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by hnriot 13y ago
Relevancy is all wrong. I searched for spark and the top result is from two years ago. I want the most recent result first, like email. Relevancy should be a function of tf/idf, comment count and recency, biased towards the latter. But
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by hnriot 13y ago
no, vendor lock in through having a better product
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by hnriot 13y ago
isn't that obvious? it's because being down is the exception, it would be pointless commenting that gmail is up since that's the ordinary state.
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by hnriot 13y ago
"Theres a video that tells you exactly what the product offers in under a minute." and a single sentence would have taken 5 seconds. the video is extremely light on content, not even screenshots, but cartoonish nonsense.
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by hnriot 13y ago
you really need to change the name - not sure about here in the US, but anything with "prick" in it to any english schoolboy is giggle-worthy.
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by hnriot 13y ago
* The installation can only take place if the car is stationary, parked, and off. this of course, only works when the patch isn't to fix the part where it detects if the car is stationary, parked and off.
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by hnriot 13y ago
before it wasn't cool.
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by hnriot 13y ago
" in London you can still (barely) hear the message that one should be more aristocratic." spoken like a true tourist. that is just nonsense.
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by hnriot 13y ago
I think you must have missed the good parts of SF, if you felt that your coding skills defined you. Try Cole Valley, or the Lower Haight and skip SOMA. I would take issue also with your men:women ration nonsense, SF is full of women. I sugg
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by hnriot 13y ago
unlike the techcruch article which has some glaring errors (don't they have proof readers anymore?) as "You can just upload a file, email someone a link, and shut off your computer." * should be "can not"
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by hnriot 13y ago
of course each one might have "an incredible amount of time and work behind them" but that's not the issues, it's that there are many of them, giving the accurate appearance that things are happening quickly - because in
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by hnriot 13y ago
"but with only two days to do it all I had to cut corners." - I took one look at the code and would hazard a guess that getting rid of all the repetition would have saved you time. It's hard to look at all that repetition and
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by hnriot 13y ago
for 99.99% of the population a simple thermostat works just fine. And nearly all of them don't even understand that the temperature setting doesn't actually change the temperature of the air, but rather the duration it remains on.
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by hnriot 13y ago
not for much longer if we maintain the current policy on agriculture corporations lobbying congress and getting their way. They are killing all the bees, the butterflies won't be long after.
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by hnriot 13y ago
This is a glaring case of rose tinted glasses! Of course you'd want to know you were working on out of date src/document/etc...
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by hnriot 13y ago
what about a torturer extracting information about a bomb placed in a school? Thus philosophical debate has been going on for ages, like the medical advances made by horrific means by the nazis, or whether it's even ethical to listen t
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by hnriot 13y ago
how are these not real conditions?
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by hnriot 13y ago
While that's an interesting view, it's also wrong. It might make for a good way of justifying things in your mind, you should really take a look at the more common definitions of racism to understand why this point of view you hav
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by hnriot 13y ago
Don't you mean >1B searches were proxied to Bing, Google etc? Aside from being an anonymizing proxy, I don't see any real reason for DDG. Maybe i'm wrong, maybe the news meant you served > 1B searches from your own inve
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by hnriot 13y ago
everything has to start somewhere, so why not SF, makes sense to me. And iPhone is a sort of screening process i suspect. Android being the cheap option offers less screening. Besides in SF the iPhone is the dominant mobile platform. It all
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by hnriot 13y ago
I find this quite ridiculous, people are not these fragile creatures that can't see, hear or smell anything other than the usual office sights, sounds and aromas. I think you're over thinking this. Unless you're eating weird
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by hnriot 13y ago
seriously? you should be properly indenting your code anyway, so it's not like python's making you do more than you should already.
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by hnriot 13y ago
except that's wrong, all you're doing is counting the number of unique words, and you didn't even consider Foo and foo as the same in your example. Part of proficiency is understanding the problem.
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by hnriot 13y ago
And those people that complain are probably google users. I say fuck em! Google owes SF nothing, people live there by their own choosing, not because of anything google did, but just that SF is a great place to live (no polar vortex for one
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by hnriot 13y ago
If you start a message that way you're likely to irk your recipient. It's very rude to start out with "listen". And there's nothing about the nature of email that is asynchronous, gmail has blurred the lines between
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by hnriot 13y ago
I don't get the part about needing to check your email as in anyway difficult? My iPhone with the gmail app has a very pleasant tone when I get an email in my priority inbox. I don't have to check anything or be compulsive on any
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by hnriot 13y ago
How is the phone any different to txt in this regard? Both use the same channel and txt has the advantage that it's less invasive. Txt/bbm/iMessage etc are all much better options than calling someone. For me and most of my f
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by hnriot 13y ago
why? the value of hn isn't the software, but the community.
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by hnriot 13y ago
It's always possible that if so many candidates get this wrong, especially senior ones that your understanding might be incomplete, or possible not understanding clearly. I often find that people get these pet questions and think they
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by hnriot 13y ago
I'd make this a requirement of developers too, some basic unix skills goes a long way as a developer.

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