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by ronilan 10y ago
> although for a number of years, many digital TVs would display blue for missing input I'm sure you are aware that "the color of television, tuned to a dead channel" is not blue - right? https://m.youtube.com
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by ronilan 10y ago
Yep. Exactly the same. And they settled for peanuts[1]. Hindsight. it rules. [1] https://www.cnet.com/news/google-yahoo-bury-the-legal-hatche...
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by ronilan 10y ago
Any employer should be required, by law, to pay candidates interviewed, an hourly wage equal to that of an employee in same position. It will be good for candidates, good for employers and good for the economy.
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by ronilan 10y ago
More accurately, prevents changing the world.
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The Machine That Won the War (1961) [pdf](mcraenglish.weebly.com)
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Franchise (Asimov 1955) [pdf](sonomavalleyhigh.org)
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by ronilan 10y ago
Super nice. I had to look in the code to find this: Up arrow to rotate!
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by ronilan 10y ago
I think "boring" is another word for "not frustrating". I recently did a project where I wrote the same API in Ruby/Sinatra, Node/Express and PHP/Slim; Connected it to S3, GCloud and Azure for assets and M
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by ronilan 10y ago
Seems like a lot of bay area companies are "firing on all cylinders" but Tesla is clearly not.
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by ronilan 10y ago
If you "liberate yourself from giving a shit" how would you give shit about "making what people want"?
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by ronilan 10y ago
Obvious. There was, during the dot-com bubble, a startup that said "our mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful" when all their customers really wanted was to buy the top p
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by ronilan 10y ago
In case of DNS problems (as reported by reddit), the underlying bucket URL is: http://public.docs.xstatic.site.s3-website-us-west-1.amazona...
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Editable static HTML docs inside an AWS S3 bucket(public.docs.xstatic.site)
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Thanks. I'm copying from the linked doc above: This static HTML editing ability is powered by <xstatic>|, a still-under-development but ready-for-stress-testing project aiming to turn any static HTML webpage into an editable one
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by ronilan 10y ago
Hi, I'm Ron, I'm starting "tire-kicking" on a new web app this week. <xstatic>| Docs is a simple, fast and easy to use, web based document editor. It generates static (but editable) HTML files that can than be easi
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Show HN: xstatic Docs – Like Google Docs inside an S3 Bucket(public.docs.xstatic.site)
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There is no "bad faith". There are "diverging faiths". JavaScript frameworks as an analogy for life :)
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It may not be the common view, but I think that what you are witnessing is, to a certain extent, "deliberate". Every framework has a "sponsor". Every strong "sponsor" either has a vested interest in the web, or
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by ronilan 10y ago
Elizabeth, I was just feeling sorry for you... Drop me a line, my email via profile... let's see how far "show differentiation" can go.. :)
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by ronilan 10y ago
"...why don't you let experts do what they do and you spend your time doing what you do?" I think, mainly, because life is more interesting when you do things you are not an expert of.
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by ronilan 10y ago
If you are in a super competitive space - areas like cleaning or food delivery.. Sigh.
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by ronilan 10y ago
Naaa. Everyone knows the movie is a veil that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth. Déjà Vu is in fact a side effect of being flashed by MiB.
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by ronilan 10y ago
Obligatory. - Incentivizing to vote with cash prizes. Isn't that illegal?" - "Illegal? Sam(ir) this is America".
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An analogy is like comparing two things that are alike in some way, when it is clear they are not alike in other ways.
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by ronilan 10y ago
"Occam's razor says we should prefer the simpler of two explanations." Theory: In US presidential elections, the candidate who wins Ohio wins the elections. "Oddly enough, the most recent true counterexample is probabl
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by ronilan 10y ago
You failed to link to the original commercial and instead linked to a remake :) ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45mMioJ5szc Uploaded on Aug 25, 2006)
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by ronilan 11y ago
What are we optimizing for? Ownership or usage? Personal gain or Aggregate Utility?
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by ronilan 11y ago
The cake is a lie. Obviously :)

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