Ms. Holmes for using her connections like this, but when sta
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   by alanh 11y ago

   This sounds almost exactly like my experience attempting to develop an app for MySpace back in the day. "Oh shit, Facebook has apps! We need apps!" → I copy and paste their example code, and try to run it → Nothing happens; no hel
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   by alanh 11y ago

   Surely many hacks happen that we never find out about; nonetheless, the real world consequences of both the recent Sony (Pictures) hack and the older PSN hack were quite significant. The latter was quite relevant as it meant no one could pl
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   by alanh 11y ago

   Personally, this makes for funny timing. As a first-time Xbox (One) owner (who never owned any PlayStation), I was telling a friend with a PS4 how damn buggy everything seemed to be, from setup to games themselves. She said she doesn’t have
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   by alanh 11y ago

   Without joining the rush to judgement, allow me to say that I find this to be a legitimate inquiry, especially given the nature of your appeal in this thread. Care to respond?
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   by alanh 11y ago

   Awesome. Money quote: > Hyman received the expected news that the company was opening up next to one of his stores. But instead of panicking, he decided to call his friend Jim Stewart, founder of the Seattle's Best Coffee chain, to
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   by alanh 11y ago

   I don’t think you are! :) I’ve seen these too, and I think they are a little funny, and fairly true. A dev will know Twilio is just how you do phone and SMS, and non-devs generally don’t!
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   by alanh 11y ago

   Or they would, you know, work together for exactly this reason, like how dairy farmers supported Got Milk? together
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   by alanh 11y ago

   It’s been festering for a while. Three years ago, I overheard (in SF): > [Overheard]: Online advertising is getting bizarre; it’s almost like derivatives trading… (original: https://twitter.com/AlanHogan/status&#x2
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    by alanh 11y ago

    I’m not surprised. It's based on stereotypes that an actual German would not be as likely to share. (You may also be less likely to have heard the joke this plays off.)
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    by alanh 11y ago

    I enjoy long-form articles, but I still prefer the concise over the verbose.
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    by alanh 11y ago

    I used the word "suspect," didn’t I? The numerical output of B-24 bombers is dramatically undercut by their failure rate. The quote you’re posting is mostly about Lindbergh. I don’t recall the book trying to say he was "partn
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    by alanh 11y ago

    As I mentioned, I’m pulling this from a book. http://www.amazon.com/The-American-Axis-Charles-Lindbergh/dp... One reviewer on Amazon says: > This is one of the most carefully researched, extensively footnoted, beau
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    by alanh 11y ago

    To me, this is the best explanation. Very visual and intuitive. Cheers.
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    by alanh 11y ago

    Countermeasures* to this problem reminded me of an incident in which the Germans were able to outsmart Allied military intelligence. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem#Countermea... This is something I
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    by alanh 11y ago

    The joke plays off the one we've all heard before, about pigs being released with numbers implying one is "still at large" — the joke being that the Germans are such industrious and efficient engineer-types that even school p
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    by alanh 11y ago

    Ha, this is basically saying to go to the bar during business hours.
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    by alanh 11y ago

    This post is not useful or meant to be useful, I think. It's just supposed to be entertaining enough to get you to think about Sift. You shouldn't blacklist Delaware addresses or elderly people… That said, your point about noise h
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    by alanh 11y ago

    It’s a joke at Russians' expense, due to association of Russia and vodka in popular stereotypes. :/
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    by alanh 11y ago

    > PG isn't God Can you prove that? Absence of evidence isn’t evidence of absence, after all. You’re being a bit militant in your pg-atheism. Okay, in all seriousness, you are correct. Ability to hire coders to work in a particular l
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    by alanh 11y ago

    I know a few Elm developers. Using a less mainstream language can actually be a boon to hiring. (Isn’t there a classic PG essay on how ViaWeb benefitted enormously from using a Lisp when no competitors did?) > Had our first hire start t
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    by alanh 11y ago

    100% agreed
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    by alanh 11y ago

    Right. Also surprising how much fine noise there is in the background — it ‘should be’ out of focus enough there there would be nearly no noise at all…
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    by alanh 11y ago

    Care to point out specific examples? Curious what you see, exactly
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    by alanh 11y ago

    At least, well-known to .Net developers :)
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    by alanh 11y ago

    I remember reading about the Perl 6 reinvention of regular expressions in 2009 and being really excited about it, as the syntax changes seemed really grounded in the actual experience of using regular expressions (such as my own).
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    by alanh 11y ago

    The ending of the last-released HL2 episode had a very “to be continued” feel to it, but more importantly, Valve has made statements about future releases moving away from “the episodic format” to “smaller releases” and possibly returning “
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    by alanh 11y ago

    I hate to indulge this thread, but feel obligated to note that Half-Life 3 is still naught but a name.
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    by alanh 11y ago

    “nah” is a funny way to say “yes, and”
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    by alanh 11y ago

    I want to chime in to say that the lack of a common image format (and displays, for that matter) with true support for high-range photos is really holding back digital photography in my humble opinion.