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by alanh 11y ago
Wow, okay, this comment and its parent lost me :)
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by alanh 11y ago
Once my Evernote underwent a dramatic sync error, resulting in duplicates of all my notes. Evernote support's only help was to suggest I use Time Machine to recreate my notebook. They couldn't move the notebook back in time or any
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by alanh 11y ago
Non-HN but YC-related question: Is there not going to be a Startup School this year? I have gone to 2 of them, and it’s always an inspiring, memorable experience.
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by alanh 11y ago
brew doctor Such a great tool. It can more often than not correctly suggest resolutions to problems with homebrew. It’s a level of helpfulness to which many dev tools can aspire.
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by alanh 11y ago
You eventually gain downvote permissions after gaining a certain amount of karma.
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by alanh 11y ago
4S was indeed a big leap. When I broke my 4S, I temporarily downgraded to a 4 but missed the faster, better camera so much that I once again upgraded to the 4S.
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by alanh 11y ago
The implications are apt, I’m afraid
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by alanh 11y ago
This was quite unexpected and has brightened my day
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by alanh 11y ago
Pet peeve (I expect downvotes), but "setup" is not a verb; "set up" is. (Same with "sign up" and "log in.") This is a weird orthographic quirk many developers seems to share.
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by alanh 11y ago
1. Never heard of this website 2. Labeled as news, but not news 3. Every ~10th word is an erroneous concatenation of two normal words, like "effecton" or "animalslike" Conclusion: this is … some sort automated content pi
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by alanh 11y ago
Well, that’s true — I don’t want all unsolicited email to be banned — although the types of unsolicited mail I want are narrow enough to almost be defined (and thus solicited). There is perhaps a distinction that could go really far, though
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by alanh 11y ago
Your post reads like a satire of SV mindset - overly literal, overly self-assured, totally ignorant of how the world outside of a logic system actually works, and consequently choosing the libertarian or technoanarchist "throw it all o
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by alanh 11y ago
> There is an army of naked celebrities dancing around the internet today because of an "iOS" hole that didn't even involve the device OS at all. Are you referring to the year-ago iCloud “hacks” or is there a really surp
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by alanh 11y ago
I can't tell if you are implying Symbian had a good security story, or if you are merely reminding us that it is basically the original smartphone OS.
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by alanh 11y ago
The big graph at the top might be better represented as fractions of the whole. The most apparent thing in this graph is its seasonality / cyclic behavior in traffic, but that’s not the most important thing (given this was submitted as
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by alanh 11y ago
It’s not. :) Facebook logins last a long time. Shorter sessions would reduce usage / addiction
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by alanh 11y ago
Of course, but web ≠ internet.
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by alanh 11y ago
I would like to know more about this. Who is paying for fake activities, and to what ends? Obvious guesses (with prior evidence!) is: Government astroturfing & information gathering (hot girl friends you + gov't gains access to yo
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by alanh 11y ago
Facebook doesn’t measure usage quite so haphazardly. This has been a topic of discussion earlier, and relevant to their SEC / financial filings. Viewing an embedded widget doesn’t count, but clicking it or signing in to an app with Fac
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by alanh 11y ago
Who or what exactly do you refer to as “media”? Is this what this company called their advertising division?
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by alanh 11y ago
> We respect your privacy — input is never logged or monitored. Except it is logged and monitored by the US Government because this site uses unencrypted HTTP. Otherwise, a commendable sentiment…
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by alanh 11y ago
As opposed to Ctrl-o, y, enter?
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by alanh 11y ago
> literally no worse than Siri Now who is posting FUD? Apple would never do something so egregious as to upload a copy of all the filenames on my computer.
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by alanh 11y ago
Yes, that is a very good point. Part of being good at hiring is becoming able to work with different kinds of people with different needs and preferences.
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by alanh 11y ago
I hate take-home interviews and rarely finish them. Especially when a candidate has many options or places a high value on actually getting to meet possible future team members (as I do), a two or three-hour assignment take-home assignment
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by alanh 11y ago
Huh — is the ability to use a separate palette per tile often done in practice? I have used quite a few gif creation tools over the years, and they all seemed to support only a fixed palette...
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by alanh 11y ago
There was a study showing that crime goes down when the neighborhood executes a simple trees++; and from this we can definitely deduce that the deciduous decidedly discriminates. Or in other words, urban hiking may have a similar e
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by alanh 11y ago
For an extra boost of that natural feeling, take your clothes off in the elements.
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by alanh 11y ago
I’ll bite: How do you think this happened?
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by alanh 11y ago
Is Kubernetes pronounced "koo bur NET ease" or am I way off?

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