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by badgar 14y ago
If you read HN, you're worth at least 10 users. We're special!
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by badgar 14y ago
Including the water, it's what you get from any livery service in Manhattan. I've only been out the bay a few times, but most car services I called were exactly as described here.
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by badgar 14y ago
> binary viewpoint You're either with the startups or you're against them. Supporting workers in this case means you're against the startups, and that's "wrong." Of course HN members don't write that, but people are here in large part
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by badgar 14y ago
> a minority of Americans that cares about drones Does "minority" here mean 49%? 1%? You don't know, you don't care. You're pretending to argue using data but really just going from your gut beliefs about media, not from any basis in fa
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by badgar 14y ago
I think that different Americans believe different things. Believe it or not, your paragraph of an anecdote from 11 years ago doesn't do much to convince me otherwise.
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by badgar 14y ago
Taxi drivers are expected to provide a positive environment for their fares. This includes pleasant, casual conversation. Your driver doesn't know you're deeply interested in tech startups like his employer. Almost all taxi conversations ar
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by badgar 14y ago
HN commenters are just people like you and me. They care about people like themselves more than people not like themselves. To HN commenters, Uber's founders are like them and taxi drivers aren't. Of course they're going to side with the co
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by badgar 14y ago
Unfortunately no, our eyes don't have a simple "refresh rate." Instead, you'd have to control the light to arrive at the eye at the right frequency - which you've likely experienced through strobe lighting.
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by badgar 14y ago
We all know that piracy increases sales, if anything, because [personal story about buying something].
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by badgar 14y ago
Considering Google Glass aren't available for the forseeable future, to appear sincere you should start by being in a geographical location brimming with Google engineers. Google has a small but growing Kirkland presence, but it's not nearl
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by badgar 14y ago
This is a pretty typical occurrence for a web service provider of their size. When is Github going to be able to not fail when targeted?
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by badgar 14y ago
>What's needed is a way of expressing a half-closed interval, but that's not common in programming languages (despite it being a great aid to correctly expressing many algorithms concisely). A slightly lesser known construction in Ruby,
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by badgar 14y ago
Education equally as valuable as innovation? Why are you comparing the two at all? Apples and oranges.
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by badgar 14y ago
3 months sounds like a reasonable deal to offer.
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by badgar 14y ago
As in every HN thread where hellbans are mentioned, someone has to be the person who has to explain that you can see hellbanned posts by enabling showdead in your preferences. I guess that's me this time.
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by badgar 14y ago
I'm sorry that the web isn't what you want it to be. Unfortunately for you, the web never was what you want it to be. Maybe switch to gopher?
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by badgar 14y ago
That's a great reason! I agree their design sucks and yours is orders of magnitude more usable. It's just too bad that you have to re-collect the same data. N historically up-to-date data sources for N designs is just unscalable.
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by badgar 14y ago
Might I ask why you built your own, knowing there was an almost identical offering in place for years? For example, did your different choice of releases cause a statistically significant shift in arrival times? I imagine you've done analys
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by badgar 14y ago
I haven't looked too closely, but that view says it is only giving examples of "pure spam," as opposed to the more sophisticated forms of spam described. One might imagine that "pure spam" is the easiest to detect, so giving examples of pur
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by badgar 14y ago
> There's a slight oversight, it should be: "We write programs & formulas to deliver the most profitable results possible for this quarter" Says... you, right? Based on which examples of Google pursuing quarterly profits at the expe
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by badgar 14y ago
> I'm not in any way excusing Db, but uncritically blaming them without other possible scenarios seems just as asinine. Except you're wrong here - they've admitted they leaked all these unique email addresses, and it isn't actually some
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by badgar 14y ago
Why would DHH go out of his way to be honest now? There's no upside for him at this point after laying down years of bullshit.
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by badgar 14y ago
> I was able to pound out coding work in a couple of days that would have taken me a couple of weeks in the office. Alright, this makes sense. Your workplace overall was not conducive to work. To stay on topic, do you think Yahoo is lik
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by badgar 14y ago
> the every day detail gets mired in coworkers stopping by my office to say hello or ask about the latest episode of Breaking Bad. Nobody has ever asked me if this was a good time... At my workplace, we're allowed to wear headphones. N
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by badgar 14y ago
Exactly. The "documentation" that was out of date was a fundamental description of the product. They were selling a different product than they were delivering.
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by badgar 14y ago
It fascinates me how desperate folks are to excuse Dropbox. I wonder why - is it because they're a startup?
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by badgar 14y ago
> So what's causing this to happen? 4. You're leaking your own email addresses. Start by looking for malware on every device you touch.
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by badgar 14y ago
If you're an engineer, HN. If you're responsible for keeping users happy, the support site. But as usual, it seems the only people employed at Dropbox responsible for keeping users happy is the damage control department.
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by badgar 14y ago
No, if you read other comments in this thread, he's faulting the CEO for his attitude. Not the words he used.
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by badgar 14y ago
Ah, I see the distinction you're making: this is a map of exit nodes, not exit node operators . The operators can of course be anywhere in the world. For all we know based on just this map, all the tor exit node operators live in Antarctic

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