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by carbonica 15y ago
And Groupon is losing money hand-over-fist.
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by carbonica 15y ago
What Computer Science program would leave you buried in CSS for 2.5 years? If he meant he spent 2.5 years working with CSS on the side, why didn't he ever think "maybe I should learn legacy support"?
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by carbonica 15y ago
> Can you comment on the differences/advantages of ripper, compared with RubyParser? Absolutely! To provide context, what got me working on Ripper was my undergraduate thesis: Laser, a Ruby static analyzer, written in Ruby. It targets R
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by carbonica 15y ago
Just to toot my own patches, this version of Ruby has a huge number of improvements to Ripper, the built-in Ruby parser in 1.9. There are some critical bug fixes, and local variable references have a different node type than bareword method
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by carbonica 15y ago
We have plenty of useful information. You've just decided that the source's word is no good when nothing she's said has been disputed by any party. If you ignore her because you don't like what she has to say, then yeah, you wouldn't have "
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by carbonica 15y ago
I stand corrected. The fact remains that nothing she's said has been disputed by anyone, the only people who have been inconsistent are airbnb and pg, and yet she's still the one being attacked.
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by carbonica 15y ago
> That is the latest report from pg/airbnb. And TechCrunch has already commented on this ( http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/30/how-the-hell-is-this-my-fau... ), which is why I said there are conflicting reports: > 2. Airbnb’s Christoph
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by carbonica 15y ago
Lucrative lawsuit? Settlement? Besides the obvious terms of use which will exempt Airbnb from liability, why would EJ have said profusely that Airbnb bears no responsibility? How does that help her win a case blaming Airbnb for anything?
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by carbonica 15y ago
Nothing she's said has been disputed by anyone. Why do people suspect she's been dishonest if nobody even disputes anything she says?
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by carbonica 15y ago
She's given extremely detailed, well-written accounts of everything that has transpired. Nothing she has said has been disputed by any party. I think the better question is, where does this doubt come from, and where do the attacks against
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by carbonica 15y ago
> This is incredibly naive. No, it's based on all the existing evidence currently out there. > It could be the case that this was a setup. This is based on speculation. > And it would be very easy to set such a thing up. It's e
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by carbonica 15y ago
> Given that AirBnB offered her money There's been conflicting reports about this. Airbnb told TechCrunch - on the record - that they wouldn't pay for anything, that they didn't want to set a precedent. > she isn't picking it up or
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by carbonica 15y ago
You say it "isn't a football game," but either she's telling the truth on the bullying point or she's not. You clearly believe the latter is a strong enough possibility that you condemned my comments, based on my belief in what she has said
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by carbonica 15y ago
> If you are under 18 then not only does the CPS have a strong duty to determine if prosecution is in the public interest, it may not even be a crime at all if your age is close. I'm not too invested in whatever the heck your parent pos
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by carbonica 15y ago
I see no reason to doubt what EJ has said so far. AirBnB/pg have made several conflicting statements, called reporters liars for repeating official statements, and in general, proven to be less consistent/trustworthy than "EJ", which consid
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by carbonica 15y ago
> And now he's accusing these poor guys of "losing their souls". When you call up the victim and ask them to close down their blog because or restrict access because you don't want it to affect your round of funding, you're not "poor gu
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by carbonica 15y ago
> Jumping on them because they didn't have a chance to give a complete response while handling a crisis is really uncalled for. The main issue I've seen is that a co-founder is quoted as asking EJ to censor herself (remove or restrict a
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by carbonica 15y ago
I'm not an active Airbnb user, but I've read in comment threads here that if you decline a guest, your search rankings go down. Is this true or FUD? If so, how does that reconcile with "If for some reason it just doesn't feel right, feel fr
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by carbonica 15y ago
That sounds like an incredibly permissive company policy to me. Not a "gag order" with all the associated connotations.
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by carbonica 15y ago
And it should also be clear that it's not even clear any gag orders have occurred. The entire evidence to support this thesis is: > @Skud: ok, unless someone tells me otherwise, it looks like google employees who don’t support the names
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by carbonica 15y ago
What about your TV? An expensive rug? Any desktop computers? Why doesn't AirBnB tell you that you may need to move hundreds of pounds worth of stuff out of your home to use their service safely? What's to stop them from cooking meth in your
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by carbonica 15y ago
Right. Just like the internal combustion engine is a kludge because you need to change the air filters in your car. A real solution would be an engine that didn't need filters, anything else is just a clunky hack.
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by carbonica 15y ago
Facebook encourages its users to add lots and lots of friends to your main friend pool, and always has. It's spent most of its existence trying to get lots of users and build a huge social graph. Having hundreds upon hundreds of "friends" i
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by carbonica 15y ago
> This is what insurance in our society is for. Get some. No homeowner's insurance will cover an Airbnb rental. Hell, finding a lease which permits an Airbnb rental would be tough, let alone finding someone to insure an apartment wh
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by carbonica 15y ago
If one wants to avoid Google, they also need to make sure anyone they e-mail isn't using GAFYD. How many anti-Google folks do that?
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by carbonica 15y ago
It's not onerous until you consider that desktop computers and flat-screen TVs are "valuables".
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by carbonica 15y ago
He explicitly states early in the post that the image in question is no longer uploaded to the picasa album.
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by carbonica 15y ago
To suggest it might not be paranoid, but merely prudent. To think it's at all more likely that this is a setup against AirBnB and not just... you know, crime... I think is in fact paranoid. If you want motive, here's one that you might be s
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by carbonica 15y ago
> There´s no reason for example to leave valuables anywhere in the residence while strangers are there. So you're saying AirBnB should advocate against rentals while you're away? Or are you saying, if you want to rent while you're gone
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by carbonica 15y ago
Then it would be appropriate to say "the United States executes prisoners while Norway doesn't." That makes the point fine. Car crashes are commonplace here. Drunk driving accidents are. Executions occur less often than once a week in the U

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