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by habosa 7y ago
"$21 per hour while on a trip" As many have pointed out, this is the key. Not possible to have 100% utilization, so most drivers would probably earn 50-75% of this number.
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by habosa 7y ago
Alternate headline: "Startups lack the job training that new software engineering grads need"
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by habosa 7y ago
I've been using this app for years and also telling other people to use it, so this sucks. If anyone else is looking for a replacement there's a Microsoft app called "Office Lens" that seems to do a really nice job and i
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by habosa 7y ago
I wonder if the publishers will also be mad about Android Q's upcoming feature which can transcribe any audio on your phone: https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/7/18528447/google-android-q-...
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by habosa 7y ago
Actually Android Q is adding exactly that feature so we may get to see this argument play out: https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/7/18528447/google-android-q-...
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by habosa 7y ago
The part which describes the development of Turbo is really cool. It shows off the value of having an interactive development setup that allows for fast and intuitive iteration. As a Googler I'm surprised to see such an interface inte
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by habosa 7y ago
I guess this means more Amazon Logistics deliveries, which is really a shame because that service sucks. Amazon keeps optimizing for speed but I think for most people they're fast enough already. And optimizing more in this one dimens
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by habosa 7y ago
I don't often feel a strong emotion when a famous person dies, but this one got me. The beauty in her books is staggering, I read them with no preconceptions (which is often hard to do with famous books) and was completely blown away.
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by habosa 7y ago
Yelp 5 years ago was a truly valuable service. You could go anywhere (in America) and find good food. Then they lost focus. The app has not improved an ounce since then (seriously why is 'open now' not a default filter) and they
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by habosa 7y ago
Agree 100%. I work at a big slow place (Google) which has many processes that evolved from a lack of trust. But my local team has pretty high trust levels. I try to explicitly say things like "I don't think we need that process
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by habosa 7y ago
The linguistics of Philadelphia and the surrounding area are some of the best-studied in the world since UPenn pioneered the academic study of sub-dialects of American English: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelph
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by habosa 7y ago
There is certainly too much advertising, and a large portion of it is the worst kind: distracting, privacy-invading, or both. However some advertising is very good. I go to work to make money and I want to spend it ... how do I know what t
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by habosa 7y ago
Like OS X 10.6.8 ... everything was perfect in that version.
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by habosa 7y ago
That's actually not true right now. Every time you trade it's a taxable event. So if you went USD --> BTC --> ETH --> BTC --> USD you would need to show 4 transactions to the IRS. The total tax burden will look a lot
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by habosa 7y ago
Whenever I do a long highway trip I can't help but notice how often I pass "one of everything". By that I mean when I'm hungry I don't have to wonder where I will eat, I know that within 10 miles I will find some ex
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by habosa 7y ago
I used a single Pentel P205 pencil daily for 6+ years between high school and college. Those things are amazing.
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by habosa 7y ago
Last year I was on a flight and my phone buzzed, which was odd. I looked down and it had somehow connected to the WiFi without my doing anything and started getting chat messages. I tested further and my WiFi was totally unrestricted. I w
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by habosa 7y ago
For sure. I recently started watching HBO Go more and I realized that 90%+ of the shows on that service are excellent. On Netflix it's like 20% tops.
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by habosa 7y ago
I signed up for Netflix because the original (maybe too good to be true) premise was that I'd be able to stream basically everything in one place. The key is that I came to stream shows that I already watched but which had no home on
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by habosa 7y ago
Leaving aside the question of right or wrong, I have always thought that the pride people take when they "beat" a large corporation is one of the most fundamentally American things there is. How many times has someone given you a
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by habosa 7y ago
In Philadelphia I used to take walks down by some train tracks and I'd often be only a few feet away from stopped or slow moving trains. I always wondered what sort of security is there on trains? What would stop someone from attachin
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by habosa 7y ago
When it was time for me to get a new laptop I put my old macbook in the office scanner, got a high-dpi scan of the whole thing. Then I ordered a custom full-size sticker for my new macbook that has all the stickers of my old macbook. Then I
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by habosa 7y ago
I am someone who loves music in all its forms (especially live music) but I have struggled to ever learn to play music. I don't have much natural rhythm, I have a bad ear, and I wasn't the best student when I took guitar lessons.
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by habosa 7y ago
It's been interesting to watch (from way over here in the US) as Jio totally changed the Indian market. For anyone reading this from India: is there any negative sentiment about Jio or is everyone just really excited to have cheap reli
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by habosa 7y ago
How about asking the other question: what made anyone think it would succeed? Facebook was already dominant and Google+ offered nothing really compelling besides a half baked circles/groups thing that took forever to manage. Google ha
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by habosa 7y ago
Name got me the other day. I was writing typescript and not even targeting the browser but I guess I had browser globals in the .d.ts I had a string like "Hello ${name}" and it would compile but crash at runtime. Wasted a whole d
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by habosa 7y ago
I think supporting Android Auto and CarPlay is pretty user centric. Those are the only half decent in-car interfaces I've ever used. Nothing else is close.
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by habosa 7y ago
Did you ever use "Hacker News Enhancement Suite" otherwise known as HNES? That extension had a few of these same features.
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by habosa 7y ago
[Firebase team member here] Our goal is to open source all of our SDKs, and we have steadily open-sourced more of them over time. The SDKs you see on GitHub right now are all standalone, they don't require communicating with Google Pl
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by habosa 7y ago
[Firebase team member here] As far as I am aware, GCM never had an open-source client. In fact I don't think any "play-services-{x}" library has ever been open sourced.

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