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by sedev 13y ago
> If this is upheld it could have some interesting repercussions on water rights in the Central Valley > if I remember, some of those were parts of Mexican land grants as well. That's both news to me and a wincing moment of &quot
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by sedev 13y ago
Well for that matter so does Clojure, and both have had a while to pick up traction. Do you think it'll be easier to solve the primarily-social problem of getting traction for languages like that (and I say this as someone who adores C
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by sedev 13y ago
It might also be that browsers have started displaying it as a space - my Firefox does, for example (until you select it - copy-pasting it preserves the %20).
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by sedev 13y ago
"Too many twentysomething founders look for employees just like themselves. “So you discriminate against anyone who is in their 30s or 40s or has a family,” says Mickiewicz. “But the most talented and experienced people will be in thei
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by sedev 13y ago
Unfortunately that behavior pattern is exactly one that abusive users exhibit as well: innocuous review, long delay, glowing review of "target" business.
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by sedev 13y ago
For the record: if you go and flag a review, in addition to the usual "abusive/TOS violation" type of stuff, you can also report that it "doesn't describe a personal consumer experience." It's not super ob
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by sedev 13y ago
"You would expect it to be in Yelp's interest to demonstrate its reviews are credible, though I haven't seen that. Competition and articles like this should motivate them in that direction. In the meantime, they benefit from
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by sedev 13y ago
Wow, that is dramatically different than what the headline suggests. The "20% are fake" headline implies "20% of visible reviews", but instead I'm hearing you say, "20% of reviews are killfiled before visib
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by sedev 13y ago
Wait, why on earth should people be prevented from leaving a negative review when they have a negative experience? A review site that doesn't let people leave negative reviews is an untrustworthy review site. Sure, people are unreaso
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by sedev 13y ago
While I'd love for those things to come to pass, it's alarming that you elide methods and obstacles entirely. The democratic process has been purchased by the entities you're proposing to regulate, and the entities that you propose enforce
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by sedev 13y ago
Predicted TSA response: ban iPhones. I have a very, very low opinion of the TSA.
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by sedev 14y ago
User data sovereignty is, in my opinion, the next big thing that folks like the Free Software Foundation should be harping on. There's already some noise about it, but unfortunately the FSF, the EFF, and similar organizations are still to a
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How To Fail At Freemium(gamasutra.com)
2 points by sedev 14y ago|0 comments
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The Controller Pattern Is Awful, Or, Stop Writing Stupid Classes(me.veekun.com)
12 points by sedev 14y ago|5 comments
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by sedev 14y ago
You're not wrong to feel that way. It is not strictly required to contribute back to the community when using F/OSS products - but doing so is the best thing to do by a wide margin. It's okay to feel uncomfortable when the company you work
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by sedev 14y ago
If you count laptop plus tablet sales and measure by profit share, it's not remotely close: Apple obliterates its competitors by that measure.
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by sedev 14y ago
For the last three elections in a row (at the very least), the will of the US' citizens has been very, very clear: "give us good health care, stop the war, keep the rich from killing us all." No one has offered more than small parts of that
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by sedev 14y ago
Oh good, I'm glad that I'm not the only one who got about a third of the way through the article and said "well, yes, this is pretty obviously the way things work if you've read Manufacturing Consent or similar critiques." The differences
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by sedev 14y ago
The app screening and approval process has problems, sure, but they're dwarfed by the upside. Users think nothing of downloading and installing a new app on their iThing, and when they don't want they app, they delete it and it's gone for r
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by sedev 14y ago
For Apple's App Store to become less appealing, you'd need at least a couple of the following to happen: * Android App Store/Google Play becomes a viable business proposition * Windows App Store becomes a viable business proposition * Black
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by sedev 14y ago
Her agenda is about making crypto accessible to lots of people that it's not currently available to. To those people, hackerdom often looks like an undifferentiated mass of white dudes. Leaving race out of a discussion like that is not a ne
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by sedev 14y ago
Part of why I thought this was a good match for HN was that it not only lines up with the monthly recap of "ideas versus execution," but it also reinforces Patrick McKenzie's spiel about "your creative work is valuable, demand appropriate v
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The Unfinanced Entrepreneur [1998](newsfromme.com)
3 points by sedev 14y ago|1 comments
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Lessons Learned From NUL-byte bugs(sjamaan.ath.cx)
1 points by sedev 14y ago|0 comments
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by sedev 14y ago
Life is too short to read another half-hearted defense of a terrible language. This author lost me when he started out by only acknowledging the critiques of PHP that he could handwave away. If he actually had a coherent response to "Fracta
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Napster, Udacity, and Disrupting The Academy(shirky.com)
3 points by sedev 14y ago|0 comments
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by sedev 14y ago
This is interesting to me in that it's a very Clay Shirky response to The Daily's failure. If you read http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking... or http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2010/04/the-collapse-of-complex... th
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by sedev 14y ago
I'm distressed by this: Mr. Salmon is a victim of severe Dunning-Kruger problems and it's painful to read the column as a result. He doesn't know jack diddly about tablets, and he thinks that he knows all about tablets. I also can't imagine
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by sedev 14y ago
I strongly endorse this idea. The faster and more completely the development community moves away from using PHP in production, the better. I've started telling people not that PHP is bad, but that PHP is the avatar of technical debt. No ma
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by sedev 14y ago
I was shocked that none of the top-voted comments mention this aspect of the matter. The attitude of founders is one thing, and possibly worrisome, but the attitude of funders is predictable: they'd like to maximize some index that comb

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