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by krrrh 8y ago
There does seem to be suspicion around leaving your desk to do “nothing”. I once worked at a place where a lot of my colleagues would take smoke breaks and thought it was unfair. I loudly started taking gum breaks where I would go outside a
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by krrrh 8y ago
That’s true of most people who don’t smoke up too. Bill Hicks had a good bit about splitting your record collection into two groups: records made by people who did drugs and those who didn’t. Then decide which albums you wanted to keep. It
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by krrrh 8y ago
Or standup comedians requiring people to lock their phones in neoprene bags before a show. I was at a Dave Chapelle show last year where he did this, and his surprise guest after the show was Kendrick Lamar. It was actually jarring to be at
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by krrrh 8y ago
It is actually mentioned: “Repair of motorized land vehicles (including tractors) by modifying the software is now legal. Importantly, this includes access to telematic diagnostic data—which was a major point of contention.” Along with this
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by krrrh 8y ago
"Why iAD failed" > Advertisers grew increasingly frustrated with Apple’s unwillingness to grant them access to the wealth of data the company possessed from its customers and Apple’s hundreds of millions of iTunes accounts. Eve
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by krrrh 8y ago
That's also only for value they extract from being the default search engine (which probably means they are used by 95+% of users). On Android they can also count on being the default for maps, mail, browser, and app distribution (not
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by krrrh 8y ago
Safari has supported third party ad blockers for a few years. I use 1BlockerX and it works well. There are dozens of other options. Including Firefox Gocus which blocks ads by default and also functions as an ad locker for Safari. https:&#
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by krrrh 8y ago
> But users should be less complaining if their device keeps working basically the same way as when they bought it years ago. But devices can never work the same as when they were purchased for two reasons. 1) Running an older OS with th
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by krrrh 8y ago
I think OP was contrasting the condition prior to USB being adopted by cell phone manufacturers, when every manufacturer had their own connectors (yes plural, and it’s not even right to say “cables” since they weren’t even standardized on U
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by krrrh 8y ago
Surprising level of disdain for Dyson here, which is consistent with HNs renewed fetish for robust older tech that lasts forever. To me, Dyson is a fascinating company, having totally changed the vacuum market by nixing the distinction betw
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by krrrh 8y ago
On devices with 3D Touch you can also press harder to activate text selection, which is something I use daily.
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You’re quite welcome. Best of luck with the startup.
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I think it's perfect. Obviously the customer base is never going to expand beyond programmers who already know what REPL stands for, and the full name is a homonym for "replete" which is aspirational for a tool that aims to g
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by krrrh 8y ago
I was specifically addressing their claims of disrupting the buying process. Under that criteria, ending price obfuscation (especially the doc fee) should be table stakes. As for the gas savings, it wouldn't be bad at all if they trump
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by krrrh 8y ago
Just in case anyone is wondering how this plays out pricewise, the base model is $46.2k, but they headline the price as $33.2k: Price $45,000 Incentives: -$7,500 Gasoline savings: -$4,300 Price after savings: $33,200 Destination & doc f
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by krrrh 8y ago
That’s really interesting. The point has been made about individual variance on the big-5 (OCEAN) personality traits, specifically openness and conscientiousness. Those with higher openness are good at starting new businesses or projects, w
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by krrrh 8y ago
It may also be of interest to HN that Jona Bechtolt & Claire Evans who are leading this project are the core members of the band Yacht. Claire recently published Broad Band [1] to acclaim, which explores the history of women involved
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by krrrh 8y ago
Reference for this?
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by krrrh 8y ago
Actually the numbers including women don't look too bad. With the recent recovery in employment it actually looks like labour participation has been relatively flat since the mid-eighties. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/gr
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by krrrh 8y ago
I appreciate the clarification, and you're totally right. I grabbed at the cover image as it flashed through my mind without actually taking time to remember the film, which I haven't seen for a while.
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by krrrh 8y ago
They teach you economic history and show that predictions of pervasive unemployment and lack of spending power caused by technical innovation have been made every decade and never been borne out as new ways of delivering societal value are
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by krrrh 8y ago
> Arguing that we should let unfettered capitalism solve tech addition like it's solved obesity is... I don't even know how to finish that sentence it's such an inane fly-in-the-face-of-reality statement. The Hollywood tro
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by krrrh 8y ago
I think I remember the blog you’re talking about, and now I’m wishing I could find it too. Everyone knew about the Time Cube guy, but the guy whose brain was being controlled by government electricity, that took your links page to another l
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by krrrh 8y ago
This is really misinformed. Apple has a VP position for environment which is staffed by former head of the EPA Lisa Jackson. At the last keynote event she got a prime time on stage to talk about Apple’s major initiative to make their device
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iCloud Photo Library dramatically changed the equation on this for most users. I test the iOS betas on an old 5S 16 GB, and it’s remarkable how much easier it is to use now than when it was new. Apple Music Library is the other big factor h
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It’s instructive to wonder why Venezuelan rulers felt forced to print money so wantonly. Ie. why did what should be a prosperous country given their natural advantages need to devalue their currency so massively, where did their debts, ruin
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by krrrh 8y ago
I’m not sure about state law in Oregon, but the term highway existed before the existence of cars, so calling something a highway doesn’t automatically mean you can drive on it. Similarly, while Americans have a consitutional right to use w
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I’ve never understood why they don’t have options for this as well as the cover of the last read book. They haven’t even updated the screensavers since the earliest Kindles.
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Zapya is one of the apps that almost everyone in SE Asia seems to have on their phones for transferring files back and forth in the absence of wifi networks. From what I could tell it is the primary way that music and photos are shared in M
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I switched to using the macOS mail app for the first time in years, and was kind of blown away by how fast it was. Native apps still have their place.

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