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by huac 11y ago
does the regular Amazon Appstore have 'free' paid apps?
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by huac 11y ago
you'd think that this is a pretty frequently asked question though, no? how could apple dev support personnel not understand/answer basic questions that affect a significant portion of apple devs?
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by huac 11y ago
twitter and 15-second soundbites don't offer space for nuance but medium, in longform, would
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by huac 11y ago
> I am fascinated that he has dedicated the end of his life to pointing out that police violence hurts white people and black people equally. absolutely not - his point is that police violence hurts black people way more, but nobody pays
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by huac 11y ago
Is it common practice for the govt to release FBI files on people? Or, if it is, with this little delay?
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by huac 11y ago
i looked at their thread ~12h after; @jackstormwriter deleted the thread and tweeted something along the lines of 'never do this, but deleting tweets, blah blah'
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by huac 11y ago
+1 for IP block DDOS'ing - last time I ran a Linode VM it was DDOS'd to smitheereens within half an hour of putting it up (and of course, without any notice that I was liable for overages...)
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by huac 11y ago
I think the relevant portion is a non-compete with MS Office products. further info about license: http://weblogs.asp.net/fbouma/the-evil-of-the-office-ui-ribb... original license and requirements (now dead): https:&#
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The artist who forged himself (2011)(independent.co.uk)
8 points by huac 11y ago|0 comments
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by huac 11y ago
when I have to take notes from pdf's, webpages, and other sources, I've found Word to still be the most effective. i paste relevant sections in (with a macro to keep only text), and highlight the most important stuff. i have macro
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by huac 11y ago
collaborative features, editing in real-time
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by huac 11y ago
Part of this might be that Valve doesn't assign projects - everyone chooses their own. With so much cool stuff going on, it's easy to ignore less fun, less visible projects, such as fixing the Steam store. http://www.va
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by huac 11y ago
As do the comments at bottom (first 3 'wow omg' comments are from people with direct relation to the company)
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by huac 11y ago
Don't blame yourself
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by huac 11y ago
Really big rings, for the HN team.
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by huac 11y ago
It's exactly what the DFS insiders were accused of doing.
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by huac 11y ago
attempting to profit (off others) when doing adding no value to society
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by huac 11y ago
But here’s the thing: In many respects, I also recommend eating with a white sushi chef. He’s probably had to train a lot harder and knows a little bit more about what is actually going on then, let’s say, someone who can just land a sushi
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by huac 11y ago
Indeed, here it's only referred to as a "real-time data graphing exploration vendor" - and I don't even know what that means Previous HN discussion re: R vs APL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=97805
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by huac 11y ago
"This allows us to move away from a Riot equity program towards a cash based incentive program that allows Rioters to share in Riot's success." sounds like you're describing what they had in place before, but now they wi
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by huac 11y ago
Interestingly, it means there's no more Riot stock. So for employees, share based performance incentives now can only be paid in cash. It sounds like a net benefit to employees - they get a liquidity event and their future bonuses&#x2F
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by huac 11y ago
The goal generally is to split the company into "exploitation" and "exploration" divisions, as in the types of innovations that the divisions pursue. So, the traditional group still innovates, but focuses on product or i
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by huac 11y ago
beyond the cost of the actual purchase ($5 is pretty insignificant), card processors charge high fees per chargeback, and too many chargebacks (IIRC >1% of transactions) can get you kicked off and blacklisted from any reputable card proc
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by huac 11y ago
sift science is in this space and i've heard good vibes, but no hard numbers perhaps stripe/etc doesn't invest in this space for risk or compliance reasons - when chargebacks slip past their filter (and they will), the mercha
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by huac 11y ago
usually, sure - this case is interesting b/c the fraudsters don't care about receiving the actual product this is a really big field - most large companies that have to process tons of transactions will implement a big data approa
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by huac 11y ago
The parent post is a bit over the top, but you miss the point too - it's insulting to expect minorities to listen to the stories of predominating white males succeeding despite rejection and ignore the injustices in society that can co
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by huac 11y ago
Markets predicting and 'pricing-in' Fed actions is not evidence that this rate hike is meaningless. But if you want to feel pessimistic about the hike, here's the corresponding Zerohedge 'article': http:/&#x
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by huac 11y ago
because customer engagement in paramount in gaming - it's about attracting whales and getting them to stick with your games / app platform. you want your whales to be playing the game multiple times per day and buying stuff almost
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by huac 11y ago
it's also really funny that the founder of 'thefunded' is also the founder of 'founder institute' - which the OP and this HN thread both rail on
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by huac 11y ago
craps is expected value of ~0.96 of what you put in. i don't know how you want to quantify 'startup odds'

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