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by dreww 15y ago
it was obvious from that comment alone, and then became overwhelmingly obvious that that is why he was uncomfortable based on his other responses in the thread.
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by dreww 15y ago
On more than one occasion, we would be approached by "youths" (one of them wasn't even that young) who were clearly drug dealers. One of my brothers confirmed this to me. The smell of marijuana smoke was another tell. pro tip for suburban
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by dreww 15y ago
i suggest that companies communicate with their users where their users are. which sounds like a useless aphorism, but i think it is actually useful to think about. how many sites have added authentication based on your facebook/twitter/etc
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by dreww 15y ago
http://www.allfacebook.com/email-use-declines-59-among-teens... it's dying. it might be a slow death, but the patient has a terminal disease.
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by dreww 15y ago
i hear what you're saying. however, i think it goes beyond that - the phenomenon of people's parents using facebook is widespread. email, in a non-work context, has become a communications channel for low-value broadcast messages.
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by dreww 15y ago
I don't understand why this has become a trendy pet peeve to have now, at least 5 years after email ceased to be a relevant form of communication. If you care about email, you've already lost. Overuse of automated out-of-office respondes do
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by dreww 15y ago
if you feel dissatisfied by your current help desk solution, you should definitely check out assistly. it feels like they actually care about design and user delight, unlike the other things i've used/evaluated. i am not affiliated with the
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by dreww 15y ago
the fact that you think being a waiter has "no real qualifications" underlines the fact that you probably haven't been one. also, there is an immense range of compensation for servers, depending on the restaurant in question. any restaurant
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by dreww 15y ago
More good commentary here on another HN post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2840062 and the blog post on McAfee has more details than any popular account: http://blogs.mcafee.com/mcafee-labs/revealed-operation-shady...
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by dreww 15y ago
i totally believe that there is more evidence out there, it is just rarely actually revealed. so it seems at least possible that there is some collusion, conscious or not, between journalists and cybersecurity spooks to name an enemy in ord
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by dreww 15y ago
i hear what you're saying, but lots of the targets in the press would be of interest to a lot of people who are just in it for the money, etc.
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by dreww 15y ago
While I support the opinions with regard to security and disclosure as presented, the rest of the article is regrettably lacking in detail, specifics, evidence, or attributable quotes on what has actually occurred. It's hard to say if this
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by dreww 15y ago
i guess i feel like this is totally unsurprising, except that a similar incident hadn't been publicized already. i felt exactly the same way about Getaround, which is AirBnB for your car - hobos will definitely rent my car and defecate and
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by dreww 15y ago
not necessarily all of the thugs had to be in on the conspiracy. perhaps only one was paid off.
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by dreww 15y ago
usually, 'unemployment' figures refer only to those who are actually currently on unemployment insurance payments. which is one of the serious problems with that number.
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by dreww 15y ago
i think this is the real story here, agreed.
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by dreww 15y ago
http://www.bebarang.com/
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by dreww 15y ago
A solution looking for a problem and/or customers scores $350k.
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by dreww 15y ago
That's not how our diaper service works, as far as I can tell. They seem pooled to me.
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by dreww 15y ago
Thanks for choosing comfort and convenience. I'll let what's left of the icecaps know that you won't be having them over for dinner any time soon.
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by dreww 15y ago
citations needed
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by dreww 15y ago
i think this is intended to be, and will always remain, vaporware. or perhaps i misunderstand what is meant by "concept".
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by dreww 15y ago
interestingly, the official press release mentions that matz will retain his positions at NaCL and Rakuten Institute of Technology. http://news.heroku.com/news_releases/ruby-creator-yukihiro-m...
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Amazing Photos of Recent Puyehue Volcano's Eruption(blogs.lanacion.com.ar)
2 points by dreww 15y ago|0 comments
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by dreww 15y ago
I posted this link yesterday - it is a well-written expose on a massive engineering product, that I didn't know anything about.
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America's Achilles' heel: the Mississippi River's Old River Control Structure(wunderground.com)
2 points by dreww 15y ago|0 comments
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by dreww 15y ago
Unfortunately, there's almost no actual information about China's fusion research in the linked article. There is a lot of information, almost rambling, about the future of their fission plans after Fukushima, most of which has been covered
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Hommer Simpson - a disturbing video of unknown provenance(youtube.com)
1 points by dreww 15y ago|0 comments
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by dreww 15y ago
the unknown confuser!
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by dreww 15y ago
local man discovers value in simply "shutting the hell up"

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