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by apatters 9y ago
There's a lot of variability, but yeah, that's the right general idea. Support contracts basically come down to providing higher levels of insurance in exchange for charging (potentially exponentially) higher premiums. You CAN gua
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by apatters 9y ago
Great thought exercise but I feel it's more focused on how developers would like to get paid, versus how people with money would like to pay them. It's telling that the proposed system confers no meaningful rights to the sponsor -
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by apatters 9y ago
I'd consider it a bonus (if they dont have a Facebook, they're probably not wasting much time on it). There are enough people who use social media but hide their friends list, posts, tweets, etc. from all non-friends, so if you&#x
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by apatters 10y ago
My situation is the exact opposite. I almost never get robocalls but email spam is getting worse every month!
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Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer to Make $186M from Verizon Deal(wsj.com)
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by apatters 10y ago
It seems like a growing number of comments on Hacker News are of this virtue signalling, amplify the problem but offer no solutions variety. This is not the hacker ethos. The hacker looks at your parent and says woah -- grocers throw away 3
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by apatters 10y ago
This comment is so good that I think just being able to write it would qualify someone for a midlevel programming job!
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by apatters 10y ago
Speaking as a proponent of remote work, I think the reason is that remote workers are less productive in a _non-remote enabled culture._ And by default most companies are not remote enabled. They don't even understand what that means.
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by apatters 10y ago
Instead of inflicting PTSD on content moderators, why not give the job to someone who actually wants to see this type of content? They must exist, otherwise the content wouldn't spread in the first place. And/or crowdsource it so
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by apatters 10y ago
They might, but he'd have better odds than your average Joe (and certainly a better legal team). "With great power comes great responsibility" isn't just a line from a movie. Of course we can choose not to hold our leade
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by apatters 10y ago
That's why disclosure needs to start at the top and come from someone big enough to survive the fallout. If (for example) Zuckerberg genuinely wanted to do good and grew a pair, he'd do it. He's too busy exploiting your data
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by apatters 10y ago
It seems like the thrust of your comments in this thread is that some people are better than others. That is to say they are more moral, more intelligent, harder working, or whatever else. Fair enough. What conclusion -- be it a policy de
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by apatters 10y ago
What do you think of the articles that have been posted to HN about how people make worse decisions when they're under financial stress? I think it's true and can explain behavior that is both self-destructive and selfish. To solv
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by apatters 10y ago
Pardon the generalization here, but I know a lot of "non-college people" who support things like Trump and Brexit and would like to offer up an interpretation as to what many of them are thinking. Bear in mind they skew a bit olde
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by apatters 10y ago
While I would normally agree, this is the one "side project" I think they should have kept. We really need an imap5 or some standard which addresses the modern problems with email. Who else is going to represent the client perspec
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by apatters 10y ago
Great to see Mozilla backing off from quixotic tasks like building a phone OS but I still feel like they don't understand what we need them for. They are the organization that we need to keep the client side of the Internet free and op
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by apatters 10y ago
This model is great for me. It's very rare that I need to view or edit a document in an Office application but it does happen occasionally when the formatting is complex or something. Just install Office in a VM, pay $9 for 1 month of
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by apatters 10y ago
Asking something here with genuine interest: I interpreted your comment about "self-aware point scoring" to mean that you shouldn't think of relationships as transactional, or be too concerned with whether your contributions
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by apatters 10y ago
It sounds positively abominable. Why anyone would enjoy such a life continues to elude me.
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by apatters 10y ago
Australia also has an entire continent's worth of natural resources and a population of 25M people. Of course when you can pull money out of the ground hand over fist you can afford to spread a little of it around in the form of genero
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by apatters 10y ago
The largest concerns about basic income are that it will reduce the incentive to work for at least some people, and that it is phenomenally expensive. Why not solve both problems by simply eliminating income tax on lower income brackets ins
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by apatters 10y ago
I don't recall DOS + Win 3.11 being anywhere near as fast as the setup I use today, which is basically just Ubuntu and xmonad under a Gnome fallback session. Plus I would say the productivity gains of being fluent with GNU tools, RESTf
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by apatters 10y ago
What the hell has actually happened? Neither the link, the Cyanogen website nor the comments here really explain it.
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by apatters 10y ago
And even if you do beat their network effects, they will throw as much cash at you as it takes to buy you out... sigh.
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by apatters 10y ago
Interesting read, but I can't imagine how anyone could convince Google and Facebook to change their business models at this stage unless the market truly revolted and started moving away from their products due to privacy issues. I thi
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by apatters 10y ago
And yet the most creative and inspiring marketing is paradoxically that which is not done for marketing's sake: in other words, the authentic. You can be a marketer or you can be yourself and I know which one I want to be.
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by apatters 10y ago
It seems like everyone's trying to move upmarket and killing everything that was fun, unique or interesting about themselves in the process. It's not just businesses it's people too. Everyone wants to get the same soulless de
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by apatters 10y ago
Care to provide us with a "real solution," then?
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by apatters 10y ago
Man, life was a lot more colorful before we started spending all our time behind a screen.
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by apatters 10y ago
While I don't doubt that fake news is widely shared on Facebook, blaming the outcome of the election on it seems like a convenient way to dismiss the preferences of tens of millions of voters. It seems like there's a real effort r

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