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by alialkhatib 11y ago
(Evidently) the San Jose SaberCats (football).
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by alialkhatib 11y ago
Previous substantial discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10006542
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by alialkhatib 11y ago
A friend has 6 kids and I'm beginning to wonder what his company's pat/mat policy is...
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by alialkhatib 11y ago
Slightly tangential, but sometimes people I can only describe as "tourists" walk around in the publicly accessible areas, so it's not totally unprecedented. For what it's worth, I tend to tell these people apart from the
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by alialkhatib 11y ago
That's true. I think I just got annoyed at the emotional appeal of the Nash death and overreached. Sorry.
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by alialkhatib 11y ago
That's true, but it's dwarfed by the amount of data representing traditional cabs. If we're not just selecting for cases involving deaths, a string of cases implicating Uber drivers in violence against passengers[0,1,2] sug
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by alialkhatib 11y ago
I don't think this remark is appropriate, especially given that an UberX driver killed a 6-year-old about 2 and a half years ago, but mostly because Uber and Lyft have been around for only around 5 years at this point.
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by alialkhatib 11y ago
This is pretty cool. I suppose I'd like to see a breakdown of the influences some of the more popular sources had on other things, or maybe to know who are the most prolific borrowers of references and themes (influencees? Chrome tells
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by alialkhatib 11y ago
I also use Alfred for a quick definition if I'm pretty sure the system dictionary can handle the word (otherwise I ask Google), but I agree that a vanishingly small number of additions to Spotlight would render Alfred defunct for me.
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by alialkhatib 11y ago
Agreed. I barely use Alfred that much and that's mapped to the similar-but-different option+space (Spotlight is mapped to command+space by default). If this kind of functionality could extend Alfred (or Quicksilver?), there would be no
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by alialkhatib 11y ago
"Paul Graham mainly wants to know how he can opt out of this 'feature'."
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by alialkhatib 11y ago
I'm glad you brought this up, because I was thinking about it but felt like my relative unfamiliarity with C(++) and a handful of other languages in this "shoot-out" made my understanding here flawed (or at least partially na
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by alialkhatib 11y ago
previous discussion with author's responses here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9715730
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by alialkhatib 11y ago
Ah, maybe I should have clarified. While I've taken some care to curate the notifications I get on my phone, there are nevertheless times that Twitter, Facebook, Gmail, etc... would just be a nuisance. When I'm meeting with some
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by alialkhatib 11y ago
This is disheartening. I had Google Calendar's number whitelisted so I'd get notifications (ie event reminders) from Google Calendar (and important people) when I was in meetings and whatnot. Now that I can't simplistically u
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by alialkhatib 11y ago
This seems like it would make more sense for Filld and consumers on a recurring delivery model.
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by alialkhatib 12y ago
See, I take the opposite view for the same reason. I see the contextual information like date as informative in my own posts and in others. An outrageous post looks less outrageous posted in a time when our knowledge of the world was differ
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by alialkhatib 12y ago
This is pretty cool. For a while I've used a dotfiles repo with various settings and config files in there, but I never got around to writing a script to automate symlinking things on new machines (and which things not to bother with -
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by alialkhatib 12y ago
This is interesting, but a few concerns are nagging me: 1) There's been some research about the demographics of crowdworkers [1] that questions whether it's a representative sample of any particular population, and I wouldn't
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by alialkhatib 12y ago
As a PhD student here at Stanford, I find this really distressing. For what little it may be worth to anyone reading this who is(/was) thinking about coming to Stanford, I have heard professors and grad students talk about ways to be
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by alialkhatib 12y ago
Uncanny that I had the exact same timeframe for getting a replacement; in my undergrad I was doing an ethnography on QS culture and spent about 2 weeks waiting for my UP band to get replaced when it broke, only to have the replacement break
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by alialkhatib 12y ago
Interesting that it's called "place-hacking" here. For a long time (or just in the US, or both) this is known as "urban exploration". I wonder if this culture differs from UrbEx in ways other than name.
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by alialkhatib 12y ago
It's possible that the email meant 10+ years of collective experience between those 2 developers, but then it would be a bizarre detail to include (especially given the brevity of the email). Still, it sounds based on the interview d
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by alialkhatib 12y ago
I find myself comparing this to Pocket, which I tend to use to queue content for later in much the same way that it seems Snooze is made to support. What Pocket offers over this is a cleaned up page of text to read, but what Snooze seems to
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by alialkhatib 12y ago
I'm assuming the intended link is http://blog.chatgrape.com/2014/11/12/the-incredible-google-d... The original link was to the animated gif within that post
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by alialkhatib 12y ago
One thing I like about zsh that doesn't seem to get that much attention (and seems to be overlooked here) is path expansion. If you're typing a path (let's say to ~/Dropbox/Public/...) you can say "cd ~&#x
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by alialkhatib 12y ago
Very true. You've summed a lot of the compromises that one has to make to enjoy the UP2414Q (or indeed pretty much any 4k monitor these days), and I really think that someday soon we'll get this right. Until then, these are the
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by alialkhatib 12y ago
I'll state at the outset that, provided you have the ability to output using DisplayPort 1.2, you should consider the Dell UP2414Q, which I'm using and really like. Otherwise (and even in this case), you might be happier waiting i
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by alialkhatib 12y ago
This is really cool. In the same space (ie real-time visualization of DDoS attacks) is DAEDALUS-VIZ, although I don't know if/where it was implemented for people to watch.
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by alialkhatib 12y ago
This is unrelated, but if people using the HTTPS Everywhere extension are seeing a broken page, it's the extension's fault; the page's CSS and JS files are all being called by the HTTP protocol, which browsers tend to frown u

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