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by habosa 7y ago
It seems like it could be really good for users, but the fact that it's _required_ for any apps that use other 3rd-party sign-in options and that it's _required_ to be listed first among those options leaves a bad taste in my mout
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by habosa 7y ago
I work in a role (Developer Relations) that involves a lot of conferences. Business travel, especially to conferences, has to be one of the biggest wastes of money and resources in corporate America today. People spend thousands to go to a
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by habosa 7y ago
Reminds me of when Piketty's "Capital" was sold out everywhere. I was one of many people who bought it due to the hype. Apparently I was also one of many people who never read it: https://www.huffpost.com/en
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by habosa 7y ago
I was an iTunes obsessive from 2003-2012. Then uploaded all my music to the cloud and moved on. Still miss the functionality though. Two days ago I wanted to rent a movie for an airplane, so I opened up iTunes on my Mac. I'm not kid
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by habosa 7y ago
The comments section on this article makes me sad to be a part of the HN community. Show some empathy for a man who lost the best thing he ever had. He isn't asking for the world, actually in the article he didn't ask for anythin
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by habosa 7y ago
True, although I think most people would be much sadder about missing the 1% of Everest. The whole reason to go there is to stand at the top of the world's highest mountain. If you just wanted a beautiful climb, there are many less d
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by habosa 7y ago
A lot of good usage tips in this thread. One that not enough people use (IMO) is to get a notification inbox app. Like this one (although I use one I made myself): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co
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by habosa 7y ago
I have just started to play around in the world of electronic music and have had my first real exposure to MIDI. I just want to say ... wow. Something like this is so rare. I have pieces of equipment from different decades that can talk
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by habosa 7y ago
To be fair, the hike to Half Dome is about ~18 miles (9 each way) and only the very last bit is super crowded. If you skip the cables you still have experienced 99% of one of this country's most beautiful hikes.
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by habosa 7y ago
This is really cool. I might buy one if I am feeling impulsive. I love purpose-built hardware like this! Would feel more comfortable if I knew they'd allow people to build and sideload games though. Aside: this website is very chopp
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by habosa 7y ago
I'm all for a wide range of content on HN but ... what is this whiny rant about trail building doing on the front page? It's based on no evidence and presents nothing interesting. Plus the headline is clickbait.
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by habosa 7y ago
I rent cars pretty frequently. Hertz is a disaster. Mean, dishonest, and proud of it. Once when I had evidence of their mistake on paper the clerk stared at the ceiling and said "I'm not looking at that" like some kind of t
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by habosa 8y ago
I hate these things and all the things that go with them (NextDoor, etc). They promote a world where we're all locked in our boxes peeking through the blinds at each other and checking Twitter to see what's wrong. When we don&#x2
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by habosa 8y ago
Before even looking at the details ... why would I use this? Uber is not a company that is known for great websites. They get (I'm guessing) 99%+ of their usage through native apps. So why would I believe they're particularly g
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by habosa 8y ago
I want to talk to someone who has invested in Lyft (or plans to do so for Uber) through the public markets and is in it for a long-term buy and hold. Like someone who really thinks the share price represents the net present value of all fu
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by habosa 8y ago
I knew before I clicked this would be Madison. I didn't know her but I went to Penn and was a student there when she died. It shook the whole school, and then a wave of other student suicides followed. I'm sure all of these oth
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by habosa 8y ago
Anyone know a good traffic simulator for cities that includes pedestrian behavior? I always wonder if, at busy pedestrian intersections, it would make more sense to have the pedestrian flow stages and the vehicle flow stages be totally sepa
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by habosa 8y ago
Yes! This is something that is not just about developers and seems to be a huge gap in hiring. Go look at any big company job listings. There are many positions that have no "entry level" roles. The lowest level of experience w
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by habosa 8y ago
There are so many absolutely horrifying stories in this thread about startups deliberately restructuring to take money away from rank and file employees. Of all the reasons I've been told not to take startup stock, this one is new to m
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by habosa 8y ago
I used Evernote for all of college but it just became clunkier over time and some workflows were just not optimized. I recently gave Notion a try ... wow. It's everything I ever wanted.
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by habosa 8y ago
I work at Google but not on anything related to YouTube. This opinion is my own: that was very disappointing to read. I use YouTube, I don't browse it. I search for what I want, and then I watch it. Yet YouTube seems absolutely de
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by habosa 8y ago
This actually worked for me. Sounded like the gender could go either way and the voice was pleasant enough. I'd install it.
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by habosa 8y ago
Instagram is a really big part of this. There are so many places that are commonly photographed, my favorite examples being Antelope Canyon in Arizona and Kinkaku-ji in Kyoto. When you see that amazing picture, what you don't see is t
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by habosa 8y ago
I have a hard time verbalizing it but something about Uber creating all these millionaires sickens me. In no order: * The business is fundamentally based on ignoring the law. * They've done nothing but lose money, more than any private
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by habosa 8y ago
In school we were taught the 3 RS: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Nobody ever taught me that they were in order. Reducing consumption is best. If you can't reduce, reuse. If it can't be reused, recycle it. I think we thought recycling
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by habosa 8y ago
I think if there is anything that is truly American, its the expectation that customers and companies are always trying to trick each other. So much of American business culture is built around this assumed adversarial relationship.
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by habosa 8y ago
A lot of art is "donated" by putting it in a museum. However this is basically a massive tax writeoff for someone watching and securing your art for you! And it still confers all the status on you because it will have a plaque s
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by habosa 8y ago
HN is a very civilized place, and this thread is the closest I have ever seen to a toxic environment. A lot of people (men) here complaining about women getting things too easy in tech. Talk to a woman in tech. Look around you and see how
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by habosa 8y ago
We do this at Firebase! Actually right now I am about to start my week as "Support Sheriff" which means that I am the escalation point for support cases. Everyone on my team does this about once a quarter.
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by habosa 8y ago
I'm on GitHub hours a day. Many things on there are libraries or tools. In those cases 90% of the people who come to the page just want to USE the code, not read it. I see a lot of developers in that 90% get really confused because t

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