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Ask HN: What services/products are missing mobile apps?
1 points by swanson 9y ago|0 comments
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by swanson 9y ago
Partisan fact checking -- which this effort intends to standardize and elevate -- is part of the problem , not the solution.
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by swanson 9y ago
Everyone: "We've got a problem with fake news and journalistic integrity on the internet." Google engineers: "Oh, I can make an API for that!"
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by swanson 9y ago
A few maybe-not-so-nefarious options I can think of: a) some kind of third-party OAuth sign in library that may not be properly configured? Is it possible to log in the website using some kind of single-sign in? b) requesting favicons to us
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by swanson 9y ago
PSA: Never write an email this long to be sent to "all-employees@company.com", "Larry" should know better!
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by swanson 9y ago
I've been using https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.manuelmaly... on Android for a long time. It seems to best jive with the ethos of HN -- stripped down design, focused on the content, and just
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by swanson 9y ago
Just to flip it around, for the fully-loaded cost of sending 2 people to 1 conference that requires travel by plane, you can hire the keynote speaker to come to your office and train 40 people for 2 days. This kind of arrangement is general
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by swanson 9y ago
Sam Walton, in the early days of WalMart, got a pilot's license so he could fly between store locations (vs a much slower commute by car). He noticed while flying that he could see traffic patterns and scout out new store locations for
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by swanson 9y ago
Odds that Facebook ends up doing a privatized 2020 census?
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by swanson 9y ago
This is great, thanks Jon. I've been struggling to find good workflows for integrating design and engineering (especially when there is a disparity in maturity of the processes for each party). I think there is definitely a gap in the
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by swanson 9y ago
Interesting model -- I went to add a niche newsletter* I help run, but saw that you are charging newsletter operators $9/month to post their list. It makes sense, but I was expecting you to basically be the broker that takes a cut on t
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by swanson 10y ago
It seems so unbelievable to me that there are enough people that are a) John Deere equipment owners/renters and b) capable of debugging and patching issues in a C++ codebase for these stories to keep appearing. Debates on the virtues o
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by swanson 10y ago
> "Most corporate people will probably relicense" Okay, is there evidence of this? who else has done it? is there existing legal precedence for this action? will presenting something that says "WHAT THE FUCK" in it ca
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How to start a peer group(mdswanson.com)
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by swanson 10y ago
OT: From the headline, I wasn't sure if this was about torrents, GMO crops, or venture capital until clicking. Chalk it up to HN's diverse interests :)
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by swanson 10y ago
Transcript: https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/...
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by swanson 10y ago
From the article, > She was with her friend. Her friend had the same computer (which we saw on the video). Her friend ran off to hold the plane at the gate. She thought her friend left her computer. Sat in a diff section of plane so coul
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by swanson 10y ago
Before you downvote or comment on the resolution (the laptop mixup was an accident and it was returned shortly after), take a look at the last comment thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11759741 which was before i
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by swanson 10y ago
Is this the same product previously named "Gomix" that Anil Dash was building at Fog Creek?
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by swanson 10y ago
The linked study has one "key finding" that "The billion dollar startup companies with an immigrant founder excel at job creation" but I don't see anything in the study to indicate how the job creation at these immi
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by swanson 10y ago
We all know that Mew2King is first reinforcement learning AI capable of beating Super Smash Bros pro players. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-1YfhUFtbY&feature=youtu.be...
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by swanson 10y ago
Sharepoint
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by swanson 10y ago
I think this is the same anecdote: http://blog.chriszacharias.com/page-weight-matters
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by swanson 10y ago
Typically a table with (optional) sorting, filtering, re-ordering, and/or drag-n-drop.
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by swanson 10y ago
I'm not sure if it's exactly the same (I sometimes struggle with the nuance between a system and a goal) -- but I like to think of systems as "rules". If I want to get healthy, I don't set a goal to "go to the
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by swanson 10y ago
I had the same thought a few weeks ago (specifically about Change.org petitions). Here is a page I found that shows petitions that achieved some action: https://www.change.org/victories No idea on how many did not succeed
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by swanson 10y ago
I won't defend those actions. I just got a chuckle about this comment since it's an ad hominem -- not rational, but rather designed to appeal to emotion ("I'm mad about him doing that") or identify ("I'm a
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by swanson 10y ago
From Scott Adams (Dilbert): > Rational People: Use data and reason to arrive at truth. (This group is mostly imaginary.) > Word-Thinkers: Use labels, word definitions, and analogies to create the illusion of rational thinking. This gr
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by swanson 10y ago
Perhaps I'm a "bad web citizen" for not wanting to go mobile first with responsive design, but most of the work I've done over the past 5 years for clients has been "desktop first", fixed-width web applications
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by swanson 10y ago
I have the non-cloud version, works fine. The most annoying part is that the license/version scheme is, in my opinion, too complex. I can never exactly tell if I have the latest version and if I need to upgrade (which costs $$). It see

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