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by et-al 8y ago
It's very possible people are calling relatives or friends whose landline offers a more reliable connection than their internet. And if having a conversation, I'd rather have an uninterrupted voice conversation than a mediocre vid
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by et-al 8y ago
Obligatory non-paywall mirror: https://outline.com/HyGdqf
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by et-al 8y ago
Here an example to illustrate jldugger's point: https://imgur.com/a/hCo3V2X You struggle to locate the names of the streets--in their absence, Google Maps shoves a bunch of unsolicited retail venues in your face.
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by et-al 8y ago
Yerba Buena Gardens is more of a corporate garden. Check out all the rules they have: https://ybgfestival.org/visitor-info/#rules Basically don't do anything but sit, eat your lunch, and look at your phone. The am
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by et-al 8y ago
> Am I just not staying/walking through the really bad parts? Next time walk down Howard until you hit 6th St. Talk a walk up 6th to Market Street. Then take your pick of Eddy or Turk for fecalspotting. Also, the shit residents expe
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by et-al 8y ago
A large part of this is how one choses to use their smartphone. By default, it's a device that's receives a million notifications, but I've turned off most of them, so it's back to being a tiny computer that's helpf
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by et-al 8y ago
> Programming/Computers doesn't mean anything to them, it's just a day job which helps them provide for themselves. This is the main differentiation between the US/European workforce and ours. How is this not the ca
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by et-al 8y ago
10Mbps sounds like Sonic Fusion (AT&T DSL partnership) and not Sonic Fiber.
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by et-al 8y ago
Birkenstock has an actual distinctive product. I'm more curious about the efforts to revive/remarket Champion and Fila as the streetwear brands they are today.
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by et-al 8y ago
Pivotte does this: https://www.pivottestudio.com/ Why they're not any larger, I have yet to ask. Perhaps their branding or marketing doesn't appeal to more folks.
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by et-al 8y ago
Doodle.com is super simple and super useful when coordinating with more than four people.
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by et-al 8y ago
Is this actually happening, though? I feel most sites don't comply with the latter half of your statement (conditioning based on acceptance).
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by et-al 8y ago
Sidenote: the author of the post (Chris MacAskill) is also the co-founder of SmugMug which recently acquired Flickr. And apparently he also runs https://advrider.com/ . Quite the renaissance person. https://www.ca
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by et-al 8y ago
On a tangental note, another HN user posted another visualisation a few months back which I quite enjoyed: Why do buses bunch? : http://setosa.io/bus/
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by et-al 8y ago
Thanks for sharing this. Might be helpful to link to the original Reddit thread [0] or the employee's Twitter [1]: [0] - https://np.reddit.com/r/valve/comments/8zmp07/former_valve_e... [1] - https:
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by et-al 8y ago
> The key is to be strict with page numbers, dates, and index as much as possible. May you please explain how you index? Thanks!
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by et-al 8y ago
Not if your browser extension is blocking the remote Javascript code that's used for displaying the ads. And even if you did manage to reverse-engineer an extension to send a "ads loaded" token to the site, their ad network w
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by et-al 8y ago
Good advice. The steps were kind of tedious to read. Maybe just trim it to steps 6-11, which still tests HTML/CSS knowledge. - make a 10x10 grid of circles, center it in the page horizontally and vertically - alternate the colors of th
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by et-al 8y ago
Agree with everything you've mentioned. One thing I'll add about tradesmen is they're some of the wittiest people to hang out with. Makes sense considering half the time it's a bunch of folks riffing on each other on the
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by et-al 8y ago
"Show me your flowchart and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowchart; it'll be obvious." - Fred Brooks Dug up this old HN thread about Data
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by et-al 8y ago
> If sales increase when it is thinner, it stands to reason that customers want thinner devices. This isn't something that can be A/B tested when there's only one (thinner) offering. People "need" to upgrade th
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by et-al 8y ago
> Anyway, I basically think that if your company is a DoD contractor then you work for a DoD contractor, especially as an engineer. And I think the typical Googler is massively underestimating the implications of Google becoming a DoD co
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by et-al 8y ago
Camera/video equipment can add up pretty quickly. Even nicer everyday items can quickly amount to over $500 USD. E.g. shoes (150), 3x wool socks (45), 3x dress shirts (180), jeans (100), sunglasses (150).
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by et-al 8y ago
(Thanks)
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by et-al 8y ago
Can someone explain what DAG stands for? Thanks.
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by et-al 8y ago
We're having some copyright discussion about reposting John Carmack's "blog" post on HACKER News. Look, for all you that care that Mr. Carmack might mind; send him a link to the post and if he wants to DMCA it, or ask
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by et-al 8y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/technology/inside-amazon-... (And an ad-infested blurb on Bezos's follow-up: http://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-responds-nyt-repor... )
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by et-al 8y ago
It also stinks of tech entitlement / myopia. I have friends in SF/Oakland who make less than six-figures getting by, working longer hours without perks, and none of them are contemplating suicide.
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by et-al 8y ago
> But, they do not stop at my door, and they do not stop at where I want to go. Sometimes they stop close, sometimes a few blocks away. I think it's reasonable to expect a commuter to walk 4-5 blocks on either end of a ride unless
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by et-al 8y ago
How do you evaluate which companies to join when you're looking for a job? Would salary be your primary factor? (Asking this as someone who's juggling between Big Co. with RSUs and smaller startup that pays well, but nowhere near

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