ronnier

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by ronnier 10y ago
To this day, ICQ is still the best messenger I've used.
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by ronnier 10y ago
I believe what you are seeing is the white middle class dying off.
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by ronnier 11y ago
My http://ihackernews.com made the list. I've had zero time over the last 5 years to maintain it. Some nice person did convert it to js, based on the now available hacker news API. Now that this site renders better on mobil
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by ronnier 11y ago
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by ronnier 11y ago
That's really common with movie reviews.
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by ronnier 11y ago
Here's a video of the landing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pUAydjne5M&feature=youtu.be...
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by ronnier 11y ago
I saw people talk about it at Amazon (internally there's the exact same concept as github's contribution graph)
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by ronnier 11y ago
Sounds very familiar. Are you in Seattle?
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by ronnier 11y ago
I don't understand the negative response towards CSRF exploits. They are real and they are dangerous.
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by ronnier 11y ago
What if there's an upper limit on what can be created and what if we are mostly there. What if we never really progress much beyond where we are other than gradually getting faster, longer battery life, and more storage. Games and movi
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by ronnier 11y ago
Have you figured out why some people gloat over it?
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by ronnier 11y ago
Why I don't like driving: 1) We are preyed on by police as a source of revenue via traffic tickets. 2) Parking is increasingly becoming more and more difficult.
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by ronnier 11y ago
To even express that it's absurd will likely brand you as a racist. What in the fuck is happening?
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by ronnier 11y ago
>Optimize for programmer happiness I've never been more unhappy programming than when I touch Rails. I'll take python or Java any day of the week. >Convention over Configuration Discoverability is totally gone. Walking int
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by ronnier 11y ago
I don't like that WhatsApp is tied to my phone number.
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by ronnier 11y ago
Largely mobile phones are feature complete. There's very little that can be added that makes it worth upgrading at this point. Unless there's some game changing new feature, expect people to upgrade less as they are completely s
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by ronnier 11y ago
At my company in Japan, we had 20 public holidays though. That's a lot more than we get in the US. But those public holidays come at a cost -- trying to do any sort of activity during Golden Week is next to impossible because of overcr
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by ronnier 11y ago
Depending on which city you live in, the other passengers can be a threat to your life. For that reason alone I don't think public transportation will ever be very popular in the US. It might work in a few places, but most places the
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by ronnier 11y ago
Yes.
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by ronnier 11y ago
Slightly off topic but the male/female ratio is very imbalanced in places. Having just moved back to Seattle from Tokyo, this imbalance is very prominent here, which wasn't noticeable in Tokyo. Just yesterday I went to a bar wit
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by ronnier 11y ago
I agree and I don't agree. My 5 year old, while at a basic level, starting playing pieces of "In the Hall of the Mountain King" on our keyboard, unprovoked. I asked where she learned this song and she said the iPad. She pla
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by ronnier 11y ago
$2,550 a month from a rental property.
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by ronnier 11y ago
I've noticed very few cyclists wearing helmets in Tokyo. Would be interesting to compare to a city were helmets are more prevalent.
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by ronnier 11y ago
That would be #9 on the list.
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by ronnier 11y ago
Another idea to add to the list: There are often a dozen murders a week in places like Chicago. How long is that sustainable? Maybe the gangs have killed their selves off?
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by ronnier 11y ago
After traveling to 30+ countries, China multiple times, and currently living in Japan, the last thing I associate with China is politeness.
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by ronnier 11y ago
Have you ever sat around trying to talk to a colleague with his shoes on top of the table? It's awful behavior and I can't stand it. I usually just walk away.
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by ronnier 11y ago
I truly dislike open offices. The constant sound of mechanical keyboards clacking really gets to me, and I'm not sure why. I wear headphones listening to loud music to cancel out the sounds of these damn keyboards.
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by ronnier 11y ago
I find the Google apps have the most complicated and confusing UIs of all the apps I use.
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by ronnier 11y ago
“Among the 26,939 users with a UK email address,” technology producer Geoff White explains that there were, “just 1,596 who identified as female: a ratio of one woman to every 16 men.” Seems about the same as bars, clubs, and most of our wo

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