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by tomlin 6y ago
"Raise" How am I going to educate my child on the value of /value/, when this is a term with serious meaning?
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Microsoft Software Class Action Settlement(ca.topclassactions.com)
1 points by tomlin 6y ago|0 comments
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by tomlin 6y ago
You're getting downvoted because you are talking from a place of objectivity. From my understanding (outside of the Wii U), aren't they the only company not losing money on consoles - even now? Why would you bring up "selling
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by tomlin 6y ago
For a country to purport itself to be about freedom...
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by tomlin 6y ago
I mean, in general - yeah. But Alex Jones? I've personally launched a few streaming video platforms for audiences within the same # of listeners as AJ's demo - with far less money than AJ has. It's actually not that big of a
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by tomlin 7y ago
They're not wrong .
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Show HN: A simple WP plugin for notifying your customers re: Covid-19(wordpress.org)
1 points by tomlin 7y ago|0 comments
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by tomlin 15y ago
Young entrepreneurs like this narrative because it gives them a sense of possible success over actually experienced individuals. "Old" entrepreneurs (apparently, older than 25 years old), will find this stance unsettling, for a few reason
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by tomlin 15y ago
She added: “There isn’t an economic Internet and a social Internet and a political Internet. There’s just the Internet.” She should have said, "It's the Internet, stupid."
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by tomlin 15y ago
The company I work for has had a very similar process for years. In fact, it's stated much better within the first line of text on the homepage. I think a workflow approach is a better way to go for the client, but even our approach was ins
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by tomlin 15y ago
> One rule to live by: Never use 3rd party javascript This is a curious blanket statement. While I have run up against the odd crappy jQuery plugin, the tried-and-true plugins work flawlessly - often throughout jQuery's versions. I thin
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by tomlin 15y ago
The points for this post are currently 404. I. Can't. Upvote.
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by tomlin 15y ago
> How would you consider the American music industry an "external interest" in the USA? The American music industry isn't American . It's international. When a corporation gets to be the size of, say, Universal, their interests are not
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by tomlin 15y ago
> ...the Swiss government has been conducting a study into the impact downloading has on society, and this week their findings were presented. This is where I stopped and took a moment. The government did research. Proactively. For th
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by tomlin 15y ago
Adobe sits and thinks about what the next steps are for Flash and web standards organizations sit and think about how to replicate what Flash does – understand the demand cycle. My point isn't that HTML5 sucks, it's that people see it as b
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by tomlin 15y ago
At this point, can I count on a user having Flash over Chrome or Firefox? Today, I'd say that a user having Flash is a more reliable bet than them having Chrome/Firefox. And if they have Chrome, they have Flash. I get where you're going, bu
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by tomlin 15y ago
So true. I've been working on an idea with several visual concepts for a while. There are 2 devils on my shoulders. The one devil is saying to me, "Be the Steve Jobs. Don't allow garbage out the door." while the other devil tells me, "Ship,
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by tomlin 15y ago
It might be slightly ironic that you've pointed out the OP's lack of proof , as it were, while you yourself have trouble upholding your own arguments.
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by tomlin 15y ago
> I would have thought that criticising HTML5 and providing valid reasoning means you think negatively about HTML5 Dissent is the highest form of patriotism. Not offering criticism isn't supportive, it's religious. Being willfully blin
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by tomlin 15y ago
People should try to understand that the need for the capabilities of Flash and Flash itself are being lopped together in a single, partisan viewpoint. Regretfully. There is a need for crazy, highly interactive studio/movie sites, web
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by tomlin 15y ago
> it seems likely the BSA was engaging in knee jerk support and didn't consult its membership. So, you're saying these companies aren't responsible for their actions because they stand behind an organization that they pay into ? Must b
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by tomlin 15y ago
It's hard to agree that my ideal world is without flaws, but towards the point you made, it wouldn't be hard to create an avenue for $TECHNICAL_FIELD to advise, not lobby, on $TECHNICAL_TOPIC. I'd imagine all sorts of restructuring would oc
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by tomlin 15y ago
In my mind, it would be as simple as stating, "unless you're a single human being, your request will not be reviewed.". If you're representing a group of people, or a group of entities, you are disqualified from having an opinion on record.
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by tomlin 15y ago
Every time I read about lobbyists, I think, can't we just outright, wholesale ban lobbying? The only companies that can afford to lobby do so above and beyond any capacity that the average person or small business can. Doesn't that make i
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by tomlin 15y ago
> and Hacker News jumps on that like starving dogs on Alpo. I couldn't help but note that the title contains Useless Android Application , although the article indicates that the total cost of $200,000 was spent on Android, iPhone and
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Conversations with a Client(youtube.com)
1 points by tomlin 15y ago|0 comments
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by tomlin 15y ago
> the guy could skip steps 4-7 and just tap on Remind Me, as the screen looks exactly the same at step 4 as it does at step 8 and as you can do on every cell with a right pointing arrow. If this were any other manufacturer, I think peop
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by tomlin 15y ago
A QR code with the URL would be a perfect addition.
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by tomlin 15y ago
> Canadians will conflate that into 'the banking industry shouldn't be touched' -- even though there's only six banks and they charge more in fees than American banks. (Which is saying a lot.) There is a bigger picture here. Our fees ma
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by tomlin 15y ago
People are driven to play one side of the fence or the other. As an example, many had fought to deregulate our banks. Now, after the recession, where are all these people? crickets Our banks in Canada were one of the only in the world to

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