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by codyrobbins 15y ago
Disclaimer: Only having read the WSJ article and knowing nothing more, I think it’s more or less a form of blackmail—the employees are unfairly being put in a no-win situation. That being said, my takeaway was that they had thrown around eq
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by codyrobbins 15y ago
Sure, not everyone can be a chef—I completely agree. I spent my summers working in restaurants growing up, so I’ve seen firsthand just how brutal the work is and how much skill it takes. But certainly there is no doubt in my mind that more
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by codyrobbins 15y ago
It’s good to be reminded of this from a standpoint of empathy, but at the same time I think it’s missing the fact of the matter: we don’t get paid more money because we work harder. That’s just a remnant of the Puritan work ethic. The econo
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by codyrobbins 15y ago
I think the current popularity of web apps over desktop apps is driven by two different motivating factors: social and centralized storage. The nature of the Web makes it well suited to building social apps on top of it. It would be hard to
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by codyrobbins 15y ago
No. Somebody please stop this guy. After reading this I feel about him like the machines must have when they sent the Terminator back in time to kill Sarah Connor. Web apps are to native mobile apps as Java apps are to native desktop apps:
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by codyrobbins 15y ago
Does this mean I’ll finally, finally be able to get a static IP (albeit an IPv6 one) for my apartment? Or are they going to ultimately pull some obscene perversion out of their hat whereby you have to pay stratospheric business-class rate
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by codyrobbins 15y ago
MongoDB is on its way to becoming the default datastore for web apps. In my experience there is no way that this is possibly true.
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by codyrobbins 15y ago
Orthography and lexical choice are two different issues. Spelling has to be standardized to facilitate written communication—word choice doesn’t because words inherently have semantic content.
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by codyrobbins 15y ago
It’s not nonsensical, and neither is irregardless . People use them for a reason and they’re both incredibly heavily attested usages. But this argument has already been had before in a million places, including on HN: http://news.ycombina
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by codyrobbins 15y ago
I just have to say, the best coffee in NYC is actually La Colombe on Lafayette and Prince. I will buy you a cup if you haven’t tried it ;)
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by codyrobbins 15y ago
The problems he’s discussing arise from the fact that litigation is expensive, and those with lots of legal resources can use their superior position to assert their will against those who can’t afford (or may not be willing) to defend them
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by codyrobbins 15y ago
I’m glad to hear that you didn’t lose anything critical. But snapshotting EBS volumes are not backing them up. If, by definition, it’s stored using the same service, and therefore susceptible to all the same catastrophes that might befall t
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by codyrobbins 15y ago
This. I definitely think this entire situation calls into question the feasibility of Airbnb’s continued success and their business model in general. They’ll need to find some way to address these problems to maintain confidence in the site
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by codyrobbins 15y ago
Well, you haven’t addressed any of my points, but that’s fine. To answer your question, just because the transaction was consummated doesn’t mean she had to let the guy into her house. If the dude was suspicious or ungoogleable, she could h
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by codyrobbins 15y ago
The utter destruction of your home at the hands of a service that aims to help you monetize it is ipso facto a bug. Again, Airbnb didn’t destroy her home. Are you under the impression that someone from Airbnb itself was the one staying at
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by codyrobbins 15y ago
You’re patting yourself on the back for not selling a buggy app to people? That's a completely different situation than that in the story at hand. Airbnb worked precisely like it was supposed to—there were no bugs. It’s just that Airbnb is
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by codyrobbins 15y ago
Give me a frigging break! I don't care what the long-term implications are Clearly you’re not a business person if you wouldn’t care what the long-term implications of your company’s response to this were. They have responsibilities to in
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by codyrobbins 15y ago
What bearing does the fact that Google and Yahoo chose shitty hard-to-remember OpenID URLs have to do with the overall fact that OpenID uses URLs for authentication? That’s like saying using email addresses for authentication is a terrible
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by codyrobbins 15y ago
To this day I still do not understand how this inane argument happened to be the single thing that killed OpenID. How is ‘cody.my-open-id-provider.com’ more confusing as a login than ‘cody@my-email-provider.com’? Hint: it’s not. I’m not o
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by codyrobbins 15y ago
It’s likely because we read from left to right. And bear in mind that ‘right’ being correlated with ‘forwards’ is a cultural convention—other cultures may code such relationships differently.
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by codyrobbins 15y ago
The real source of the ambiguity here is the lack of what’s known as a complementizer [1]—such as the relative pronoun that —to delineate the relative clause boundary, as @xtacy implies with his last option. English happens to allow this s
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by codyrobbins 15y ago
I know absolutely nothing about marketing so I may be wrong, but the problem I immediately see with this is that one can only make so much money selling aspirin or soap. I assume that at a certain point these brands realized that the brand
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by codyrobbins 15y ago
Ugh, I feel that this is one of the single poorest time-related pratices—from a UX perspective—short of not displaying the time at all. Please don’t follow this advice. It makes it really easy for the developer because there’s no need to de
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by codyrobbins 15y ago
Yes, I was just going to mention banks as well. I have dealt with multiple online banking systems for major banks that enforced ridiculously low maximum password lengths and alphanumeric-only restrictions. It's one thing for Electronic Arts
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by codyrobbins 15y ago
Are more billboards coming in the future?
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by codyrobbins 15y ago
Agreed—the concept of porting UIKit to OS X is insane to me. The Mac desktop is not an iPhone! I don’t want to interact with a desktop app as if I were on a phone—especially not an app that I’m ostensibly supposed to use for development. Th
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by codyrobbins 15y ago
I think it’s completely wrong to say there’s no user experience on cables. What about the fact that my sofa has to be a full four inches away from the wall because of the strain relief on the cord of the lamp I need to plug in behind it? Th
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by codyrobbins 15y ago
The word mediocre is subjective and this just devolves into an ontological or semantic argument surrounding the meaning of mediocre . What’s mediocre to you may very well not be to lots and lots of other people. Or—if you prefer—in the f
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by codyrobbins 15y ago
First of all, this is a false dichotomy—you’re presenting an example with two fantastic iOS developers who don’t self-promote and one mediocre one who does. In reality, it’s probably more likely the fantastic iOS developers who self-promote
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by codyrobbins 16y ago
Ah, I see what you mean. When I read it, though, it didn’t strike me at all as though OP went out of his way to use gender neutral terms. I guess it didn’t strike PG that way either, if he assumed it was a guy too? I think they may be bet

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