huebnerob

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by huebnerob 9y ago
There's nothing condescending about stating that there are some world views that may be beyond our immediate rapid comprehension. I have a 'western mind' and I was not offended.
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by huebnerob 9y ago
Does it matter to a woman whether their harasser is a "real" bad guy or they're just accidentally doing a good job at playing one? The idea that us 'good' men can have a bad day, misstep, or misinterpret things is
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by huebnerob 9y ago
Originating a widely-used open-source technology is a huge liability with virtually no financial benefit. It's a goal an engineer fetishizes and a product creator recoils at. I can't pay my rent with a pat-on-the-back buried in
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by huebnerob 9y ago
Not sure why you've decided to pick at this point, even the article itself says multiple times that he's far from innocent in all this, but it also seems obvious that he was not the lone-wolf mastermind of an enormous financial sc
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by huebnerob 9y ago
I agree that the blunt blade of crime -> prison time is probably not the most efficient or effective deterrent or rehabilitation in every case. However, we (in the States) have constitutional protection against "cruel and unusual p
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by huebnerob 9y ago
Is that 20 hours the amount of time you're billing weekly, or your total work time? I aspire to freelance one day, perhaps soon, and I've heard that non-billable work can easily add up to a full time job. Things like marketing y
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by huebnerob 9y ago
Not really a fair comparison when you consider that PCs have been plateau'ing in performance for at least that long, while the tablet/mobile market still delivers large performance gains year-over-year.
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by huebnerob 9y ago
This is a red herring, the real reason why we even get to have this conversation is because Apple provides full OS version updates to devices for much longer than any other mobile platform. Your 6 year old iPad is a bit slow on the lates
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by huebnerob 9y ago
http://www.idownloadblog.com/2017/12/11/block-ios-updates/ Also, I marvel at how watered down the term "bricked" has become. From 'my thing shows absolutely no signs of life' to &#x2
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by huebnerob 9y ago
I use car2go frequently in Brooklyn, it's true that cleanliness is problematic. Perhaps some form of computer vision in the car could recognize if a user left anything in disarray and penalize appropriately. It wouldn't catch ev
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by huebnerob 9y ago
This article seems to assume that we're all excited about the prospect of buying our very own self-driving car. On the contrary, I'm more excited about the newfound practicality of a decentralized car ownership model that drive
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by huebnerob 9y ago
This is a gross oversimplification, but why not just dole out the good projects round-robin, where you're just one of the members of the cycle? There's no reason why a manager should never be able to contribute work, just that
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by huebnerob 9y ago
No, definitely not. Apple recently restricted apps' usage of URL schemes to check whether other apps are even installed on the phone. It's possible they could be doing something really esoteric with an enterprise app (doesn'
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by huebnerob 9y ago
I'd wager that at this moment they've not done much more than ideation and (I pray dearly) feasibility studies. We won't even be able to start arguing whether this idea has wings until the first wheels leave the tarmac.
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by huebnerob 9y ago
1. If a business offers me one product for free and I take two, that's theft, plain and simple. I'm not sure what your analogy was meant to prove but I think it actually makes a stronger case for the counterpoint to your argument
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by huebnerob 9y ago
A company having foresight of a potential explosion and a contingency rollback plan in place before embarking on a major product initiative? That wouldn't be the cynical case, it'd be a goddamn miracle.
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by huebnerob 9y ago
We're talking about the general population and you're on hacker news, you're already quite the outlier.
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by huebnerob 9y ago
Binding arbitration is probably the only thing making the legal risk of such a high-liability product/service manageable from Amazon's point of view. If it wasn't available, the product may not even exist. Which is fine. Ma
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by huebnerob 9y ago
I've bought gloves at dollar stores that are touch sensitive. In this era, it's table stakes for things that you put on your two trusty smartphone operators. However, exactly zero gloves that cover your fingertips also work with
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by huebnerob 9y ago
I don't see how Face ID is inherently an "epic pain" unless you're building in the assumption that it doesn't work well. If you instead assume that it works fairly well and your device is unlocked when you look at
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by huebnerob 9y ago
I think the reason why the 'catchphrases' for Siri and Google Assistant are longer is because the cost for false positives is higher. Phones are subject to much more varied conditions than a cylinder that lives on your nightstand
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by huebnerob 9y ago
The leased byte on a cloud disk is a commodity in a crowded market today, gotta stand out somehow.
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by huebnerob 9y ago
1. I've only ever given my SSN to a company in the same packet of information that contained my signed offer letter, so we'd be far past negotiations at that point. If you're worried about them going back and verifying what
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by huebnerob 9y ago
I'll say that UPS will only send you automatic updates for packages that match your full address, including your name. I'm signed up for the service, and I receive uncannily perfect notifications every time a UPS label is generat
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by huebnerob 9y ago
We're all quite familiar with the idea that working long hours gets you brownie points with your managers. The point that's being made here is that companies should not be so proud of this quid pro quo, because on paper it is qui
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by huebnerob 9y ago
Well, things that may not have been possible printing-wise 10 years ago could be possible today. Meanwhile, in the same time period, the world as a whole is moving away from physical media, so I don't think there's many people wo
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by huebnerob 9y ago
Especially with a frankly embarrassingly poor attempt to place distance between himself and the payouts. He picked his own brother and a close family friend? Might as well have walked up to his boss every other week with a spot of feigned
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by huebnerob 9y ago
Kickstarter should stop surfacing delivery date so prominently. It's clear by now that the vast majority of crowdfunded campaigns do not come close to hitting their concrete timeline goals. Is this inherently a bad thing? I don'
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by huebnerob 9y ago
Frankly, I love Reddit. If you pick and choose the right communities, it can be an amazing resource for everything from tech discussions, to local news, to emotional support. However, I will strongly agree with the perception problem, the
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by huebnerob 9y ago
You just need to mandate actual physical contact with the item in question. I won't let my apartment door close until I've jingled my keys in my pocket, has never failed me.

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