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by blahblahblogger 8y ago
> He suggested that the service works best as an “interest-based network,” where you log in and see content relevant to your interests, no matter who posted it Not to mention Jack/Twitter's co-founder Evan Williams has a compan
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by blahblahblogger 8y ago
As an Android engineer, what would I use this for in my app? Is it something I would embed to use in lieu of Chrome Custom Tabs if I wanted an in-app browser experience (similar to CCT) but that I could customize more or if I wanted more co
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by blahblahblogger 8y ago
Same here, I'm from the Chicago burbs and was identified by both quizzes as such. But the NYT one had some that I wanted to select multiple for. Such as "service road" & "frontage road". I selected "service
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by blahblahblogger 8y ago
Can you explain this a bit more?
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by blahblahblogger 8y ago
> H1-B candidates are attractive for companies because it is harder for them to switch jobs. Companies can lock these employees for longer, and they can pay them less. This is ultimately what it's about. I work as a software enginee
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by blahblahblogger 8y ago
I lol-ed a bit here.
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by blahblahblogger 8y ago
Someone else said it's an addiction if it interferes with your life. But for me, it's all my life is really. I don't have friends, relationships, etc. and haven't since I was a teenager (I'm in my thirties now). As
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by blahblahblogger 8y ago
It is interesting to see so many tech firms going well out of their way to hire competent engineers/scientists from China, even the ones who graduate from US universities. Of course it's difficult to talk about the real issues ass
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by blahblahblogger 8y ago
Honest question, but does a cryptocurrency have to be decentralized for it to be determined a cryptocurrency? I didn't think that was the case. It may be more in the spirit of crypto but I don't think it's a hard requirement?
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by blahblahblogger 8y ago
> Blind claims on its website that its email verification “is safe, as our patented infrastructure is set up so that all user account and activity information is completely disconnected from the email verification process.” Wow a patente
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by blahblahblogger 8y ago
I'm also interested, if there isn't any repercussions why not share?
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by blahblahblogger 8y ago
> Sure, for the first couple days I wasting as much time as I possibly could - happily so - and then I started knocking out all the major house projects I had pending (insulating the crawlspace, fixing annoyances, etc). It's amazing
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by blahblahblogger 8y ago
> One of our core hypotheses is that a lot of people in SF don't want/need to rent out their rooms for a profit. They'd rather just meet and host particularly awesome people. hmmm, I think "a lot of people" refer
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by blahblahblogger 8y ago
Do you use it with React Native?
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by blahblahblogger 8y ago
That's kind of what minio is: https://github.com/minio/minio
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by blahblahblogger 8y ago
What do you do when a company won't give you all the info required to really evaluate an offer like the 409A or some such?
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by blahblahblogger 8y ago
> The longer answer is that, although Amazon does provide many tools, as I'm sure anyone who has attempted to use them for cost analysis and/or forecasting has found, they are, at best, difficult (i.e. require a remarkable amou
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by blahblahblogger 8y ago
> Normalizing sex work as work and having it become as ubiquitous and passe as massage therapy: “Hey, what are you doing after work? Getting a massage from Rafael, you know he’s amazing at finding all the sore spots. You? Going to see Is
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by blahblahblogger 8y ago
Laws can't keep up with technology. But it may be time for a law to come into fruition since everyone is now a paparazzi and you don't have to be a celeb to be a target. They know the name of the individual who recorded it and tra
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by blahblahblogger 8y ago
Yes it seems like an item would be posted on an axis where theoretically the item could exist on both ends?
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by blahblahblogger 8y ago
I think his point may have been that "who applies" is the END of the funnel. If there are issues earlier in the pipeline then we can't just focus on the end of it at the "who's applying" stage. If we want more
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by blahblahblogger 8y ago
Can someone tell me why these tech companies even publish these numbers? It seems like they always end up with egg on their face. And they have no obligation to be transparent as private (or public) entities. But now they all have to have c
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by blahblahblogger 8y ago
I completely agree and I'm not sure why over-representation isn't a larger issue.
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by blahblahblogger 8y ago
> Organized on the 2x2 with these axes X: "risk/complexity" Y:"desirability" (that's business & customer desirability.) Not to sound like an idiot here or anything, but does that mean something like this
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by blahblahblogger 8y ago
I wish fabric8 had Gradle support. This ticket implies that it isn't "build tool agnostic" ( https://github.com/fabric8io/fabric8-maven-plugin/issues/609... ) and I found a few github repos that
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by blahblahblogger 8y ago
It's really odd too - what's the advantage? Not to be offensive but these people do low skilled work. You can onboard another employee relatively quickly. A part of me would think it's there to avoid turnover costs because I
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by blahblahblogger 8y ago
> I’m sad at myself for feeling “well yeah not unexpected” > Because it’s only 1/1000000 people that do this that will cause prejudice and disdain for all the good actors. Damn I came in here to say the same thing and feel sad at
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by blahblahblogger 8y ago
I thought this comment sounded familiar, you posted the exact same comment yesterday on the "Italian Wikipedia" article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17450827 . I can't wait for the French, German, and
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by blahblahblogger 8y ago
The touch bar is another example of this. I always hit the wrong keys, even after a year I'll end up hitting ~/` instead of the escape key, I routing hit "mute" instead of volume down (or I'll hit up instead).
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by blahblahblogger 8y ago
Oh yes, I'm happy to see others mentioning the half size up and down. Even after a year with this keyboard this still trips me up.

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