kylec

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by kylec 12y ago
A few things: I hate wires coming out of my mice. I can tolerate the thin braided cables coming out of most high-end mice, but that's about it. With Mouse Box, I'd have display, USB, and a bunch of other stuff sticking out of the
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by kylec 12y ago
I think you might misunderstand the nature of the artificial sounds mentioned in this article. It's not talking about electric cars making noise for the benefit of pedestrians (although that does get a cursory mention), it's talki
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by kylec 12y ago
I have no problem with manufacturers including fake engine noise as a feature as long as it can be disabled by the customer.
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by kylec 12y ago
The title should more correctly say "Whatsapp for Google Chrome". You can't really say it's for "web" if Chrome is the only browser you support.
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by kylec 12y ago
I agree with this. My employer provides free lunch three days per week and I find myself wishing it was every day. Going out and finding lunch on my own is a huge hassle and takes a long time. I'm happy to quickly pop down to the cafet
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by kylec 12y ago
I wonder if you can turn around and face the glass walls when sitting, or if you have to have them to your back. If it's the latter, there's zero privacy advantage in this case to having a private office.
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by kylec 12y ago
Wherever my next job is, I'll make sure to take a tour of the working environment. If it looks anything like these photos, I'll decline an offer.
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by kylec 12y ago
Loads Slow. No Fun.
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by kylec 12y ago
It looks like Cactus is no longer available on the Mac App Store. Any reason why you took it down as opposed to simply making it free there?
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by kylec 12y ago
I don't know, but what actually happens is immaterial. All that matters is perception, and my perception (selection bias and all) is that starting or being involved in a startup seems much less risky than it did 5 or 10 years ago. I&#x
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by kylec 12y ago
I remember Paul Graham once saying that 9 out of 10 startups fail, but it seems that nowadays outright failure is less and less common. Sure, only a fraction of startups get really big, but it seems like acquihires are becoming the default
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by kylec 12y ago
When engineering a file format, you have multiple competing priorities you need to balance, such as size of the resulting file, reading and writing efficiency, backward compatibility, etc. Since Adobe didn't anticipate using PSD as a g
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by kylec 12y ago
Was PSD designed to be a portable format? My understanding is that it was only meant to be used directly by Adobe Photoshop, much like the original DOC was meant to be used only by Microsoft Word. As such, it's a little unfair to call
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by kylec 12y ago
Another commenter in this thread said that Automattic workers outside the US and Canada are contractors: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8811183
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by kylec 12y ago
I found this while Googling for unrelated OpenBSD stuff: http://www.skeptech.org/blog/2013/01/13/unscrewed-a-story-ab...
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by kylec 12y ago
I suspect that the lack of 1FUI is also part of why high DPI support is lagging pretty badly on Linux. In some window managers/distros you can get something that sort of/mostly works for built-in stuff, but once you launch a third
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by kylec 12y ago
I bought a VW earlier this year and financed it through VW Credit, which is part of the Volkswagen Group.
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by kylec 12y ago
Fines are one thing, but I bet that Uber would quickly find themselves with a manpower shortage if drivers started getting arrested. It's probably only a matter of time before Uber provokes a city into doing just that.
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by kylec 12y ago
I use Sublime, but mainly because its search features are the best I've seen in any text editor. I can grep the entire codebase I'm working with for a specific string or pattern, or limit the search to specific kinds of files or f
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by kylec 12y ago
Curiously, that's exactly the same number of pixels as a "4K" 3840x2160 screen. Should be drivable by graphics cards that can drive 4K.
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by kylec 12y ago
I tried an on-tap Brita filter. Maybe the pitcher would have worked better, I did not try it.
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by kylec 12y ago
The tap water in my apartment is disgusting. I tried filtering it, but it still tastes terrible. It doesn't even do a good job of cleaning my dishes in my dishwasher. I buy Poland Spring by the case, keep it in the refrigerator, and dr
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by kylec 12y ago
Intel does offer quad-core mobile chips with Intel 5000+ graphics. Apple's even shipping them in the 15" retina MacBook Pro. Here's the mid-tier chip: http://ark.intel.com/products/83504/Intel-Core-i
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by kylec 12y ago
It is a standard piece of equipment that shipped with the car from VW. After I posted my comment earlier, I decided to do another search and I found this thread: http://forums.vwvortex.com/showthread.php?7020025-CarNet-Que..
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by kylec 12y ago
100% sure? No. However, I got the email a day or two after I crossed 10,000, about 5 months after I bought the car, which is a bit sooner than average I would imagine. It's also one of the advertised features of CarNet ( http:/&#x
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by kylec 12y ago
About six months ago I bought a VW with their "CarNet" integration. I am concerned about my car relaying information about where I go and how I drive - at a minimum, I know that it notifies the dealership when I cross over a 10,00
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by kylec 12y ago
Not all his posts are links to his blog: https://twitter.com/alex_gaynor/status/524683684180271106 But even if they were, there's a certain irony to decrying Twitter while syndicating yourself on it.
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by kylec 12y ago
For someone that supposedly quit Twitter months ago, there are a surprising number of recent tweets: https://twitter.com/Alex_Gaynor Not to mention the big Twitter logo linking to his profile at the top of his blog.
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by kylec 12y ago
I'm looking to set up an OpenBSD server myself. Things are going quite well, but I'm not looking forward to the upgrade process (as an example, here's 5.4 -> 5.5 http://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade55.ht
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by kylec 12y ago
I can live with soldered-on RAM - there is a bit of an Apple premium to the RAM they sell, but at least you can get the configuration you want. I'm much more disappointed by the lack of a quad-core option. I was planning on picking up

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