mehblahwhatevs

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by mehblahwhatevs 8y ago
Yea but be careful, I checked out coffeescript years ago (technically a "transpile" to JS). I changed the language then built a new compiler with it. However I apparently added some error in the language and the compiler was then
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by mehblahwhatevs 8y ago
Me too - now that the Uber app has tipping I choose to tip a nominal amount ($2 usually each trip). But prior to them adding it I was happy to not tip at all, even if in the end the price point for the trip was $2 higher. I'd prefer dr
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by mehblahwhatevs 8y ago
> "I remember when we raised money from Bill Gates...and Gates said something along the lines of, 'That’s a crock of shit. This isn’t a platform. A platform is when the economic value of everybody that uses it, exceeds the valu
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by mehblahwhatevs 8y ago
> WhatsApp and Instagram acquisitions needed approvals from EU before they could continue. What would it mean for a US based company if they decided to acquire two other US based companies and US regulators approved it, but EU regulators
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by mehblahwhatevs 8y ago
What if the accusation was false and it were made publicly? Or at the very least, if whisperings went around and all my (or your) co-workers found out about the accusation? "Guilt" in the court of public opinion is a real thing an
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by mehblahwhatevs 8y ago
Can someone on the new UI tell me how to get the calendar widget in the sidebar on the left? (below "Inbox", "Sent", "More", etc) I'm using an item from "Labs": > Google Calendar gadget > b
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by mehblahwhatevs 8y ago
I wonder if this is also a result of simple career progression. How do people go up the ladder if there's already people at the top? With people living longer, more women working, etc the organization has to create more positions at th
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by mehblahwhatevs 8y ago
Same here - I keep failing the "algorithm" phone screeners. I've been in software dev for a decade but don't have a comp sci degree and it shows a bit. Every few years when looking for a new job I stress and try to re-le
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by mehblahwhatevs 8y ago
> I don't think VC firms fund poets or musicians :) How would you fund a poet or musician in your funding model? Do they put an idea for a song or some such on the board and it's voted on? Who decides what poet is good or bad (
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by mehblahwhatevs 8y ago
This thinking is common that more middle-upper class people won't put up with a dictatorial regime. But isn't Singapore kind of a counter to that?
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by mehblahwhatevs 8y ago
I was thinking the same thing. Usually his tweets send stock down, this one sent it up but may be in violation of SEC rules. I imagine shareholders must be getting pissed whenever he goes off on a Trump like tirade on Twitter.
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by mehblahwhatevs 8y ago
Have you seen his tweets in just the past month or two? He's called a rescue diver a pedo and cried "fake news" when journalists have questioned Tesla's financials.
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by mehblahwhatevs 8y ago
I don't necessarily like this action. People are quick to point out that FB and Youtube are private entities and such but the reality is that they've become so ubiquitous in our lives that if they start censorship based on the com
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Ask HN: Anyone been recruited by VC firms to work for their portfolio companies?
5 points by mehblahwhatevs 8y ago|3 comments
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by mehblahwhatevs 8y ago
Wow hopefully this means I'll be able to use Firebase in China.
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by mehblahwhatevs 8y ago
And are not at all related to the content - horrible.
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by mehblahwhatevs 8y ago
Realistically, and I mean no disrespect to the profession or your daughter who is studying it, but why is a degree required here? And a master's at that? What exactly do they do that requires knowledge? My assumption is they shelve boo
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by mehblahwhatevs 8y ago
> Microsoft's own way of justice is against the legal systems in all the modern countries, which always makes sure that the accused knows their faults, as one of their rights, and for the benefit of the accused not getting involved
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by mehblahwhatevs 8y ago
* I'm curious as to what performance degradation you've seen on Android? * Have you evaluated cross-platform "native-ish" alternatives? (Nativescript, Flutter, etc.) * What does the "lack of 64-bit support" mea
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by mehblahwhatevs 8y ago
> Taking out a competitor is good for Slack, said Butterfield: “There’s fewer choices for people.” Strange quote.
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by mehblahwhatevs 8y ago
thanks for the advice - yes I'm on the JVM w/ spring boot. I suppose I may be overcomplicating things with trying to do it "the right way" right out of the gate. I guess the "perfect is the enemy of done" sayin
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by mehblahwhatevs 8y ago
I too am in great need of things like that. I'm a mobile dev developing an app that I think I'm going to quit my job for to work on full time. I'm 33 and in over a decade of doing mobile (and front-end web) programming I&#x27
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by mehblahwhatevs 8y ago
Many people use the ELK stack which is Logstash. I imagine you can swap out Fluentd for Logstash.
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by mehblahwhatevs 8y ago
I suspect people here that like them have worked in them prior to open office. In contrast I started my career about seven years ago and have only worked in open office environments. So to me the idea of being in a cube farm seems more unco
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by mehblahwhatevs 8y ago
Yes it seems like that episode of Rotten covers this exact story? At least from what I remember it was about a hive owner from Montana (?) who transported his bees to CA.
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by mehblahwhatevs 8y ago
Agreed. Similarly I've heard that police will often juke the stats, labeling deaths that are circumstantial as suicides so as not to investigate or try to get a guilty? Or that once you're arrested rights are questionable when it
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by mehblahwhatevs 8y ago
> the paleolithic era. That was probably peak human freedom, at least in my opinion A bit much no? The paleolithic era was when you'd get killed by some beast while walking through a field, killed by an arrow from some tribe nearby,
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by mehblahwhatevs 8y ago
I came in here to say the same thing. "Google Cloud Storage" could be a product but also the encompassing category of all the things you mentioned? Also on the Firebase pricing page ( https://firebase.google.com/pri
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by mehblahwhatevs 8y ago
What's worse is all the "hipster yoga" classes and movements taking place. Remember seeing that "Yoga with goats" class? Or "Yoga with kittens" in the studio. It's a great example of first-world privi
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by mehblahwhatevs 8y ago
Cool - how is the WebView support? I have a project that will require a WebView in the app. Also I downloaded Flutter a while back and noticed a lot of buggy / unintuitive behavior with their TextViews (multi-line specifically) such as

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