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by powvans 9y ago
The article may as well be titled "Why I should be CEO of Uber." Is a ghostwritten 6000+ word tome about Immelt's tenure at GE effective PR? Perhaps this is effective for advancing his goal of becoming the CEO of Uber, but it
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by powvans 10y ago
I cannot take my 5 year old son into a supermarket. Entering and exiting requires passing by so much candy and other garbage that it's just not worth it. He will invariably pitch a fit when I say no and we will invariably have a tear f
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by powvans 10y ago
Exponent: fantastic analysis and discussion of tech, society, trends, strategy. One of my favorites. http://exponent.fm
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by powvans 10y ago
Text replacement might mean changing a term throughout the application. Sort of like localization or perhaps more like white labeling gone wild. For example, Prospective Customer Corp doesn't use the term "Manager", but inste
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by powvans 10y ago
I'm seeing the same issue in Safari on iPhone 6s running iOS 10.
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by powvans 10y ago
This is a really good point and I don't disagree with it. I'd tend to prefer to store in UTC and store the associated timezone separately.
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by powvans 10y ago
I agree with this 100% when it comes to creating commits. It makes it easy to create sensible commits with only the changes relevant to the individual commit. You can see what's staged and tailor it quickly. I'm a heavy terminal u
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by powvans 10y ago
I've spent the last several years developing applications that have calendaring at the core, where users collaborate across timezones, and where proper timezone handling is expected. Just try to explain to everyday people just how hard
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by powvans 10y ago
Or money is a proxy for value when value can be measured in those terms. Money is worthless on it's own. Brings to mind the famous Warren Buffet quote: "Price is what you pay, value is what you get."
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by powvans 10y ago
Really hits the nail on the head. This product is just confusing. It's not as if there aren't good things about it, but there are so many weird confusing decisions that it's like death by a thousand cuts. It's baffling j
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by powvans 10y ago
Pretty sure the Kryptonians have had this tech for millennia.
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Life at the Nowhere Office(newrepublic.com)
1 points by powvans 10y ago|0 comments
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by powvans 10y ago
Yoi | Los Angeles, CA or Atlanta, GA | Onsite, Full-time | www.yoicorp.com About Us: Based in Santa Monica, California, Yoi (the Japanese term for 'getting better') is developing mobile digital tools and best practices that enable
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by powvans 10y ago
"You re-open the article and confirm that the string 'HN comments' in fact does not appear in the article you skimmed." Meta.
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by powvans 10y ago
Seems like it would be simple enough to achieve this by altering the number of minutes in an hour depending on the time of year. I'm for it.
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by powvans 10y ago
Sounds like me might be neighbors. Seriously boggles the mind what people are willing to say on Nextdoor.
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The paranoid survive, but burnout. The case for some slack(mobile.nytimes.com)
2 points by powvans 10y ago|1 comments
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Elevated Bus Rides Over Traffic to Avoid Congestion(laughingsquid.com)
2 points by powvans 10y ago|1 comments
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by powvans 11y ago
I've seen speculation that the reason you never see melatonin pills less than 1mg is this patent: http://www.google.com/patents/US5449683 : "the dose of melatonin administered ranges from 0.1 to 1.0 mg of mela
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by powvans 11y ago
> I think having kids, which I have not done, might slow time down a bit. It's a paradox best expressed by the old adage: the days are long, but the years are short.
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by powvans 11y ago
Everything that's old is new again. Raise your hand if this is how you first got into Linux. I needed to share a spectacularly slow DSL line with my college roommates. Soultion? Cobble together a router out of a cheap Pentium box, a PC
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by powvans 11y ago
After reading this comment, I Googled "pico iyer full of crap" and this comment was the second result. I was hoping to get some insight into why you guys have such a negative reaction to this guy. Instead I found out that Google h
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by powvans 11y ago
This could be a huge opportunity for someone like Cloudflare. They could proxy agreed upon URLs to advertising networks and everything would originate from the same domain. Advertisers would establish a business relationship w/ Cloudfl
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by powvans 11y ago
This is a great reference that I relied on while struggling with my own implementation: http://blog.notdot.net/2009/11/Damn-Cool-Algorithms-Spatial-...