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by rwhitman 13y ago
This design-in-markup concept has been around for a while (I like the new term "NoPSD" though). I tend to flip both ways on this issue. For expediency's sake, and often in terms of usability and performance, designing in CSS
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by rwhitman 13y ago
My friend was hit by a car the other night crossing the street in Brooklyn (just bruised thankfully). It was a hit and run and when the NYPD came, they did everything possible to try and dissuade him from making a report. To the point where
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by rwhitman 13y ago
I did not know about this Bloomberg article, but now I do. They could have just let it go, but now it gets to the HN frontpage. What a dumb move I know folks who work at Fab in non-tech roles and it is indeed a demanding environment with lo
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by rwhitman 13y ago
I cannot think of a city who needs these services more than LA. Hope they fight it with all they've got
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Uber, Lyft, Sidecar told to shut down in Los Angeles(blogs.laweekly.com)
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by rwhitman 13y ago
I think this would make much more sense in Los Angeles than NYC. But the taxpayers there would never go for it, they love cars too much
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by rwhitman 13y ago
Ok so its a piano roll sequencer with nice chrome and a locked set of mildly acceptable instruments. Sorry but this just isn't overly exciting to me in its current state. Unlock all the instruments, add MIDI and charge for it. Then we&
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by rwhitman 13y ago
Again notice the words "direct access". What about indirect access?
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by rwhitman 13y ago
Whether its Palantir or not, it does make perfect sense that the NSA would subcontract this work to a 3rd party. Someone is out there with this contract
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by rwhitman 13y ago
The key word here is "direct". Based on the other thread speculating about Palantir its pretty likely there is a 3rd party contractor who does have direct access, and provides convenient plausible deniability to both parties
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by rwhitman 13y ago
I think it has a lot to do with residential rental inventory as well. Rent control. There is such limited available apartment rental inventory that to take units off the market, carve them up and sell them as hotel stays completely skews th
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by rwhitman 13y ago
Its a really long story, but I wasn't the renter, I was scammed by someone who rented on Airbnb and pretended it was their apartment
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by rwhitman 13y ago
Illegal hotels are actually a legit problem in NYC. I'd have to dig up the article but I've read about shady landlords evicting residents and turning entire apartment buildings into Airbnb hotels. Its big business, my friend pays his entire
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by rwhitman 14y ago
I agree completely. For a bank ATM I'm sure that they have a lot to lose from skimmers, as it affects their customers' accounts. But for a gas station, a generic ATM do they really stand to lose much from the skimmer? They still get your mo
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by rwhitman 14y ago
At Arco they only accept debit. I would never use a debit card if I could avoid it. There are much more protections and insurance on credit card transactions, but if money comes out of debit, its gone.
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by rwhitman 14y ago
Burbank, Orange County, El Segundo.. hard to tell tho because you don't find out till later
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by rwhitman 14y ago
This is an epidemic at gas stations in Southern California. I've been nailed by skimmers in LA, and a lot of my friends have too. My girlfriend refuses to use the debit cart option at Arco gas stations for fear of her card info being stolen
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by rwhitman 14y ago
The more I think about this the less I think its painting an accurate picture. Sure startups may not hire older engineers to work at the front of the application stack, but as engineers age they tend to either start specializing in an are
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by rwhitman 14y ago
Isn't there also the flip side - that the disruptive tech businesses represented by YC actually remove jobs from the economy on some level? For example hotel workers who are displaced because of AirBnb etc. Not that I'm the kind of person w
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by rwhitman 14y ago
Hmm so you can't track how many people turn off the notifications? I would assume the metric would be based on how many people leave them on without getting annoyed and switch them off. The lower your notification disable rate is, the more
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by rwhitman 14y ago
This is such an excellent point. Media Queries have been bugging the hell out of me lately for a reason I couldn't put my finger on, and I think you just nailed it
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by rwhitman 14y ago
Yea I discovered this from the seeking freelancers post, I had to stipulate that people drop at least a link or resume, otherwise I was getting emails like "I write Python. Email me. Thx." Please folks I get that you are in demand but not p
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by rwhitman 14y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER(S) - Remote I'm helping out a client find new devs (small NYC based design + interactive agency) and also looking for folks myself. We're in NYC but looking anywhere. Needs: PHP, Wordpress, Magento, frontend (bootstrap, j
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by rwhitman 14y ago
Producer/audio engineer will get you no where. There are a million "producers" out there without work, and honestly focusing too much on the music industry was really what set me back on my career by about 5 years. Call it a hobby and move
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by rwhitman 14y ago
In Philadelphia there was a similar mothball fleet, including multiple carriers and destroyers that was pretty clearly visible from I-95. Was always psyched to see that when I was a kid
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by rwhitman 14y ago
Pretty hard yea, especially with an "Ask HN" post
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by rwhitman 14y ago
Put a way to contact you on your HN profile. You are on the frontpage and will probably get a few leads. Don't waste the opportunity to score freelance clients out of your post...
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by rwhitman 14y ago
Freelance. Been freelancing for close to 13 years and no one has done a background check on me ever. I'm not an ex-con, but if I was one I doubt any of my clients would ever know or care.
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by rwhitman 14y ago
There is some really bizarre complex psychology / sociology behind the whole thing that really needs to be untangled. The De Beers marketers were mad geniuses that made the world bend to their will in a way that can't be undone
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by rwhitman 14y ago
Because listening to your girlfriend sob herself to sleep every other night is not so fun

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