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by kevinh 14y ago
I, and many of my coworkers, found the ad series - especially the "Basically" ad painful to watch because it was so embarrassing to watch. Apple generally tries to make their products seem "cool", but this ad did just the opposite. Add th
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by kevinh 14y ago
Apple has done some things that I don't think are wise since the death of Steve Jobs - the "new iPad" branding, the new Apple ads, the potential new form factors developer have to design for. However, they also made some decisions that I th
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by kevinh 14y ago
So because HBO is selling more subscriptions to HBO (due to having one of the most popular shows available), they're doing as well as they possibly can? That seems like it's ignoring all of the customers they could pick up and are sweepi
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by kevinh 14y ago
The techcrunch article title is misleading - they don't want to be Amazon; they're not maintaining warehouses (which may prevent them from crashing like Webvan). They're effectively delivery people that you hire to bring you products from
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by kevinh 14y ago
That's an unverifiable statement and it would depend heavily on the shooters involved. It's as much conjecture as if I were to say that each bullet fired from each shooter's gun would only hit people without weapons.
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by kevinh 14y ago
There may be a difference between scaling well and scaling 9th on alexa well. Sometimes bad carpenters blame their tools, but sometimes the tools weren't planned for something of that scale.
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by kevinh 14y ago
Content like this has reached the top from time to time for at least as long as I've been frequenting this site (about three years). It's amusing to note that these comments generally come from people with new accounts. It's so prevalent,
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by kevinh 14y ago
When they show the image that is half prepared burger and half store bought burger (3:20), you can see that they're almost exactly the same height. We perceive the store bought one to be smaller because it has cheese covering up most of
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by kevinh 14y ago
It's not really as easy as you make it sound. Incorrect moderation will cripple a site and prevent people from contributing, but moderation is necessary to prevent the site from declining in quality. Without moderation, a site's quality w
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by kevinh 15y ago
Interesting. Thanks for the response.
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by kevinh 15y ago
Poker games have some weird results, like having numbers for keywords. Is this some way of gaming the system or a bug? http://www.appcod.es/appsearch/poker
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by kevinh 15y ago
Impressive game. One small issue I had with it was that when you're holding a direction key and jump (and gravity subsequently inverts), continuing to hold the key will now rocket you off in a different direction. IMO, it's design to hav
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by kevinh 15y ago
Hopefully they open source their code after they finish. It would be fun to see what people could do with it (since it's probably unlikely they'll be supporting a game that's making them no money).
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by kevinh 15y ago
> oh. Acting like someone doesn't have meaningful contribution to a dialogue because of where they have worked says more about you than the person you're conversing with.
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by kevinh 15y ago
Many of the comments on the post are disgusting. People being downvoted for supporting the removal of subreddits such as r/beatingwomen and r/beatingtrannies under the guise of supporting free speech (which isn't really a viable point on a
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by kevinh 15y ago
With all due respect, most of the arguments that you're proposing here are the result of historians rife with accusations of revisionist history - Alperovitz especially. The Japanese did express a desire for peace before the bombs were drop
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by kevinh 15y ago
Perhaps not SimTower, but Tiny Tower shares a lot in common with flash game Corporation Inc[1] by well known flash developer jmtb02, which came along before it. Nimblebit was called out by drumcowski for doing so[2]. Tiny Tower isn't real
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by kevinh 15y ago
Oh please. $6.8 trillion damages? I thought HN was supposed to be free of hyperbole. This sort of speculation is meaningless.
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by kevinh 15y ago
You say that, but multiple people with intent to commit a school shooting/bombing have been caught because they revealed their intentions online. Monitoring doesn't have to be done to catch the stereotypical "terrorist", but can also catch
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by kevinh 15y ago
I don't think you read the article. It is only saying that there are two things you need to know in jest. If you looked at the article, you'd see that many fields, such as CS, have more than one set of "two things" that you need to know.
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by kevinh 15y ago
I find it truly bizarre just how many employees Zynga has, considering the number of products they produce. Mobile development has shown us time and time again that a game like Farmville can be easily made with 5 employees. There must b
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by kevinh 15y ago
I disagree. Here's the scenario I envision with spammers on G+. Tell me if you see it differently because I could certainly be missing an angle. 1. Spammer signs up with fake name (something like John Smith) and either has no profile pict
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by kevinh 15y ago
A pseudonym system is ripe for abuse. I can certainly understand why Google would be adverse to implementing it. If not being able to use a pseudonym is a gamebreaker for someone, they should not be using Google+. Side note: I respect jwz
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by kevinh 15y ago
This is more reason to research the company's salaries up front. If they were planning to lowball you and you put out a high number, it may help you, but if you don't know anything about the company, it may be more beneficial to let them m
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by kevinh 15y ago
Ad networks generally pay mobile developers for impressions, not for clickthroughs, so you are making them money. I have to say that I'm very disappointed that you block ads. Certainly it wouldn't hurt to simply ignore the ads, given that
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by kevinh 15y ago
I'm not surprised. Achievements are another form of positive feedback and in the case of programming, can provide an additional incentive for continuing to code.
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by kevinh 15y ago
I don't understand why you view removing the links and not the content as a technicality and not the crux of the issue. If you're ordered to remove content from your servers and do not do so, it's unsurprising that you aren't really co
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by kevinh 15y ago
The conflation of gay as being both homosexual and stupid is a result of homophobia and continuing to use it as such is a conscious decision that marginalizes a group of people. Whether or not they outright intend it that way, they are usi
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by kevinh 15y ago
And with the recent retweets, the latent homophobia present in the general public.
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by kevinh 15y ago
I simply don't think you understand what people are willing to do. I know many people who would play Wikipedia Jenga - you edit Wikipedia with bigger and more ridiculous edits and the person who gets the article reverted is the "loser". I

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