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by deveac 13y ago
>Yay, more touch screen in cars. More ways to distract, frustrate and confuse users who are operating a big box of steel weighing 3 tons and going at speeds the human brain has never evolved to appropriately deal with. This reduces dis
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by deveac 13y ago
>"No poach" agreements don't preclude me, as an employee, from leaving one firm and moving to another - they only preclude the partner firms from actively seeking out one another's employees. In reality, the no-poac
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by deveac 13y ago
>Did he say that? Setting aside the fact that the post above is obviously not quote from Armstrong, we can't say for certainty what he said because all we have is a reported quote in the press with the sources cited as an unnamed
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by deveac 13y ago
They've not had much luck recently on that front. Both Skydrive and Metro had to be re-branded.
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by deveac 13y ago
Used to game with John in the nineties. I don't think his contribution to documenting the history of the game can be overstated, and that will probably only ring more true in the future. Playing At The World is kind of an amazing boo
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by deveac 13y ago
Thanks for jumping in. Any thoughts on hyperbole?
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by deveac 13y ago
Again, I think you may be confused. The poster's argument that you're claiming to agree with is the same argument that you're taking issue with when you say: >I agree with the sentiment here, but please don't argue t
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by deveac 13y ago
>but please don't argue that boys benefit from this by having the chance to be obedient little utilities. I wasn't arguing anything, merely clarifying the point of that poster. But since you brought it up , the argument that
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by deveac 13y ago
Shhh. Here you go: www.reddit.com
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by deveac 13y ago
Thanks for this reply. It seems a lot of "problem solvers" in this thread couldn't quite imagine the problem you might be addressing, let alone the possibilities of the solution you chose. Edit: Looks really promising btw. Be
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by deveac 13y ago
I believe the point he was making was essentially that because this book eschews traditional stereotypes and cultural messaging about disciplines like science and math being the purview of males, not only do girls benefit, but boys do as w
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by deveac 13y ago
>If not truly educational, it's at least great to get kids curious about programming Who else sees it?
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by deveac 13y ago
Any thoughts on the project itself?
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by deveac 13y ago
>So, hope that theory is wrong, but it sets off too many alarms for now. Yes. The the alarms bells are far too numerous when the co-founder of Rails Girls ("Our aim is to give tools and a community for women to understand technolo
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by deveac 13y ago
>It's a shit source for a shit story that attracts a bunch of shits posts from people who I would describe as utter shits. I came to HN for the tech news, but stayed for the intelligent and insightful commentary.
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by deveac 13y ago
Could you put your point on HN as well?
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by deveac 13y ago
>Is anyone else getting sick of this trend? Especially with stuff that you pay full-price for. I can understand why gmail / facebook / etc do it - With connected devices, the line in the sand is fading extremely quickly. Your
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by deveac 13y ago
And .00001% of car buyers will learn of this guide. An even smaller number of them will actually use it.
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by deveac 13y ago
>On another note, it was very clear checking off do not track in the vehicle. I cannot see it remaining this way. It is just a matter of time before the OEMs buckle and sell your data to an enterprising third party in exchange for the
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by deveac 13y ago
>This wasn't a nifty little storage room full of rare old materials, it was pile of boxes in a basement with a leaky pipe. The two are not mutually exclusive. It appears that it was both.
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by deveac 13y ago
From a young age, no other artists expanded the definition of what it meant to fuse creativity, art, & music more than Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground. There are not too many artists that I can honestly say redefined music for me.
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by deveac 13y ago
I wish I had a screenshot of hubski.com at its inception. Since it began life as a port (albeit with completely different mechanics) the UI was essentially a clone. Quite quickly mk transformed that along with the usually feature and perfor
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by deveac 13y ago
>In India, the only thing that gets any kind of privilege is a politician's motorcade. And cows...
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by deveac 13y ago
It is an insane value. Over a year ago I was looking for a more lightweight image editor that could replace photoshop. After trying a few different options I downloaded Pixelmator and was blown away at how accessible yet powerful and featur
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by deveac 13y ago
>What if I believe that Google (hence the NSA) already has access to my Gmail? What's the cost to my privacy if it's already lost? Can I have your gmail and password? If not, why not?
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by deveac 13y ago
>From a quick look this one seems more plausible than the absurd PRISM presentation. Are you suggesting that the leaked PRISM presentations are not authentic?
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by deveac 13y ago
>but in reality it's pretty damn simple Also, it's not remotely "pretty damn simple": https://blog.lookout.com/blog/2013/09/23/why-i-hacked-apples... "Creating the fake f
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by deveac 13y ago
>He points to wearables such as Google Glass as one obvious category. But then he rightly says that such devices already seem a little boring — “remarkably like tiny iPhones bolted to our heads and fastened to our wrists.” So Apple&#x2
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by deveac 13y ago
>Piss poor excuse - think of all the users using a password now downgrading their security, but Apple advertising it as "high security". If you're talking aggregate security, TouchID will still increase security (even wi
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by deveac 13y ago
It sounds quite action movie, but in reality it's pretty damn simple Also in reality it will foil over 99% of potential unauthorized activation attempts as most people aren't going to craft fingerprints to get into someone'

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