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by apatters 8y ago
> If you’re suggesting that we shouldn’t push women into dangerous jobs but it’s okay to push men into them No I didn't suggest this. My question was not about energy policies. Let's substitute coal miners for waste collectors
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by apatters 8y ago
I'm in Thailand and our customers are almost all in the US. Some Thai companies have a pretty grueling culture, six days a week, little/no vacation, etc. Our customers don't try to micromanage as long as we're getting re
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by apatters 8y ago
I'm American but I've lived overseas for nearly a decade, and I hardly ever go back. In recent years when I meet other Americans who are visiting my city, I often get this vague feeling that they're just trying too hard in
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by apatters 8y ago
Why would 50/50 gender parity across all industries ever be a desirable goal? Coal mining is male dominated -- should we push more women into becoming coal miners?
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by apatters 8y ago
The learn more page is brilliant and insightful. I haven't heard the term "commemorative friends" before and I agree that this is a real problem with Facebook (they have many, but the bottom line is they just fucked up the si
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by apatters 8y ago
My take is that the productization of travel is a real and gradual long-term trend that's correlated with the number of people traveling for the sake of tourism. For decades international tourism has been getting cheaper and easier and
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Ask HN: I built a small software dev agency, what should I do next?
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by apatters 8y ago
This is the opinion of one man, not the NYT. But there are so many things that are wrong about his opinion! 1. There was never a "hell of not being able to turn off" email. Nor is there one for social media. There are push notifi
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by apatters 8y ago
I think this is a great article with a provocative title. I don't know whether there will ever be another Red Hat or not, it's a meaningless question. But if you want to build a business on open source, this is a critical article
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by apatters 8y ago
I think it's more accurate (certainly more charitable) to call his statement hyperbole. Calling it a ransom seems like an exaggeration but not really a lie. But if you accuse him of lying when he's not then you are lying :)
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by apatters 8y ago
From the perspective of a desktop user they are phoning it in. Gnome is upgraded to the latest release and they made some theme tweaks. The desktop feature list is humiliatingly short. It's not entirely Canonical's fault. No one e
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by apatters 8y ago
We're all generalizing in the extreme here, obviously, but having lived in both the East and the West, my observation would be that in Asian societies people are much less comfortable talking to strangers, and the script exists to faci
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by apatters 8y ago
I agree. After observing a few generations of these businesses you realize that their shareholders prioritize large, gradually declining revenue streams over new opportunities. That's totally fine and that's why the system needs
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by apatters 8y ago
Maybe not, but there was certainly a trust issue. At the dawn of ecommerce many people were afraid of using their credit card online -- they didn't know the technical details but it just seemed new and scary.
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by apatters 8y ago
Yes it's a lack of good technical leadership. I think labor market incentives distort a lot of engineering decision-making especially at smaller companies, where the boss heard that React is hot and decides Solution X should be built w
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by apatters 8y ago
This comment seems pedantic, disingenuous, and perhaps misleading all at once. By the average American I meant "a typical American," which is admittedly a murky term, but I doubt most people would take this to mean the literal mat
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by apatters 8y ago
If the fine is intended to be punitive or act as a deterrent, it surely fails. Musk's net worth is over $20B, so a $20M fine is <0.1% of that. At this rate, he could violate securities law 999 more times and he'd still be a bil
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by apatters 8y ago
Even if you have no money you can bet your personal time and effort. I agree that having financial resources is a huge leg up, but I don't believe it's mandatory. My beliefs are formed from personal experience. I came from a worki
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by apatters 8y ago
> spot an extreme growth opportunity, bet everything on it, and be correct. > Or be born into money. No amount of self-help is going to tilt the scale towards that. While there are undoubtedly success stories which resemble both of th
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by apatters 8y ago
There is a difference though. A system implemented by Equifax would presumably look at your social media habits or phone usage and say, "Sorry, we're denying you a loan because our data indicates that you may default." The Ch
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by apatters 8y ago
This was my first impression too. Tim and a certain contingency have always wanted that stuff to take off, but the benefits have never been clear enough to make it happen. It's an easy concept to overengineer. The Web took off because
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by apatters 8y ago
>Security through obscurity... ...is not a solution by itself but is a perfectly valid part of a defense in depth strategy, for example running SSH on a port other than the default is a common and good practice. > I can guarantee that
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by apatters 8y ago
If you're more interested in tech discussion or maybe some subcultures, and less interested in food photos/anecdotes about babies, just join http://mastodon.social/ already. Set your preferences to show posts of y
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by apatters 8y ago
> All Elon had to do was keep his head down and not pick twitter fights.... You know what, this could be said about a lot of people, including the freaking President. I'm beginning to wonder if the real problem is Twitter. Specifica
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by apatters 8y ago
I'd really like to see some discussion of the numbers because on the surface a declining divorce rate sounds positive, but depending on other trends it might not be. If these are all true: 1- Unmarried couples with children are more li
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by apatters 8y ago
Since millennials are marrying and having kids later, how do we know they won't get divorced later too?
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by apatters 8y ago
Winners in the tech industry turn into giants via vertical integration and predatory pricing. They keep adding stuff related to the segment they first won in. They keep making stuff cheap or free to undercut competitors. There are many exam
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by apatters 8y ago
I believe a major reason for the widely observed decline in Google's SERP quality is that SEOs got too good at gaming the system. The Panda and Penguin updates a few years ago kicked off a trend of prioritizing content from highly auth
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by apatters 8y ago
Is there an open source email client which supports a conversation view similar to Gmail's? I find that to be an amazingly useful feature. The other thing Gmail does which has a lot of potential is message labeling (e.g., newsletters a
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by apatters 8y ago
That might all accurately describe what they'd like to achieve, but fortunately we still live in a free market society where there's room for competition (and if there isn't, regulators often step in). I don't find Googl

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