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by lr 11y ago
The thing that is never, ever talked about in these discussions is "geographic diversity", or "discrimination" as these folks would see it. Harvard could fill its entire freshman class each year with students from east c
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by lr 11y ago
"One of the things I find frustrating about web development is there is no interface builder" There was, and Apple killed it. It was WebObjects Builder and it was a GUI for interacting with the components you wrote in code in XCod
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by lr 11y ago
I actually love that he started the post talking about WebObjects. Probably the only relatively mainstream MVC framework that was designed by people who actually understood what MVC is supposed to do/be, and why.
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TAG Heuer Connected Watch(us.tagheuer.com)
1 points by lr 11y ago|0 comments
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by lr 11y ago
You can see the results of this all over NYC. A building down the street from where I live has had scaffolding around it for over 2 years as they replace the bricks (building owners have to test the bricks ever 5 years in NYC if their build
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by lr 11y ago
Another Republican-appointed federal judge. Remember at voting time, there are three branches of government, and then ask yourself this: Do I want this person to be responsible for appointing or approving judges to the federal bench?
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Sorry Airbnb, you don’t get a gold star for paying taxes(washingtonpost.com)
10 points by lr 11y ago|0 comments
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The Research Is Clear: Long Hours Backfire for People and for Companies(hbr.org)
9 points by lr 11y ago|0 comments
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Why was the post about meritocracy being a myth in SV flagged?
4 points by lr 11y ago|2 comments
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by lr 11y ago
I think you are confusing the commenter and the original poster.
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Reading Rainbow is Back(readingrainbow.com)
2 points by lr 11y ago|0 comments
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by lr 12y ago
I don't know, they might hold the cure to cancer... We destroy our ecosystem at our own peril. In this time of drought, this seems like a no-brainer, but I would rather spend water on fish in an actual river (where tens of millions of
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by lr 12y ago
I used to think China needed us. Now I think they are using us up the way the US has used up 3rd-world countries for decades.
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by lr 12y ago
The images of California reservoirs remind me of images of the Aral sea in Uzbekistan which was drained during Soviet times in order to grow cotton in the middle of the Central Asian desert. Humans really are greedy and stupid.
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by lr 12y ago
"All of a sudden I was frustrated that she was stuck wasting her time in high school taking yet another history class, when she could be doing what she wanted to do with her life and spending all day learning skills that will help her
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Airbnb Listings Mostly Illegal, NY State Contends(nytimes.com)
64 points by lr 12y ago|61 comments
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Why Can’t This Man Refinance?(nytimes.com)
2 points by lr 12y ago|0 comments
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by lr 12y ago
They should have just gone with Windows 11.
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by lr 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_9
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by lr 12y ago
Then you need to write to the state universities (and even private universities) in your state, as well, as they do the same thing with both state-funded and federally-funded research. It has been going on for decades.
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Why Jeff Bezos' 2-Pizza Rule Works(businessinsider.com)
3 points by lr 12y ago|0 comments
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by lr 12y ago
If you want to do Mac dev, I strongly recommend joining lynda.com and watching Simon Allardice's Objective-C and Cocoa programming videos. You can watch all of them in one month, and it will be $25 well spent. Also, there is Lucas Derr
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by lr 12y ago
I can see what you are saying (however, I don't agree), but I think there is a bigger issue afoot: there are just too few companies that do any one thing, i.e., in a world of 7+ billion people, there are only a handful of companies tha
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by lr 12y ago
And I continue to just not get it... I have no idea how people can compare Uber, which uses drivers who must have a license (not just a driver's license, but a license/permit/insurance to transport passengers, and must comply
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UC considering ban on Uber, Lyft, Airbnb(blog.sfgate.com)
3 points by lr 12y ago|1 comments
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Why I built my startup in Vancouver, not Silicon Valley(theglobeandmail.com)
1 points by lr 12y ago|0 comments
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Check your Google Account OAuth Authorizations(security.google.com)
1 points by lr 12y ago|0 comments
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by lr 12y ago
LDAP?
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by lr 12y ago
Video of the 2014 Ferrari Steering Wheel: http://www.formula1.com/news/technical/2014/0/1180.html
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Apple on medical tech hiring spree(reuters.com)
55 points by lr 12y ago|50 comments

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