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by bratsche 14y ago
Oh, I didn't even know that. I heard them talking about it on NPR a few months ago so I did a quick Google search specifically for NPR and Nickelback and that was the link it gave me.
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I was speaking for myself. Since this is Hacker News and people are interested in business, I wanted to talk about what's unique about Phish and what they're providing that nobody else is willing (and quite frankly, able) to. While ther
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This article kind of reminds me that there was a piece on NPR a few months ago about Nickelback, and how despite the fact that every person I know hates that band apparently they're wildly successful from a business perspective. The main g
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I really like Phish a lot, as my coworkers will attest since I have shitloads of their live shows filling up my iTunes album list. They're really one of the best live bands going now, definitely one of the best live bands of all time. As t
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Were there difficulties, or things you had to learn business-wise, when switching to the model where you employ the cleaners yourselves? Can you talk about what was involved in that in terms of researching liability (e.g., is your company
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If this were happening in my city and Google came along with Fiber, and AT&T and Time Warner decided to upgrade their infrastructure in response, I'd totally jump ship to Google anyway. I think a lot of people have been unhappy with the
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I live in Dallas and I like the lower cost of living and everything. But now I wish I lived in Austin. :) The thing I hate about both Dallas and Austin is driving. I used to live northeast and could walk everywhere much easier. Austin seems
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Cool idea. What sort of things is she doing to get it out there and try to start getting people using it, get it known and stuff?
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Sorry to be That Guy™, but why is this on hacker news at all?
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This is pretty cool. How long did it take you to build, and what were your sources of the data? And also, just out of curiosity, what prompted you to create this project? Was it something that was just interesting to you personally? I've
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I feel like the role of diversity is better served by a place like reddit.
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You're looking at this really single-mindedly though. Yes, there are always repercussions for anything you say depending on who the audience is. The guys who made these jokes within earshot of Adria learned this. Now Adria is learning this
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I disagree with the final statement of this, that a "security only" release would have somehow helped the situation. I feel like part of the problem is that things are being merged into 3-2-stable and nobody is using them because they're n
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They'll probably use the same KMS and EGL drivers that Wayland and others use.
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This seems like it isn't a totally perfect solution either, though. I would expect that smaller companies or startups would be more hesitant to try to file a legitimate claim now, especially against someone like Apple or Google, because if
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Sweet, thanks very much!
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How about accessibility? Is there any story, or any plan for that?
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I can't comment on Ember or others, but I think Backbone fits into traditional apps just fine. Where I work we're generally a traditional app with many server-rendered pages, but we have a few parts of the site that needed more complex cli
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I use Rdio right now, but I'm thinking of moving over to Spotify because I hear it will let me play my own music collection through its interface. It sucks to be in Rdio and not be able to play my iTunes music. I've read that playing your l
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Cool, thanks for the clarification Steve.
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There have been other commits that made it into the 3-2-stable branch, and I would have expected that those fixes would have made it into the next 3.2.x release, but that's not the case. Is that normal for Rails updates? For example, http
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Do you trust our current and future U.S. government to always define "terrorist" the way you do right now? What happens when some kid who's hacking into websites in ten years suddenly gets labeled as a "terrorist"?
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I've only used MySQL in jobs, but for a personal project I recently changed from MySQL to Postgres just as a learning exercise and because everyone has such great things to say about it. I'm very excited about learning more.
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It was opinionated to use attr_accessible until a better approach came along. Beginning in 4.0 it will be opinionated to use strong_parameters, but they can't just take attr_accessible away because a lot of people are upgrading apps.
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Only for something super, super simple though. You can't have nested data structures in hstore.
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Why should it build upon yet another type system? Vala was designed around GType for a reason, so that it would not have to deal with the same language-interop issues that occur with languages that use different type systems from GObject. V
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Congrats on the book release! Sounds really cool. And don't worry about the Xamarin.Mac release, it's based on MonoMac so the work you put into this section of your book wasn't wasted. :)
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Nothing's wrong with Objective-C. But if you're interested in sharing some code to do cross-platform apps Xamarin makes it easier to do so with C#. You might write a layer to do API and data management/storage and general business logic a
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Check out this monosnap.com thing that piranha posted in the next comment. It seems to do the basic stuff that I needed from Skitch.
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Cool, thanks for the suggestion. I had a little trouble creating an account, but I finally got it working. Installed the app and looked around it. Seems slightly less polished than Skitch, but it seems to do everything I need it to do. I'm

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