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by aneth4 14y ago
An additional tragedy not mentioned is the broken circle of trust between developers, users, and service providers. In the future, developers will be more skeptical of promising platforms, and users will be less willing to turn over their c
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by aneth4 14y ago
Frightening to think you are among a generation of computer users that doesn't view a platform on which anything can be installed as the default. I remind you just a few years ago, the idea of an OS vendor restricting software installation
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by aneth4 14y ago
I'd guess an expert in being pithy.
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by aneth4 14y ago
I've been using Maps for many months as part of the developer program. They are not "terrible" but they are significantly worse than Google Maps. Let me count the ways: 1) "International" support is actually terrible. Whereas Google Maps ha
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by aneth4 14y ago
The fact the article disappeared interests me more than its content. How does Reuters go about deciding which articles to delete, as opposed to merely retracting or modifying? Is this an excercise in journalistic integrity, corporate bullyi
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by aneth4 14y ago
This is the opposite of "agile." It is difficult to know where your product will be in 2 months let alone 12, so it seems the advice to use SQL first is sound - unless you enjoy long distractions to solve simple JOINs.
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by aneth4 14y ago
I use Rails for most projects. It has its warts and there are many things I dislike about it. I also like node, but after experiencing the sad state of nearly ever node module I tried, I came to the conclusion that the ecosystem is just not
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by aneth4 14y ago
A few things to note: - The job was taken voluntarily - The employee can resign at any time - The pay is not horrible. $2/hr for overtime is very high for China, and much higher than could be made at most jobs outside of professional occupa
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by aneth4 14y ago
The apology doesn't reflect an understanding of the gravity of what he did. He mostly apologizes for using the wrong mechanism and generally overreacting, not for the betrayal of his users and the abuse of power for personal reasons.
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by aneth4 14y ago
Truly shameful behavior that permanently destroys the huge amount of trust Instapaper has built up with users. Instapaper, as any such product, is a service to its users, not a bludgeon for political battles. That is a hard line in the sand
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by aneth4 14y ago
Any email address collected by a web application would have a '.'. As I said, we are not looking for RFC compliance, but rather user error. Missing a dot is user error in 100% of cases in a web application, unless you are installed in and s
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by aneth4 14y ago
A stronger reason: the point of validating email addresses is to prevent user error, such as putting their name in the email field. It is not to ensure emails are RFC compliant. In fact you probably want to allow non-RFC compliant email add
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by aneth4 14y ago
Not entirely true. Really good engineers may not be good at getting what they are worth and be willing to see what they can get. Finding a job for a higher salary is a lot of work, finding the maximum salary (not that that should be your go
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by aneth4 14y ago
He does end this section with "period, full stop". However the rest of the comment is tangental does nothing to mitigate my response. Weight maintencance is not about calorie count, it's about understanding how our body processes food.
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by aneth4 14y ago
Sounds like a great study consistent with my experience and the prevailing view of the anti-diet.
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by aneth4 14y ago
> Here's the core problem. At a fundamental level the thermodynamic argument with regard to body weight has to work, of course it does, there's no way to slip past the laws of physics. If you eat little enough and exercise enough you wi
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by aneth4 14y ago
> if your app needs to do a burst of 350,000 jQuery calls in a tight loop and you are bummed that the whole thing takes a full second, you should then optimize using document.getElementById Seems like you might have some other optimiza
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by aneth4 14y ago
Except that consumers almost always win such disputes and they are really not very burdensome. So bitching about this process is really just bitching.
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by aneth4 14y ago
Is anyone surprised that Michael Arrington has soured relations with a vendor enough that they'd refuse to talk to him? Not I. The dispute resolution process deals with these sorts of things and punishes merchants who repeatedly violate rul
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by aneth4 14y ago
Given how optimized jquery is, does anyone understand why something as simple as getting an element by id would be so much slower than Dom methods?
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by aneth4 14y ago
If you value the status symbol of a Rolex (not I - I think they are tacky and ugly - sorry) fakes diminish that both for the producer and consumer. As another said, they also introduce the chance of fraud by intention or mistake. That said,
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by aneth4 14y ago
It's an internal name not used in commerce so it is not subject to the same liability. Not an expert beyond that, but you can nickname your sister Kleenex without violating a trademark.
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by aneth4 14y ago
I'd guess any engineer desperate enough to go through a two day interview process is delusionally obsessed, incompetent, or has no experience worthy of reference. Some filter.
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by aneth4 14y ago
The coins produce by Long Now would probably beat this by a long shot.
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by aneth4 14y ago
How about having an iPad with your boss' fade on it rolling behind everyone at the same time?
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by aneth4 14y ago
Also missed by many startups is that real customers WANT to pay for a service. Paying means the provider owes you something - quality, support, not shutting down tomorrow, etc. Paying also means you are entering into a mutual exchange of va
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by aneth4 14y ago
While we can't blame any individual team taking an aquihire deal, I have to wonder if their prevalence these days is undermining future startups and sending potential customers back to an old school mindset of going with large vendors who a
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by aneth4 14y ago
No accountability? Microsoft is losing marketshare and mindshare to Apple and Linux because their products have been buggy, unreliable, and generally suck. They have revamped their company to attempt to address these issues. That's accounta
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by aneth4 14y ago
Yes and political messages are not always overt. The phrase "income inequality" is politically loaded and implies that equality is better.
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by aneth4 14y ago
How often have you really encountered such buggy software that's cause you significant harm as a consumer? I've had annoyances and had to get refunds, though rarely and it's hardly ever caused any significant loss. No way for customers to d

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