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by mikeryan 12y ago
It should be noted that folks who owned Aztek's loved them. This article makes it seems like the vehicle was despised across the board and that wasn't the case. Despite their looks they were solid cars with a ton of features. If
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by mikeryan 12y ago
I'm not sure there's a great reason to block the UI with an Alert. But I also can't remember the last time I saw one except a really horrible AP tool by GXS which uses an alert to tell me my browser won't work on their s
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by mikeryan 12y ago
Its the Shellshock security vulnerability. http://www.pcworld.com/article/2688672/two-scenarios-that-wo...
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by mikeryan 12y ago
I respectfully disagree. I find the title to be accurate to the question being posed. It doesn't feel that the article was about that direct incident so much as an exploration of the way we choose providers and whether something as vag
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by mikeryan 12y ago
I've always kind of found the total points to be a bit irrelevant. But I do take karma into account when posting which probably would prevent me from ever breaking into the top 100 of total points but does prevent me from posting every
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by mikeryan 12y ago
Not for points but I believe there is for karma.
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by mikeryan 12y ago
No, in SF and other urban areas transit lanes are exclusively for taxis and buses.
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by mikeryan 12y ago
I had the same issue. 50 billion is used interchangeably in the most nonsensical ways. (Hey! its a 50 Billion dollar industry! we capture 5% of that and we have $2.5 Billion in Revenues!) 1. $50B startup (ie market cap) 2. $50 billion cust
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by mikeryan 12y ago
Because the profits from those drugs can be used to fund new drug therapies as well. Same reason as private companies. I'd prefer the drugs are made available to anyone who needs them at a reasonable rate (maybe a sliding scale based o
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by mikeryan 12y ago
On first scan I read that as Google instead of Gobble and though WTF Google?!? anyway. carry on.
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by mikeryan 12y ago
(this thread is a dupe) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8336954
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by mikeryan 12y ago
After 9.7B in "profit" those legal bills as significant as they could be would just be a rounding error.
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by mikeryan 12y ago
I agree with you however, it should be noticed there's a large box on the page where Chevron notes its role (emphasis mine). "This news website is brought to you by Chevron Richmond. We aim to provide Richmond residents with impor
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by mikeryan 12y ago
You're missing the point. With all one star reviews in a crowded field like restaurants most folks will never see your reviews on Yelp. They don't care if you don't find them they're doing just fine without Yelp's
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by mikeryan 12y ago
Are the salaries set in bitcoin? Or Canadian Dollars and then exchanged for bitcoin on payday at market rates? Either way, It seems I'd rather be paid in dollars for the stability then have the ability to trade these for bitcoin with d
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by mikeryan 12y ago
Backbone, React, and Polymer at least are component Libraries (Backbone can be used as a lightweight framework but its also a collection of tools) Ember and Angular are heavier weight but they do play well with others in different cases (th
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by mikeryan 12y ago
The first couple of these all have before and after pseudo elements. If you're going to use those its kind of cheating calling it a single div when you have 3 styleable elements
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by mikeryan 12y ago
I've always used Backbone more as a collection of libraries and in that way its nice for lighter weight use cases and plays well with other JS code. I'm not sure if it has (or needs) enough structure to build the same sort of apps
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by mikeryan 12y ago
What you are describing is a sommelier exam. There's an interesting documentary on some guys taking their master sommelier exam on Netflix called "Somm" who show an impressive array of these skills.
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by mikeryan 12y ago
How much has doing the startup cost you. If you're bootstrapped you've probably both put personal funds in as well as a salary opportunity costs. Thats your base. Now you need to find a multiplier for the opportunity you're g
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by mikeryan 12y ago
Its funny I've always thought that Twitter could really be run by 100 folks (heck I've said 40) and be hugely profitable and it a lot of ways more efficient. Instead they've got 2300 employees to allow folks stream 140 charac
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by mikeryan 12y ago
Funny I've bought two houses in Berkeley in the last 4 years (bought one, sold it, bought another) both times I found the Redfin data to be spot on, ie new listings every Thursday the same list I'd get from my agent. This won&#x2
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by mikeryan 12y ago
That post is dire need of a follow up. Would be great to see where some of the more final numbers end up of his three he's still looking forward to Weebly is still kicking at a $500M valuation, Meraki was acquired for 1.2B and Wufoo go
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by mikeryan 12y ago
I know a guy with an MBA who runs a successful interactive agency thats had 100% revenue growth year over year. His MBA has better trained him to handle the operations, accounting and marketing side of his business, since up to the point of
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by mikeryan 12y ago
Assuming you have Comcast equipment if a local service center is accessible it might be worth your time to walk in and drop the equipment off when you cancel. There can be a long tail on these if you have to send back equipment. The folks
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by mikeryan 12y ago
What absurdity are you balancing? Do you run around internet forums instantly defending the accused in posted articles?
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by mikeryan 12y ago
I doubt it. I've not yet seen a consumer device were video rendering is done on one device then displayed wirelessly on another that works well at all. (Note, most Chromcast apps - Netflix etc) just tell the Chromecast what to play an
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by mikeryan 12y ago
You ever see those commercial restaurant spaces which seem like a good spot on paper, but every restaurant that goes into it seems to fail? Thats kind of how I feel about all the "We fixed email" startups. A real pain point but on
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by mikeryan 12y ago
I think my default code these for cases where like this where an option is to "do nothing" or "return 0" is to always to have a first line like: if (dont_have_to_do_anything) return;
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by mikeryan 12y ago
Seriously I've been using ADP for a year and a half and they've fucked it up every time we've added an employee, we also found out at tax time that they'd failed to withhold New York City income tax for our New York empl

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