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by atotic 7y ago
Wow. I had my own bad AirBnB experience, and privately decided never to never use them again. I wrongly assumed it was just me. This is sad, I thought AirBnB were one of the good guys, and had a good experience 4 years ago. Is there somethi
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by atotic 7y ago
Extreme freemium model! Free for everyone, except for that one billionaire :-)
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by atotic 7y ago
"why is American infrastructure so bad?" has been a topic I am curious about. The above article does not answer the question. I'd prefer not to care about American infrastructure costs. Unfortunately, I occasionally have to l
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by atotic 7y ago
The simplest consumer-friendly solution would be:= to make consumers whole: if I receive a counterfeit item, Amazon should send me a genuine replacement immediately free of charge, and pay me $5 for my time if they want the counterfeit item
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by atotic 7y ago
Andreessen was loved by the entire core Mosaic technical team. Management did not like him, because he was a leader they could not control: opinionated, outspoken. The core Mosaic tech team all left Mosaic project on the same day to join Ma
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by atotic 8y ago
Not on HN, looking at your comments/submission stream.
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by atotic 8y ago
All Blender needs to do is to publish a few videos that offend everyone, and get demonetized. Problem solved!
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by atotic 9y ago
I've worked with another Forth disciple in the late 80s. He was on a PC, and thought that my Mac GUI was neat. So he wrote a portable GUI framework from scratch in Forth that had dialogs, buttons, pull down menus, text inputs, graphics
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by atotic 9y ago
Amazon used to have "what people in your city are buying?" charts when it was still a bookstore. I loved it, so much more useful than generic bestseller list. I think privacy concerns killed it....
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by atotic 9y ago
My feeling is that we have two opposing modes of work developing: Scalable work, where tools multiply worker effectiveness exponentially (tech, finance, manufacturing), Non-scalable work, where tools multiply worker effectiveness linerarly&
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by atotic 10y ago
Wow. That's my first memory too. I was almost 3.
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by atotic 10y ago
fairvote.org is a national organization dedicated to voting reforms such as this. They were a big supporter of Maine initiative, and often have satellite state offices.
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If you work for Facebook, quit(jwz.org)
9 points by atotic 11y ago|3 comments
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by atotic 11y ago
I might enjoy using this. But, PRIVACY! Sending back every visited URL has never been ok for any reason, first time I saw this idea shot down was in '93. But there might be a way out: I'd be willing to give up privacy of URL hashe
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by atotic 12y ago
I was scanned the comments looking for suspects. My best guess are: osipov, usaphp, and ibi7.
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by atotic 13y ago
I've read this comment thread a few days ago, and was disappointed that the discussion has focused on Brendan's contribution to prop 8. Just want to get this off my chest: I've known Brendan, I've code-reviewed some supe
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by atotic 14y ago
Both of your points are valid objections to MOOCs. Not sure whether you are correct. If you are, I believe that MOOC model can be modified to fix them. (ex: local meetups for teaching how to learn, google hangouts for in-person discussions)
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by atotic 14y ago
I believe the restriction is "only single keep-alive connection". This makes sense to me, no need for multiple overhead if one connection will saturate your bandwidth. It will open multiple if the server does not support keep-alive. Workaro