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by andjd 7y ago
Isn't Eventbrite also a valid alternative, that has the advantage of bing a mature, feature-rich offering? Free events are free, and their profits come from supporting paid events.
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Stationhead | Senior Android Developer | Brooklyn, NY | ONSITE | Full-time Stationhead is looking for a passionate Senior Android Developer to be employee #1 on our Android team. You will be a technical lead for a small distributed team. Yo
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You don't have to imagine it, just try to change your cable/internet provider.
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> just one presidential hopeful — Democratic candidate Elizabeth Warren — uses domain-based message authentication, reporting, and conformance policy — or DMARC. Another reason that Warren is my favorite of the democratic candidate righ
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Agree that crypto-burn is a bad idea. But I am curious what that 3-5 billion government windfall will go towards.
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The notion that everything that can be digitalized should be free is a pernicious notion and trivializes the effort creators put into their work. Journalists, musicians, authors, and artists deserve to be able to make a living from their wo
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>then Boeing nearly killed it by offering airlines a 70% discount on the 737 MAX. Actually, Boeing lobbied/sued to get punitive tariffs levied on the Bombardier CSeries. While they ultimately lost the case, while it was pending, Bo
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by andjd 8y ago
In situations with notice-and-takedown like this, I always wonder why there aren't stronger protections against abuse. Should a platform or user who had their content ordered removed in error be able to receive damages? Should the law
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> "globally, hundreds (if not thousands) of brands have names similar to regions, land formations, mountains, towns, cities, and other geographic places". These could be put off applying for new gTLDs because of "uncertain
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I was disappointed by this sentiment by the author >And really, one can’t blame the drug companies. These are profit-making companies. We can’t expect drug companies to behave differently. The notion that corporations should only work fo
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Did anyone else see this headline and think: Why would they use a customized XML for this in 2019?
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Given that part of your motivation is to help others in a similar situation from being trolled in the future, were you disappointed that the CAFC issued a non-precidental summary ruling? Is there a way to petition the court to issue a full
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Agreed. Even flying economy the A380 feels a lot less cramped than any other plane I've flown on and for long-haul flights, that's a big deal.
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If your UX requires a font that is optimized for rendering at small sizes, it's bad UX. Just use a larger font size instead.
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I got the XR. I would prefer a smaller phone, but none of the extra features on the XS justified paying 33% more for them. (In fact, I didn't feel that 64 GB was enough, so if you compare the cheapest models with more than that, you&
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I went to Oberlin, where Bob is a professor. The pair of Campbells soup pictures were gallery framed on the wall of one of the classroom buildings
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> And I think that a typed Elixir would get my attention right quick. Elixir _is_ statically typed, it just uses strong type inference so you rarely have to explicitly type things out. A key difference between Crystal and Elixir is that
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Panoply has developed software for podcasts that allows them to inject targeted ads into downloads, which makes podcast advertising closer to the nightmare that we see on the web. However, that could offer another avenue for ad-blocking. I
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Actually, Spectrum was a new brand introduced after TWC was purchased by Charter Communications 2 years ago, so it was more an effort to unify the two brands than trying to run away from a bad reputation. That also helps explain why they st
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Former lawyer here: One of the key takeaways from this is that even if you don't want to exclude other people from using and building on your invention, you should still patent it. It's much cheaper to file the patent--you don&#x
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Cool. I don't think I've ever heard a war story about a SmallTalk codebase before -- I have always gotten the impression that SmallTalk was a research/toy language similar to Haskell that is held in high regard but rarely us
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To clarify, the Lantham act covers trademarks and unfair competition, not copyright. That makes the title of this blogpost confusing, because it seems to be conflating the copyright and trademark arguments that were both rejected.
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In comparison, over the next 10 years, the MTA is projected to spend 6 billion extending the 2nd avenue subway a mere 1.5 miles to 125th st. I don't know that I approve of the incentives to bring Amazon to NYC, but I suspect New Yorker
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tl;dr: >[An] architecture is analogous to the redux dataflow model on a react app, but applied to the fullstack. The page has no concrete recommendations as for what tools could work to implement this pattern except GraphQL. Without a p
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I strongly prefer coding in normal fonts instead of typewriter fonts. This is the primary reason that tabs are better than spaces. Working with a proportional width font in a space-indented file is always trying.
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Stationhead | Senior Software Engineer — Mobile (iOS) or Full Stack | ONSITE in Brooklyn, NY | Full-time | Competitive salary based on experience. Hi, I’m Andrew DeFranco, a full-stack engineer at Stationhead. We’re building a music-focused
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Stationhead | Multiple Positions: iOS developer, Backend Engineer | ONSITE in Brooklyn, NY | Full-time | 100K - 140K + equity Hi, I’m Andrew DeFranco, a senior engineer at Stationhead. We’re building a music-focused social network fighting
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I realize that Atom is fully open source, but I'm a little concerned that this puts VSCode and Atom under the same roof. I feel that those platforms are where the innovation in text editors has been recently, and can't imagine tha
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Kanye West Made Us Download Third-Rate Apps to Listen to His First-Rate Music(slate.com)
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I can appreciate that Slice is trying to undercut competitors like seamless, but their app is little more than a minimum viable product. It lacks any user-generated content, such as reviews or photos, so there's really nothing to make

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