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by dotBen 12y ago
You get the ... professionalism and expertise of a cab driver Hmmmm, that's usually stated in inverted commas and the precise argument why Uber/Lyft is better.
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by dotBen 12y ago
For anyone wondering, this is basically how PR works at its absolute best. This piece has been published because Alibaba is about to IPO and Amazon wants to take a little bit of wind out of the sails by puffing (as its called in the trade)
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MonkeyParking allows drivers to auction off their public parking spots in SF(sfist.com)
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by dotBen 12y ago
If a U2 can set its own altitude on the transponder the other possibility here is that the flight operator set it to an incorrect altitude that appeared it was flying in the same airspace as commercial planes but not within standard corrido
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by dotBen 12y ago
I just logged into an account I managed with one of the big WP hosts, and it's a huge improvement over how it feels with shared hosting I'm curious, which one were you using?
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by dotBen 12y ago
disclosure: I'm a former founder of a successful WordPress hosting platform and spent many years in the WP space. I'll take the opportunity to counter, if I may... 1a. It's easier to use than WordPress, Drupal etc. That&#x
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by dotBen 12y ago
I have exactly the same dilemma (but because I download the coverage from back home in the UK rather than suffer the terrible American coverage) . I thought about building a proxy but simple name-blocking is too broad given names like &quo
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by dotBen 12y ago
How do you know DO's $10/m plan is most popular? (Please don't say it's because the pricing page highlights the $10 plan ass "most popular". You know that's just a classic up-sell trick, right?)
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by dotBen 12y ago
To get around the Apple patent, they should have made the device compatible with a cigaratte lighter socket or the old-school plane power socket, which would enable customers to buy the official Apple Travel Adapter. This is how HyperJuice
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by dotBen 12y ago
Reading such long-form content and then being able to process + critique it is an important life skill many of us have sadly lost. I don't think the article is unnecessarily verbose, in fact I think it successfully covers many inter-co
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by dotBen 12y ago
Yes, see Lavabit. The FBI can compel a US company to add a wiretap to their infrastructure.
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by dotBen 12y ago
I think you would gain more by sharing and collaborating on the methodology than you would lose on potential copy-cats (or whatever your concerns are).
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by dotBen 12y ago
everyone wants to know, how are you fulfilling the Starbucks card side of things? Do you have access to a private API? Are you distributing the barcode of a card you are auto-loading? (but then how do you know the balance post sale?) Are y
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by dotBen 12y ago
this is an example of where I'd love to see the new HN mods close off-topic threads. No offense the parent, but your general musing on the feasibility of Bitcoin - amount to thread jacking given the original topic above
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by dotBen 12y ago
Actually Rice has never held a democratically elected office - a strange trait of the American government system is that The President can appoint anyone he likes to hold these offices. This counters to countries like Britain where these ro
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by dotBen 13y ago
Respectfully, there's geek-thinking again. Wifi password changing is a straw-man argument - most households use the default SSID and password that came with the router (if you don't believe me go to a residential area outside of
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by dotBen 13y ago
HN'ers asking why this isn't a cell phone app take note - this exemplifies why we (geeks) don't make good use cases for consumer tech and we should always be careful looking to our own habits and values when in a Product De
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by dotBen 13y ago
There are plenty of companies I boycot and avoid patronizing based on concerns I have with their owners, executive leadership or company's position on issues important to me. I don't think that is that uncommon, actually.
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by dotBen 13y ago
I obviously wasn't clear enough - it's not about the contribution it's about leadership. Brendan was an employee of Mozilla when he made his Prop 8 contribution - that's fine, that's his right and as you point out p
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by dotBen 13y ago
Probably because while he may have invented Javascript, many people have contributed to it, so that's not really the same issue. We should assume there might be racists/biggots/etc working at Google on Chrome, at Apple on Sa
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by dotBen 13y ago
Awesome to hear, thank you. Often high value conversations occur in threads after they have fallen off the front page.
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Tell PG: "Pending" discourages conversation on older threads no longer on FP
18 points by dotBen 13y ago|3 comments
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by dotBen 13y ago
No, I don't mean crawl the web. I mean Twitter could just compute the data and calculate the graphs via their direct access to the data. Traversing the full corpus of all data, across all dimensions, including time, including data poi
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by dotBen 13y ago
Klout also realized it would never have the granular level of access to the interest graphs on the networks it was - pardon the expression - leaching off of. I remember a senior Twitter staff member pointing out that if Klout really proved
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by dotBen 13y ago
I'm curious where the date came from - LinkedIn seems obvious but I'm not aware they make that kind of corpus available for purchase.
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by dotBen 13y ago
It's not designed to charge MacBook Pros, just Airs due to the wattage required. I don't believe that's any difference for the GBattery either.
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by dotBen 13y ago
Mentioned in passing in child comments below, but worth highlighting - the HyperJuice Battery range of products (eg http://amzn.to/1mqK9ap ) already does this, at a similar price point, and is available for purchase today. I
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by dotBen 13y ago
I respect you're doing a PR promo on HN to get lift, I've done it many times myself, not wanting to crap over your play here but... Managers shouldn't need that degree of transparency - expense policies are common, employees
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by dotBen 13y ago
Surely it's more convenient for the manager to 'batch' up expense approvals to a single list that she can tackle once a month? I'm not sure receiving constant notifications - that require attention and imply she's
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Google Visualization API Query Language(support.google.com)
2 points by dotBen 13y ago|0 comments

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