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by kevinpet 14y ago
You expect something other than downvotes for posting a cliche everyone has seen a hundred times and adds no additional insight?
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by kevinpet 14y ago
I don't personally find it too big to read, but I will go out on a limb and propose that if the main goal of your site is to provide text content to readers, don't set a font size at all. Unfortunately I don't know of any way to get a mobil
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by kevinpet 14y ago
I suspect (but am too lazy to research) that it's intended for captions on buttons and similar non-content elements. Seems reasonable in that context.
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by kevinpet 14y ago
I think it's more a matter of most people writing about the Tesla in 2009 were automotive enthusiasts. They could not conceive of somebody wanting something that did not appeal to them, and concentrated only on the negative. This is the foo
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by kevinpet 14y ago
If you think a start up is about technology, you are missing the point. A "start up" is a seed for a big company. Lyfe Kitchen in Palo Alto is a startup because it's a single restaurant to get product market fit before opening a chain throu
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by kevinpet 14y ago
The post I replied to said "everyone can look at someone's dress and decide if it's fashionable for their demographic." I cannot. I think I can mostly decide whether it's appropriate, but I'm not confident in that ability. I am quite certai
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by kevinpet 14y ago
"everyone can look at someone's dress and decide if it's fashionable for their demographic." You may have forgotten where you are discussing this topic. I certainly have no clue whether something is fashionable. I'd be hard pressed to tell
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by kevinpet 14y ago
I think they could claim not to have had any knowledge of anything until now. It's much easier to sue over things that the company knew about.
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by kevinpet 14y ago
Bringing the profits into the US isn't about where it's made. It's about where the company is based for purposes of dividends. Apple is a US company right now, and if they were to pay dividends, it would be the US branch (the public company
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by kevinpet 14y ago
No one ever knows how badly they need something until they see it. When you see a retina display, then go back to normal resolution, you notice a slight difference. And that can be enough to push people from "I'll upgrade when it breaks" to
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by kevinpet 14y ago
Encrypting files in the browser with javascript is a perfectly valid approach to security storing content. It's just hard to get right.
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by kevinpet 14y ago
The same can be said of a free market, but that shouldn't stop us from comparing mostly free market economies with mostly communist economies.
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by kevinpet 14y ago
That's completely misleading. The capital gains tax paid by some Californians may be going from 24.3% to 37.1% but only 3% of that has anything to do with California. This is important because changes that affect other states as well do not
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by kevinpet 14y ago
Yeah, ruby doesn't do well with parallelism, and if you want parallel tests, you're probably doing it in separate processes, because the ruby community chooses to completely ignore everything that's known about how to write code that behave
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by kevinpet 14y ago
His recommended solution prevents parallelizing your unit tests. Dependency injection is not just testable globals. It's about declaratively defining what global-ish things your class depends on. You also don't need to provide the date as a
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by kevinpet 14y ago
There may be advantages if you are using it to run an air conditioner somewhere sunny. Peak output will sync up to peak usage, and you won't need to take the losses stepping it up and down for distribution. There might be a bit of conspicuo
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by kevinpet 14y ago
An easy way to spot a bullshit article with more concern for their agenda than truth is implying a comparison between numbers that can't be compared. "Meanwhile, only 2 percent of the victims of the American drone war — a body count that no
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by kevinpet 14y ago
Really? Find me one today. Find me a textbook that says that published in the last ten years. I'm tired of seeing this trotted out as a straw man of the crowd who thinks sometimes comments are good.
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by kevinpet 14y ago
They're targeting education. The whole point is being able to get all the kids the same computer so that dev tools can be standardized and you can worry about learning something useful, rather than learning about driver incomptabilities. Th
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by kevinpet 14y ago
I was also turned off by the use of "geeks" when he really means "hustlers looking to make a buck". Maybe they overlap, and there's especially a lot of overlap on HN, but a market opportunity is not uniquely appealing to geeks.
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by kevinpet 14y ago
He isn't claiming it's art. He's saying that we wouldn't criticize the guy spending $50 a month on art supplies to spread on a canvas with their feet, so what's wrong with his hobby?
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by kevinpet 14y ago
Carpentry craftsmanship risks putting the furniture at the centre rather than the benefit the furniture is supposed to deliver, mostly because we are romantics with big egos. Carpentry is about having a place to sit, a place to put your cof
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by kevinpet 14y ago
One does not invest in markets. One invests in assets, preferably productive assets. If I drink milk, I can either continue to buy it at the store, or buy a cow. By investing in a milk-producing asset, I've made myself market neutral to mil
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by kevinpet 14y ago
Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners. Larry Harris. http://www.amazon.com/Trading-Exchanges-Market-Microstructur... This does a really good job of explaining how having people fulfilling different roles viz trade
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by kevinpet 14y ago
The use of "alarmism" is a political judgment dismissing the extreme of what some scientists claim is the only possible policy choice. Ethics and cost benefit analysis is never a scientific question. The cost benefit analysis needs input fr
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by kevinpet 14y ago
Your counter example is poor. Flynn holds a degree in a related (but not closely related) field. He holds a PhD from a real university. He has published in the leading journals for his area of research. The only possible way he triggers any
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by kevinpet 14y ago
By literally you mean metaphorically?
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by kevinpet 14y ago
Unfortunately, his body double was arrested in Mexico on a fake North Korean passport. I'm not making this up.
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by kevinpet 14y ago
I think the lesson for big business was "don't fuck with our companies" and the lesson for startups was "we won't let big business fuck you over".
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by kevinpet 14y ago
Anyone who's been in the military recently has spent quite a bit of time packing and repacking a shipping container, or just hanging out inside one during poor weather. I note that the Amsterdam student housing has an internal cross section

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