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by jccc 10y ago
"Maybe Apple is making a mistake"? "It's going to suck having to use different headphones"? "Will they ship with headphones -- probably not ... Cough up the extra $29"? I don't know how anyone could s
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by jccc 10y ago
Yeah, pretty much never: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7013002
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by jccc 10y ago
Daring Fireball: > Maybe now is the wrong time, and Apple is making a mistake. I don’t know. You might be responding to the Gruber in your head rather than the one who wrote that post. He's not extolling the virtues of Apple'
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by jccc 10y ago
> Maybe now is the wrong time, and Apple is making a mistake. I don’t know. > Patel misses the bigger problem. It’s not enforcement of DRM on audio playback. It’s enforcement of the MFi Program for certifying hardware that uses the L
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by jccc 10y ago
> We’re not taken as seriously, and we’re being paid less. The 2016 StackOverflow Survey puts PHP developers as the least paid. Hilariously that position is shared with “LAMP” and “Wordpress”, both of which are also PHP. The author did
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by jccc 10y ago
The title of this post focuses on one aspect of the episode in a way that has badly skewed our discussion. The point of the episode is not John Oliver's Oprah stunt, but rather how the debt collection industry works. [The original titl
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by jccc 10y ago
"Four score and seven years ago..." http://i.imgur.com/K0Mhkse.png [I'm not snarking, by the way. Just playing with it. It's perfectly okay to have a tool optimized for, say, business correspondence.]
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by jccc 10y ago
I'm having trouble finding that part of the cartoon that suggested an Ag CEO should not make any more than an average farmer. Could it be instead that the cartoon is about the scale of the difference? There is an actual number in the p
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by jccc 10y ago
To be fair: "And even if it had been true, what the CIA did to Abu Zubaydah—with the knowledge and approval of the highest government officials—is a prime example of the kind of still-unpunished crimes that officials like Dick Cheney,
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by jccc 11y ago
I'm in Oxford, Ohio. Thinks I'm in Oxford, England. (Not criticizing, just amused.)
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by jccc 11y ago
Enter your Zip code after the URL (if you're in the U.S.) -- http://wttr.in/65201
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by jccc 11y ago
"In spite of his small size, Tyrion is mathematically the most important character in Game of Thrones." ... followed by Jon Snow.
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by jccc 11y ago
I've heard about Burrell Smith and mental illness, but I've never heard the suggestion that Steve Jobs was a driving influence that exasperated it. It also never occurred to me to make that connection, although it seems like an ob
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by jccc 11y ago
"Please upvote and get instant access today" (across the top, with an HN logo) kind of sounds like "Upvote us on HN, and then we'll give you instant access today." Maybe they shouldn't be saying that.
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by jccc 11y ago
There is exactly no one arguing for just-the-facts headlines to the exclusion of any with style. The objection is to intentional misrepresentation of the story you get after you click. This one clearly does that. Even the example given abov
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by jccc 11y ago
I think a headline that intentionally implies something false, and more compelling than the truth, is comfortably within the definition of clickbait. Cleverness would let us in on the metaphor without us having to read the article.
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by jccc 11y ago
He's doing educational strips to appear in a textbook (just in case you'd prefer not to reward that bait-y headline).
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by jccc 11y ago
> They can keep their money, while I keep my passion: I think I get the better end of the deal. I think many HN readers here could tell you that the better you ensure your compensation the better the work itself is. The respect you get f
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by jccc 11y ago
Your analogy requires: A. the person to have convictions for dealing, not just possession, and B. mobster-era Italians to be just about as likely to engage in illegal bookmaking and racketeering as the general population, and C. a history o
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by jccc 11y ago
From the conclusion section: "We found no evidence for a relationship between systemizing and math achievement after accounting for general cognitive and reading abilities. There was, however, a negative association between empathizing
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by jccc 11y ago
Before you comment, please consider whether you'd prefer to vent your frustration in online message boards with like-minded people, or spend that potential energy in other ways: "What you can do about it: -- You can contact the Ob
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by jccc 11y ago
It simultaneously irks me and pleases me that the first result on DuckDuckGo for "lxd" is the Legion of Extraordinary Dancers. (Google gets it right, presumably because of all my code searches.) "[...] a 2010–2011 web series
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by jccc 11y ago
Why is it easier to make assumptions about the person than it is to think that Facebook's culture has a problem? Do we generally blame the individuals who get pulled into a cult, or do we criticize the cult?
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by jccc 11y ago
I would imagine at a place the scale of Facebook, where logging and accountability trails are as important as they must be at Facebook, this kind of transgression is categorically different from the one you describe.
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by jccc 11y ago
... and in the lifelong pair-bonded geese who were the major first example in TFA.
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by jccc 11y ago
In the early pages of Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon, Lawrence tries to understand Alan Turing (who is a character in the novel): "From an evolution standpoint, what was the point of having people around who were not inclined to
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by jccc 11y ago
> Can a candidate lacking the technical skills go deep into details the way the parent commenter describes? I withdraw this somewhat rhetorical question. I should never have asked it because it's not the point (and it invites answer
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by jccc 11y ago
Do you mean that over your 15 years you've hired people more often than we'd think who later turned out to have been fooling you during the interview with their sales skills? That sounds terrible and I'm sorry to hear that.
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by jccc 11y ago
> Sorry, but you are being scammed. You are selecting for sales skills, not technical skills. Read what you've written. You're asking the parent commenter to set aside eight years of personal hiring experience, over which time
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by jccc 11y ago
> 'to turn as swimmers into cleanness leaping.’ I had to look that one up: Peace, by Rupert Brooke, 1914: "A paradoxical image, comparing going to war as an act that cleanses the participants, like a dip in a pool or river.&quo

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