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by jobposter1234 12y ago
I understand the urge, believe me. But now I'm trying to be a less sarcastic person, because the way I see it, mockery / ridicule is tantamount to giving up. Totally cool with it. It's fun, and gives you a smug feeling that
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by jobposter1234 12y ago
I don't think we should look down on users for that. I think we should question the sense of entitlement when people change settings and it breaks websites. Websites that people provide to you for no charge. What I find irritating is
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by jobposter1234 12y ago
Feynman also had a semi-successful career as a local artist in California. He used a pseudonym so as to not let his Nobel fame affect his sales (physicists were big celebrities back then -- many people would have known his name).
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by jobposter1234 12y ago
Just because you make choices that complicate otherwise-simple things in your life does not mean you should criticize decisions made by people who give you information you do not have to pay for.
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by jobposter1234 12y ago
And many people, including those who made this website, consider Javascript to be an integral part of what a web browser should do. Would you complain about a free video game if it only worked on playstation, and you had only an xbox but st
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by jobposter1234 12y ago
>A Department of Health and Human Services organ called the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is responsible for the site. An enterprising HN reader might want to skim through the CMS (very long) privacy impact assessment to s
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by jobposter1234 12y ago
Why are employers (generally) so inflexible with their salaried offers? I've been offered jobs where I really wanted to work, and they wanted me. They offered me 60% of my market value because that was all that was in the budget. If
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by jobposter1234 12y ago
In addition to the other threads, the fact is businesses need contact information to make money. Upsells, deal emails, etc., are all a critical part of their revenue streams. So removing this would cost them a great deal of money.
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by jobposter1234 12y ago
Late to see this. But the answer to your question is because even though they are superficially accomplishing the same end result, they are not nearly doing the same thing. Your smartphone is running a full blown modern operating system,
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by jobposter1234 12y ago
mm, for whatever reason, is very commonly used to donate millions of dollars.
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by jobposter1234 12y ago
Umm... smart phones do this? It's a big reason phones can last so long with serious power requirements. A big reason for the phone/mobile specific chipsets was to enable these features.
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by jobposter1234 12y ago
Some of my favorite sci-fi authors like Asimov (Foundation) and Harry Harrison (Stainless Steel Rat) might disagree with your last sentence. ;) Personally, I think both sentences at the end of your comment are correct: it is inevitable that
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by jobposter1234 12y ago
The "I am disappointed in you HN" intro was offputting. Say what you're going to say, I don't need to be shamed by the principle for it. Practically, it also makes your article less relevant to the population as a whol
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by jobposter1234 12y ago
It's a different perspective that believes most (tech) businesses these days are not failing because of their codebase. It's the school of thought that believes the effort invested in exceeding the Pareto principle in writing cod
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by jobposter1234 12y ago
In terms of community building, that might not be the worst thing in the world, especially if the community objective is quality over quantity.
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by jobposter1234 12y ago
Even moreso here in the States, where we have less of a pre-1900 literary history. When public schools were becoming more common late in the 19th century in America, schoolteachers needed material. They wanted to highlight American author
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by jobposter1234 12y ago
Would love to see something like this but that would expand abbreviations. E.g., corp -> corporation (and the reverse).
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by jobposter1234 12y ago
> bring in a new system whereby you didn't need to atone for sins any more I believe the Biblical narrative describing the significance of Jesus' sacrifice was about past sins, that which humans bore without actually committing
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by jobposter1234 12y ago
While you are absolutely correct that this won't scale, and doesn't have a lot of advanced features like faceting and synonyms, it's still a useful technique. I use the SQL LIKE operator all the time, especially when I just
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by jobposter1234 12y ago
Consumption was actually tuberculosis. "Tuberculosis, MTB, or TB (short for tubercle bacillus), in the past also called phthisis, phthisis pulmonalis, or consumption, is a widespread, and in many cases fatal, infectious disease caused
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by jobposter1234 12y ago
I think the reason you got downvoted is not that you criticized Musk, but the tone of your comment is inappropriate for this forum. Your comment reads as though it were written by a blowhard who is not only too certain of their own perspec
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by jobposter1234 12y ago
This is fantastic. Thank you for taking this perspective! Content (high or even low quality) pretty much sells itself, especially if we had less content. Think about how low quality much of 50s TV/etc. was much lower than modern sho
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by jobposter1234 12y ago
I wrote a long reply that wasn't too relevant, but I do want to say that I appreciate you expressing your opinion on HN. You add an excellent P.O.V. (one that I do not agree with) but I appreciate your ability to remain an even tone a
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by jobposter1234 12y ago
I suspect it's because people feel better about themselves and have a happier outlook when they receive compliments. These warm fuzzies are associated with the product / setting, positively affecting people's opinion of the
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by jobposter1234 12y ago
This is incorrect, in the U.S., at least, grass fed marketing claims can only be used when the steer is exclusively fed on grass: http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/ams.fetchTemplateData.do?tem...
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by jobposter1234 12y ago
For those wondering about sources, Wikipedia has a solid article on the dates in the bible, and seem to settle on about 50 CE as the original authorship dates. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dating_the_Bible ] Totally i
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by jobposter1234 12y ago
What do you mean by the "wrong" side of history? I only see one or two reasonable arguments that can be made against Stallman -- he might be out of touch, he definitely values personal freedom over convenience... But it's a
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by jobposter1234 12y ago
And a jolly Festivus to the Restuvus!
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by jobposter1234 12y ago
Also, as I recall, the white pages usually only published names and numbers. Some people had addresses included. Yellow Pages was only business listings, which included addresses obviously, but I think that's a feature not a bug. An
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by jobposter1234 12y ago
Sorry, don't have one. Wasn't trying to convince you of my perspective, or change your mind. If you're genuinely curious, I'd encourage you to talk with the next few taxi drivers you interact with, and ask them about i

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