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by dylandrop 13y ago
I think saying "I'm utterly appalled" on an online chat board is a lot different from joining a mob to kill someone. Let's not make any Tom Perkins-esque comparisons here [1]. And people should certainly be allowed to re
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by dylandrop 13y ago
"We had two AOL-ers that had distressed babies that were born that we paid a million dollars each to make sure those babies were OK in general. And those are the things that add up into our benefits cost. So when we had the final deci
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by dylandrop 13y ago
You could make the same argument about recycling. Making unnecessary packaging is a source of evil, in that it uses tons of unnecessary energy and resources. Recycling makes this system incrementally better. Additionally, recycling in some
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by dylandrop 13y ago
Will they fix the problem? Certainly not. Are they a step in the right direction? Almost certainly yes. The main problem with cars I see is that they're inefficient as opposed to mass transport (as Rees seems to suggest in the first ar
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by dylandrop 13y ago
Is this really the best usage of your funding cash? Seems like half of 53's $15M can go down the drain with this sort of thing. I sort of expect FB Paper to flop like the Facebook phone OS thing; if I were 53 I wouldn't be going s
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by dylandrop 13y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER - Remote / NYC - ControlShift Labs - http://www.controlshiftlabs.com/ We are an organization devoted to building web tools for progressive activists and nonprofits worldwide. Right now we have two ma
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by dylandrop 13y ago
Remote / NYC - ControlShift Labs - http://www.controlshiftlabs.com/ We are an organization devoted to building web tools for progressive activists and nonprofits worldwide. Right now we have two main products that we&#
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by dylandrop 13y ago
Did I ever state otherwise? It is a well known fact that Chomsky is an anarchist, and opposes both structures of power. But that is contradictory to the implications of the Ayn Rand quote above, i.e. "Let's get rid of gov't a
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by dylandrop 13y ago
Thanks for the information -- but this still doesn't spell out any breakdowns of who gets jobs where. This specifies that ~98% get jobs -- but at companies like Adobe and Google? I know plenty of grads from top tier bachelor CS program
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by dylandrop 13y ago
For the first quote, you could also see this as entering a period of rule by corporations and businesses, where government is the only means for people to combat this. To quote Chomsky, in his most recent book On Anarchism : "Well, we
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by dylandrop 13y ago
I think you're extrapolating a bit too much. First off, those who are regulating are not those who founded tech startups. Additionally, if the general startup credo is "Move fast and break things", well, people shouldn't
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by dylandrop 13y ago
At Hack Reactor, where tuition costs over $17,000, 99 percent of students are offered a job at companies like Adobe and Google. Am I the only one who is skeptical of this? I'd really like to see the breakdown on this one..
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by dylandrop 13y ago
NB, I said: "If you're >= Rails 3, almost all upgrades are painless. " I was talking about upgrades past Rails 2 -> 3. That was probably the biggest one in Rails history, but even that was a problem you should have only
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by dylandrop 13y ago
The conversation in this comments has become a lightning rod for Rails hate, and the "impossibility" of upgrading! (Somewhat to be expected on HN.) However, for almost all Rails developers, upgrading is usually not a huge issue ,
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by dylandrop 13y ago
All we know about the Google protestors (as a collective) is that they're opposed to increasing housing prices which make it difficult for them to continue living where they used to live. There's nothing to suggest that this is a
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by dylandrop 13y ago
My objection is his use of the term "commie leftist", using a tactic that undermines the credibility of these people's concerns analogous to the sentiments Red Scare. Of course he isn't persecuting them, but he's us
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by dylandrop 13y ago
Right, so everyone who is in opposition to Google is a "commie leftist". What, is this McCarthyist America again?
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by dylandrop 13y ago
I'm a bit confused. Who is the "you" here?
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Why Walking through a Doorway Makes You Forget(scientificamerican.com)
2 points by dylandrop 13y ago|0 comments
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by dylandrop 13y ago
Have you done any comparisons/benchmarks vs Adept Scale, Bounscale, or HireFire? Also why Google Analytics default as opposed to some other service?
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by dylandrop 13y ago
So you're saying it's interesting that you assume your point will be shot down? Assuming the reception of your viewpoints HN does nothing except suggest that you don't really have any reasoning at all, but want to frame you
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by dylandrop 13y ago
In some cases, but even in those cases, only to a limited extent. Is winning the lottery is a function of hard work and preparedness?
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by dylandrop 13y ago
In other words, he probably meant relentless
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by dylandrop 13y ago
when libertarians support defense spending as a key role of government. Not sure where you're getting this from... even though I'm not a libertarian myself, it seems like most libertarians believe in drastically reduced defense
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by dylandrop 13y ago
1 & 2 seem like top reasons NOT to freelance -- stress & worrying about where your money is going to come from. But I guess it depends on how much money you'd like and how many clients you're getting. My main gripe about f
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by dylandrop 13y ago
>> there's this undercurrent of hatred for baller/rap/black (so-called "douchebag") culture Sorry, but the hatred for RapGenius doesn't come from programmers hating black culture. It's from the found
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Resisting Monoculture(guernicamag.com)
1 points by dylandrop 13y ago|0 comments
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You Can’t Take It With You, but You Still Want More(nytimes.com)
5 points by dylandrop 13y ago|0 comments
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by dylandrop 13y ago
Well in my opinion, that's actually a paragon of the American worker (someone working hard because they're passionate). But if you'd like, consider it this way -- it's a lot harder to dislike a group of people working ha
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by dylandrop 13y ago
Is there a big difference between Thunderbolt and some sort of HDMI hookup?

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