huntleydavis

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by huntleydavis 6y ago
I think the ultimate question is whether it's markedly better on average than what the rest of the market can offer for $30k. Covid has reduced the value of almost all education services that aren't exclusively online, thus has La
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by huntleydavis 6y ago
I think the idea of the 'Personal Computer' has been grossly warped over the past 20 years from a tool that primarily serves our personal goals to a 'Device' that's designed to serve the goals of a corporation. The
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by huntleydavis 7y ago
From years of schooling and artificially constructed engineering problems we've gotten used to, for some addicted to, the idea of end solutions fitting neatly into a clean edged box. We've grown up on complex physics problem with
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by huntleydavis 7y ago
The irony
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by huntleydavis 7y ago
To be fair, the way that people in technical roles explain things to those with less technical knowledge can often feel condescending and 'mansplained' regardless of the gender roles in conversation. I ( male ) felt this in my fir
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by huntleydavis 8y ago
They monopolize a resource : big data
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by huntleydavis 10y ago
Very impressive performance loading considering the number of fonts. Curious if they are just loading an incredibly stripped down version of each font for the preview and then lazy loading in the full font if you click to edit the text. Eit
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by huntleydavis 11y ago
I suppose the free form nature of HackerNews and the wide sprawling community make a lot of topics fair game. I recant my sentiment.
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by huntleydavis 11y ago
While this is tragic news, this really doesn't feel at all correlated to HackerNews.
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by huntleydavis 11y ago
Privacy is obviously the foremost issue at hand with the Government's request here, but there is also a huge potential impact on the future of the iPhone software. There is a huge difference between granting access to a user's dat
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Turning the iPhone 6s Into a Digital Scale(medium.com)
168 points by huntleydavis 11y ago|94 comments
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by huntleydavis 11y ago
Here's my take on it as a former Homejoy employee: https://medium.com/@rockstox/an-inside-look-at-homejoy-s-fai...
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by huntleydavis 11y ago
Being from Chattanooga, it is ironic to me that I moved to San Francisco for tech only to have slower internet here in SF than the small city in Tennessee that I left.
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by huntleydavis 11y ago
It would be cool too if you could set conditions on when to merge. I finish a PR it's kind of late : Merge tomorrow 8am if tests passing etc.
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by huntleydavis 11y ago
I liked 'Don't Be Evil'. It felt like it was a constant reminder to fight becoming a cliche evil corporation. 'Do the right thing' adds little to no value in terms of being a moral compass to use when expanding the
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by huntleydavis 12y ago
I honestly think that if executed correctly, this will completely replace squarespace, and then possibly wordpress.
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by huntleydavis 12y ago
Book will have much larger font
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by huntleydavis 12y ago
I think this is a risk that bolt.co and really any startup that chooses a short 'techy' word as their company name has to factor in.
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by huntleydavis 12y ago
Pretty sure this is just delay from their intended April 1st launch
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by huntleydavis 12y ago
I think it's safe to say that when a tech company reaches a certain size, especially ones that have a substantial amount of user data, it's impossible to be politically neutral on the war on data. If a company doesn't outrigh
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Homejoy acquires largest competitor(dogejoy.com)
1 points by huntleydavis 13y ago|0 comments
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by huntleydavis 13y ago
So who's starting the Kickstarter campaign?
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by huntleydavis 13y ago
To put the the 7 billion cost in perspective...that's approximately the cost to build the new segment of the Bay Bridge.