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by habosa 6y ago
My wife’s grandmother worked for him for a long time and wrote his memoirs if anyone wants to read about him: https://g.co/kgs/KpuXzs
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by habosa 6y ago
Do you have a source for that?
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by habosa 6y ago
Generally active sabotage is frowned upon as opposed to winning in fair competition.
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by habosa 6y ago
I’ve had it since day one (actually since dogfood) but this is it, I just cancelled. It’s a shame because it really is a great service. The infinite DVR basically lets you build up your own on demand library of any show. In the end I was o
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by habosa 6y ago
Npm provides much more value than copy-pasting code! I think we all know that. That said if I happen upon a possible dependency that's just one JS file and has a permissive license, I often do choose the copy-paste route.
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by habosa 6y ago
Why why why is the default behavior of npm install to choose a range of versions rather than a single version. I don’t want “a version compatible with lib 0.1.0” I want lib 0.1.0 ... package-lock is a strange bandaid over this. If I want th
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by habosa 6y ago
I worked on a product that can do that (Google Smartlock for Passwords) but these “identity provider” hints were extremely confusing to both users and developers. The UX definitely could have been better but overall I just don’t think it w
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by habosa 6y ago
I was in college from 2010-2014 which is a period of high growth as shown in the article. It may not have been an all time high but it felt like everyone was taking CS. The 101 classes were incredibly oversubscribed. Maybe not many peop
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by habosa 6y ago
Anyone remember Google Contributor? https://contributor.google.com/v/beta
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by habosa 6y ago
Wow there’s so much negativity here. I just want to say congratulations. I think the sponsorware concept is very cool and could be good for the community. I’m glad someone has found a way to make money in open source.
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by habosa 6y ago
Googler here, but speaking as a consumer YouTube Premium + YouTube Music is a great deal. Ad-free videos and a music app that's basically identical to Spotify as far as I can tell. Hacks like this one are really fun but we all know th
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by habosa 6y ago
I think a lot of people jumped straight to the comments here to discuss their personal opinion on ideal monitor setup. This is a really well-written and deep article by someone who is clearly an expert. All points are well illustrated and
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by habosa 6y ago
GitHub seems somewhat intentionally not built for discovery. Which is fine, but I'll give some examples anyway: Here's the organization I manage: https://github.com/firebase There is so little customization al
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by habosa 6y ago
I have rented from Hertz about 15 times and from Enterprise about 20 times. Price is about the same, in my experience. I will never go anywhere near a Hertz again. The prices were about the same and every single aspect of the Enterprise e
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by habosa 6y ago
Probably be cheaper in the long term to give each kid a cheap eReader with a digital library subscription too.
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by habosa 6y ago
I bought that book a while ago and never opened it. Never will now, that was just very poorly written and uninteresting. Felt like reading a fake story about Silicon Valley on a high school kids Tumblr.
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by habosa 6y ago
I know many people who do great work and talk about it. The work is hard and getting to speak about it at a conference or write a well-received blog post is their preferred kind of reward.
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by habosa 6y ago
I don't think people realize how much hyper-focused tech content is out there these days. I work in developer relations (at Firebase) so I see a lot more of it than an average person. There are entire channels devoted to making YouTub
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by habosa 6y ago
HN has the built in "noprocrast" setting which I use and appreciate. They admit it's addicting and give me the tools to limit myself.
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by habosa 6y ago
If they're like other elected officials I would expect it to be much worse. I reallllly don't want to know how a sheriff gets noticed.
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by habosa 6y ago
Would it be possible to unbundle the police? Why are the highway patrol and the narcotics divison even remotely part of the same organization? Having "fight crime" as your mandate is much too broad.
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by habosa 6y ago
This is a good point. The cars are a signal too. My town upgraded from the usual crown vics to souped up Ford SUVs that look ready to plow down a house. It seems to have brought with it some extra police swagger and aggression.
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by habosa 6y ago
Today I did some Googling and found this startling comparison: NYPD annual Budget: 6 billion dollars Mexican military budget: 7 billion It's no surprise that the police at these protests look like they're ready to take on a well-a
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by habosa 6y ago
This is a good overview and I agree with almost all of the points. For the last 20 years I have owned nothing but Mac computers (going back to OS 9 days). I have a MacBook Pro for work so 5 years ago I bought myself a $750 Asus Zenbook and
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by habosa 6y ago
Disclaimer: I work at Google but not on Maps and am speaking for myself, not my employer. I am normally very sympathetic to HN complaints about Google customer service. They're normally about Cloud or GSuite, this one is a bit differe
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by habosa 6y ago
That was definitely interesting but doesn't feel fully thought out. That's how much energy it takes to move the blocks vertically into their position, ok. What about horizontal movements to bring the blocks from the quarry to a
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by habosa 6y ago
The new layout tools look great, I'm excited to try them. Especially the revamped Layout Inspector. Also I noticed that the final 3.x minor release was much faster on my Mac than any of the others before it. I hope 4.0 keeps or impro
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by habosa 6y ago
Disclaimer: I work on Firebase but I'm always speaking for myself on Hacker News. This looks really cool! Honestly I think the Firebase comparison may be throwing some people off here because this is a SQL-based system, which means th
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by habosa 6y ago
Philadelphia It's one of the five biggest cities in the US but most people routinely look past it. First of all it's fairly cheap, less than half as expensive as SF even in the nicest parts. It's got the best restaurant scene
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by habosa 6y ago
If they make more working for Facebook in Detroit than for a a Detroit-local tech company, and they will, it's hard to say who's harmed here. Of course there's gray area here but I think it will be fine. They won't be t

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