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by throwaway420 10y ago
It's hard for me to understand how Twitter has so many employees when: a) The site has relatively few major features beyond displaying lots of text in chronological order. b) The site is so overwhelmingly shitty. They had a great thin
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by throwaway420 10y ago
I am perfectly aware that when compared to phones and other devices, Macs make up a small percentage of Apple's income. But it is still a massive business. Apple will be fine either way in the short term. Hell, they have enough cash sa
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by throwaway420 10y ago
It's a little weird for me that a company supposedly in "maintenance mode" has been ignoring the Mac for so long. Even a 5th rate computer company can manage to come out with a new model once in a while. How did Apple get to
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by throwaway420 10y ago
What is the proper amount of short term rentals in a city? Should a particular building be used for housing or rentals? I know I don't know the exact answer, but the reality is that politicians don't either. These questions are be
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by throwaway420 10y ago
Interesting that Apple is concerned about the fire and electric shock hazard of the knock-off charger cables when their own cables are brittle as hell and subject to the same issues. Almost entirely across the board, Apple's hardware h
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by throwaway420 10y ago
I think we've all been there before...wouldn't it be nice if there was one standard way of doing something? Yes and no. Sure, it might make things easier most of the time. But a one-size-fits-all approach might also lead to limite
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by throwaway420 10y ago
> I also think the PHP professional development community is smaller than that of other languages when measured as a percentage of the total professionals using the language. Is this really the case? I've seen estimates of around 70
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by throwaway420 10y ago
> So where does this discrepancy between vote counts and comments stem from? People are probably concerned about not being viewed as a good or knowledgeable developer if they admit to using PHP here, so it's probably not a fight tha
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by throwaway420 10y ago
If I was an immoral criminal minded asshole, I'd probably create a service like this to get my hands on as many juicy secrets as possible and see what knowledge I could get. Maybe I'll find out some hidden business info that I cou
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by throwaway420 10y ago
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
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by throwaway420 10y ago
My phone appears stuck in some kind of recovery loop that I cannot get out of thus far and there's no progress indicator or anything else in the recovery mode. Apple's hardware quality (with the exception of the insane evil idiot
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by throwaway420 10y ago
The big advantage that console gaming has over PC gaming is that I don't have to sit there and consciously think about system requirements. I can just put a disc in a slot, relax, and play my game at the end of the day 99.99% of the ti
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by throwaway420 10y ago
It's not "unprofessional", but by far the the most annoying emails come from people who out of habit use the phrase "Please Advise" as the closing line to EVERY SINGLE EMAIL.
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by throwaway420 10y ago
I think most people will have an intense emotional reaction to this point and suspect that you're either trolling or delusional. I don't think you are, but I think you're presenting a weak argument (that contains a few valid
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by throwaway420 10y ago
> The survey results show that 76 of the 77 participating scientists said they had not encountered evidence of a secret spraying program, and agree that the alleged evidence cited by the individuals who believe that atmospheric spraying
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by throwaway420 10y ago
A law like this seems misguided and designed to score political points rather than solving any real social issue. People suffering from this type of malnourishment in most developed countries account for a tiny fraction of the population. B
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by throwaway420 10y ago
> what's missing from the online dating experience? There are lots of interesting machine learning or other features that smart people could come up with to better group people who have similar personalities or are interested in com
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by throwaway420 10y ago
Not that Yelp doing this isn't a good thing, but an obvious side benefit for them is that they now have a database of super litigious folks who they know to steer their shady marketing practices well clear of because they don't wa
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by throwaway420 10y ago
This is a fantasy. Making ivory trade illegal today in every country in the world wouldn't suddenly make the demand go away. It only drives the price up and makes crime and violence more likely as the rewards are even higher. Take the
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by throwaway420 10y ago
Like with any online community, Hacker News can be kind of an echo chamber where groupthink reigns and alternative points of view aren't encouraged. MongoDB hype has died down here, but there are still some people that are fans. There
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by throwaway420 10y ago
While there are certain things about Trump that are worth admiring, one character flaw of his is that he does seem to routinely file a lot of petty lawsuits himself.
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by throwaway420 10y ago
What's a predatory product? That seems silly to me: people only buy something when they value what they get more than what they give up to get it. And how does it remove wealth from a country? Allowing people to satisfy their desires i
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by throwaway420 10y ago
Sure, lawyers can argue anything. But Musk isn't a Tesla family member or anything, right? Morally speaking, what gives Musk the right to use Tesla's name as an homage, but somehow this other guy doesn't have the same right?
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by throwaway420 10y ago
> But a "no-strings-attached" basic income would force politicians to give up the one thing they desire more than anything: power. I tend to think the exact opposite is true: a universal basic income is conceivably one of the m
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by throwaway420 10y ago
Bringing up some of these questions is valuable, but I don't see this article as being a particularly notable one. For starters, the major premise seems a bit inaccurate. From a libertarianish/ancap perspective, I don't see t
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by throwaway420 11y ago
Relax. It's only smellz.
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by throwaway420 11y ago
Different companies are great at different things. Obviously generalizing a bit here, but...just to give an example... ...Apple makes really great hardware and good software, but would you expect them to make the best social site in the wor
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by throwaway420 11y ago
It sounds like an unjust situation and I can understand being disappointed at what happened, but honestly I'd call it a win. You now have Google on your resume so you're setup for a much easier job search in the future. You really
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by throwaway420 11y ago
This is bread and circuses for nerds...dopey mindless marketing drivel for public consumption. It's very easy to fall in love with the ideas behind NASA and space exploration, but NASA itself is corrupt as all hell and is an arm of the
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by throwaway420 11y ago
This article is racist and sexist drivel. The server that's malfunctioning at 9AM doesn't care about the color of your skin or if your precious fee-fees are hurt that the server isn't working. The fast approaching deadline fo

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