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by ilyanep 13y ago
Do we think that Google (which boasts among current and former employees: Joshua Bloch, Guido van Rossum, Sebastian Thrun, Luis von Ahn, and that's just off the top of my head) might have some superstar cryptologists in there with equa
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by ilyanep 13y ago
I had basically the exact same experience. I'm a bit dubious about whether this actually helps on a computer, since I can just use my mouse cursor to track lines.
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by ilyanep 13y ago
It sucks. They make cheap [x] so that more people can afford to buy [x] for a lot of values of [x], and sometimes the cheap version just doesn't live up to what you want.
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by ilyanep 13y ago
There are the parts of the Googleplex that are kind of fun and sometimes serve as a weird tourist-y attraction (parts of the main quad, the infamous slide, various Google Earth machines, lots of other stuff), and the rest of the content of
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by ilyanep 13y ago
Oh no. Is Hacker News going to start down the ever-descending death spiral of angst that made parts of reddit so unbearable to me (until the angst became a self-fulfilling prophecy)? Many of these classes of comments are fairly reasonable i
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by ilyanep 13y ago
I had someone on HN trying to convince me that we should put up with the TSA because flying is a privilege not a right. I can't believe how many people believe this, especially in a country as big as the US.
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by ilyanep 13y ago
> Another possibility is that your opinion is wrong. And yet another possibility is that your opinion is wrong! I like this "adding nothing to the discussion" game!
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by ilyanep 13y ago
Okay, but trains are legitimate ground, because the TSA has previously set up in the New York subway ( http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/28/travel/tsa-vipr-passenger-trai... ). To some extent, stop-and-frisk (as
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by ilyanep 13y ago
The parent comment covered this very point: >1. You're not subjecting HN readers to a site under the control of a malicious party who may have done more than just deface it. Even if you verify that you only receive plain boring text
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by ilyanep 13y ago
You're right, driving was a bad example. That being said, it's silly to continue adding modes of transport to things that are "privileges, not rights" until people really have no real and significant freedom of movement.
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by ilyanep 13y ago
Apparently there are top GM folks who hang around here. I think we'd all get thrashed.
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by ilyanep 13y ago
Comments like yours make my blood boil. > flying is a privilege, not a right Is taking a train a privilege, not a right? Driving? A bus? Would you be okay with TSA-like screening procedures before any such sort of transportation? What ma
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by ilyanep 13y ago
The internal console at the company I work for has something like this (although it admits to being fake). The only complaint I have about it is that if the operation actually hangs, the bar reaches the end and just sits there, which is som
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by ilyanep 13y ago
What kind of updates come in Tesla software releases, and also how do they get into the car? I've actually never thought about this at all.
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by ilyanep 13y ago
I'm legitimately curious about how a former sound engineer finds himself using a pair of cheap Apple earbuds at work.
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by ilyanep 13y ago
I love the idea of prefacing a hardware release with an app that is both useful to many people and could get some people interested in the hardware who otherwise wouldn't be. I myself am pretty sure I have perfect hearing but am intere
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by ilyanep 13y ago
I don't know that either has to "win." Oculus games clearly replace the hardcore FPS/Computer game sort of market, whereas Glass games are more a replacement for cell phone games, more casual things, or real-life MMOs&#x
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by ilyanep 13y ago
I think Dijkstra just rolled in his grave a bit.
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by ilyanep 13y ago
Pardon us for being interested in something that a lot of us can benefit in? I didn't see a sign when coming in that said everything on the front page needs to be world-changing news.
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by ilyanep 13y ago
Yeahhh I'm living in SoMa and paying much, much below the median cost for a 1BR, but I'm thinking of moving out to the peninsula after my lease is up even if I continue working in the city. $200/mo for a Caltrain monthly pass
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by ilyanep 13y ago
Unfortunately, the API says that the identifier can change if the user uninstalls then reinstalls the app.
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by ilyanep 13y ago
I think you would hash the data in some way to avoid privacy concerns for device ID purposes.
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by ilyanep 13y ago
I feel like the fact that you took the time to figure out how to fix it makes you at least somewhat worthy.
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by ilyanep 13y ago
I dislike the last example he gives, even though the reason may be a decent one. Having Doc Comments in Java, for example, is great because Eclipse (and other IDEs) will actually explain to you what a function does when it does code complet
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by ilyanep 13y ago
It's my impression that everyone who has known him in a professional context (beyond just having heard of Bose products) has a quite high opinion of him. It's a shame to see talented engineers (and/or marketers, depending on
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by ilyanep 13y ago
I spend eight hours a day in the office, then I go home and read some textbooks, follow an online class, read a paper, write a blog post, go to the gym, practice saxophone, or hang out with friends. While I find the stuff I do at work enjoy