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by emmett 13y ago
No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.
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by emmett 13y ago
While I generally agree with you that stack-ranking is a terrible idea for software companies[1], my guess is that the goal here is "lay off a bunch of low performers who were hired over the last 10 years". How do you think they s
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by emmett 13y ago
It sounds like you're using AirBNB for a longterm sublet...I didn't even know that was possible! I've had nothing but great experiences using it in NYC (>5 times), but then I've always used it for a weekend stay. Can
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by emmett 13y ago
Neither has any outstanding critical security vulnerabilities, which is normal for any web framework. The "security" of a web framework is not a well-defined quantity. Your question is malformed, and you got an answer that you sho
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by emmett 13y ago
It smells like BS to you because you don't really, honestly believe that you're addressing a multi-billion dollar market. That's not necessarily bad, but the whole point of the essay is that you should first come up with a st
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by emmett 13y ago
This kind of comment is unnecessarily mean. It's an attack on Yegge, who does not deserve the kind of vitriol you're directing. Please don't do this on HN. It's poison for the community.
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by emmett 13y ago
The issue is that SF can't sprawl like Austin, and there is a large contingent of people who don't want density. Personally I support increased density and housing in SF, but it's an uphill battle with the other residents who
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by emmett 13y ago
The real insight here is that the dominant bit is not how many options you get (though that's important), it's how good the company is. As an employee, you need to look at early-stage startups where you're being compensated w
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by emmett 13y ago
When a user asks you to solve the halting problem, ask them what they want to accomplish by doing it. Almost always there's some way to cheat and get them what they want without doing the impossible.
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Justin.tv hiring for new lead programmer
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by emmett 13y ago
That's a very good point. This would definitely happen to some degree. But it would still hurt internet advertising a good deal not to be able to track uniques, to show you an ad only once per day, to count how many people have been
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by emmett 13y ago
I'm not arguing against banning advertising. Actually, I think that would be a fine idea. Just recognize that unless you do ban advertising, the result of this change will not be what's intended. The intended result is that websit
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by emmett 13y ago
For advertisers this is a non-starter, because it prevents you from knowing the size of your audience. All sites would immediately begin requiring some form of "login" in your scenario in order to enable tracking again. If you can
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by emmett 13y ago
Because that's how memcached brands itself. http://memcached.org/ -- the URL has a d (unlike mysql) "What is Memcached?" -- it's how they talk about themselves. It's even in the logo...
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by emmett 13y ago
Thanks :-) Side note: One thing people miss is that Twitch is a lot bigger than just eSports. It may create the flashiest, biggest events, but on a day-to-day basis most of our viewership is on stuff that's much more about interactive
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by emmett 13y ago
But without copyright, Pandora could simply copy the music and sell the service without paying any royalty at all. It's only by government fiat that Pandora has any costs, period. Copyright hasn't been nullified, it's just be
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by emmett 13y ago
Well, the suppliers may face a federally-mandated price ceiling, but they also have a federally-mandated monopoly on their own product (copyright). It's not like you have a natural right to prevent people from copying your stuff - we g
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by emmett 13y ago
This was not an issue with Cloudflare.
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by emmett 13y ago
1) I agree with you that the parent comment is not preempting anything, it's just a political jab. 2) You're simply wrong that the name change to "climate change" was a leftist thing. Luntz is a chief political strategist for the right wing
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by emmett 13y ago
A good response here would probably look more like, "While we appreciate you making the effort to contribute to the project, the patches you've been submitting don't meet our quality standards because [reason - poorly structured? no tests?
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by emmett 13y ago
No business really wants a competitor. And I think we're working pretty hard to grow the industry regardless. However, I recognize long term what's good for the world in general is competition, so all I have to say is: bring it on :-)
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by emmett 13y ago
Yeah, this is rough for us. We want perfect global service and don't have it. There are issues in many locales, mostly because of last-mile delivery. We're doubling EU capacity now, because every time we add capacity we grow until it's all
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by emmett 13y ago
People need very little. Food, water, shelter. Most of these things are already being made, and in quantity. If you restrict yourself to that which is truly necessary, you do very little indeed.
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by emmett 13y ago
Not everything is about solving pain. Some things are about creating joy instead. You can describe Rovio as solving the "pain of not having a fun bird throwing game", but it's a lot more straightforward to say "they made a really fun game t
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by emmett 14y ago
Huh! Shows I should look before I speak! That's very cool. I wouldn't rent my manual though, heh.
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by emmett 14y ago
I doubt they'd LET you rent a manual out. Generally rental places only allow automatics. If you have a special car that you love, probably not great. If you're one of the great majority that buys a Civic/Camry/Focus/etc. then it's not like
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by emmett 14y ago
You can't opt-out of server-side tracking. They could easily architect the app to require a round-trip to the server on every call (this is how typical early web apps worked). In that case you really don't have an option to object. Does tha
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by emmett 14y ago
How is it an anti-pattern? That's how Dropbox launched, and it seemed to turn out OK for them. Generally speaking if you have a hard-to-scale service (Heap, Dropbox) doing an invite-base system makes sense.
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by emmett 14y ago
Your thesis is incorrect: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=pmarca for example.
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by emmett 14y ago
By that standard, surely Airbnb is a "new economy". And Google certainly qualifies, given the number of firms dedicated to nothing but optimizing AdWords.

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