jchendy

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by jchendy 10y ago
> Best new features for me are fingerprint sensor, USB-C and and quick charge. For me, USB-C is the worst part. Nobody else ever has a charger I can use, and when I plug into anything other than the wall adapter that came with the phone,
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by jchendy 10y ago
> perhaps for a browser plugin that allows comments on any web page. Genius sort of does this: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/genius-web-annotat...
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by jchendy 10y ago
They readily acknowledge that cost is a major factor in the decision: > The conclusion: NPR's commenting system — which gets more expensive the more comments that are posted, and in some months has cost NPR twice what was budgeted —
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by jchendy 10y ago
The original consoles won't last forever. It would be nice to have a backup option for when it dies.
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by jchendy 10y ago
Thanks! Only three more votes before I get superpowers. :)
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by jchendy 10y ago
Definitely a good salary is more important than equity, but there's nothing stopping you from having both. :)
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by jchendy 10y ago
> They joined the company knowing that they weren't getting any equity. Lots of people join companies on bad terms either because they don't realize the terms are bad or because they're desperate for any kind of income. Th
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by jchendy 10y ago
Doesn't it seem like kind of a dick move to give no equity to any of the 75 employees?
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by jchendy 10y ago
You need a certain amount of karma to downvote. I think it's 500, but I'm not sure because I don't have that much yet. :) Edit: it's confirmed at 501: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12074198
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by jchendy 10y ago
> I would guess that James became addicted to gambling, and then used his intellect and education to make money doing what he loved. I'd be a little careful with terminology there. Gambling addiction can be a very serious problem, w
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by jchendy 10y ago
> The state won't retry. You say that like it's a fact. What's your evidence?
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by jchendy 10y ago
>I'm a bit at a loss as to why general entertainment pop culture news is interesting to hackers. Because hackers are people, and by definition a significant proportion of people are interested in pop culture. But that does bring up
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by jchendy 10y ago
Probably some PM told them to ignore it so the product could ship on time.
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by jchendy 10y ago
It's possible they could detect those devices and leave chat active in the web app.
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by jchendy 10y ago
Why would they intentionally play silent audio?
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by jchendy 10y ago
Some links from the article: The actual collection of mix tapes - https://archive.org/details/hiphopmixtapes A lengthy discussion of what a mix tape is - http://noisey.vice.com/blog/the-real-differ
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by jchendy 10y ago
I don't know about fraud, but if it comes up in the background check, they could definitely rescind your offer.
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by jchendy 10y ago
The big difference between Facebook and YouTube is that YouTube has the content directly within their application, whereas with Facebook, users are still going directly to the original site to access the content. So in your example, BuzzFee
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by jchendy 10y ago
I also recently interviewed at several major tech companies, and I agree that Facebook had by far the best process. The content of the technical questions was largely similar to everybody else, but Facebook really went out of their way to m
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by jchendy 10y ago
Do we know anything about how people who are already fit respond to this kind of exercise?
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by jchendy 10y ago
Yeah, the title is definitely misleading, but I agree that it's still really helpful info.
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by jchendy 10y ago
I assume nikolay would prefer native Android notifications.
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by jchendy 10y ago
Care to explain what the relevant differences are?
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by jchendy 10y ago
Sure. The same is true for anything that uses public key encryption (Bitcoin for one). But the amount of computing power needed doesn't exist. According to this person's math [1]: "It would take ~6.7e40 times longer than the
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by jchendy 10y ago
Thanks for saying this. I really wish the media would stop talking about candidates receiving donations from companies, which, as you point out is not possible.
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by jchendy 10y ago
I had the same thought. Are there any advantages to the user in having it be a separate site?
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by jchendy 10y ago
You're not going to find a list of these types of improvements that will apply directly to what you're working on, but any intro to UX book should help you get into the right mindset to identify them on your own. Design of Everyda
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by jchendy 10y ago
Here are some popular and excellent podcasts that have great production value: https://gimletmedia.com/show/reply-all/ http://www.thisamericanlife.org/ http://freakonomics.com/arch
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by jchendy 10y ago
Ooohhhh... Mysterious. I'm excited!
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by jchendy 10y ago
I thought OP's comment was in agreement with the snippet he posted.

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