kngspook

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by kngspook 12y ago
0. Software is supposed to be designed to serve me; it's not my job to find workarounds for shitty design. This is a shitty design, and therefore people are criticizing it. 1. It's annoying because I already have all the birthdays
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by kngspook 12y ago
As I was scrolling through the list, that was my thought too... "Hey, check out all these porn sites I didn't know about!" Then I realized their master plan: they're protecting their business model by (1) making it harde
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by kngspook 12y ago
> it's trivial for even a mildly technical person to figure out how to get around it Copy & paste?
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by kngspook 12y ago
Just because a past fork was shitty doesn't mean all future forks will be shitty. There were other issues aside from lock-in.
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by kngspook 12y ago
IMHO: It's not too annoying having a long password if you make it a sentence. It's when people try to get a single "word" up to 18 chars that it becomes annoying to type. A sentence is also nice because it's not too
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by kngspook 12y ago
I've always wondered this... So many organizations do this.
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by kngspook 12y ago
What's being shown here...?
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by kngspook 12y ago
The real link: http://edge.org/conversation/why-sex-differences-matter-the-... (OP's link goes to the author's bio page.)
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by kngspook 12y ago
As a former employee, that was my first thought when I read the post too. Every once in a while, I would stay late there and work on a little personal project for fun there. Sometimes one of my friends would be working late, and I'd ju
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by kngspook 12y ago
I used to code in it pretty regularly as for a 2-3 months ago, and it was pretty solid for my usage (but I wasn't doing anything too crazy with bundles). But since then, including the recent beta, I've only been using it fairly sp
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by kngspook 12y ago
Webapps (most if not all have desktop/mobile apps too, listed here if I use the web version 45%+ of the time) * Gmail * Facebook * LinkedIn * Twitter * Posthaven * TripIt * Netflix * 8Tracks * HabitRPG Webapps (which I use primarily vi
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Ask HN: What browsers are devs at top web companies using?
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by kngspook 12y ago
To listen to Mark Suster's post, it sounds like they did a very comprehensive vet, so I would presume someone ran the basic math like you were thinking and like the link above runs through. And with just a lay-person's knowledge o
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by kngspook 12y ago
I worked professionally on email clients for 4 years, and was a hobbyist for a while before that. I almost always use imapsync by Gilles Lamiral. By default it will do a uni-directional transfer, but it accounts for duplicates and can be in
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by kngspook 12y ago
Like you said, all the negative things you feared would come to pass have, in fact, already come to pass. Companies regularly hide information, mislead everyone they're legally allowed to, and outright lie. And no one is surprised. No
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by kngspook 12y ago
Re: Quantcast -- "I'm also really struggling to understand how 17,671 unique people could create only 11,005 visits..." Quantcast's visits metrics is counting the computers that hit the site, whereas the unique people is
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by kngspook 12y ago
How're you checking?
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by kngspook 12y ago
I agree with anigbrowl that this too vague and open-ended for a meaningful answer. But maybe a few datapoints will help you. (And for context, I'm generally considered a little on the paranoid side amongst my friends/peers.) In ge
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by kngspook 12y ago
Slicehost, now owned by Rackspace and rebranded accordingly I think, used to be almost exactly the same as Linode. To the point where, when I was picking my first VPS box, I narrowed it down to those two, and then ended up picking based on
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by kngspook 12y ago
TLDs are absolutely significant, and no TLD is viewed by any majority of the internet as equivalent to .com. .io is probably way better for a technically oriented site. The answer to all your other questions is "no".
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by kngspook 12y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but in general, I think the answer is no. The DMCA protects online service providers from being liable for things their users do. Additionally, plagiarism itself is not crime or legal offense; instead you'd be mo
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by kngspook 12y ago
Buy a dozen Raspberry Pis with cash, configure accordingly, wander around Marriotts dropping them in inconspicuous locations (keep an eye out for cameras), leave. Congratulations, first DDOS of a geographical site instead of a virtual one.
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by kngspook 12y ago
Agreed. That was immediately my first thought when I saw this.
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by kngspook 12y ago
Pretty cool that you made the forum automatically create account when the game account is made. It's the small touches that make the difference between something people will use and something people love to use. Like other people comme
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by kngspook 12y ago
But if you remove the other advantages/disadvantages of being female/male, and just ask someone: "Would you rather be judged on your profession/career or personality/behavior?", I think most rational people wou
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by kngspook 12y ago
It also seems to tangentially make sense with the bias against "smaller" men in leadership positions.
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by kngspook 12y ago
I'd be really interested in seeing some example resumes in this style, if you have any...
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by kngspook 12y ago
That is pretty funny. :P
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by kngspook 12y ago
True, forgot about that.
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by kngspook 12y ago
Plus, there isn't any stock/equity/etc. And less perks (for example, free food can easily be effectively raise your salary by a couple grand).

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