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751.
by smackfu 12y ago
Yes, it's been planned for a couple of years.
752.
by smackfu 12y ago
Fair enough. I should have included some links. Uber's playbook for sabotaging Lyft: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8229081 Uber Executive Suggests Digging Up Dirt on Journalists: https://news.ycombin
753.
by smackfu 12y ago
Ha, have you not been paying attention?
754.
by smackfu 12y ago
You aren't really refuting anything said in the article.
755.
by smackfu 12y ago
GWB was pretty pro-space. But NASA can't get much done in one or two four-year terms.
756.
by smackfu 12y ago
Yeah, seems like a bug "fix."
757.
by smackfu 12y ago
How about a car example: If there is a four-way stop, and a car runs a stop sign because they can see there is no one else waiting, should they be ticketed? This is a case where if something is done relatively infrequently, it is quite safe
758.
by smackfu 12y ago
But this isn't title case, this is randomly capitalizing the "J" in "Jobs".
759.
by smackfu 12y ago
I think mainly because the top of the podcast charts is all existing public radio shows, so they don't "count" as podcasts.
760.
by smackfu 12y ago
Current radio has both talk shows (AM talk radio) and produced content (NPR). Both very popular. No reason they can't both exist in the podcast area. And a popular radio talk show isn't really much more professional than "
761.
by smackfu 12y ago
>You can listen to audio while you do other things My biggest problem with podcasts is that I can only listen to audio while I do other things. Running, cleaning the kitchen, driving. If I don't have something to occupy my hands
762.
by smackfu 12y ago
If beating cryptanalysis just requires messing up a few letters, seems like a valid thing to do.
763.
by smackfu 12y ago
Well, the first reason is because it would take a complete rewrite. :)
764.
by smackfu 12y ago
Yeah, they were just random thoughts, I'm not sure they are all good ideas. The stuttering only seems to happen on long comment pages, when I give it a push and let it scroll. It seems to just hiccup every 100 ms or so.
765.
by smackfu 12y ago
A few thoughts: When on the comments page, I'd expect tapping the title to take me to the article, but it doesn't. The child comment touch target is all the way to the far right, which is at the edge of the touch region on the new
766.
by smackfu 12y ago
Looks like Here maps isn't available for iOS.
767.
by smackfu 12y ago
I find the new Google Maps UI to be frustrating. The number of taps to just find directions to something after you search for it seems to be increased, for no good reason. I think it's mainly because there are multiple paths through t
768.
by smackfu 12y ago
Lyft and Uber seem pretty interchangeable, so having a reason to choose one over the other is not good for them.
769.
by smackfu 12y ago
The only real way that could have happened is if a third party released a great smartwatch that was independent of the phone platform. Something like Pebble but higher-end. Unfortunately with Android Wear existing, I doubt there is stil
770.
by smackfu 12y ago
Right. That's why they should just say "paid out a million" (a statement of income) rather than "became millionaires" (a statement of net worth.)
771.
by smackfu 12y ago
Yeah, it's odd. Competitors like Venmo rely on not putting the money directly into the recipients bank account until they cash out. So they can make a little interest money off that directly, and more importantly, any transactions th
772.
by smackfu 12y ago
I think "download" was a shorthand for "sign-up". Signing up for a payments service is pretty friction-ful.
773.
by smackfu 12y ago
OTOH, a payment app can grow pretty organically. It doesn't matter that I'm not "friends" with my friend Joe on Venmo if I don't need to send him money.
774.
by smackfu 12y ago
Are you kidding? Do you love getting calls from telemarketers too?
775.
by smackfu 12y ago
> it's not really readily accessible to anyone Wouldn't it be much easier to commute by car there?
776.
by smackfu 12y ago
You are mixing together vastly different companies (public, private, mature, start-ups), and then ignoring companies that did make the transition to profit. So yeah, seems a bit like a rant.
777.
by smackfu 12y ago
Amazing the the new SVP of Product is a guy who one day said "It would be cool if reddit had a secret santa." While not working there. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/12/20/secret-sa
778.
by smackfu 12y ago
Of course, once everyone is on site, it's very dangerous to be the one employee left offsite.
779.
by smackfu 12y ago
"Stagnating" with huge user / traffic growth is bad thing?
780.
by smackfu 12y ago
Good thing: NTSB will release a full report at some point with all these answers. Bad thing: Until then, they tend to not say much.

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