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by jgh 8y ago
Ah even before the internet was widely used you would go to the library and copy stuff out of encyclopedias. It just took longer :)
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by jgh 8y ago
At least with Objective-C it's pretty trivial to just use C or C++ or whatever in most places and Objective-C minimally. Swift is a little more of a headache in that regard.
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by jgh 8y ago
Right but deciding not to use Google services doesn't cut you off from everybody you know. My family uses Messenger, my US friends use Instagram, my European friends use Whatsapp... Even though I don't have a Facebook profile anym
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by jgh 8y ago
The difference between the old ceo and the new ceo is pretty stark, at least on a superficial - just looking at the profile pics & names - level. Like the original CEO uses an IRCish internet handle and a bad picture taken on a webcam,
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by jgh 8y ago
I want to say, as a guy who is not much of a web developer but is trying to make a web site, css is f'ing frustrating. For example I found a CSS-only stylized dropdown list, which is great. Why should I have to use Javascript to styliz
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by jgh 8y ago
OTOH Reddit also enforces time as a limitation on posts, just on a slightly slower scale than Facebook. For example "necroposting" isn't really a thing that's possible with a Reddit (or HN) model. Nor are threads that a
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by jgh 8y ago
I think you're being a little bit disingenuous here. Not everybody only subscribes to a bunch of niche subreddits with good moderation. A lot of the larger / less strictly moderated subreddits are filled with toxicity, bots, and
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by jgh 8y ago
good design is smokebomb
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by jgh 8y ago
Unless your middle name is "Lee", in which case stick with First Last because you're gonna sound like a "quiet guy who keeps to himself" any other way.
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by jgh 8y ago
I see. I'm not a homeowner so haven't gone through that before.
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by jgh 8y ago
heh yeah, same here...in france.
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by jgh 8y ago
Aren't "locked-in" rates typically renegotiated every 5 years or so? So if rates keep increasing the entire time some folks might be in for a rude awakening in 2021...
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by jgh 8y ago
meh. my side project turned into a venture-backed startup. Am I allowed to call myself an entrepreneur now?
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by jgh 8y ago
You can probably rent a boat to go see the ocean entry, I think hiking to the spot is probably not all that safe.
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by jgh 8y ago
I'm not sure why the article is speculating about a "seismic" change. Apple (and Microsoft and Google have followed) has established a pattern for their OS evolution: yearly incremental updates.
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by jgh 8y ago
why would they do that?
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by jgh 8y ago
> Which begs the question - what tokens are actually worth trading in the first place? Is all this value really justified by CryptoKitties? I guess the old adage "The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent"
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by jgh 8y ago
Even if you do most are tied to employer..so that's a no-go as well.
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by jgh 8y ago
Basically the answer is "no". If they're not willing to help with visas, there is no legal way for someone who isnt a citizen or GC holder to stay in the states for 3 months and work.
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by jgh 8y ago
ah then you guys would have loved my home page back in 1998. Pretty sure I used this exact color scheme, although I think I had a really horrible logo in there too.
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by jgh 8y ago
I wouldn't really consider HN particularly left wing. It's fully capitalist and any thread that discusses social issues is full of libertarians. Anything that has a faint whiff of anti-capitalism is promptly removed from the fro
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by jgh 8y ago
I was curious about the backlog being a century so I did some googling around and it looks like a user on quora did a bit of reading and math and figured that an Indian person applying today can expect a wait of 100-150 years to get a GC.
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by jgh 8y ago
Please no. If you're going to call me at least have a real person do it. I hate getting phone calls enough as it is.
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by jgh 8y ago
Thankfully the tweetstorm about becoming a CEO at 20 is still there!
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by jgh 8y ago
Yeah I doubt it would be organized as stated. Probably more along the lines of various restrictive immigration policies and sanctions which, perhaps inadvertently, lead to famine and war.
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by jgh 8y ago
The problem, the way I see it, is that a lot of the problems that are going to be coming to a head over the next decades aren't even really from malevolence. It's just ignorance, incompetence, and not really working together. Of
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by jgh 8y ago
I've been having similar feelings about the state of the world for the past few years, and that's only been amplified by revelations like Cambridge Analytica and hysteria around GDPR. We're in a dystopian world now, one that
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by jgh 8y ago
Yeah I was talking with some people about this a few days ago actually. The change is not entirely bad, though. For example, in my own case, I actually like the change. I'm not 22 years old anymore (as I was when Burning Crusade cam
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by jgh 8y ago
i recently used transferwise to convert a bunch of money and it seemed like all in the fees were closer to 0.1% than 1%. I think if you do larger sums of money the fees get cheaper though because the cost to transfer into transferwise is
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by jgh 8y ago
I'm sure they did, but 10 seconds isn't "negligible" (if you've ever watched the superbowl in an apartment building on a hot day you'll know what i mean)

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