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by dntrkv 10y ago
The company I work for runs a week long "hackathon" each quarter during business hours. Generally, you aren't allowed to work on anything but your hack week project.
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by dntrkv 10y ago
Sure, but energy is the biggest use of oil by far. Obviously we will never completely eliminate the use of oil, but that's not the goal, we just need to bring it down to a reasonable level. Not what we are doing now. http://
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by dntrkv 10y ago
If they thought they were violating regulations, that would be true. But their official stance is that they are not violating regulations, so his point is totally valid. Official statement: https://newsroom.uber.com/statemen
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by dntrkv 10y ago
A deaf person can tell the difference between nice IEMs and the stock apple ear phones. I don't think anyone is disputing that. Now take some nice bluetooth IEMs and compare them to similarly priced wired IEMs, then it gets a little mo
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by dntrkv 10y ago
How do you think you will view this comment in 5 years when 90% of new ear buds sold are completely wireless? I'm guessing it will be similar to how people view Steve Ballmer's comments on the original iPhone.
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by dntrkv 10y ago
That's a nice sounding theory but do you have any proof of that? From what I've seen, Apple has just had a consistently good product with great marketing.
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by dntrkv 10y ago
Do you feel the same way about seat belt laws? Helmet laws? Heroin? Vaccines? My opinion is that there are certain things that should be regulated, or banned in many cases, because doing so would help our society as a whole.
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by dntrkv 10y ago
Is this surprising to you? This has always been Apple's approach. I'd say it is the most defining difference between Apple products and everything else. One of the main reasons people commit to the Apple ecosystem is that you get
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by dntrkv 10y ago
On the one hand we have a reputable media company reporting quotes from reputable sources, and on the other we have WikiLeaks (with a very well documented agenda) claiming the exact opposite from an anonymous source. The New York Times and
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by dntrkv 10y ago
Multiple US sources say Assange is pulling a PR stunt. Multiple US sources say Trump is the anti christ. Multiple US sources say Assange is a false flag placed by the Reptilians. Wow, this is easy!
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by dntrkv 10y ago
I think that second link looks awesome. How well the design serves the building purpose, I don't know, but purely from an aesthetic perspective, I think it looks great.
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by dntrkv 10y ago
My experience is the opposite. I've been working on the web for over a decade now and only until a couple years ago have I really been happy with my stack. My usual stack looks something like: Express / React / Redux / W
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One important factor to consider is that this won't happen overnight. Once autonomous trucks actually hit the roads, there will be a long period where the drivers will still have to be behind the wheel. And even then, there is a lot of
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by dntrkv 10y ago
Do you have any data to back that up? Because automobile sales in the US are at near all-time highs.
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by dntrkv 10y ago
A couple differences between the two: a. A diploma from a public university carries a certain level of prestige, unlike a for-profit college diploma, which is more of a red flag when looking through resumes. b. The cost of that diploma will
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by dntrkv 10y ago
I don't understand how they would make you buy a refurbished phone. Anytime I have had any issues on my iPhone, if Apple couldn't fix it, they just give me a new/refurbished phone free of charge.
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by dntrkv 10y ago
Just because you had a great experience does not negate the fact that for-profit college students, statistically, fare much worse. A common pattern I have seen: Person does terrible in high school, doesn't get into a good college becau
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by dntrkv 10y ago
Yeah, I'm in the US and I've yet to BBQ with someone that doesn't know this trick.
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by dntrkv 10y ago
Of course context matters, and I fully understand that no country here is innocent, but it is important to gauge the severity of one action over another. In this case, the US is making allies with Russia's neighbors, and Russia is anne
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by dntrkv 10y ago
Both countries have been meddling in other countries for decades but the key difference is that Russia annexed a part of another country, the US has not. That is a very important difference you need to appreciate.
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by dntrkv 10y ago
The logic of Putin apologists never ceases to amaze me. I remember when the situation in Ukraine/Crimea was just unfolding and I was discussing it with a friend. At first his position was "There is no proof Russia is in Ukraine, t
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by dntrkv 10y ago
I think his chart is using the wrong date range. Here is a better one: https://encrypted.google.com/finance/chart?espv=2&q=CURRENCY...
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by dntrkv 10y ago
You can say that about any successful person/company. Sure, luck may have played a large role in Facebook's initial success. But that was over 10 years ago. Many companies experience that initial success and then go nowhere, e.g.
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by dntrkv 10y ago
There are a bunch of mobile clients and some newer desktop clients that support media queries: https://litmus.com/help/email-clients/media-query-support/
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by dntrkv 10y ago
It is factually correct, just because there might be some niche apps that perform better on Android does not negate the fact that, overall, the App Store generates far more revenue than the Play Store. http://9to5mac.com/201
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by dntrkv 10y ago
Same here, my parents were in the "make too much to receive government assistance but not enough to pay for private insurance healthcare" group, now with the ACA they finally have health insurance after nearly a decade of going wi
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by dntrkv 10y ago
You think $150 is too expensive for a piece of software you use ~8 hours a day to do a $100k+ salary job? Go ask a mechanic or carpenter how much money they spend on their tools for a job that pays significantly less.
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by dntrkv 10y ago
It does help with browser quirks, but if you aren't supporting <IE10, then you really don't need it. I've made it a point to pull out jQuery from every project I have. Nowadays, I can test in Chrome as I develop and then t
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by dntrkv 10y ago
Nylas N1, Airmail, Canary, or Polymail. Take your pick. Personally, I use Nylas since it's open source and the extensibility of it is awesome.
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by dntrkv 10y ago
Never have I been searched on public transit in NYC, SF, LA, Seattle, or Portland. I took Amtrak on a weekly basis for about 3 years and I was never searched nor did I ever see anyone searched. I have driven up and down the west coast from

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