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by jacurtis 7y ago
In the beginning of Yuval Noah Harari's book Sapiens , he discusses the history of Homo neanderthalensis (Neanderthals), Homo erectus , and Homo sapiens . He discusses their history amongst eachother and why/how Homo sapiens
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by jacurtis 7y ago
But the companies that operate those apps are paying Apple. So Apple still gets their cut. The same goes for Yelp or GrubHub. You can use Yelp for free, but Yelp is generally preying on local businesses to force the businesses to pay Yelp b
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by jacurtis 7y ago
Its a legal response. The response even reads the definition of cybersquatting according to them which is that the domain was purchased as "generally bad faith registration of another person's trademark". So GrubHub is claimi
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by jacurtis 7y ago
Mountain Lions are like Sharks of the land. What I mean by that is that their danger is wildly overblown in movies and news. Statistically speaking, attacks from both animals are insanely rare. For example, there have only been 25 deaths fr
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by jacurtis 7y ago
Wanted to bump this. I used 1Password for years on Mac. It is truly amazing. I now use Linux about 60% of the time, and was worried about needing to switch password managers. But I was happy to learn that I can mostly rely on 1PasswordX in
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by jacurtis 7y ago
> James Cameron's special-effects company, Digital Domain, which used the operating system to help create the illusions in "Titanic." I know this is a random tangent from the core theme of the article. But I found it funny
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by jacurtis 7y ago
Just something to consider is that Toyota panels do have external controls that allow you to use the panel without the touchscreen. I have a 2016 Toyota Corolla, and the entertainment system is a touchscreen, but I haven't touched it i
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by jacurtis 7y ago
They did run the comparison between Carnival and their biggest competitor Royal Caribean (i'll call "RC"). RC was still a bad pollutant, producing 4x the pollution of all the cars in Europe, but by comparison, Carnival is pum
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by jacurtis 7y ago
One of the real differences with Rome, over previous major civilizations, was that they had a quite established class system. They worked hard to establish a strong middle class, which is arguably what fueled the majority of the Roman Empir
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by jacurtis 7y ago
This was my same thought. If it takes a crane to build another crane, then why not use the first crane to begin with?
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by jacurtis 7y ago
Getting hired at Google is as much of a Lottery as anything else. You really can't look at interview questions and beat yourself up. There are Google employees who got hired doing much less, and other employees that had to work even ha
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by jacurtis 7y ago
That is a great interview question. I would happily answer "I work to live, and any company that doesn't want to hire me because of that answer is a company that I don't want to work for"
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by jacurtis 7y ago
I hate companies that act like it is a sin to use Google or Stack Overflow when coding. When I hear this BS, then I know it is clear that they have never coded themselves. I would love to meet a software engineer who truly can sit in a padd
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by jacurtis 7y ago
Plus international travel. Add 1 day on both sides of that for travel. That is 5 days of unpaid interviewing.
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by jacurtis 7y ago
Agreed! Who has the time to spend on a 5-day long interview? If you are traveling internationally, then you have to add 1 day of travel on each side of your trip. Plus the 3-day "interview" or challenge or whatever. So that is 5 s
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by jacurtis 7y ago
This was actually my thought. Looking at the mockups he submitted, it is clear that this was 30-40 hours of work minimum. And depending how fast/slow they worked it could be much more than that. If I asked a candidate to spend 4 hours
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by jacurtis 7y ago
I got 15 months of Office 365 with 1Tb OneDrive storage for ~$55 at Costco. Just thought I'd mention because I normally wouldn't have thought to go to Costco for Software, but it's a great deal and they just give you a code t
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by jacurtis 7y ago
> The article is poorly written and rife with grammatical errors. English is tough and we didn’t all grow up writing so, so it’s in poor taste to point out another’s writing issues. But, speaking as someone who is pretty good at SEO, at
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by jacurtis 7y ago
Ironically, giving a thumbs down on a YouTube video actually helps its' organic rating within the site. As far as I am aware, they basically add both upvotes and downvotes together to show total votes and rank it on engagement based on
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by jacurtis 7y ago
There is... it's called IRC. Slack put lipstick on that pig and slapped a pricetag on it.
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by jacurtis 7y ago
Except S3 storage isn't actually all that cheap anymore. Amazon has literally never changed the price of S3 storage over the last decade even though storage costs have plummeted over the same time period. There are other providers out
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by jacurtis 8y ago
You're welcome. So now a more "technical" question for you. I grew up in Washington where we are home to the "walla walla onion" which is also a sweet onion. I am not a farmer, nor do I claim any level of expertise
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by jacurtis 8y ago
I just have to stop and say that this was an immensely fun and exciting post to read. So much of the business stuff we read now is bullshit. It is stupid people getting lucky and riding on VC money while making more stupid decisions but ult
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by jacurtis 8y ago
It'll probably slide down quickly. It was only posted 30 mins ago and there are ~130 upvotes and ~40 comments. That shows HN lots of interaction and is surprisingly high for a post only 30 mins old. The artificial inflation is probably
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by jacurtis 8y ago
Agreed! This is exactly what I thought when watching it. He mentions "changing the internet" and that was it. Then started asking for money and outlining his plans to launch and indiegogo and I still had no clue what Polar even wa
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by jacurtis 8y ago
Yes I think that 1/100 is a more accurate ratio. I have only accepted 4 notification prompts and I know that i have encountered more than 400 that I denied.
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by jacurtis 8y ago
This is similar to how many iOS apps have gone to now. When iPhones first allowed permission prompting, every app used to just spam every permissions prompt as soon as you downloaded the app, hoping you accepted a few of them. Now I have no
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by jacurtis 8y ago
This is a valid point. I just took an inventory of all the notifications I have opted into. For me it is Gmail, Discord, Slack, and a custom built admin interface I use for work. So I have accepted 4 out of the hundreds (or thousands) of no
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by jacurtis 8y ago
According to the article, overall acceptance rate on the notifications popup is 3%. But that will include legitimate notification requests like Gmail, Discord, Slack, etc.. That also includes people that just randomly accept any notificatio
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by jacurtis 8y ago
Gmail and G-Suite (professoinal Gmail) allow useful notifications. But those notifications only popup while a Gmail tab is open (such as in the background or not visible). So I like to open gmail while I am waiting for an email, I will get

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