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by numair 11y ago
If that were the only comment the author made, sure. He did a pretty good job of defending his view, I think, with lots of citations etc. It is a viewpoint -- it's the opposite of looking at something and saying, "ooh, this is new
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Your response is incredibly off-base. The author of the BGR article is pretty spot-on in his analysis. If you look at the author's previous articles, he has been critical, but accurate. In any case, even if his 16 years of experience i
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by numair 11y ago
Although it's clear that Intel is addressing the very valid concerns people have always had about coltan, there are a lot of good comments in this thread about the vagueness of "conflict free." Perhaps a more interesting and
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by numair 11y ago
> 2) People don't leave companies, they leave managers I would love to hear others' thoughts on this statement. It sounds good, but is it real? Would you stay at a company in whose purpose you don't believe, if you liked y
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by numair 11y ago
Someone should study what would happen to Facebook/Twitter's financials if startups stopped buying app install ads. Startups will buy more of these (out of desperation to get growth from their remaining funding) before they buy no
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by numair 11y ago
Dude, can you calm down? David is a nice person who is doing work that grows the economy. He isn't polluting rivers or clear-cutting forests. Stop treating these people like scam artists, they're just trying to help capital move a
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by numair 11y ago
Just so people are clear -- Even if you are not using Facebook, even if none of your friends ever use Facebok or tag you in any content, Facebook is maintaining a shadow profile on you. They have your web browsing habits from the Like butto
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by numair 11y ago
If you're hiring in tech right now, you have to REALLY love Amazon for doing this. Basically, what they are saying is, if you speak out about the emotional hell of working for them, they will attempt to publicly humiliate you to make t
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by numair 11y ago
Have you ever considered talking to your neighbors?
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You have to have a 64-bit iPhone for the "content filtering" functions. The iPhone 5 is the last 32-bit CPU-based iPhone.
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We keep seeing impressive names come on board as YC partners. This might sound strange to you guys, but I'd love to read about some no-name partners come on board as well. I've found that a lot of the most helpful people out there
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Google might be screwed(medium.com)
5 points by numair 11y ago|1 comments
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George Carlin's skit is helpful here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AtK_YsVInw8 It's just another ad. Advertising is mental cancer. Ignore it.
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An open letter to Notch(medium.com)
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I don't think there are enough qualified pilots to make this work. Maybe in a future with self-flying planes? We are definitely talking 10+ years away, though.
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Aha! So the web view "redirects" back into the app using an app:// link -- and because you're accessing that web view within the app itself, the redirect is captured within the app. Smart. I assume there is some sor
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Doesn't this open up a bit of a privacy issue? Couldn't you scrape logged-in data from someone's social media accounts etc? Maybe I'm misinterpreting things... I could see iOS 9.1 having a permissions dialog for "&l
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by numair 11y ago
"Apple Music sucks for creating playlists" doesn't mean "Apple Music is a usability nightmare." The entire industry is aware of the fact that user-generated playlists don't actually work to achieve mega-scale c
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Millennials are broke. All trends -- rates of antidepressant use, time spent on social media, choices of where to live, frequently visited stores, etc -- are byproducts of this fact. The success of the iPhone is perhaps the single outlier h
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by numair 11y ago
This is incredibly thorough, honest and entertaining. The writer has done an excellent job. Andreesen's candid comments about Gurley/Benchmark are hilarious. The whole bit about his rural upbringing influencing his full-on embrace
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by numair 11y ago
Haven't we learned by now, my fellow HN readers? All of Facebook's open source "gifts" are patent Trojan horses. Go take a look at their PATENTS file before going anywhere near this stuff. The fact that Facebook, at such
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by numair 11y ago
Excellent reply, thanks for this. A lot of people in SV/SF are upset that "the finance guys" have shown up and changed the economics of the game; I say, thank God they finally showed up. (And the Chinese, of course!) I don&#x
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by numair 11y ago
Secret was one of the most aesthetically impressive apps I'd seen on iOS, ever. It had all of the little usability details nailed on its first attempt. Even those of us who didn't appreciate its use case (myself included) couldn&#
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by numair 11y ago
I have a great story about a startup run by a bunch of insane guys. One of the founders cashed out a ton of money early and bought a $100k car; another founder's dorm buddy proceeded to wreck it within a month. Ron Conway's son us
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The Microsoft billionaire who arrived on Namibia’s Skeleton Coast with five helicopters full of bodyguards, and demanded that all available local lions be collected in one oasis so that he could see and picture them. Obnoxious and disgust
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I would be really interested to know how various forms of this bug are resolved. This seems like a problem that, on its surface, seems easy to fix, but isn't. Especially if you've designed your architecture for real-time-ness and
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by numair 12y ago
Wow, what a futuristic concept, to have a government comprised of scientists! I wonder which forward-thinking Western government will implement this first? http://singularityhub.com/2011/05/17/eight-out-of-chi
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by numair 12y ago
I'm guessing the author is employing reverse psychology here? This article reads like an annoying lost of hyper-cynical arguments against hypersonic travel that any ambitious person would be eager to prove wrong. Sort of like the &quot
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by numair 12y ago
That's insanity. A large number of Alaskans have to wait 7 days to see changes to DNS? Is this practice prevalent anywhere else in the world?
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Yeah, because the fact that the average young American can barely support one person, let alone two + child, on a basic income can't have anything to do with the reduction in marriages...

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