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by pbiggar 10y ago
I thought the company sold assets to FitBit. I saw a $40m number floating around. While that might be golden handcuffs for employees, I would typically expect to see the investors take some cash out of this. If there was $40m, it's lik
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by pbiggar 10y ago
There's a bunch of problems here. For a start, laying off the team is probably the worst thing a startup founder wants to do - he likely wants to protect them and so sending them as a unit to FitBit is better. But if we was to go down
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by pbiggar 10y ago
Sure, but "I like it" is actually a good reason. You can dissect I like it into maybe that I find it more productive, that I find strings easier to read when they're like that, or for other reasons, but it actually boils down
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by pbiggar 10y ago
No, it's much much older than PHP. It's in PHP because it was in Perl (which is also why it's in Ruby). I think iit was in Perl because it was in sh. But I wouldn't be surprised to hear that it's older than that. Sn
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by pbiggar 10y ago
Not by default. Just for me. Like "from format import default_strings" or something.
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by pbiggar 10y ago
I'm not asking for them to make it default for everyone. I just want it for me. So at a file level or something.
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by pbiggar 10y ago
Isn't "I like it" a good enough reason?
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by pbiggar 10y ago
I like strings to be interpolated by default, and that's one of the most annoying things about python.
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by pbiggar 10y ago
I wonder if there's a way to make all strings be format strings?
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by pbiggar 10y ago
Think of the opportunity: someone can build a "privacy" store where you can buy anything without being traced.
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by pbiggar 10y ago
Given the number of people who work for Google, and Google's internal culture of openness, I find it extremely unlikely that Google is violating its customers' privacy. That would almost certainly get whistleblown.
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by pbiggar 10y ago
This is so true. I didn't steal any parts (though I was given free office space and other stuff), but much of the success of CircleCI was strangers (or at least "very new friends") giving me advice, referring me to their frie
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Why would Facebook (and YC) fire Thiel?(medium.com)
4 points by pbiggar 10y ago|1 comments
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YC, Thiel and Trump – 100 Shades of Gray(medium.com)
10 points by pbiggar 10y ago|6 comments
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The tech behind hkrn.ws(medium.com)
4 points by pbiggar 10y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: I made a URL shortener for HN(medium.com)
8 points by pbiggar 10y ago|0 comments
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by pbiggar 10y ago
> Rosenthal is the youngest CEO at Round House, where he has an office and access to mentors in exchange for a 20% stake and a $50,000 investment. Exploitative local incubator strikes again.
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by pbiggar 10y ago
This is great. Mozilla experimented with a new thing, it didn't take off, and they killed it. Bravo both for experimenting, and for killing it afterwards.
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by pbiggar 10y ago
What's the deal with "Use the space freed up"? Does this mean there are disk space limits to the OpenBSD distro, and that something has to leave to make space for something new? Or is it a joke I'm not getting?
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by pbiggar 10y ago
For gods sake man, how many spaces?
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by pbiggar 10y ago
I first used it in December.
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by pbiggar 10y ago
Try Tandem. It's an app that connects you to language learners. So you'd help a French person learn English, and they'd help you learn French. They have both text and video chat so if you're not ready for video chat, you
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by pbiggar 10y ago
"serverless" is a new term that people have been using in tons of different ways. To the author, frankly I don't think you get to say what's serverless and what isn't. I think only point 1 is agreed upon - the rest
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by pbiggar 10y ago
Atom is too good to have this comment be the top one on the article - alas I can't delete it. It looks like I was wrong about the community contribution. They mentioned it elsewhere: the maintainers of the module I was happened to both
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by pbiggar 10y ago
Because it's useful to homebrew. Analytics help software makers - that's why they exist. [PS: that's not a serious question: it's completely facetious.]
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by pbiggar 10y ago
After 10 years in Vim and 5 years in Emacs, I recently switched to Atom. The reason I switched is how easy it is to extend. And it truly is: I was up and running in a few hours with my first plugin in Atom (the emacs legacy of code is daunt
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by pbiggar 10y ago
> "it's actually a proper package management solution", "homebrew is not", "its limitations started to show a long time ago", "is utterly ridiculous", "its just some nonsense", &quot
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by pbiggar 10y ago
Serious question: why would you want to do this?
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by pbiggar 10y ago
The search term is "Jimmy Fallon ew".
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by pbiggar 10y ago
Funnily enough, I don't think this is a real concern. It's the stereotype, which is why I said it, but Google believes it will make as much money off cloud as from ads, so I wouldn't expect anything to get shut down.

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