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by po 17y ago
I agree that the "flag" link is overloaded. I don't think I have ever flagged anything because I associate that with spam, not "opinions of people that I think are ruining the community"
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Why people complain about the quality of Hacker News
6 points by po 17y ago|11 comments
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by po 17y ago
Those two opposing viewpoints on a designer's role probably have a lot to do with the type of application you are designing. If I was doing the hiring, I would expect more template language understanding for a web application than from mark
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by po 17y ago
No they wouldn't. Jet Blue doesn't overbook their flights. If fact, they pay you $1000 if you ever get bumped. See their passenger's bill of rights: http://www.jetblue.com/p/about/ourcompany/promise/Bill_Of_Ri... I think it's reasonable f
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by po 17y ago
Gruber may benefit from Apple because employees at apple give him good information, but he doesn't hide it. Furthermore, especially in this case, he's calling them out. He usually doesn't let his love of the company from clouding his apprai
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by po 17y ago
I think porting to a number is only available to well connected web-celebrities right now. Supposedly it's coming in the fall to us plebeians.
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by po 17y ago
This is what bothers me about this: He points out that journalists have a name for one type of sourcing (presumably to indicate that he knows something about journalism). He then mocks them for being irrelevant. After this, he goes on about
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by po 17y ago
Isn't the point of bankruptcy to wipe out all debts after they took too much risk and/or just got unlucky? In theory that sounds better than giving people a few more months to keep going with their too-much-risk-taking approach now loaded w
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by po 17y ago
"It's time the UK broke into civil war, or at least blew some shit up, and put an end to the corrupt government's stronghold on their rights." ...because nothing makes a government go from totalitarianism to greater personal rights faster t
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by po 17y ago
I can't picture Steve fuming about it. I can see him kicking doors in and fixing it. But he's (aparently) not. That's the thing: either Steve lost control of his baby or he lost his sense of morals. Both are disturbing to me.
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by po 17y ago
This is really getting ridiculous. I think the hardest part to understand is that we all know that Jobs will come down on people who make mistakes with furious anger. He will protect those he agrees with even in the face of public outrage.
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by po 17y ago
I see what you're saying… but don't confuse depth of a thread for quality. I think the first comment was down-modded for language and then typical troll-baited discussion took over. The second one is definitely a better example because the
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by po 17y ago
Occasionally, there will be a patient person in a heated debate with a jerk. That's when I expect zebra stripe commenting. I think people will naturally up-vote a comment they agree with more than one they don't. If the tone of all comments
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by po 17y ago
Hanlon's razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Perhaps ATT just corrupted their DNS servers or something.
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by po 17y ago
...is not a cloud-based solution. It's a homemade cluster.
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by po 17y ago
I'm not worried about the death of the news organizations, it's journalism I'm worried about.
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by po 17y ago
What the RIAA is really saying is, "DRM (for digital downloads) is dead." DRM for subscription, streaming, etc… is and will be alive and well. I think the consumers of these kinds of service understand and accept that the content isn't real
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by po 17y ago
I think it has a lot of unfulfilled promise. I've used it, but mainly as a curiosity. It does tell you roughly how much carbon you produce which is somewhat interesting.
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by po 17y ago
What's with the personal attack? When did I illogically and fanboyishly endorse Barack Obama's plan? I'm telling you my interpretation of this article. I even went as far as to call it interesting. I think that even if it's logical, I doubt
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by po 17y ago
"… but Good King Barack seems determined to saddle us with the same unaffordable entitlements that have scuttled the rest of the west." Why not just come out and say it? Letting people spend all of their savings on healthcare and die of dis
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by po 17y ago
AKA, Survivorship Bias: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
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by po 17y ago
What's up with using github as a blog? Now when I see a link that says github, instead of classifying as "might be interesting code" I have to think "might be a personal rant"? I get that its an experiment; and I think it's a moderately cle
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by po 17y ago
I don't get it... We could very easily take a bunch of 70's photos from the US and juxtapose them against current photos and make it just as shocking. We could take current photos and juxtapose them against each other to much the same effec
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by po 17y ago
That's true; I missed it on the last page... and at least the photos are credited well. I wish my teachers in school would have let me say something was written by me but "prepared using the Encyclopedia Britannica" when it's a total cut an
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by po 17y ago
I find it interesting that this page says that it is "protected by COPYSCAPE do not copy" (plagiarism will be detected by copyscape) It also says it was "Written by Anastasia on June 17th, 2009". And yet... Much of the copy on Kowloon Walle