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by exit 15y ago
great, apple deserves much credit for proving this minimalistic approach. but it doesn't deserve a monopoly of any duration on minimalism. if design has merit beyond branding, then it should be valid for anyone to choose a proven design. it
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by exit 15y ago
devil's advocate: if design has practical merits beyond branding then why shouldn't everyone copy verbatim the design elements of successful products? this can still be iteratively innovative.
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by exit 15y ago
what bothers me more is this gradual roll out. i want to use the new ui now - why can't i?
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by exit 15y ago
> but looking at what is available for purchase here in Switzerland can you explain what you mean by that for those not familiar with switzerland?
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by exit 15y ago
why not let people search by specific conjunctions of questions they've answered publicly?
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Ask PG: Why not show comment up and down vote count separately?
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by exit 15y ago
specifically because israel has many characteristics of a liberal western democracy, it's worth being particularly concern about how militarism, ethnic nationalism, etc. flourish there. by and large we know what's wrong with north korea, li
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by exit 15y ago
i'm not sure what the phrase "in any way" means any more then.
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by exit 15y ago
we might make sense of our cognitive routines without really grasping how phenomenological experience arises. i still think that's enough for us to build ai which is equally perplexed by the blueness of a blue sky.
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by exit 15y ago
i don't know, we seem to make significant inroads into understanding every other physical system we've encountered - why not the brain? and "in the future" is a pretty broad time frame.
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by exit 15y ago
in a few months you'll also come to regard hn as a complete time sink
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by exit 15y ago
this doesn't sound like 10x to me "I got a top creative designer in there working for a fraction of his normal cost by being very fucking cool with him, and also working out a deal where we refer him business, and he can use our office spac
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by exit 15y ago
he's a complete egotist "Whenever I compared myself to people similar to me, it wasn’t even close. I worked more, accomplished more, produced more, did more meaningful things, was traveling the world. I read more books, did more writing, wa
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by exit 15y ago
the obituary mentions he attended tulane university, the university of maryland and nyu. was he moving around as an undergrad or was he doing a graduate degree?
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by exit 15y ago
you have a romanticized idea of depression.
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by exit 15y ago
i see stuttering birds and nothing else, chrome 15.0.874.120 * macosx
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by exit 15y ago
there were 18 attempted suicides http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn_suicides those suicides were still associated with work conditions at foxconn, regardless of whether the suicide is higher in the general population.
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by exit 15y ago
so basically unvested stock are in no way a compensation for joining an early stage startup and the many draw backs of doing so. why are companies allowed to fool people into valuing this offer at all?
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by exit 15y ago
developers should blacklist companies like this. sort of an informal union. with the right personalities behind it we could do serious damage to the sleazy conniving wheeler-dealers who pull this shit.
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by exit 15y ago
mixing metaphors isn't the end of the world. "bloated" is used metaphorically so often only the "ship" part strikes me as non-literal.
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by exit 15y ago
i didn't use quotes and still get a regular search
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by exit 15y ago
what would the ex unionized government employees do then?
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by exit 15y ago
being a 40's era book is not a selling point
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by exit 15y ago
the first euler's identity tattoo looks terrifying. is it a tattoo, or some kind of scarification?
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by exit 15y ago
hmm, i think what people mean when they say this is: i would gladly trade the system which produces iphones for one which puts food on the plates of otherwise starving children there's a mismatch between the narrow "my iphone" and the broad
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by exit 15y ago
what does "post-sexual" mean?
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by exit 15y ago
i wonder what minimum change of circumstances would have derailed jobs' success. what would he have become had wozniak not tolerated him?
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by exit 15y ago
wow, economics aside, i love the motto "vires in numeris" (= "strength in numbers") whatever becomes of bitcoins, for the first time in a long time i've felt like i live in the future.
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by exit 15y ago
what's his case against google docs?
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by exit 15y ago
on the other hand i feel slightly locked in with google docs. it doesn't seem to let me export my revision history, for example. also, does it actually offer a download format such that: "google docs" -> "download as" -> "upload t

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