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by jbail 13y ago
I grow weary of people telling other people that they don't know what hard work is...especially as it contributes to the constant putting down of my generation. If you want to make a condescending, sweeping generalization about an enti
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by jbail 13y ago
You have a Handspring Visor on your desk? Have you just not cleaned your desk in 10 years? I kid, but I am genuinely curious what exactly you use it for these days? I cleaned out my bin of extra cords and random electronics this weekend. I
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by jbail 13y ago
Because AirBnB charges sizable booking fees, people have an expectation that they will assist at some level if/when things go wrong. Furthermore, AirBnB themselves asserted that they have some responsibility. Remember when that apartme
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Why does VP Sales get paid more than VP Engineering?
1 points by jbail 13y ago|2 comments
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by jbail 13y ago
I don't think that's totally correct. "...in Pembina Consolidated Silver Mining Co. v. Pennsylvania - 125 U.S. 181 (1888), the Court clearly affirmed the doctrine, holding, "Under the designation of 'person' th
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This is what happens when you allow non-logged in users to comment on your blog(androidscreenshots.com)
1 points by jbail 13y ago|0 comments
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by jbail 13y ago
"I am now loading less static assets. I removed the Disqus comments and the many many lines of CSS from the old site and replaced it with only a couple of lines of CSS alongside a CDN-hosted copy of Twitter Bootstrap. Finally, the Go
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by jbail 13y ago
"However, other countries will have a good functioning democracy and a citizenry that values privacy and will avoid those abuses." Is this just wishful thinking or is there a specific functioning democratic government that shoul
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by jbail 13y ago
I guess we'll never know, will we? :) That said, I don't think my unhappiness working for others has anything to do with other people making me feel that way or with my competence or the competence of others. Heck, I'm VP of
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by jbail 13y ago
But at the end of the day, I was just another dev. This. A thousand times. At every company I've EVER worked for, I eventually had this exact same feeling. Even as the lead engineer, team lead, tech lead, or whatever other "top
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by jbail 13y ago
Is it expected of you to tip when you aren't getting waiter/waitress service? When I get a burrito at Chipotle, I don't tip. I stand while ordering. I pay at a counter. When I'm finished eating, I bus my own table. These
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by jbail 13y ago
Do enlighten us, won't you?
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by jbail 13y ago
What guideline is being broken? If there isn't a good reason (and I really struggle to think what it might be), this is just anti-competitive censorship. Edit: On the other hand, this seems so ridiculous that I need to question if it&#
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by jbail 13y ago
I didn't even know there was a promotions tab until reading this article. I just enabled it. It's exactly where I want marketing emails to go and am really glad to see Google innovating in this space. (BTW, I love how Gmail will a
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by jbail 13y ago
Is this really a serious problem? Anecdotally, 9 out of 10 visits to a coffee shop, I just get coffee and leave. 1 out of 10, I am meeting someone, usually to go over some business. In the 21st century, this typically requires Internet conn
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by jbail 13y ago
I don't understand how using your Twitter handle will elevate the level of discourse. Twitter itself is full of trolls. Also, you can create anonymous Twitter accounts that don't use your real name, so accountability goes out the
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by jbail 13y ago
How do they perform this due diligence? Is there a way to tell if a number is a Google Voice number? This seems like an insane way to vet potential developers, by the way. Someone who bases a hiring decision on what brand of phone service y
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by jbail 13y ago
I did leave. Four years ago.
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by jbail 13y ago
You are way too easy on FB for destroying your girlfriend's relationship with her parents. Clearly, FB deserves at least some of the blame. Without your consent, they made private photos public. You didn't do that. You used their
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by jbail 13y ago
Great response. Thank you. I think the "after 8pm" part is the secret sauce of not feeling guilty about how you're allocating your time. You've found a chunk of time that you really shouldn't be working on your sta
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by jbail 13y ago
This, like the iOS icon teardown post before it, are excellent. Tons of content. Well written. I have a question for Ian: How do you find time to do such in depth teardowns and UI refactors of other people's apps? Actually let me re-ph
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by jbail 13y ago
I just purchased a Motorola Defy XT from Republic Wireless and it came with the Facebook app pre-installed. I immediately checked for a system update (which there was one waiting), installed it and the FB app went away. Usually it doesn&#x2
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by jbail 13y ago
You know what the super not cool part is? Tons of Android phones come pre-packaged with a Facebook app that you can't delete unless you root your phone.
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by jbail 13y ago
Excellent point on swiping horizontally instead of a "Back" button. That's a great change, but one I already try to incorporate as the dedicated header bar is (or was) distinctly iOS. If I'm building a cross-platform app
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by jbail 13y ago
"iOS 7 is different. It isn’t just a new skin: it introduces entirely new navigational and structural standards..." Beyond the parallax effect, what are these new navigation and structural changes? I'm not trolling here, I&
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by jbail 13y ago
Yesterday, in response to Dave's post, you wrote, "As a meta comment, Winer is a unfortunate last name..." If that's the standard you hold yourself to, I'd encourage you to expect more from yourself.
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by jbail 13y ago
I'm wondering how the red and green indicators look to someone who is color blind. Yes, the page looks nice, but I think Apple's status page is better simply because the indicator icons are (I'm assuming) better for people with color blindn
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by jbail 14y ago
I think your post would be better received with a bit more facts and a bit less anecdotal evidence. Moreover, you have a clear bias that big companies are bad and startups are good. Having worked professionally for both, it's not that black
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by jbail 14y ago
Great post, Garry. I believe you can export from Posterous to Blogger as well.
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by jbail 14y ago
I've seen many millions of dollars spent on websites, logos, and webpage designs in the United States over the past decade. In many cases, there was clearly A LOT of profit built into the price. $15 million is no doubt a lot for a Wordpress

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