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by chc 9y ago
You could say the same thing about hallways in an office building with multiple tenants, but I don't think it's legally ambiguous whether propositioning your coworkers outside the restroom is more appropriate than doing it in the
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by chc 9y ago
The owners of an office building or event venue don't get any of those privileges either, and yet the office and work-related events are unambiguously governed by workplace rules. The fact that LinkedIn is not your employer doesn'
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by chc 9y ago
I don't use Swift or C++ much, but I have several years of experience in both Ruby and Python. The changes in Python might be a bit bigger, but the changes in Python 3 and Ruby 1.9 seem of roughly the same magnitude to me. Text encodin
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by chc 9y ago
I work at a company that uses Python 2 in older projects and Python 3 in newer projects, and this 100% matches my experience. Python 2's string implementation is simply busted, and the benefit you get in exchange for that brokenness is
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by chc 9y ago
> It was source-level incompatible with older code so it couldn't be used as a smooth transition like... almost any other language upgrade I've ever seen. Ruby released the source-incompatible Ruby 1.9 just months before Pyth
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by chc 9y ago
That is not accurate. Downvotes are for comments that negatively contribute to the conversation. One way a comment can negatively contribute is by failing to honor protocol, but it is not the only way. Even simply extraneous comments like l
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by chc 9y ago
AFAIK that feature is just now about to be added in the next update. I don't know how well it works.
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by chc 9y ago
It's a digression, the topic is brought up in nearly every HN thread where somebody mentions the word "car," the ensuing discussions generally have the character of a religious debate, and that comment brings nothing new to t
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by chc 9y ago
I think you're possibly seeing what you want to see. Both the fonts themselves and the typesetting of the logos are pretty different. Trader Joe's logo font is serif with all the letters equally sized, the letterforms are curved t
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by chc 9y ago
They may have thought it was confusingly similar to the pattern they use for their brands (e.g. Trader Jose's, Baker Josef's). Update: I went and read the actual complaint by Trader Joe's and, though it does mention this, I t
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by chc 9y ago
CSV is pretty poorly standardized, but if you're going by RFC-4180, Numbers is definitely right, due to the interaction of two rules: * double quotes aren't allowed inside a field that isn't double-quoted * double-quotes that
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by chc 9y ago
Possibly because there actually wasn't any limit. Maybe if a handful people were exceeding $LOTS TB, they don't care, but if 60% of users exceed $LOTS TB, the service becomes unsustainable. In this case, the service really is unli
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by chc 9y ago
$400 million looks like a lot until you remember that Apple have $267 billion in cash reserves. The Mozilla Foundation's entire annual revenue isn't even a fifth of a percent of what Apple have just sitting around because they c
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by chc 9y ago
That doesn't seem like as big a deal. Ad blocker users are not uncommon, but not the majority either. "Google users" is quite possibly the broadest demographic you could possibly lose.
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by chc 9y ago
I'm not sure how we'd go about treating content providers as dumb pipes. What are you proposing there?
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by chc 9y ago
Wasn't this stuff posted on a general group page for that year's Harvard students? That doesn't exactly sound like a private gathering where the school has no interest.
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by chc 9y ago
So, you have a border that is not widely perceived to be a very big security problem, and most national security incidents have arisen through other vectors, and you propose redundant, expensive measures for border security. This raises the
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by chc 9y ago
No, it isn't. Read the actual Better Ads Standards site. There is nothing specific to Google about it.
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by chc 9y ago
Why would you make this assumption instead of just read the Better Ad Standards page to see what it's about?
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by chc 9y ago
The context in which "Don't be evil" was coined was one where the dominant tech company was being sued by multiple nations for rampant abuse of its monopoly position to do things like push competitors out of business and forc
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by chc 9y ago
That's the point, though — you're not actually identifying the biggest polluter. You're drawing a circle around a group of people who are not the biggest polluters by bulk or per capita and are on average way better then the
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by chc 9y ago
What you're talking about here is an artifact of your sampling method, not an actual problem. China emits roughly double the amount that the US does, but they have four times the population. That is actually a much better number than
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by chc 9y ago
Texas gets about a quarter of its power from coal. That's a lot lower than some states, but "almost all zero carbon or low carbon" is a bit generous. That's also way, way higher than California.
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by chc 9y ago
Everyone on the planet could weep in unison about the continued existence of cars and it wouldn't improve a thing. If this is a problem you sincerely want to solve, create real-world solutions, not angry Internet rants.
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by chc 9y ago
If you have some good ideas about how to solve the problem of transportation in America, absolutely go talk to the relevant authorities. Heck, you might even start a startup around it, because this is a problem that many cities have poured
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by chc 9y ago
Can we try to get through one thread on HN without frothing at the mouth about how much we hate cars? Message received, you happen to be in a situation where you don't need a car — I am genuinely happy for you, as well as envious. But
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by chc 9y ago
They're firing him because they ordered him to cooperate with the investigation and he refused to do so, not for being guilty of a crime.
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by chc 9y ago
The first sale doctrine was already reflected in both areas of law. What this decision is about is whether patents are still exhausted if you sell the product with an EULA-style list of restrictions. Lexmark argued that because they specifi
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by chc 9y ago
AFAIK none of the Japanese companies have messed around with emissions laws, and obviously Tesla wouldn't even need to.
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by chc 9y ago
Currying and composition, I think. I actually think he has a point on those two in the context of Clojure specifically. The process of explicitly currying or composing functions (again, in Clojure specifically) is usually more verbose and

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