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by pconner 11y ago
I thought that the xfinitywifi was just for Comcast subscribers. You can't call it "wifi everywhere" if it's only usable by certain people.
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by pconner 11y ago
Some of us live in apartment complexes where a lot of APs are broadcasting in a small area, and the 3 non-overlapping channels in 2.4ghz are pretty limiting.
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by pconner 11y ago
At what I consider a "nice" coffee place, I'm paying for a better cup of coffee (preferably roasted in-house or nearby, and a few days ago rather than months ago). What you said is true, but there is some coffee that's p
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by pconner 11y ago
A huge amount of infrastructure is needed for Facebook's scale. People have to create, manage, and maintain that infrastructure. And that's ignoring the multitude of complex user-facing products Facebook has (the number of which h
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by pconner 11y ago
I thought it was "employment" through services like Uber where workers are independent contractors who set their own hours.
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by pconner 11y ago
Is it necessarily to the detriment of social skills, though, or is it just a reflection of the evolution of what social skills are relevant to modern life? People have made similar arguments against the use of internet social communications
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by pconner 11y ago
Why should people have to deal with something unpleasant when a tool could be created to avoid it? Do you refuse to use any form of powered transportation because it makes people terrible at handling the complexities of walking?
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by pconner 11y ago
> I also find it emotionally draining to be in constant contact with people you never actually see... it feels as if Facebook allows fake or weak friendships to continue that would naturally die off without it. I agree. One of the reason
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by pconner 11y ago
"All rights reserved has pretty much no legal effect now" [IANAL] https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2007/06/msg00252.html (Though it looks like this project doesn't have a standard license)
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by pconner 11y ago
What's "boring" about it? I'd argue that the possibilities for crazy concurrency patterns make it exciting.
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by pconner 11y ago
Have you seen this blog post by Rob Pike? https://blog.golang.org/errors-are-values
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by pconner 11y ago
Make sure you follow @SwiftOnSecurity
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by pconner 11y ago
That's something I like about cities. If you do that in small towns, people might be more likely to approach you.
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by pconner 11y ago
You could install crouton without a DE and use the built-in shell to do whatever you wanted if you had a need to do development work and wanted to use ChromeOS without a full graphical Ubuntu install. You would have access to apt and vim.
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by pconner 11y ago
This is much more inconvenient than just pirating the music, and if you plan on subscribing to a streaming service long-term, there isn't any point in doing this since you'll just have access to the song through the paid service (
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by pconner 11y ago
The Leaf is instantly recognizable. It's so weirdly shaped compared to other crossovers/hatchbacks. The Volt, on the other hand, looks a bit more like a "regular" car from far away. The most normal-looking electric vehic
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by pconner 11y ago
In his blog, he mentions that some of the time he spends "at work" is spent eating meals, exercising, or socializing. It's not a complete lack of work/life balance.
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by pconner 11y ago
Is there a reason why Acme doesn't use a monospace font? I couldn't find any justification on that site.
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by pconner 11y ago
You can use variadic arguments with an interface type or a single struct parameter to get similar behavior.
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by pconner 11y ago
Instagram accounts aren't private by default, and posts can be embedded in other web pages (e.g. a lot of clickbait "journalism" does this), though it does not have a friendly logged-out interface like Twitter.
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by pconner 11y ago
The Model S already has unusually large wheels for a sedan
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by pconner 11y ago
Evernote is probably the buggiest "professional" software I've ever used. While I never lost all of my data, I lost a few individual notes, and I lost formatting on my notes (e.g. bullet points/numbers) so frequently t
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by pconner 11y ago
SF is pretty culturally hostile to outsiders. Maybe if more residents felt like it was "their" city, rather than just the place they live, they would feel a greater sense of responsibility to improve it. This problem probably affe
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by pconner 11y ago
The e has been slanted since the 1999 logo
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by pconner 11y ago
By that logic, why should the people who don't have a convenient work shuttle route to work "get nothing?" Expecting employees to pay for parking is like expecting them to cover costs for business-related travel
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by pconner 11y ago
> we pay our own parking $250/mo Are you saying you have to pay for the privilege of parking at work? That's insane when Microsoft and the larger Bay Area companies are willing to provide free transportation to employees
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by pconner 11y ago
You could have just internally open salaries
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by pconner 11y ago
No one can definitively tell what OP means with "hacker friendly." I think it's time to retire that word
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by pconner 11y ago
The word "hacker" is completely meaningless now. Based on OP's intro ("wannabe-entrepreneur") , I don't think it means "penetration tester" in this context.
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by pconner 11y ago
For anyone else wondering what the criteria for "affording a two bedroom apartment" is, it looks like they define it as having the yearly rent cost be less than or equal to 1/3 of your yearly income (pre-taxes).

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