benvanderbeek

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by benvanderbeek 15y ago
Privacy is important. But why not just avoid keeping weird stuff on your phone? Keep it somewhere else. Or say, "hold on let me log out of my bank app" or something.
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by benvanderbeek 15y ago
"According to Cornell scientists, it’d take a machine 18,600 miles long to produce a time mask that lasts a single second."
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by benvanderbeek 15y ago
That Hideous Strength is a fantastic bizarre ending to the space trilogy, completely different genre (satire?) from the others (sci fi?).
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by benvanderbeek 15y ago
I was talking to a (print) design friend the other day who's trying to learn to code. It's interesting to explain to a non-programmer what kind of person will/can become a programmer. If you don't love solving problems by digging and automa
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by benvanderbeek 15y ago
Check my math, it's saying 33,000 out of "at least" 310,000 - so something like 10.6% of all downloads were on the Amazon Appstore right?
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by benvanderbeek 15y ago
Good point, I stand corrected.
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by benvanderbeek 15y ago
When I read an article linked from Hacker News, then read some comments that are generally not tearing it to pieces, I assume the author must have some credibility and therefore is not throwing out conclusions for fun. Also, I have a minor
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by benvanderbeek 15y ago
"More recently we've seen comparison sites with customer ratings to supply metadata about, for example, supplier reliability: but these tread dangerously close to defamation in some cases: see for example the class action lawsuit against Ye
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by benvanderbeek 15y ago
Yes there's definitely the prime vs non prime vs 3rd party price differences. But are you sure there's no evidence of what he references? He seems pretty explicit, and it seems a very odd conclusion w/no specific evidence: "prices on offer
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by benvanderbeek 15y ago
FYI the post-email-confirmation click through goes to http://hireshot.com/ which is a dead link for me.
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by benvanderbeek 15y ago
Thanks, signed up. Any screenshots or overviews available?
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Ask HN: Is there a Cardmunch for resumes?
3 points by benvanderbeek 15y ago|4 comments
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by benvanderbeek 15y ago
I agree it's irritating to see people going for the same silly shock value by declaring this or that dead. And I really like "the imminent dead" and hope it was not a typo (dead vs death). I may start saying that.
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by benvanderbeek 15y ago
I'm truly impressed at how you stated the point about Graffiti / Banksy while simultaneously explaining why it doesn't really have any bearing on the topic at hand.
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by benvanderbeek 15y ago
Some rumors say they will in 2012 http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-31747_7-20083044-243/rumor-new-...
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by benvanderbeek 15y ago
"Amazon.com staff — seriously, just look at this from the customer’s point of view, and try to tell me this is a customer friendly process." I don't believe Amazon views any seller, let alone someone selling used items occasionally, as a cu
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by benvanderbeek 15y ago
Understood. You were referring to what is , not stating an opinion on what should be . The term "right" can get very confusing (e.g. "God-given" vs "constitutional").
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by benvanderbeek 15y ago
Everyone besides me probably already knew, but "Wall has been trademarked by Facebook" ? Wow.
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by benvanderbeek 15y ago
Is there a particular philosophy or school of thought (no pun intended) that leads you to this conviction? There's a difference between saying "I personally believe that everyone deserves a free public education," and saying education is a
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by benvanderbeek 15y ago
What's your basis for stating that education is a basic/guaranteed right?
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by benvanderbeek 15y ago
I also had a nightmare managing programmers in the Philippines, 75% from my incompetency, 25% from other factors. Having my guys w/in a few feet is invaluable to me now.
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by benvanderbeek 15y ago
I was involved in an accident where I caused a fatality in 1999 (guy sleeping in my lane on a rural highway at 3am), so it's not on here. Otherwise I would be able to say something about its accuracy and completeness.
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by benvanderbeek 15y ago
I agree. I'm a paying customer, I love Grooveshark (and the jailbreak-only iPhone app that I've missed since switching to the 4S), but it's always been obvious that it's just a matter of time before they get shut down. I'm surprised they've
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by benvanderbeek 15y ago
> I would also use the auto-complete to find things as a second (distant) use case. I launch programs and find files like this every day. I find it one of the most useful features of 7 vs earlier versions (though I skipped Vista so mayb
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by benvanderbeek 15y ago
Sounds like Focus from Vinge's A Deepness In The Sky
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by benvanderbeek 15y ago
Without anger or despair you have sorrow and grief, but we're not good at that in America either.
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by benvanderbeek 15y ago
Agreed. Its best if your looking for they're bad grammar.
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by benvanderbeek 15y ago
I was somewhat concerned that this film would promote government enforcement of net neutrality. In an email conversation I had with him, the writer of this film compared Thomas Jefferson's view of the necessity of an affordable, reliable po
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Documentary about free internet's relationship to democracy - Kill Switch(kickstarter.com)
6 points by benvanderbeek 15y ago|1 comments
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by benvanderbeek 15y ago
Chrome version? 11.0.696.68

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