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by mithr 7y ago
> You would think universities would be a little more lax They were. A casual look at Stallman's history will show you that his views (and behaviors), as well as his discussion of them in a public forum, are not by any means new or
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Better shuts down one month after death of founder
4 points by mithr 7y ago|1 comments
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by mithr 7y ago
When I scroll past the bottom of an article and then scroll back up, the page seamlessly redirects me to the main page mid-scroll... that's incredibly irritating!
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by mithr 7y ago
I think that if "downloading apps users can't log into wastes their time" was the problem Apple was trying to solve, this would be a good (maybe better?) solution. But the problem they're going after is bigger: how do yo
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by mithr 7y ago
Apple knows that for most people ( unlike this website's audience), the privacy concern is not as important as using That Cool New App, and if this was just another option developers could , but didn't have to implement, many
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by mithr 7y ago
I think it's somewhat unreasonable to believe that, in the sense that Apple is pretty explicitly using their clout to make it much harder for companies to do this. When a company blocks Mailinator, they're giving up a pretty sma
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by mithr 7y ago
In general, I believe it's based on the belief that children in partiular don't yet have the necessary mental tools to be able to properly analyze content -- basically, that they're influenced by media to a much higher degree
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by mithr 7y ago
I think that over the past couple of years in particular, the real-world consequences of all of this have really come into the spotlight. It's one thing to hear a tech CEO talk about something you may not agree with -- many people just
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by mithr 8y ago
If this is really for the purpose of email verification, I can't even begin to fathom what they were thinking. Asking for users' email credentials is terrible, but even requiring that they log in using OAuth is ridiculous! Verifyi
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J.T. Hutt and Aunt May Intern at the White House Council of Economic Advisors
2 points by mithr 8y ago|0 comments
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by mithr 8y ago
I believe it's about the type of product you're paying for -- the Spotify site specifically says Apple doesn't allow _content subscription_ services to be advertised through apps. In addition, I bet Prime gets away with it be
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by mithr 8y ago
You know, I wonder if the upcoming IPOs ( https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/07/style/uber-ipo-san-franci... ) had any impact on this decision. It seems like there might actually be quite a few people potenti
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by mithr 8y ago
Samin Nosrat visited this soy producer as part of her Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat show... the Salt episode is dedicated to Japan, where she also tries traditional miso (which is apparently similarly complex in its original form). Very interesting
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by mithr 8y ago
It's not that he was fired directly "because he was religious", exactly; it's about whether Yelp discriminated against him by violating the following (from https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/religi
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by mithr 8y ago
> In what situation would you walk up to a stranger Walking up to a stranger is one thing, but that really wasn't the case here... in this case, a comment was made to company-appointed P.R. representative who was present at a meet
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by mithr 8y ago
Thanks for your reply! From your experience so far, do you think that the overlap requirement is essential to successfully running a distributed company? Did you have it right from the start, or is this something that you discovered you nee
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by mithr 8y ago
This is really well done! I appreciate both the design, and the amount of thought and effort that went into laying all of this out and then honing it into a cohesive, well-written deck. I've been thinking and reading a good deal about
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by mithr 8y ago
The paper seems like a perfect candidate for the Ig Nobel award ( https://www.improbable.com/ig/ )
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by mithr 8y ago
This sounds similar to the advice often given to budding photographers back in the day -- learn the ropes on black and white film, and only then move into color. Focusing on B&W forces you to work on your composition and be able to prod
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by mithr 8y ago
The way I read it, if you can leverage arbitrary code execution to manipulate votes, then you can claim one of the higher-paying categories... but if you can execute code, but can't figure out how to use that to actually affect votes,
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by mithr 8y ago
> Are they saying I can't trust what I read in the license files of a project? That's not quite what they're saying. They're asking what's stopping anyone from claiming their project is "open source",
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by mithr 8y ago
I believe this is actually only true under very specific circumstances -- namely, enterprise certificates, which are used to distribute apps directly to employee devices, without going through the app store. If they decide to revoke a reg
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by mithr 8y ago
I think OP pretty clearly states that both the two-week notice requirement and the unused vacation time payout were in the employee handbook , rather than in the employment contract . Employees probably just had to sign a form indicating
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by mithr 8y ago
The interesting part to me is that, as far as I understand, the AI figured out this strategy by itself, basically deciding that it would be a good way for it to win games, rather than being specifically programmed to do it. That's ac
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by mithr 8y ago
That's somewhat fair, although the 1Password X page (which is what AgileBits calls their in-browser version) describes it as being comparable to the native versions, which to me goes against OP's statement that > full functiona
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by mithr 8y ago
> Mac OS, Windows, Linux, Android, and iOS ... full functionality can’t be dependent on an app which is only available on Mac OS and/or Windows. In other words, lack of full Linux support is a show-stopper for us. This ruled out 1Pa
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by mithr 8y ago
In a funny way, I actually don't think ownership of the term, or even who gets to decide that, is what really matters. Mongo can release their software under a license they term "open source", or "special mongo license&q
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by mithr 8y ago
Spotify has some really strange "won't fix" issues... I'm on a Spotify family plan. I recently bought a Spotify gift card on sale, because you can usually apply those for a credit on subscription services. Well, it turns
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by mithr 8y ago
> Even better would be a qualification of "successful". Did you... read the article? Fourth paragraph: "Among the top 0.1% of startups based on growth in their first five years, we find that the founders started their comp
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by mithr 8y ago
This was a fascinating read! I had never thought about what the MBTA was like before its current design. Color-coding the lines particularly seems like an obvious-in-retrospect way to orient passengers, and it's hard to imagine how con

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