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by swang 14y ago
Saw this yesterday.
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by swang 14y ago
It's not as though brick & mortar journalists are any better nowadays either. See: Manti Teo Even though one "journalist" couldn't find any evidence of the girl existing: no birth certificate, no death certificate, no records of her exi
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by swang 14y ago
Yes and no. Your post makes it seem like this is the first time anyone has heard of Steve Jobs threatening to sue. Apple sued Microsoft over Windows, then got Microsoft to invest and commit Office to Macintosh for 5 years + $150 million to
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by swang 14y ago
Essentially both companies agree not to hire anyone from the other company. This is considered illegal in the States.
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by swang 14y ago
I don't use Safari and it has all my downloads from Google Chrome.
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by swang 14y ago
Let's assume that Deadspin didn't trace it back eventually to a close mutual friend of his. So he's _REALLY_ embarrassed because someone online pulled a pretty hardcore prank on him. Yet he still continues to act as though she was a real pe
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by swang 14y ago
Did you read the article? It is pretty obvious he perpetuated the hoax or lied about activities involving her to media. Either he is really naive or a liar. He even continued talking about her as a real person to the media even after he fou
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by swang 14y ago
So they're essentially letting Scientology use The Atlantic's "brand" to trick people into reading this? (Yes, I know it says Sponsored Post) This, on top of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4108929 and http://www.forbes.com/sites/jef
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by swang 14y ago
I am pointing out it's sexist because the grandparent post automatically assumed the woman to be the initiator in this affair. Now did she break her marriage vows? Yes. That's unrelated.
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by swang 14y ago
I never made a judgement about whether she should have broken her marriage vows or not.
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by swang 14y ago
Considering how little we know about the situation what makes you think she was the seducer and not the employee? Seems somewhat sexist to think the woman is the one to blame.
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by swang 14y ago
Yes I believe I suggested adding in both years as a compromise unfortunately the admin would not budge. Going through various commitee groups on Wikpedia to get this compromise did not seem like a good use of my time
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by swang 14y ago
A problem that prevents people from spotting things like this is that there are tons and tons of sites that just have copies of Wikipedia articles or the site just blindly copies things from Wikipedia. For example... Alicia Keys birthday on
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by swang 14y ago
Why is this linkbaity title still allowed by the HN mods? The mods usually forbid (and then change) misleading titles and this to me seems like an obvious one. It's essentially just free advertisement for this website masking itself as an a
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by swang 14y ago
The infographic is not very informative because you can't tell if 100 is bad or good at a glance. Sure, "red" usually means negative. But yellow means? Also in this case since 100 is "good" it's confusing because again, on the initial read
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by swang 14y ago
Are you joking when you say the University of Waterloo is a small school?
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by swang 14y ago
What risk does a dissolved company have? The article seems to state that the only real 'risk' was that the VC company spent their own money to fight this, not knowing whether they would win.
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by swang 14y ago
I am on rMBP and it hardlocked Chrome after I navigated towards the sun and clicked the information button about the sun. Worked fine until then, really cool.
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by swang 14y ago
There is a name for this: callback hell.
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by swang 14y ago
Title is misleading. They are scrapping it because they already take into account variations in spelling and this will no longer be necessary. This is the line from the site: > Wildcard searches are no longer supported because recent ch
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by swang 14y ago
I've had various experiences of good and bad HR/internal recruiters but the one that really deflated me was with one of the larger Ruby companies in the Bay Area. I applied through a resume website, applying to 4 positions that I thought fi
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by swang 14y ago
The site does not work on the iPhone at all if you want to zoom in to read the text. If you start to touch and scroll the menu that was hidden away on the left decides to rear its ugly head and makes the site completely unreadable. I'm pret
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by swang 14y ago
I can guarantee, with a near 100% confidence rating, that I am not Sam Wang. Merely coincidental that we have the same last name and first initial. I mean there has to be at least 100 million people in the world with the surname Wang so the
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by swang 14y ago
Nope.
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by swang 14y ago
Article doesn't mention Sam Wang. His confidence level for Obama winning was at 99% http://election.princeton.edu/
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by swang 14y ago
I don't doubt that there is a lot of racism, misogyny, etc, prevalent on Reddit. That doesn't mean that Reddit doesn't have any good qualities. It's like judging America based on the worst qualities of the country and saying, "This is Ameri
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by swang 14y ago
Except this just frustrates the voter and maybe he doesn't bother voting for Obama at all. There's no accusation of "altering" the votes because how do you track, "Touchscreen didn't select Obama, voter just gave up?"
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by swang 14y ago
That's actually for the div for Apple's copyright notice, which has a classname of sosumi.
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by swang 14y ago
Post like these assumes no one has enough willpower to take pictures and then upload them when they get back from the vacation. To boot he seems to be romanticizing 2003 as a much simpler time... what? The statement, "I used film so all my
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by swang 14y ago
Of course those slimy judges can't get away with it in the US. Corporations in the US are people now. Should cigarette companies be allowed to write their own diatribe under the "Surgeon General's Warning" label? Cigarette companies definit

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