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> In a marketing class long ago the professor asked what % of the US beer industry was imported. The answers were all over the place, with most answers between 30 and 50%. She responded with, "It's less than 10%, and this is wh
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It has a Jobsian ring to it. Insanely conventional.
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Snarky strawman time: I'm sure the author thought the average reader would, by dint of puritanism, be repulsed by people smoking weed at a conference. I suggest using crack or heroin for reefermadnessed analogies like that next time. N
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Honestly, I think this is delusional. A developer that successfully develops and launches a product probably won't be looking for a job, they'll be maintaining and trying to grow the product's user base. This approach will ge
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>It'd be more than a little asinine to tell a group of adults what they can and can't do in their spare time. I take it you haven't used this global network called Internet, and your comment was sent through some kind of S
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Somewhere around the age of 18 and 19, most people develop the ability to not care about what other people think about their activities and preferences. Those who don't develop it before 30 or so will always suffer at the hands of thos
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A few weeks before the conference, create a FB group/discussion board/forum/mailing list and invite other people who'd like to abstain from alcohol at WhateverConf after parties. If you're going to WhateverConf you
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I do. Your comment, > I want to know what privacy concerns you have regarding static CDNs that you don't implicitly give up by accessing the Internet. implies that the privacy concerns for 3rd party JS library CDNs are null. They ar
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"1.4 How does this affect web standards? We have sufficient market share on the desktop that a few months from now, we will be in a position to unilaterally dictate them. We hope to leverage this control to achieve the same dominance i
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Not sending Referer headers to Google. (Yes, it becomes a problem when you use private browsing, since the cache is cleared when you end the session.)
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>working at Google Maybe he has a vested interest in not protecting people's privacy (or just a cavalier attitude towards privacy).
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Pam is also often short for Pamela, which, if we're going to stick to no-gendered-anything-ever, is a gendered name.
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Some argue [weasel words] that using pictures of animals for humor (i.e. dog memes) is degrading to those animals. You can stretch this into an argument that maybe the Shiba Inu in the doge photo didn't want to have his picture capti
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Brother. (I couldn't resist.)
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> If saying "bro" makes some people uncomfortable, the bottom line is that it just makes a lot more sense to change it. I don't want to advocate obnoxiousness and misogyny, but there are many things that can make people un
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"boy" is an alternative, though I'm sure it would do very little to placate the misogyny complaints.
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I know someone who can't eat apples (I don't know the exact reason) but she enjoys her iPad, so there's that. (There's no need to protest the name "bro" unless the project is marketed using misogynistic, cras
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If anyone from HNSearch is listening: You should default to HTTPS for all links to HN.
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From my observation, most parents teach their sons some euphemism-laden variation of the idea that they shouldn't make unwanted sexual advances—that they should be respectful to women, "treat a lady right" etc. Even if they d
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The way that values basic human decency and empathy the most would be to notify the organizers and ensure that they don't just ignore your complaint, and to talk to the person who was assaulting the other person. Unfortunately, I'
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/867-5309/Jenny#Popularity_and_...
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A supplement: I was checking a Twitter account and, by following the permalinks to some tweets, saw these two tweets that I think are emblematic of this fucking-nerds attitude: https://twitter.com/KuraFire/status/4
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> xenophobic scapegoating of a group of socially awkward outsiders I don't read Valleywag otherwise, but recently I followed a link to an article in which Sam Biddle ironically asks readers to call SV software engineers "Softwa
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500GB or 1TB is a quite low bar for "unlimited", especially given FiOS speeds. (Not that 77TB isn't an insane amount for a customer, but the point is: the fact that most people don't use their connection to its full pote
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Case in point: in the 1990s, portals were big , and every popular website wanted to be a portal. Likewise, between 2006 and now, most popular websites integrate social features. What people seek in Facebook, they'll start finding in m
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One could not want to have some legal but disruptive to certain interests or usable as future blackmail material captured, stored and analyzed.
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For those who (like me, until recently) don't know about this amazing feature of democracy in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_speech_zone
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Disconnect is open source, licensed under the GPL: https://github.com/disconnectme/disconnect/
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> Your vision is the ceiling for your company’s potential. You’ll never be a billion dollar business if you’re not deliberately working to get there. And in venture capital, it doesn’t make sense to invest in anyone who isn’t at least tr
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Besides the Stasi, Germans may be concerned about a hypothetical tyrannical government deciding to persecute an specific group of people, snatch them from their homes and send them to concentration camps. (Yes, Godwin law. Yawn. )

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