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by traek 8y ago
> Also, it comes from Google so I can only assume it's doing some sort of tracking of me and/or my machine resources. No thank you. Electron was developed by GitHub for their Atom editor, actually.
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by traek 8y ago
> It's deceptive to list the revenue in dollars and the loss in dollars per share. It's just convention. Earnings per share (EPS) is a very commonly used metric, sales per share much less so.
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by traek 8y ago
It doesn't get into the numbers, but it expressly gets into the problems.
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by traek 8y ago
Googlers are definitely loud and politically opinionated at the NYC office. Seattle/Kirkland tends to be older, more domestically settled people hired from Microsoft/sometimes Amazon, so just demographically it’s no surprise that
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by traek 8y ago
Once you hit any significant volume on Square, you can call them and move to a cost-plus rate.
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by traek 8y ago
Wix is roughly a fifth the size of Square by market cap (4B vs 20B respectively). Makes this Weebly acquisition seem like a great deal for Square. Next Square will expand Weebly into offering more tightly integrated online presence manageme
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by traek 8y ago
In what way is this Github repo of yours a “model of Facebook likes data”?
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by traek 8y ago
Interestingly, Salesforce was originally planning to build a 14-acre campus in San Francisco (the Mission Bay neighborhood), but had to scrap those plans due to growth[1]. [1] https://www.sfgate.com/business/article&#x2
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by traek 9y ago
In what way is this deceptive? When you delete emails do you expect it to disappear from the other person's inbox as well?
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by traek 9y ago
> some people view it as, yes, completely and totally a net-negative on the world [...] I think the good that facebook does do is both incidental and replaceable. OP wasn’t claiming that Facebook is a net positive for the world, just tha
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by traek 9y ago
Apps on iOS don’t need to ask for network access.
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by traek 9y ago
In what sense is this “arbitrage”?
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by traek 9y ago
Every exchange that I’m aware of has a rule allowing them to roll back clearly erroneous transactions. “Clearly erroneous” isn’t always clearly defined, but it would obviously apply in the GS case (huge volume executed at $1). Nothing about
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by traek 9y ago
What if a group of users believes and behaves similarly, without coördinating amongst themselves? Should that be prevented? It's not really distinguishable from the scenario you prevented.
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by traek 9y ago
> There's no way to run userscripts/WebExtensions on IOS. Your device is no longer a user-focused tool to access media, your browser is closer to being a "smart tv" than a customize-able information explorer and augme
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by traek 9y ago
That was Freebase, which was acquired by Google for use in their Knowledge Graph.
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by traek 9y ago
Many companies provide household income data (e.g. Acxiom, Epsilon). It's available to anyone who'll pay for it. There is nothing to suggest Uber " [does] not know if you are poor", they could very easily be buying this
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by traek 9y ago
> One of the signals they were getting from that study was suicide rate. I'm not certain how it was measured; I don't care. I saw that it was measured and decided that it was not a place I could stand to work. Where did you see
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by traek 9y ago
It’s obviously not within the boundaries of what Facebook was willing to tolerate, given that they changed how the APIs worked 3 years ago to prevent this behavior.
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by traek 9y ago
I very much doubt that most employees at Facebook share your viewpoint that Facebook is a net negative for society. It’s almost a tautology—people who feel that way won’t seek employment there.
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by traek 9y ago
I can guarantee you (at least one) other major tech companies have the same system in place. Companies that operate in multiple jurisdictions don’t want all of their assets compromised because of a raid in one city/state/country.
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by traek 9y ago
> Never once did I ever refer to any of our customers or clients as "dumb fucks". Why? What did they do to Zuck? > Although, I did refer to AOL executives, FBI agents, Secret Service agents, federal prosecutors and lame wann
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by traek 9y ago
crucible noun cru·ci·ble \ ˈkrü-sə-bəl \ 2: A severe test
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by traek 9y ago
> We should be asking why even an authorized API that can't stop you from copying the data doesn't count as a systemetized data breach. Is your argument that no company should offer any developer APIs at all? It's impossib
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by traek 9y ago
That’s the point. People in cars have to be able to avoid objects in front of them (whether that’s drivers suddenly stopping or other obstructions) and so do bicyclists.
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by traek 9y ago
Be surprised, because they do not require a charge after every use.
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by traek 9y ago
What would homeless people do with the scooters? They can’t ride them without paying, because the scooters need to be unlocked in the app, and there doesn’t seem to be an incentive for them to vandalize the scooters.
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by traek 9y ago
> Thank you! Almost anyone could have just made a cat's cradle reference. You went straight to the source and elevated the conversation in the process. Polywater wasn't the "source" for Cat's Cradle. The book was
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by traek 9y ago
From his bio: > information security research. ceo @ sudo security group ( https://verify.ly ). > previously: founder of "Chronic Dev Team" responsible for many years of iOS jailbreaking solutions (24kPwn, absinthe
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by traek 9y ago
Quantified self apps e.g. Human, Moves.

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