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by benstein 11y ago
My interview at BB actually was 90% about pointers and character arrays, 10% about the keyword static in C. I got the job worked a great 3-4 years there. Also, that was 13 (!) years ago.
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Comparing the security practices of the presidential candidate websites, so far(motherboard.vice.com)
2 points by benstein 11y ago|0 comments
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by benstein 12y ago
How is this whistleblowing? What benefit do we as the public gain from this knowledge?
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Sequel Coming for Ready Player One(denofgeek.us)
2 points by benstein 12y ago|0 comments
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Plex offers parental controls(support.plex.tv)
1 points by benstein 12y ago|0 comments
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by benstein 12y ago
I like to think of her kid. What will the other children say on the playground? "Your momma wears army bootstrap" and "Your momma so FAT32..."
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by benstein 12y ago
It's actually a fun and interesting real-world distributed computing problem. You need computers w/ TV tuners in every major market across the country in order to get the _local_ broadcast news. The computers then FTP the data ba
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The tech company behind all the “Call your Senator” campaigns today(mobilecommons.com)
1 points by benstein 12y ago|0 comments
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New York City Gets a CTO(venturebeat.com)
1 points by benstein 12y ago|0 comments
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Stop slow lanes from ruining the internet(tumblr.com)
2 points by benstein 12y ago|0 comments
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Protect the Etsy Community from Internet Slow Lanes Tweet(etsy.com)
1 points by benstein 12y ago|0 comments
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by benstein 12y ago
True in this case, but I don't see this being a trend and definitely not the "standard model for building startups". What are some other examples of companies that have done this?
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Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition gets it mostly right(boingboing.net)
2 points by benstein 12y ago|0 comments
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by benstein 12y ago
Presumably Audible as well
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Introducing the Redesigned Mobile Commons(mobilecommons.com)
1 points by benstein 12y ago|0 comments
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Apple Teams Up With IBM for Enterprise Push(techcrunch.com)
323 points by benstein 12y ago|180 comments
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by benstein 12y ago
Would love to see more details as to WHY I got the suggested responses. As a prescribed grammarian, born and raised in the northeast US, I was definitely surprised to see Canadian and ebonics. Assuming not enough training data yet...?
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by benstein 12y ago
I went through this a few months ago and discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7166955 Here's my update: It's been about 4 months or so since I switched. Nothing I was able to do or Apple was able
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by benstein 12y ago
Hey, I was the guy that submitted the trick to Nintendo Power! A friend of a friend showed it to me after school and I immediately mailed it in to the magazine. Nintendo Power Agent #826.
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by benstein 12y ago
LastPass. Strikes me as just insane to use anything else.
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by benstein 12y ago
Mobile Commons, onsite in Brooklyn, NY Full time web developers, Ruby/Rails Our technology powers today’s most effective mobile campaigns. We work with some of the biggest brands, government agencies, healthcare groups, and nonprofit o
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by benstein 13y ago
Show me a "Save" icon that doesn't _still_ look like a floppy disk. Until then I'll take my text labels.
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by benstein 13y ago
I wonder if they fixed the iMessage caching-phone-numbers-after-you-switch-to-Android bug that's been so terrible? Really wish they had a FULL changelog, not just marketing spin.
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by benstein 13y ago
How about these use-cases: * Reminder to take your medication * Alerts for urgent municipal job opportunities * How far away is my nearest bus? * Reminders to take your new baby to get vaccinations * Motivation to quit smoking * Interactive
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by benstein 13y ago
8 weeks
56.
by benstein 13y ago
Nope. I still have the iPhone. Everything is unlinked, deactivated, reset, etc in every way possible.
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by benstein 13y ago
Yup. Tried resetting everything possible. So did Apple support. And they escalated to engineers who also said they have no more records of my number server-side. But there's no way to clear the client side caches.
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iOS holding my phone number hostage = the worst bug I’ve ever experienced(blog.benjaminste.in)
417 points by benstein 13y ago|223 comments
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by benstein 13y ago
I am an aspiring photographer. I have a photo of my kid that doesn't look great. I don't know why or what settings to tweak to make it better. I don't know which of my friends-of-friends are good photographers. And I'm n
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by benstein 13y ago
Do the answers have to be knowable? Time independent? For example, "are you below the median age at this exact second?" That is not a knowable answer, and changes by the second, but it does give you an exact 50/50 split. Repe

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