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781.
by exit 16y ago
terrifying. the whole company.
782.
by exit 16y ago
i feel like i see a lot of clipboards with paper in medical dramas, etc. - in terms of form-factor and what you were saying about horizontal surfaces, how do they work out? or maybe clipboards aren't really that common?
783.
by exit 16y ago
interesting - i guess the rgb (and luminosity?) channels are captured in succession? was this captured by a satellite?
784.
by exit 16y ago
it really would be awful. look up compulsory positive thinking in communist societies.
785.
by exit 16y ago
> Anyone who walks through the square, which is nearly impossible to avoid, must give a high five to others nearby, the sign declares. i wonder what the function of this is. to me it's just incredibly oppressive and motivates passive
786.
by exit 16y ago
how do i stop those two images from alternating so i can read one?
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by exit 16y ago
your response seems to encompass unions in general. are you saying that workers should never have collective bargaining power in general?
788.
by exit 16y ago
that makes no sense. can i view nytimes.com via an ipad? does apple make money selling ipads? well, i guess they'll have to issue a total product recall then. at most nytimes could have introduced something like a "non-commercial utilizatio
789.
by exit 16y ago
we have to bear in mind that we exist only for the sake of existing. if setting young children on fire and taunting them as they die in agony ensured self-perpetuation, that is exactly what evolution would have led to.
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by exit 16y ago
> And a person successful in selling web apps or in selling drugs is not a successful mobile developer. is webapps -> mobile apps as big a leap as drug dealing -> real estate? isn't it likely that, within 5 years, many mobile
791.
by exit 16y ago
i think products targeted at low income demographics are very much sold with a story. a kind of utilitarian "sensibleness" which facilitates contempt for more expensive products. why would advertisers neglect to exploit human psychology at
792.
by exit 16y ago
where do i navigate to physical specs / pictures of people actually using it? those seem suspiciously absent.
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by exit 16y ago
from your submission history ( http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=f2ender ) it seems you've been in this position for a while. did you turn down the offer you mentioned a while ago? are you saying you "cannot switch" because no offe
794.
by exit 16y ago
if you only dislike js syntax, check out coffee-script: http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/
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Poll: Do you want your employer to be successful?
2 points by exit 16y ago|3 comments
796.
by exit 16y ago
yes
797.
by exit 16y ago
no
798.
by exit 16y ago
are you at all angry at the world?
799.
by exit 16y ago
sadly this isn't true in most cases. women are very much attracted to type-a(sshole) personalities. there are certainly many exceptions though.
800.
by exit 16y ago
it's also one of the few "mistakes" you'll never regret. death is the end of attachment.
801.
by exit 16y ago
"with lots of TLAs" what does TLA stand for? three letter acronyms?
802.
by exit 16y ago
thanks for explaining this
803.
by exit 16y ago
> You didn't answer the question. What's wrong with it? this thread began with the answer to that question: "wars, plagues, famines, climate change, terrorism, being stuck in a career you hate, burning to death in a fire, the unending
804.
by exit 16y ago
actually, when i edited the comment which is now [dead] (to everyone else), the edit showed up as a new comment (instead of changing the intended comment). so i deleted the edit and then "really" edited to comment i wanted to change. so yea
805.
by exit 16y ago
but it's not what i see. i see the entire comment, but only when logged in as "exit". otherwise i see [dead].
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Ask HN: comments silently censored?
5 points by exit 16y ago|10 comments
807.
by exit 16y ago
so again, survival for survivals sake, perpetuation for perpetuation's sake, in spite of everything we suffer? i suppose being the product of an evolutionary process it's not surprising we have this mentality.
808.
by exit 16y ago
i don't think lazy coincides with unproductive as often as our society would like us to think. i think most unproductive people are just profoundly uninspired by what they find themselves doing, and the demeaning label of laziness is a tool
809.
by exit 16y ago
> It's nice to find a something positive among the gloom and doom of human development so just the fact that humans now dominate the planet is by itself something positive, despite wars, plagues, famines, climate change, terrorism, be
810.
by exit 16y ago
similarly, why shouldn't an electorate act in its own self interest by empowering a government which prohibits you from doing so?

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