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by swombat 12y ago
How's the caching on the iPhone? Can I stick a bunch of FLACs and others on Plex, then open them with the (paid) Plex Pass subscription client, then cache them on there, and play them wherever?
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by swombat 12y ago
I'd argue that the US lost its reputation as "one of the best" quite some time ago. Communist Russia is probably still an overly contrasting comparison point - the US is not as bad as that - but compared to countries that are
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by swombat 12y ago
Nice site, but I'm always puzzled by this idea that a business can be managed entirely with a cookie-cutter product. Surely if your business can run on something like that, it has zero competitive advantage, right? In practice, I fin
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by swombat 12y ago
Unfortunately, that icon has been strongly associated in most people's minds with subscribing to someone else's broadcast!... (the RSS feed icon, a very successful icon, even if most people have no clue what RSS actually means)
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by swombat 12y ago
You're not alone. My blood congeals at the idea that access to the music I love is somehow restricted by a third party with a different agenda to mine. I have zero interest in a third party streaming service. Now, if I could install my
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by swombat 12y ago
Yes, mostly.
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by swombat 12y ago
I started my first company while employed as a Consultant at Accenture/UBS. I did not tell anyone at work that I was doing so, nor did I work on the business while at the office. Vocalix was a tech startup, aiming to "put voice on
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by swombat 12y ago
I think it might actually be in Civ5 that I first heard the following quote: "Asking whether a computer can think is about as useful as asking whether a submarine can swim." I think this is fairly insightful and relevant.
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by swombat 12y ago
Yeah, the communist "everyone owns the labour" approach has been tried, I think you'll find, if you open some history books. There are some seductive ideas in communism, but making ownership a function of direct contribution
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by swombat 12y ago
I'm not in SV. My cofounder and I own 100% of the business. And that's the way it works in most of the world. The SV approach of giving early employees shares as an incentive is actually fairly tech-centric. Whoever heard of a res
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by swombat 12y ago
Can't blame you! Happened to me with my very first popular post (on dreamhost too). Lesson? Stay away from cheap shitty hosts like Dreamhost who will "help" you by disabling your site just when it gets successful. Assholes. A
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by swombat 12y ago
The requested URL /how-to-tell-if-your-ui-sucks/ was not found on this server. Well, that's one way...
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by swombat 12y ago
> You see the problem with that particular problem child is that enough LSD to dose every man woman and child on earth could be produced in a single lab and held within a coffee cup which makes it uniquely dangerous as a weapon of mass
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by swombat 12y ago
I learned from my lawyer that a typical reaction of people accused of something which they're guilty of is to criticise the process of how this is being handled, or the way the evidence has been collected, or the semantics of the quest
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by swombat 12y ago
Maybe you should stop trying to dictate to others how they use or not use their sexuality? After all, it's theirs, not yours, and your opinion about how that is well used is largely irrelevant.
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by swombat 12y ago
Thanks for the invitation. I'm afraid I'm already married, however, and to a startup founder to boot! :-)
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by swombat 12y ago
Ok, so, let me enlighten you as to why you're being downvoted. First, your post reads very rambly. That doesn't help much, though it probably actually does help a little, since the more what you're saying becomes clear, the m
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by swombat 12y ago
That doesn't sound or look like _why... Someone must have hijacked the domain? Well, unless this is some kind of epic troll attempt by _why... But even as a troll it doesn't strike me as his style.
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by swombat 12y ago
See, that I would leave to the moderators, and to the flame war detector, rather than applying my personal opinion of "I don't like this discussion" and thereby downvoting a story by 10 points.
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by swombat 12y ago
You'd have to be pretty insane to spend $3b to get into the content industry in 2014. First, it's an industry that's been plummeting for a decade, secondly, the entire recording industry is worth about that much, and thirdly,
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by swombat 12y ago
I don't know that it affects points, but it definitely affects ranking. A post with more comments than points is likely to trigger the flame war detector and have the same effect as the post being flagged severely.
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by swombat 12y ago
Perhaps Thomas would descend from his stratospheric karma then, since my understanding is he flags very liberally.
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by swombat 12y ago
I am absolutely certain than they are. Some have even admitted it in discussions - they use it to mark articles that they think aren't quite right for HN or are likely to result in worthless discussion. Tptacek explained that that was
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by swombat 12y ago
Google Tomorrow will figure out what you needed to do at the remote location, do it for you, and avoid the need for a trip altogether. Google The Day After Tomorrow gets rid of the need for you to exist at all!
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by swombat 12y ago
Don't get me wrong - I totally support self-driving cars and I will - once the technology is cooked enough - feel much safer in those than in normal cars... well, as long as we get all the other non-self-driving idiots off the roads,
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by swombat 12y ago
Totally hate the format... what is this, Buzzfeed meets TechCrunch? As if TechCrunch's main stream of news wasn't "mainstream" enough already...
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by swombat 12y ago
Do you "ghost brake" when driving in the back of a limousine? Yep. I'm frequently uncomfortable when someone else is driving. There's a handful of people in the world who don't make me uncomfortable when driving..
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by swombat 12y ago
Plug: the UK govt also has R&D tax credits, and it's what my company, GrantTree, specialises in. They're similar to Canadian tax credits, but can give you up to 25-32% cash back, and are a fair bit more lenient on what passes
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Humanity Is Now Officially Ready For Suspended Animation(io9.com)
5 points by swombat 12y ago|1 comments
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by swombat 12y ago
That's 12 buttons :-)

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