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by incision 13y ago
I have at least one anecdotal perspective on app proliferation. Currently, I'm struggling with higher-ups who have decided that we must have apps. They don't know what these apps will do or who will use them, simply that we have to start pu
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by incision 13y ago
I noticed that. I wonder how much of the confusion is owed to that project? That would go a long way toward explaining why this confusion seems common on HN (lots of web developers), but non-existent elsewhere. By the way, the way that arti
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by incision 13y ago
Wow, I had no idea shiv was so frequently misused on HN. I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't searched. I'm equally surprised/irritated that someone went and stuck "or shiv" into the shim article on Wikipedia back in 2011.
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by incision 13y ago
>And by wherever possible I don't mean that some users might be "inconvenienced" by some menu change. I mean when an open source alternative actually exists. I don't understand what you mean to say here.
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by incision 13y ago
I've witnessed an abortive attempt bring a large city from MS to Google - good luck. I'm truly all for it conceptually, but in my experience this kind of project tends to be full of false expectations and bad math, but plenty of press.
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by incision 13y ago
I'd like to see the relationship of income to infringement. It's hard to hoard digital downloads when your primary access to the Internet comes via a feature phone on a metered plan and you pay $5 each for bootleg DVDs sold at the barber sh
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by incision 13y ago
>Appalling Lets have a little perspective [0]. 0: http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/02/22/_60_perce...
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by incision 13y ago
Coincidence? [0] 0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5677046
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by incision 13y ago
>Bullshit. There is nothing wrong with using personal experience for reference so long as it is properly cited. I agree with the sentiment, but "properly cited" suggests a bit more than a one line comment from a username with barely a
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by incision 13y ago
Yes, if this calculator [1] is any reasonable approximation. 1: http://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm
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by incision 13y ago
That was me growing up. I'd go out since my mother had to get up at 5:00. That card allowed us to scrape by during some very rough times. I hate to think where we'd have ended up without it. I'm glad to see a little sympathetic light being
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by incision 13y ago
"Collective Intelligence" is a recent favorite and I notice that a bunch stuff from No Starch Press (The TCP/IP Guide / Think Like a Programmer), which I've become a fan of recently, is on sale.
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by incision 13y ago
Also, for an overview of all sorts of automotive engineering for the curious, I highly recommend the Bosch Automotive Handbook [1]. 1: http://www.amazon.com/Bosch-Automotive-Handbook-Robert-GmbH/...
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by incision 13y ago
>A lot of people signed up, watched House of Cards for 2 weeks and then cancelled the subscription. Nope. Hastings also says that almost no one signed up — for free, for a month-long trial — to watch the show and then left Netflix afte
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by incision 13y ago
Wall St. likes to speculate about this [1] and I think Netflix will deal with it intelligently [2]. Account sharing is good for business played right. Amazon makes it easy with it with Prime shipping benefits [3] and gets plenty of business
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by incision 13y ago
>There's a definite relationship between the length of time I expect to own or use a product, the country's reputation for products of that type, and which of the two categories it falls in. Same. How I intend to use (entertainment vs
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by incision 14y ago
>You might want to reconsider the way you talk to people. That's amusing to see in a post where you've included both an "asshole" and a "fuck you". >Here's the summary: More like an angry oversimplification. 1&2: I think you
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by incision 14y ago
Seems a bit much you all should consistently be unable to "think of where to eat" when the question is asked "several times a week". Does this pervasive forgetfulness show up everywhere in your lives? If so, you guys should probably be mull
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by incision 14y ago
>Companies, even ones who have the resources and should no better, are more interested in finding someone already trained (and griping about how they can't find them) than investing in training new people (and of course the fail to rea
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by incision 14y ago
I don't see this as a creative concern. Does anyone really think this group of coworkers, which almost surely eats something, somewhere eat day needs "inspiration" that they are truly bereft of ideas when this happens? I don't. They aren't
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by incision 14y ago
I'm reminded of my comment on this thread [1] (Ask HN: Why would a government have created bitcoin?). "I like bitcoin as a robust, validated communication network with the currency function incentivizing its operation and creating noise to
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by incision 14y ago
>The goal of this feature is to try to reduce the initial bandwagon/snowball voting, where if a comment gets a few initial downvotes it often continues going negative, or vice versa. I've long held this perception, interesting to see
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by incision 14y ago
>What do you think it will take for women to be successful in the technology field? >Equal pay for men and women with same skill sets: Women: 65.5%, Men: 46.8% Clearly two different perceptions. Off the top of my head, I'd expec
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by incision 14y ago
A recent favorite example of example of terrible password requirements, VMWare VDP. The appliance requires exactly 9 characters, no more, no less. Personally, I'm most aggravated by services with uneven complexity requirements. It seems
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by incision 14y ago
Possibly related, a useful thread I dug up on cover letter writing recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1783915
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by incision 14y ago
Absolutely. Talk about working the bleeding edge of technology, they basically built something from the future - theirs and ours - by inventing what they needed along the way. Skunk Works is an incredibly engaging book. I devoured it in a f
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by incision 14y ago
>When I was in government, I was amazed at the way a relatively minor initiative could become an all-consuming journey involving year after year of heartbreak, despair and triumph. Then, in the end, you and the half a dozen others who
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by incision 14y ago
I'm as puzzled as you are about exactly the same things. I think it says a lot that I was genuinely surprised when Swype finally showed up on Play. I'd written it off as forever sideloaded and not totally compatible. Likewise, I have no
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by incision 14y ago
>As far as I can see, nobody was actually able to use Swype, apart from people who got a Samsung phone with it preinstalled. Swype Beta has been available since 2010 and could be installed on anything as far as I know. It required sig
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by incision 14y ago
I realized I probably should have been more specific about that. It's not really the amount of leave that's a problem, rather how leave in general is used/abused to compound other problems in the government culture. Big project coming due i

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