krisdol

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by krisdol 8y ago
Has he really been learning anything at all?
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by krisdol 8y ago
It is. Tipping culture incentivizes American service to get you out the door and free up your table for the next group. The wait staff are also constantly coming by the table to refill things or ask you to spend more money on more drinks an
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by krisdol 8y ago
I would. It's freedom in the sense of "freedom to deny others' freedom". That's pretty directly analogous to 1984's "freedom is slavery".
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by krisdol 8y ago
That's the way I see it. Vevo means I don't get to see lyrics, I get a video with weird intro/outro patters and instead of just the song, I get the censored and shortened radio version of the song, and I get more ads. If vevo
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by krisdol 8y ago
They can also be quite smart. What was your referrer, what's your user flow through the site, what do similar users do when arriving from the same pages and searches? What time of day is it for the visitor? ie: figure out why they are
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by krisdol 8y ago
The US has a problem of private industry infiltrating and co-opting government, and people largely normalizing it. The landscape for telecoms is simultaneously over-regulated with respect to allowing room for new players to enter the market
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by krisdol 8y ago
So steam should release a game streaming app that’s separate from a store app.
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by krisdol 8y ago
I can't stand what ubers and lyft do to congestion. The drivers have no incentive to stop in marked areas or even pull over to the side when picking up/dropping off. Most of our busier two-lane streets are now 1-lane congested beh
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by krisdol 8y ago
As another data point, perfect record, about $700 a year in insurance for my spouse and I sharing a car in Boston.
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by krisdol 8y ago
Had you considered a bike? I've lived in Austin, spent time in Seattle. Ditching the car and using the savings to afford a more centrally-located place in those places could make sense, especially when the alternative is sitting at hom
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by krisdol 8y ago
Not only that, but 2 cars over 2 years; and, measuring depreciation as a cost. Also, comparing the maintenance cost of owning a BMW to riding in an uberpool. I don't know about your locality, but most of my rideshare vehicles are budge
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by krisdol 8y ago
>As an employer I don't care how great your skills are, if you can't walk me through your thought process for 45 minutes you're not going to be overly successful. If you can't incorporate feed back or engage when pres
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by krisdol 8y ago
I don’t understand what they mean with the Java comments. Moving from 5 to 6 was a massive pain at one of my companies. It was a two year transition that went into the EOL of 5. 6 to 7 was just barely any better. Maybe they wrote forward-co
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by krisdol 8y ago
Do you see that there was more to my comment than what you quoted in yours?
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by krisdol 8y ago
Because they sell ads, some of them video ads.
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by krisdol 8y ago
Being the second biggest polluter of CO2 pretty clearly refutes that “developing countries” are the biggest polluters. The US has a lot of problems, but I’m not sure I’d call it developing.
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by krisdol 8y ago
False. The US the biggest CO2 polluter per capita and the second biggest CO2 polluter overall. California contributes a significant chunk to that equation.
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by krisdol 8y ago
Today my cto and some other old timers were discussing bugs from the early days of the company, and one of the observations was that optimistic updates create pessimistic users. Network hiccups, power outages, closed browsers, server lockup
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by krisdol 8y ago
Same. I’m holding on to my 6s until its last breath. I replaced the battery recently and that boosted its performance back to launch-day levels, so I’ll probably keep chugging along for another two years at least. To me, no headphone jack m
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by krisdol 8y ago
Kind of exactly like “disable” on an android unless you know the magic incantation for your device to get a third party OS installed. I deleted iTunes, music app, the games center, and other built-ins on my iPhone and I cannot re-open them
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by krisdol 8y ago
If you replace "robots" with "employees", does that make your questions any easier to answer?
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by krisdol 8y ago
This seems to be from 2014
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by krisdol 9y ago
I’m 29. I and many people I know have used checks several times over the past decade. It always surprises me when I read these stories on hn about how checks are dead, but this is not dissimilar to the mentality that self driving cars will
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by krisdol 9y ago
There is no expectation of tips in Japanese restaurants. Adding a tip there is often confusing if not insulting. I’m not so sure you’d really miss the practice if you ate there.
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by krisdol 9y ago
I'm not really on board with using babel for a server-only project either, but I do like jest for testing and have in fact only used it for node app servers so far.
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by krisdol 9y ago
Its employees operate within the culture and norms established by its owners and investors.
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by krisdol 9y ago
Seems like there are an awful lot of journalists being jailed for anything you say to be true.
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by krisdol 9y ago
Complicated? Remove this “feature” to start: >all of which upload your personal data from the phones to their own servers without your knowledge or consent. Our default legal position shouldn’t be one of accommodating a corporation’s exi
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by krisdol 9y ago
EU stands for European Union.
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by krisdol 9y ago
I call them average. My buddies and I were all starting up our own sites and fan pages about our favorite cartoons using homestead and geocities before we were teens. Didn't know crud about HTML but WYSIWYG editors existed then too.

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