dmschulman

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   by dmschulman 11y ago

   I just finished reading Flash Boys by Michael Lewis, it was an incredibly enlightening read. To answer your questions: 1) I think it's 350mcs across the board except in the case of firms which conduct suspect activity (canceling orders
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   by dmschulman 11y ago

   I've recently begun to look into building a small home library without spending an arm and a leg on the price of new books. My immediate inclination was to hop onto Amazon and find as many used titles at $1 or less as I could. Only aft
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   by dmschulman 11y ago

   Location: Philadelphia, PA Remote: OK Willing to relocate: no Technologies: Front end development, Wordpress, HTML, CSS, PHP, JS, Gulp, Docker, Grunt, SEO/SEM, Adobe Suite, Final Cut Pro, Office Apps Resume: http://www.dmsch
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   by dmschulman 11y ago

   You could easily extrapolate this argument to the Internet of Things if you need a way to understand the poster's point differently. Do you want or even really need a toaster with a computer in it? A refrigerator with a computer in it?
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   by dmschulman 11y ago

   Yeah I was curious why they changed the link I posted to the actual documents in question. I hoped to allude to the story not link directly to the materials (which any HN reader could find on their own after having read the story). Either w
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   by dmschulman 11y ago

   No one is questioning that it was made public, rather, that Wikileaks decided to latch on to a data leak that kind of shares the same trollish territory as leaking nude celebrity photos. Running with the Chelsea Manning leak helped start a
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   by dmschulman 11y ago

   They've been grasping for relevancy the last few years ever since Assange has gone into exile but the Chelsea Manning disclosures were newsworthy and responsibly handled. The Cablegate leaks were newsworthy and responsibly handled. Syr
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   by dmschulman 11y ago

   It really serves no public interest, I was honestly shocked when I saw that Wikileaks decided to publish this stuff. Publishing leaked personal emails with no newsworthiness is the kind of thing a dirty supermarket tabloid like Gawker would
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   CIA Director John Brennan emails(wikileaks.org)

   229 points by dmschulman 11y ago|144 comments
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    by dmschulman 11y ago

    You're right, my Thinkpad X201t weighs 2.89 lbs. That's 1.31kg, it's so difficult to lug around but at least I can replace the hard drive, RAM, keyboard, CPU fan, battery, and fundamentally keep it maintained until the proces
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    by dmschulman 11y ago

    It's definitely a balance that needs to be achieved between function and form. I think Apple tends to lean too much towards the function part of the spectrum but I'm glad to hear the pendulum might be swinging slightly to the othe
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    by dmschulman 11y ago

    How are they great for fixing yourself? They're specifically engineered to be completely unserviceable by a regular consumer. Yes you can watch a Youtube video and figure out how to take them apart, Apple's devices have to be se
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    by dmschulman 11y ago

    I also get the impression many of these things were dreamed up out of minor inconvenience.
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    by dmschulman 11y ago

    Like a lot of tech products I think these devices have a niche appeal, despite the fact that of these doohickeys are answers in search of a problem people will buy these products (Target hosted this expo after all). Unlike a selfie stick or
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    by dmschulman 11y ago

    Bullshit doesn't work so much as it works slightly enough to see a better return on investment than other kinds of promotion (and certainly a better success rate than a complete lack of promotion, a strategy many small websites appar
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    by dmschulman 11y ago

    I think we have The Atlantic to point to for making campaign 404 pages a "thing". They've been including a blurb about the 404 page on each candidate's website on their 2016 Election Cheat Sheet ( http://www.th
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    by dmschulman 11y ago

    Yeah but will the GMO heroin be labeled as such?
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    by dmschulman 11y ago

    The core argument isn't "money ruining X", but that business flocking to acquire the term hacker. The money entering the scene is just a consequential outgrowth. The author is making a stronger case than that, the article is
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    Ask HN: Future Web Pledge, tenets for a sustainable web

    1 points by dmschulman 11y ago|0 comments
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    by dmschulman 11y ago

    "Just because it's there, doesn't mean you must learn it and use it" You're correct! Except that this is not the way things work in the professional world, and by refusing to learn or use a new technique or library
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    by dmschulman 11y ago

    I'm not in SF so I wouldn't know. Is the OneLogin ad par for the course? At least from the Venmo example it doesn't seem like these kinds of ads are particularly enjoyed by passers by. Advertisements are designed to catch a p
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    by dmschulman 11y ago

    I see your point with the example of the DICE advert, and not that I think it's a tasteful ad, but it's obviously riffing on the stereotypical Calvin Klein fashion model photo spread (which one could argue is a clever joke in cont
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    by dmschulman 11y ago

    In a big D Democracy, you're correct. I don't consider the modern web to be a big D Democracy though.
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    by dmschulman 11y ago

    Feeling value in intangible products (articles, music streaming, etc) is definitely the crux of the problem. If we can't hold it in our hands (not to mention we've grown accustom to getting all this content for free) it's qui
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    by dmschulman 11y ago

    Here's a radical idea: pay for the services you love to use. The author mentions she pays for an NYTimes subscription presumably because she gets a lot of value from their content. I pony up the same for a handful of websites and servi
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    by dmschulman 11y ago

    The catch is that the fertilizer (coal ash) was used to grow corn and soybean animal feed (which cows can't even digest properly, but that's another story...) and then the manure of those cows went to organic farms - so the purpo
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    by dmschulman 11y ago

    In addition to the misguided notion that somehow, someway, vegetables sold as organic are vastly superior to vegetables grown and sold in any other condition.
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    by dmschulman 11y ago

    It's quite an ugly vehicle. http://www.bmw.com.au/_common/shared/newvehicles/i/i3/2013/s...
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    by dmschulman 11y ago

    Well bookmarks never quite worked for me, they're more clutter than they're worth and tend to get lost in the pile. I've organized my web browsing into a few different Chrome windows based on tasks, one window for personal br
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    by dmschulman 11y ago

    I'm at a happy medium with the Tab Overload situation, though I would welcome a fantastic app that helped me save content in an intelligent way for consuming later. Currently I browse in Chrome, keep a window with things I prefer to re