guywithabike

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by guywithabike 5y ago
That's an apocryphal story: https://www.history.com/news/did-marie-antoinette-really-say...
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by guywithabike 5y ago
According to the school, they place an automated phone call every time the student is absent so, supposedly, they got 272 phone calls notifying them of absences.
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by guywithabike 6y ago
It's very likely that the team that said "yes" is not the same team that said "no". Apple is a big company. There's more than one person there.
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by guywithabike 6y ago
He's also still head of the App Store which is the center of the majority of the antitrust firestorm, so it honestly looks more like he'll be able to focus on that for now.
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by guywithabike 6y ago
It’s nice that people are trying different things but the N word is plastered all over the site and when I emailed Lucian about it, he was curt and dismissive and told me to use a “delete” button that doesn’t work. Subreply has no guards ag
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by guywithabike 6y ago
It's open-source so there's no barrier to adding it, other than opening a Pull Request.
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by guywithabike 7y ago
> safe objects, heavy cardboard or plush books with simple colorful pictures I'm not sure if you're joking or just don't have any kids yourself, but those are more age-appropriate for a 3-month-old than a 3-year-old. 3-yea
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by guywithabike 7y ago
Not sure about how the rest of the company does, but in the iOS App Store, the Gmail app has 147K reviews and Yahoo Mail has 2.1M reviews. I think that's a decent proxy to tell us that Yahoo Mail is _hugely_ popular still.
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by guywithabike 7y ago
That’s a pretty serious accusation to make with zero attribution or sourcing.
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by guywithabike 7y ago
If YouTube isn't for kids, why do they host videos that are clearly and explicitly targeting toddlers? For example: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=videos+for+todd... The most egregious thing, in my mind,
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by guywithabike 8y ago
(Author here) Absolutely! It's amazing how complex things get on the configuration side as you try to get smarter about autoscaling. The big downside of trying to be too clever here is that you wind up with a wildly brittle autoscaling
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by guywithabike 9y ago
APFS is already out in the latest versions of iOS 10.
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by guywithabike 10y ago
TFA states: "Amazon Athena uses Presto with ANSI SQL support and works with a variety of standard data formats, including CSV, JSON, ORC, and Parquet."
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by guywithabike 10y ago
How would that be different than just putting ads right on the main display?
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by guywithabike 10y ago
Stack Overflow Jobs allows you to do this, in addition to specifying the technologies that you like to work with.
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by guywithabike 10y ago
Their HN username gives you a hint as to why.
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by guywithabike 10y ago
It did not. You might be thinking of the fact that the headphone jack was recessed in a way that caused many 3.5mm headphone plugs not to fit: https://www.engadget.com/2007/06/30/iphone-doesnt-work-with-...
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by guywithabike 10y ago
This basic post with two images (four counting the logo and author avatar) clocks in at 30 requests and a plump 6.10 MB. Bold!
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by guywithabike 10y ago
Tim mentioned on the earnings call today that the SE is supply constrained because the SE is selling far better than they projected that it would.
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by guywithabike 11y ago
Yep, Apple has a public beta channel now: https://beta.apple.com/sp/betaprogram/
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Deleting Large Objects in Redis(redisgreen.net)
3 points by guywithabike 11y ago|1 comments
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by guywithabike 11y ago
They explicitly stated in the last earnings call that they would not break out Apple Watch sales separately for competitive reasons.
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by guywithabike 11y ago
What problem does the extra 176MB present to you when you likely have 256+GB of disk storage?
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by guywithabike 12y ago
Is this official or otherwise endorsed by Heroku?
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“Missing” Keys on Redis Slaves(redisgreen.net)
4 points by guywithabike 12y ago|0 comments
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by guywithabike 12y ago
Declining print subscriptions, most likely, and pressures to increase profit margins. They're ceasing print publication, but continuing to operate the website. This is unfortunate, but that's the nature of publishing in this newfa
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by guywithabike 12y ago
You have an impossibly selective memory. The iPhone was announced 6 months before it shipped, for example.
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by guywithabike 12y ago
The problem is that to simplify an interface further after a certain point, you need to remove features. But the features you remove will be inessential to some people but absolutely essential to others. Even if you've reduced your tar
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by guywithabike 12y ago
> Every server on an average generates about 5 alerts per month Source?
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by guywithabike 12y ago
Overcast has a web client, too. If Overcast used the UUID, it wouldn't be able to give you the web client side of things easily.

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