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by nickv 7y ago
Except good luck building a cell phone without android or various chipsets from Qualcomm, etc...
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by nickv 7y ago
I find it so interesting that whenever there is a HN post about VS Code nobody mentions Atom but it's guaranteed that the top post for any Atom HN post references how Microsoft own s both. It really shows how far VS Code has come in te
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by nickv 8y ago
NYS != NYC. I imagine it's hard to get a 100 person business to move to Syracuse or Rochester nowadays.
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by nickv 8y ago
Is this process for new college grads or senior engineers? I can't imagine principals go through this process, do they?
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by nickv 8y ago
The components referenced in that quote are literally from the 1940s. We're talking vacuum tubes. Comparing 80 year old parts to a project that is barely two years is not really fair.
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by nickv 9y ago
That's not true. The L line is by far the most advanced line in the system because of the reasons you said. When I lived in Williamsburg, I remember coping with weekend shutdowns all the time for upgrades. But the L now is (I believe
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by nickv 10y ago
I don't understand what you mean there. I think you underestimate the administrative costs alone of the US' hodgepodge system (an entire floor at UCSF is devoted to insurance processing, how many floors does UBC have for billing?)
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by nickv 10y ago
I remember these arguments made when Jerry Brown first proposed the newer upper income tax bands in 2009. Considering, for a very long time, California's taxes have been the highest in the country (to be fair, definitely not "much
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by nickv 10y ago
How many Americans do you think get to go and get their cancer treated at Memorial Sloan Kettering? The US private health care system doesn't mean everyone who gets cancer goes to MD Anderson. And, you'd still be very hard pressed
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by nickv 10y ago
Really? Most of the graphic designers I know are, at best, not deeply offended by the touch bar. I can't say a single one I've talked to was excited about it. You know what all my graphic designer friends are losing their shit o
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by nickv 10y ago
With their new focus on California (like their daily "California Today" section), the Times seems to be doing a better job covering California news than either the LATimes or the Chronicle.
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by nickv 11y ago
As opposed to now where presidential elections are decided by three-four fairly unimportant states?
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by nickv 11y ago
But you literally discounted his post about NPM because of his other posts and what he has in his bio. The other stuff might annoy you, but it doesn't take away from the fact that he is a thought leader on NPM. When he says something
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by nickv 11y ago
Congrats on the cliche HN post. Stopped caring about what you said after reading your post. He also runs NPM, btw.
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by nickv 11y ago
Pretty much nothing in Mountain View goes for "asking price". I strongly bet that place will go for near $1M. The Zestimate ( http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1945-Mount-Vernon-Ct-APT-1... ) is $800k, and zi
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by nickv 11y ago
Yes... China is about as unregulated w.r.t. to industry as you can get. Have you ever seen the air quality in Beijing? Do you remember the air quality in LA in the 80s before stricter CARB standards? (Or are you too young to?)
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by nickv 11y ago
I'm confused by the time frame of the 4.1B. Does it mean this year's operating cost assuming Uber's current state of operation (number of drivers, etc)? Does it assume backpay for drivers who are being reclassified?
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by nickv 12y ago
I didn't notice how old this article was until I saw the mention of KrakenJS being open sourced soon. It's been open sourced for awhile ( http://krakenjs.com/ ) and is a nice way to get some conventions when you are
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by nickv 12y ago
From the article: "But even a significant drop in residential water use will not move the consumption needle nearly as much as even a small reduction by farmers. Of all the surface water consumed in the state, roughly 80 percent is ear
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by nickv 13y ago
This looks great! The Chrome plug-in is much nicer/more modern and the autofill is very nice. Only thing I noticed so far (and its a bit of a 'nit') is that the icons are not retina/high-res so they look really pixelate
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by nickv 13y ago
Why do you say the Volt is a piece of crap? You ever drove in one? I actually really enjoyed it when I had one on loan for three days.
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by nickv 13y ago
Oh, it's even better than that. If you look at the cloudemailapp source code, the client testimonials list from the mailgun source is there, just commented out: Line 188: <!--<h2> Customers <a href="custome
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by nickv 13y ago
Every company i've ever worked is usually "extra busy" after a long weekend because they're catching up with email/calls/etc that have gathered during it (and also support issues, etc.) Coming into work right a
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by nickv 13y ago
Classy move - especially w.r.t it being a long weekend in the US.
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by nickv 13y ago
Honestly, I don't know so I'm going to speculate based on experiences. I think it's a generational thing. The younger generations seem to want density, to be around things, to not own a car. I think growing up in large sub
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by nickv 13y ago
You have to understand that nearly all cities were shitholes in 1989 until the Urban Revitalization of the late 90s. This wasn't an SF specific thing. NYC, for example, had over 1200 murders in 1992 (!!!) compared to last year's
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by nickv 13y ago
Fast Java code that is smartly written is really fast. There are lots of real world Java apps out there that you might not realize are Java --- I've read somewhere that Google Adwords is in Java, for instance. The problem is, there are l
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by nickv 13y ago
I might be missing something, but I feel like this is just reinventing IDEs that exist today (but are boo'ed by Sublime Text/TextMate guys.) For instance, when it comes to Python, PyCharm ( http://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/features/index.ht
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by nickv 13y ago
Let me tell you, I absolutely love the total shit of PDX -- it's amazing, walkable, great bike culture, great food/beer/coffee culture, good public transit, beautiful environment, an amazing DIY culture that permeates everything... But the
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by nickv 14y ago
Over in SF, I have Webpass, which uses wireless data to deliver Internet to the building. I consistently get around 100/100 with <5ms ping (and that's for $50 a month!) So yea, wireless data has gotten really really good. Mind you, t

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