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by cballard 11y ago
I've been wondering about this short of thing, especially related to the App Store rules around APNS[1], numbers 5.5 and 5.6. A little while ago, Yelp began spamming me with a "Yelp Weekly NYC" APNS message every Friday. I al
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by cballard 11y ago
This is similar to having a Github account that is an Objective-C keyword: https://github.com/protocol https://github.com/dynamic etc. @IBOutlet and @IBAction appear to be available if you'd like some
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by cballard 11y ago
I wasn't sure if that was client-side or server-side, and, if client-side, if the filtering is done at submit-time or display-time. I have seen someone tweet something with many sequential newlines, so I figured that it was probably cl
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by cballard 11y ago
> Tweets may contain newlines, and there doesn’t seem to be any limit to how many. 140
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by cballard 11y ago
> Yes, it is certainly possible to create an entirely new operating system to undermine our security features as the government wants. But it’s something we believe is too dangerous to do. The only way to guarantee that such a powerful t
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by cballard 11y ago
It seems that we should just require any company providing taxable things to common people (e.g. employers and banks) to do all of the work. Then the IRS can just figure it all out from that, you have a few checkboxes for if you have depend
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by cballard 11y ago
FYI, TextMate has been FOSS for years!
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by cballard 11y ago
Why don't you pay your workers? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11121092
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by cballard 11y ago
Good: User interface declared as a pure function of state. Bad: Doing that in a language without a moderately competent type system. Would be interested in a Swift port, using plain old structs instead of tags.
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by cballard 11y ago
Some people have the same name as other people.
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by cballard 11y ago
Seems like a bug, shouldn't that return a Maybe? (the equivalent in Swift returns an Optional)
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by cballard 11y ago
Why does the union need management? Can't we do it in a chat room/mailing list - for which there are numerous free options?
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by cballard 11y ago
Maybe unions (which are large monolithic organizations covering many employers) are not what I'm looking for. It just seems that more startup engineering teams should engage in collective action, because in many cases, if the entire te
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by cballard 11y ago
Why do you need all of that, though? Couldn't a private chat room for the engineering team to plan collective action be enough? > Hey all, management's been asking us for too much unpaid overtime. Strike?
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by cballard 11y ago
I don't know much about Linux kernel architecture, but could it be a separate binary loaded at runtime by the kernel, so that it's not actually part of the kernel?
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by cballard 11y ago
> So if we need to work long hours, what can we do to recover? Not work long hours? This is what unions are for (now, if we could just have one without dues/political contributions).
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by cballard 11y ago
To be clear - would you also be morally opposed to renting physical TV antennas? Assume that the only thing they are useful for is receiving broadcast television, they can't be repurposed for electronics hacking, hanging clothes, etc.
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by cballard 11y ago
I asked a question on a Stack Exchange site (not SO) that was immediately reported as a duplicate. It wasn't , the duplicate wasn't even close in multiple ways, and someone else jumped in to defend the question - he was then upvo
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by cballard 11y ago
If this is what you want, why not offer 6 weeks of PTO and a firm policy? It removes the ambiguity.
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by cballard 11y ago
Atheism isn't a club though. You just... don't go to church. I don't think I've ever felt the need to read a book about atheism - what would it say? "There is no God"? Well, obviously, I didn't need a book
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by cballard 11y ago
I really wish that I could kick out the office dogs, shut down the office music, and enforce library rules. I am definitely the "no fun employee".
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by cballard 11y ago
Opt out = permanently damage hearing?
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by cballard 11y ago
Ah, unlimited vacation. A competition to see who can take the least vacation! It should be called undefined vacation, because there's clearly a limit, unless taking half of the year off is fine.
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by cballard 11y ago
What do you mean by "water provided"? That seems like that should be legally mandated? OSHA requires it in the US.
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by cballard 11y ago
Why would this be provided as a stipend instead of as an expense? If you're completing the training on company time, it's just another expense. If you're expected to do it on your own time, how is this a perk ?
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by cballard 11y ago
> Twilio offers employees a Kindle plus $30 a month to purchase books. Why not just provide $30/month extra salary? Why is this restricted to books? > Twitter is well-known for providing perks such as three catered meals a day Wh
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by cballard 11y ago
> You have little control over playback This sounds user-friendly. > insight into video events If "insight" means "tracking", this sounds very user-friendly.
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by cballard 11y ago
Assuming that you're in the US, you're probably an at-will employee. This means that the company can fire you at any time, without any notice. Remember this, and treat the company the same way. If the company actually needs you,
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by cballard 11y ago
This user's submissions are all spamming apps: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=franny2591 The user's profile lists a personal URL: http://www.francisbeasley.com/ Which includes informati
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by cballard 11y ago
The rest is true, but it's pretty easy to block individual telemarketers: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201229 http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/how-to-block-phone-calls... They always

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