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by rdancer 11y ago
You've got to be kidding me. I've been further even more decided to use even go need to do look more as anyone can. Can you really be far even as decided half as much to use go wish for that? My guess is that when one really been
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by rdancer 11y ago
Oh, that's great. I have just spent five minutes trying to figure out why all these comments on HN just stopped making sense.
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by rdancer 11y ago
1. To paraphrase what the fine folks in the US like to say, the world doesn't owe you a deal. The merchants do deals not for the customers, but for themselves: to maximize profit, increase market share, and maybe achieve some other goa
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by rdancer 11y ago
Marco Arment thinks very differently from how I, and perhaps most other hackers, think. It is valuable to have people to disagree with.
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by rdancer 11y ago
... while being brown, and quite obviously a latent tenorist.
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by rdancer 11y ago
Those stories about his father are awesome. I'd like to be that guy.
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by rdancer 11y ago
Would you considered moving to another EU country? The opportunities are different, but the bureaucracy definitely more friendly in the UK for example.
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by rdancer 11y ago
It's a software bug. If you buy multiple seats on a single ticket, those other names would be the other people travelling with you -- that's why it's formatted correctly. However, the programming logic deciding whether those
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by rdancer 11y ago
No, they don't. What would be the point, anyway?
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by rdancer 11y ago
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by rdancer 11y ago
Person-hours of actual use; app purchase & use; web use; user satisfaction. For example, if you're developing a business website, iOS dominates the market, because optimizing for Android is nigh impossible, and iOS users have more
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by rdancer 11y ago
oh come on, apple watch?!
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by rdancer 11y ago
> Lynx will get you laid Oh yes, it will. Getting teen-agers to start applying basic precepts of personal hygiene is like trying to drill an oil well with a toothbrush. Those commercials get it exactly right: (1) you stink (2) only men w
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by rdancer 11y ago
Their ability to churn out better and better devices, year after year, is what's remarkable. That we come to expect it, and don't consider it news, is a testament to their achievement. This is not normal; the industry -- both hard
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by rdancer 11y ago
The maturity, stubbornness, and cultural confidence of all discussion participants is quite refreshing. I wish I could learn to communicate across cultures this well and still get stuff done!
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by rdancer 11y ago
When a massively distributed file system[1] was introduced into the Linux kernel circa Y2K, there was what I remember as a lot of hype. Nobody, but nobody wanted it then (or since, it's still part of the kernel), and I would be surpr
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by rdancer 11y ago
How does one take advantage of this situation? There will be technologies which: (1) despite better quality, but won't have enough traction (OS/2 v Windows), (2) thrive just fine, while their crappy cousin continues beating them i
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by rdancer 11y ago
That's a very good point. Keeping the youths from poluting the platform with their inanity, and then engage them increasingly more, once they have matured enough to be part of newsfeeds may be what FB are shooting for?
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by rdancer 11y ago
That's what browser extensions are for. Google has had blacklisting for a spell (last year?), and whitelisting, but IMO it failed to pass the 80/20 threshold.
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by rdancer 11y ago
Oh, Priceonomics, always looking for a slightly ham-fisted angle! I am very much looking forward to gaining a degree from some fringe yet accredited online university, and everybody who cares about that sort of thing will have to address me
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by rdancer 11y ago
There is a perfectly plausible way to implement all the things we want, without all the surveillance. The surveillance is not necessary, and by and large isn't even incidental, to the good parts we want. And even if you forgo your own
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by rdancer 11y ago
... and make sure there are no other cellphones in the vicinity
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by rdancer 11y ago
FWIW, Kelly Kampen, despite the name, is and always has been a rather manly dude https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-iHjWvhoek
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by rdancer 11y ago
Time and space are good retorts, let's talk about them. The UK is a relatively cosmopolitan kingdom, and those trips to Magaluf & Basra must lead to some monkey business, right? Time. Women live longer on average, and there is also
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by rdancer 11y ago
> there's a smaller group of women who sleep with a greater number of men That's a falacy. If a small number of women raise the number of their sexual partners, the rest of the women must lower their number of sexual partners,
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by rdancer 11y ago
Oh, there is an article on HN saying how much shit of a company we are, should we address the problem, or do a puff piece? Let's do a puff piece, and pretend all is A-OK, those silly nerds won't notice! The problem with this compa
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by rdancer 11y ago
> men cheat a little more than women, according to studies Women admit to cheating less than men, and this is reflected in a bias of studies whose methodology includes self-reporting. In general, women self-report about one third less se
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by rdancer 11y ago
That's exactly the point I'm trying to get across: there should be a well-defined business process, reflected in the UI in their app/website, for getting refunds. That there isn't speaks volumes.
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by rdancer 11y ago
It's the way they deliver that message that is really messed up. If you need to fire somebody, do it swiftly, and cleanly.
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by rdancer 11y ago
AirBnB's ability to handle failure modes is beyond bad. If a host fails to accommodate you, you better have a hotel in mind for a plan B. Their UK customer service phone line drops calls after 300 seconds in the waiting queue. Go and t

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