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by spennant 10y ago
I'm not talking about minor releases here... Avoiding an upgrade to a major release (iOS 10) triggers an unavoidable antipattern: Every 24 hours iOS asks if you want to upgrade now or remind you later... but that's not the worst p
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by spennant 10y ago
Has anyone tried to ignore iOS updates recently?
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by spennant 10y ago
relevant xkcd https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/
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by spennant 10y ago
I would never tell anyone that they are a Sith Lord.
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by spennant 10y ago
FTFY http://afscme.tumblr.com/post/40696645755/fify-wall-street-j...
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by spennant 10y ago
The concept of "Campus Police" allows for Universities to insulate themselves from local laws. Crimes from underage drinking up to rape are generally dealt with internally, in what seems like understanding between the institution
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by spennant 10y ago
Very odd to see this here. I had recently been Googling the writings of the late professor. He as a few lists like this out there.
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by spennant 10y ago
There are a quite a few women that read Hacker News. I'm sure Dyson is going to get an awareness/sales boost from here
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by spennant 11y ago
Verizon now owns Converto ( http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/6-major-pieces-verizon... )... Supercookies makes this a big deal.
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by spennant 11y ago
I've actually seen it... But that was over 20 years ago. (I really can't get the image out of my head, even after all this time...) FWIW... I love the NYC Subway, and wish there was more money/attention paid to it. (Especiall
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by spennant 12y ago
Don't forget about the feedback loop... Do you think home prices would be as high as they are without the existence and wide availability of mortgages?
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by spennant 12y ago
Funny... I just put up a hadoop cluster last week and named it pachyderm.mydomain.com (i'm probably not the first to do that either)
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by spennant 12y ago
Back in 2000, Courtney Love did the math too... ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2742303 ) I'd like to hear what she thinks now.