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by kedean 11y ago
The respectable case is traders who transfer good between supplier and buyer because there is no smooth transfer path or when there is significant risk in communicating directly with the selling, such as stocks, grocery stores, and realtors
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Wizard of Earthesea always stuck out to me as one of the few coming of age stories in which the main character severely fucks up. He makes a HUGE mistake, owns up to it, and deals with it. Nobody kisses his wound and makes it better, he bet
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The biggest issue that I see is how much startup founders justify the idea that they need to hire and promote people that they 'would want to hang out with', aka the people they would want to be friends with outside of work. This
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Looks like they solved that, it now disallowed inputting a dash. I wonder if that's just client-side though.
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It's a financial service, they're covering their ass from unforeseen tax issues. If some people in Russia decide to use it, and paypal hasn't checked to be sure that this is all completely legit under Russian tax law, there w
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I really think it's more than that for many people. The game Jetpack (Joyride) for instance, offers a paid version. I do not know a single person who purchased it, but I know lots of people who were extremely into the free one. Same wi
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It's the exact opposite of what Nintendo does with Mario. Mario is used to brand a wide variety of different games. If Nintendo isn't sure whether a game will be successful, they slap Mario and his friend on it and call it a Mario
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Part of the problem with that is that nobody wants to pay for the full edition, which goes back to the classic problem with demos of freeloaders who just keep playing the demo. The solution that Nintendo stumbled on is to limit the number o
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by kedean 11y ago
The US isn't big on censorship, they're big on data collection. The MPAA and RIAA are HUGE on censorship, but they aren't government entities.
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I have no children, but those studies always seem to focus on parents who are, at that moment, raising small children. They are asked at the most stressful point in the process if they are happy, of course they'll say no. These studies
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by kedean 11y ago
Dictionaries don't specify that sharing be free, sure, but that's because the concept of 'i give you part of something i am in excess of in exchange for something' is already called selling, and 'i allow you to use
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You can't compare a desktop with a laptop. They are completely different use cases, of course a desktop is fine years later.
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Why are new companies the only ones that matter? A huge number of software companies (and, more importantly, non-software companies with a big software division) have been around since ~the dotcom bust, which is arguably when Java started g
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by kedean 11y ago
Eh, rails is ten years old now. That's pretty respectable, and it actually seems like it's on its way out. It's also worth noting that Facebook is built on React for javascript, which falls under 'new-fangled frameworks&
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Facebook had a secret ingredient too, they were one of the only sites on the Internet to use exclusivity correctly. They built up hype and got users drooling by slowing becoming available to more groups, and once they became available to ev
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The cost of diamonds IS artificially inflated. They are useful for purposes other than the one in which the price inflation is a big deal, but it is a demonstrable fact that the price is inflated.
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It's not a good thing OR a bad thing. It's different. The sad thing is that a culture of real sharing (not 'social media' sharing, but actual sharing of knowledge, life experiences, and ideas) has been traded for a place
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Yeah, the reason everyone complains about Git is because everyone uses git. SVN was the horse to beat 10 years ago, because everyone used it.
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Well, sure we CAN use it, but what he's saying is that we no longer notice. 15 years ago, ads for new computers and components had kids with their hair slicked back because of how BLAZING FAST they were going, because that's how i
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His point wasn't that they are ads, it's that they will still be allowed so that users can be funneled into native apps, where there will still be ads. Since they can't make ad impressions on iOS users, maybe some of those si
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I bet this DAAS project would be much more efficient if it utilized middle-out compression in the transfer.
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Now your just getting into semantics. Do you have a problem with the term 'random number' too? Because that's all a byte is, a number between 0 and 256.
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Sure there is, you start making the distinction between ads and regular content impossible. If all of the images on the site and all of the ads all map to something like www.sitename.com/resource/somekindofhash, then how would you
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In addition to your third paragraph, auto makers are disincentivized toward adding security features because they CAN'T advertise them. If Toyota started advertising the all new Prius with the feature "your ability to brake won&#x
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There is a reason to fight them: layout. The battle is not developers vs users, its designers vs users. Designers want everything to look exactly like their vision (understandably), and that means things like bits of text fitting in exactly
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It is still an issue, since vi/vim gets used for sudo purposes all the time. Any time someone uses visudo to modify their sudoers file, for example, that's giving root privileges to vim.
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I don't know if reddit can still be called a startup. It's a decade old content aggregator business. That's like calling Facebook a startup in social media.
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Is that why I keep getting notifications that github wants to use flash player? Good to know.
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Not really, no. If we're doing analogies, it's like you bought a house with no porch, and sometimes you accidentally get locked out and are stuck in the rain. These guys came along and built you a porch to put next to your house f
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I'm not saying that people want to be secretive about their own salary, I'm saying people are afraid to know the salaries of their peers. To use a childish simile, it's just like how most guys won't actually say how big

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