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by heliodor 14y ago
As much as I hate lawsuits, I'd love to see one or two major Internet companies sued in a class action lawsuit for negligence to serve as an example and a warning to the rest. This kind of behavior from a top tier internet presence is inexc
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by heliodor 14y ago
Show me a single person on AirBnB who passes that requirement you quoted from the agreement!
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by heliodor 14y ago
New York is considered much friendlier towards renters than most other places. It's generally agreed(?) arbitration favors the repeat customer (the business) because why would you bite the hand that feeds you? So, I'd say arbitration is not
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by heliodor 14y ago
In general, I'd have to agree this is a clear violation of his lease and doesn't deserve sympathy, but have you guys seen the piles and piles of legalese in these New York City leases? The lease itself doesn't deserve sympathy! For exampl
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by heliodor 14y ago
While this is all nice and fluffy, the company can switch its privacy policy whenever it wants and it's not going to tell you about it if it moves in a negative direction. They only tell you about it when it's a good PR move, like here. Thi
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by heliodor 14y ago
Talking about safety, why is the driver's forehead right behind a metal beam? Even the slightest head-on crash would lead to death or paralysis!
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by heliodor 14y ago
Ah, ok, your choice looks to be in line with your situation. Regarding younger folks, most people work regular work hours in their 20s, but if you take a poll, I bet plenty of them would prefer other arrangements. In a city like New York, t
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by heliodor 14y ago
Well, your blog post says 9am-6pm, which is 9 hours, lunch included. But I wouldn't expect anything less if you're going to do 4 days per week. I'd much rather work five days a week, 11am-5pm or 12pm-6pm, without a lunch break. Can you real
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by heliodor 14y ago
I don't think the 4-day week makes sense. Once everyone switches to 4 days, what then? 3 days? I think limited hours per day makes more sense. People can be laser focused for 5 or 6 hours per day if you give them a good work environment. On
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by heliodor 14y ago
Yes, the site itself is immediately at fault, but the author used it as an example of her point, which is that the web in its current state is pathetic. There are plenty of little things that can make a website faster: image sprites, minifi
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by heliodor 14y ago
He was talking about hours worked, not class size. And he has a very good point. All the talk in the tech community about the 10x programmer comes to mind.
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by heliodor 14y ago
NYC doesn't belong on that list. Yes, it's prosperous, but it's dirty, polluted, and packed with jerks, to top it off. I live there. Forest Hills and parts of Brooklyn are about the only areas I know that are clean and beautiful in NYC, tho
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by heliodor 14y ago
I see a search toolbar plus the Chrome-to-phone functionality (the iOs version of it). Moving along...
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by heliodor 14y ago
People come to hackathons for many reasons. Prize money for an api at a hackathon is just one way to spend your marketing dollars as a company. On the receiving end, some people try to make a living of winning prizes at hackathons, or at le
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by heliodor 14y ago
I encounter plenty of engineers who are saying they can't come up with good ideas. I think the problem for us engineers is that we're trained to work around problems, not confront them head on. The list on this blog post is great, but it ta
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by heliodor 14y ago
I'd think a good way to hire great developers is to hire and fire quickly. I see this mentioned time and again, yet very few people actually live by it. The process would then turn into a trial period beyond which you are good to go. If you
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by heliodor 14y ago
I'd have to disagree about it being an ugly design. What was ugly was the hack of putting squares around every icon, when those icons were designed to live on their own, not in a square. That's what was ugly. I'm happy to see the squares go
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by heliodor 15y ago
Everyone has a threshold beyond which they'll exercise restraint in talking based on the number of people who might overhear the conversation. It's like fear of public speaking. Today's open floor layouts and their desk densities exceed som
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by heliodor 15y ago
When you start measuring things, people start gaming them, so for github's sake I hope your project disappears into oblivion. Klout is the latest major sad example of this phenomenon. People are modifying their Twitter behavior in some fasc
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by heliodor 15y ago
Since when is a doorman a necessity?
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by heliodor 15y ago
Two things come to mind that might be your cause: 1) Not enough sleep and exercise. Get at least three consecutive days of solid sleep and go work out. See how it changes your mood and thoughts. 2) Your co-founder is dominant and you have n
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by heliodor 15y ago
This behavior doesn't break the web. It breaks the user experience for Lion users. It's their problem, not yours. Stop wasting your time on it. You have better things to do! Apple will fix it if it's enough of a problem.
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by heliodor 15y ago
Yes, one day space will hurl us an asteroid and we'll be doomed. My point was regarding transportation through a given medium.
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by heliodor 15y ago
I'd disagree there. Once upon a time, the sea was seen as dangerous. Everything can be made "safe" at some point.
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by heliodor 15y ago
You bring up one factor left out of that calculation of how much an astronaut's life is worth, namely "don't make us look bad". The value of keeping up appearances is very high indeed!
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by heliodor 15y ago
Hmm, you may be on to something here. I tend to think that Apple is just good at brainwashing people, but I'm starting to see your point that people just appreciate the fact that Apple products just WORK. I am a big Apple hater, but I got f
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by heliodor 15y ago
Worst. Advice. Ever! Go read some classic negotiation texts instead. If you're in the process of getting a job, you owe it to yourself to spend at least five hours reading about and grokking negotiation. Do yourself a favor and never share
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by heliodor 15y ago
This is as shallow as interviews get. In terms of the interview process, I agree with a post yesterday where the writer was explaining how the more you interview people, the more you move away from the solve-a-problem interview technique an
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by heliodor 15y ago
It seems to me to be a function of how the machines are spaced. People need a certain amount of personal space. The single line is the only way to provide it given how tightly the self-checkout machines are packed.
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by heliodor 15y ago
Couldn't agree more. I'm a software developer and after reading the copy and the TC article, I still don't know what it does.

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