swartkrans

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by swartkrans 12y ago
I had the original Kindle Fire which worked nicely, but had a pretty poor screen. Now I have the 7" Kindle Fire HDX which has been fantastic with a beautiful screen, except a few days ago I noticed a yellow blur irregularity in the top
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by swartkrans 12y ago
I bought a year's worth of fastmail I haven't set up yet. I should probably get going with that.
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by swartkrans 12y ago
Everything you have said is false. Private prisons are not colluding to keep prisoners in prison or lobbying the state or doing any kind of action to increase the number of people that become imprisoned nor increase their length of stay. Th
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by swartkrans 12y ago
I wish software would stop supporting FTP. It's a clear text protocol. Everything is sent in the clear text. Anyone on the wifi hotspot, any one listening at your ISP, all the way to your host knows exactly what you're uploading o
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by swartkrans 12y ago
> Glad that it is not pretending to be "media" company anymore. When you hire people like Katie Couric and David Pogue you are still a media company.
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by swartkrans 12y ago
Yes if anyone ever got access to my user on my local dev machine, the gig is up. Although we keep production sensitive stuff gpg encrypted and require a password to decrypt, but there is so much information and data in my user home, you don
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by swartkrans 12y ago
Having been a manager once, pay seems such a gray area, since people negotiate it with their manager. How does this law distinguish between unfair pay practices and the myriad non-discriminatory reasons why someone might be paid less? Are e
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by swartkrans 12y ago
Wow, that's too bad. I hope they fix this.
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by swartkrans 12y ago
Emacs is a great editor, very capable, and it's awesome that accessibility is possible with such a great editor. The author knows a lot and I'm glad they shared their experience. However that blog is nearly unreadable for someone
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by swartkrans 12y ago
0.5% is way more than most employees get. 0.5% is like employee #1 or #2.
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by swartkrans 12y ago
> Because of his management style, just about every rails dev in Toronto has been through the company. They seem to go through waves of employees (40+ down to 15 and back again) every six months to a year. I don't know and I wasn&#x
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by swartkrans 12y ago
$6m is not a lot of money. It's big for the average series A for YC, and $6m is a 4 year runway for a 30 person team if they don't blow it on a fancy office. High quality traffic + a job board. The $22m valuation seems high thoug
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by swartkrans 12y ago
I'd still worry if she were 34 or 44 or 64?She wouldn't stop being my daughter. Should I feel sorry for your kids or are you not a parent?
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by swartkrans 12y ago
> multithreaded implementations Because blocking the UI thread for any kind of I/O network, process, file, whatever is such a great thing. Or even just syntax highlighting, which actually prevents you from being able to move your cu
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by swartkrans 12y ago
Oh I think he gets those ideas, but as can be gathered from his characters, he doesn't think people will go for it. And the spacers in 2312 are pretty transhumanist I'd say.
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by swartkrans 12y ago
Food trucks are not a big business. If you've captured the entire food truck payment system, you're still not likely to be worth $6bn, especially not if you're taking pennies on each transaction. It probably also doesn't
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by swartkrans 12y ago
Kim Stanley Robinson's books are all pretty fantastic. I recommend the Red Mars trilogy as well as 2312. His vision of the future is exciting and optimistic, his deep knowledge of science and technology topics is enlightening, and his
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by swartkrans 12y ago
I don't know, I'd be pretty worried about my daughter if she were in another continent. I'd want the hotel information, I'd send her extra money. I'd be reading up on news in that area. I doubt I would be angry to f
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by swartkrans 12y ago
I started out with PHP in ~2000 as that's what people used, but then migrated over to Python around 2007 and web.py. Now I've experimented with node and Go, Java and Scala, but I prefer Python and Django. There's so much that
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by swartkrans 12y ago
Was he actually guilty of insider trading?
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by swartkrans 12y ago
I feel like the title should include a warning.