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by pyronite 9y ago
I was a Spotify lifer until I butted up against their 10,000 song limit. [1] Now, I'm using Google Play Music. There's no doubt in my mind that everything else outside of this limit is better on Spotify. Please, Spotify, fix this!
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by pyronite 9y ago
Troy Hunt's post details what Report URI does in the first paragraph but it didn't explain to Skrebbel how they accomplished those things.
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by pyronite 9y ago
> A/B testing landing page and newsletter ? Is that difficult to get honest feedback from people who care ? Individual feedback doesn't replace large-scale A/B testing. If you're getting feedback from people who care
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by pyronite 9y ago
19 days ago an employee of SoundCloud posted an Ask HN about deferred salary reviews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14575627
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by pyronite 9y ago
I've never downvoted you, but I've taken note of you as a vitriolic poster, particularly after you had inflammatory comments deleted from a recent Soylent thread. No downvoting should be automated, but it's possible you'
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by pyronite 10y ago
The text detection is lacking in comparison to Google's Vision API. Here is a real-life comparison between Tesseract and Google's Vision API, based on a PDF a user of our website uploaded. Original text [ http://i.imgur.
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by pyronite 10y ago
It's fair to point out that Simpsons dialogue is 75% male and 9 out of 10 of their most prolific writers are male. That's a significant data finding. There is a gender imbalance in The Simpsons. There's also a gender imbalanc
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by pyronite 10y ago
It doesn't rhyme with holla, but we've also been asked not to disclose our pricing agreement, as we have a custom deal. I can say that we aren't processing anything close to Lyft levels of revenue. (I wish.)
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by pyronite 10y ago
> Instant Payouts cost 1.5% of the payout amount, with a minimum fee of 50¢. This is the killer for us and, I'm guessing, many other marketplaces without a Lyft-sized (20%) rake. Our current solution for marketplace payouts charges
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by pyronite 10y ago
The character count of a random sentence ("Don't try to do accurate dynamic shadows on GearVR. Dynamic shadows") puts it at 68 characters. The Rules of Typographical Style suggests 66 characters is considered ideal: http:&#x
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by pyronite 10y ago
In the video Mark Zuckerberg says "we have about 400 people working on this now" at 0:50 in.
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by pyronite 11y ago
GigSalad | Remote | Full Stack Engineer | Full time GigSalad is a marketplace for hiring entertainment and event services. To date, we've serviced over 1 million users. Want to learn more about the engineering role we have available? R
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by pyronite 11y ago
GigSalad - Springfield, MO - https://www.gigsalad.com - REMOTE GigSalad is hiring a Senior Designer to design our entertainment marketplace. Here at GigSalad, we’re building an easier way for people to hire talent and services f
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by pyronite 12y ago
I've had 5 dogs in my lifetime that have lived to age 15+. All I do is take them to the vet yearly and feed them good quality dry dog food. Anecdotal evidence should not determine whether to treat your dog (or any species) with medic
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Transatlantic flying: Wow throws a curve-ball(economist.com)
47 points by pyronite 12y ago|18 comments
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by pyronite 12y ago
The Reagan White House was advised by an astrologer. Pseudoscience is something many people are susceptible to regardless of their position.
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by pyronite 12y ago
To anyone interested in reading more about skepticism, Carl Sagan's Demon-Haunted World is one of the most impactful books I've read on the subject. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Demon-Haunted_World
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Slack is now the fastest-growing workplace software ever(theverge.com)
6 points by pyronite 12y ago|1 comments
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by pyronite 12y ago
$48,000 a year in investment is $18,000 more than the median total income for an individual in the United States. What you are able to do is exactly what the vast majority of Americans are unable to do.
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by pyronite 12y ago
1.) The ability to deliver from any restaurant, not just those participating or offering their own delivery service. 2.) Drivers in a large number of locations, likely closer to the intended restaurant than any "pick it up for you and
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by pyronite 12y ago
It sounds, from his comment history, as if he moved to Valve Software. Gabe Newell (founder of Valve Software) is a former Microsoft producer.
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by pyronite 12y ago
This is an interesting and plausible reason for why they let him go, but if it was the case, they should have came out and said exactly this. What's to lose by being honest about a visa situation?
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by pyronite 12y ago
This is the sort of thing that makes me glad I use Facebook. I find it interesting and don't know how else something similar could be achieved.
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by pyronite 12y ago
I never get daily emails, but regardless, they provide fine-grained control over unsubscribing to these emails. If you receive them daily, you might want to take 5 minutes and opt out.
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by pyronite 12y ago
> I think it is a mistake to concentrate on clean design on a search engine until the searching algorithm is not that good. The team focusing on the design is, I'm sure, not the same team focusing on the search algorithm. I don&#x27
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by pyronite 12y ago
The horror!
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by pyronite 12y ago
Your hypothesis is that two "reasonable women" will enter IT as a result of Julie Ann Horvath and another former employee feeling ostracized at GitHub?
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by pyronite 12y ago
This player looks fantastic . I really wish I could use it on our site (www.gigsalad.com) for custom MP3s that the our users have uploaded. Is there any chance this might ever happen?
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by pyronite 12y ago
Are you running it in Chrome/Windows? If so: Chrome's font rendering uses GDI rather than DirectWrite and it leads to some very ugly rendering with certain web fonts. This is a known issue and they are working on changing this: h
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by pyronite 12y ago
> upon whom they shamefully, but predictably, bestowed anonymity I'm with you on the rest of your points but not on this one. Balance would be nice but anonymity is often key to good reporting. There's nothing shameful about

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