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by alephnan 7y ago
It claimed you can save up to $3-4 on the first ride, then gave me a 10 cent discount. I understand it says up-to, but it knew then and there exactly how much I can save on that ride.
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by alephnan 7y ago
Has anyone else been scammed by the Uber pass? I spent $25 on it, and saved a grand total of $1.27. It’s misleading that it would save you money, unless you do hundreds of rides a month just to break even.
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by alephnan 7y ago
The timing is interesting. He recently posted a video about women in tech.
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by alephnan 7y ago
> No - not for having a YT channel (per se) but for engaging in communications that FB considered to be a conflict of interest. What was the conflict of interest? > And probably (as with most firings), a whole whole bunch of other stu
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by alephnan 7y ago
The irony of a social media company which encourages people to post and share
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Ask HN: Why are there so many CRM software?
1 points by alephnan 7y ago|2 comments
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by alephnan 7y ago
Google App Engine
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by alephnan 7y ago
Tech people like Monty Python
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by alephnan 7y ago
False dilemma. Why not JWT inside a session cookie? Benefit: retain horizontal scaling capabilities, don't have to use local storage.
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by alephnan 7y ago
Does this work with private repos? I don't see documentation on this.
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by alephnan 7y ago
Seems like flagging the accounts should, in theory, feed back as data points into their machine learning models?
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by alephnan 7y ago
I immediately thought to lookup Twitter's company about section. Under Values: > We believe in free expression and think every voice has the power to impact the world. Edit: I didn’t realize I appeared to be supporting the trolls. N
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by alephnan 7y ago
Did you read the article? The author dedicated a whole section to this and introduced their own term “hostless”.
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by alephnan 7y ago
The simpler and more elegant the proof, the less likely we are to commit an error
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by alephnan 7y ago
On the analogy of castles, I asked a professor whether Godel’s Incompleteness theorems affects their work. She told me Mathematics is this great castle, where in one quadrant you have the number theorist, in another the topologists. Every d
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by alephnan 7y ago
> Before starting this company, my co-founder and I had tried to invest in homes. Were you guys successful?
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by alephnan 7y ago
If this would true, it would cast away The Technical Singularity hypothesis' premise that technological changes accelerates.
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by alephnan 7y ago
It could just be a matter of test coverage and priority, rather than malice
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by alephnan 7y ago
They did not implement a browser engine, akin to a Linux kernel, sure, but to be fair some Linux distros just add pre-installed tools or removal thereof.
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by alephnan 7y ago
Amazon was not the first online bookstore, nor is Apple first to market with their product features. Funny thing is, they made it sound like they pioneered the idea of: > Realizing the future of DevOps is a single application Google alre
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by alephnan 7y ago
They're constantly passive aggressiveness about it like this
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by alephnan 7y ago
Sort of like music sampling
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Barneys New York files bankruptcy(nytimes.com)
1 points by alephnan 7y ago|0 comments
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by alephnan 7y ago
It incorporated elements of delight, too, like a rocket ship that showed when you scrolled the page. I feel these lighthearted things are symptomatic of a product-driven culture, or at least a culture that empowered engineers to add Easter
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by alephnan 7y ago
In every other sane retail environment, this should have never happened at all, regardless of how rude the customer is, unless they're being racist or intentionally degrading or belittling the staff.
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by alephnan 7y ago
> Did they ask you nicely (initially) to pick it up? Nope. It was "Are you going to buy that?" and other rhetorical heckling questions. I said "yes" and didn't give them the attention they want. Eventually, look
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by alephnan 7y ago
The store's. I put the hat on while I continued shopping. I had every intention of buying the hat, but apparently the paper fell out. The employee came to me fist-clenched, with a fighting tone. I'm sure you're skeptical and
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by alephnan 7y ago
Sounds like you dodged a bullet. Did you end up working at another Fashion-Tech company? I'm curious how much of this is characteristic of Fashion-Tech industry in general.
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by alephnan 7y ago
I expect a lot of downvotes for this post from people who have not had experience working with people in fashion. Investors should be weary of people from the fashion industry. I say this as someone who has both a computer science degree an
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by alephnan 7y ago
Thoughts on NYC Subway ads? They are sort of entertaining sometimes, when there isn’t cell signal underground.

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