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by vonseel 8y ago
I broke a MBP screen a few years ago. Actually, two different laptops broke. One was warrantied, the other was an accident and had to be paid. The cost for a Retina display replacement in 2015? About $700. Ouch. I keep my MacBook on my desk
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by vonseel 8y ago
It's a mistake, man (or woman). Shit happens. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ We have to expect as users of cloud software there is a chance our data could be compromised by BUGS or human error. I think that should be a given in any scenario. There&#x2
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by vonseel 8y ago
Not permanently, but yes, I stay deactivated nearly 100% of the time. Facebook's algorithm doesn't seem to work for me, as the feed is cluttered with mostly old college acquaintances and (maybe worse) older relatives sharing crazy
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by vonseel 8y ago
The article from sciencedaily does make you wonder, if one chemical is found to have problems and they replace it, then the next one is found to have issues and they replace that, is there really anything that can be vaped which doesn’t aff
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by vonseel 8y ago
One might also wonder how long it took Java to respond to user complaints, and I would suspect Go core team has been much faster addressing these issues and responding to developers.
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by vonseel 8y ago
Are you really arguing that the language is not “good”? Sure, there are things not to like about it, but the widespread adoption of Go as a systems programming language is evidence alone that it is a “good” language. Good is such an ambiguo
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by vonseel 8y ago
Understood, but I should have prefaced my question with “for greenfield / new development”.
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by vonseel 8y ago
Squarespace? But still, a website isn’t worth $10/month to most folks. I think the other user was right who commented that most Facebook users are content consumers, versus content creators. That is, they browse much more than they pos
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by vonseel 8y ago
And you're not the only one. Outside of HN, in the real world, the average person doesn't set up a FreeNAS server or homelab for data storage, doesn't know how to do backups, and doesn't have nearly as much concern over
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by vonseel 8y ago
Clearly the illustrator determined her head should be placed on backwards.
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You’d think that if personal websites were a valid substitute for Facebook, the whole thing would have never taken off in the first place. Personal websites didn’t see massive adoption the first time around, and we can safely doubt they eve
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by vonseel 8y ago
Have any professional audio products been released using this technology yet? Guitar amps or similar. Is this purely used in audio or is there a display (video) usecase for this as well? The landing page seemed to imply the technology is c
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by vonseel 8y ago
I have seen so many critical articles of Mongodb. Even if I did have a use-case particularly well-suited for it, I would never consider using Mongo. As an aside, I did consider using SQL Server until I looked at the licensing fees. Why woul
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Potential Adverse Effects of Amphetamine Treatment on Brain and Behavior(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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by vonseel 8y ago
What makes you think these "mobs" used WhatsApp for its security reasons? I'd expect it's far more likely they use WhatsApp because it's the most popular messenger in that part of the world.
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by vonseel 8y ago
Signal groups are managed by the client devices. The details are quite complicated, but some are documented here: https://signal.org/blog/private-groups/ Perhaps another user with stronger familiarity on the subje
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by vonseel 8y ago
I immediately noticed an unusual (to my ears) usage of the phrase "down to you" in her article: "it’s not down to you ... it's down to others.". Where I'm from in the states, we usually say "up to you&quot
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by vonseel 8y ago
I do that all the time, usually for software, although it can be a bit more difficult for under-marketed things like open-source software without a marketing budget.
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by vonseel 8y ago
You're talking about Gartner reports, although I'm sure there are other companies which provide similar research data. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner
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by vonseel 8y ago
>>stigma is attached to mental health disorders I'd say addiction is viewed just as poorly if not worse. Like anything, I guess it depends on who you're asking.
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by vonseel 8y ago
100%. As a person who has always had some anxiety over peer acceptance, I would have been afraid to pursue a trades job due to rejection from the opposite sex or even peers and family. If you have any single friends who are successful lawye
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by vonseel 8y ago
The Expanse was good! Fair disclaimer: I canceled Netflix recently, due to unhealthy amount of binge-watching... hence the list above. I have not heard of some of these newer titles. It seems some of them didn't make it through NFLX&#x
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by vonseel 8y ago
Yeah, it's certainly not Game of Thrones quality stuff. But that's not what I'm looking for usually. I feel like certain outlets (HBO/Showtime, network television, streaming original content) have specific characteristic
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by vonseel 8y ago
Not sure why you were downvoted for this, as you are absolutely correct. One of my "dreams" before becoming a software developer was to work in "finance", i.e. investment banking, and that industry specifically prefers I
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by vonseel 8y ago
Watch The OA. Refer to my comment history for other titles you might like.
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by vonseel 8y ago
OITNB is one of their first originals, and I wouldn't call it their best work. Here's a list of their best work, IMO: - Stranger Things - Narcos - The OA - The Haunting of Hill House - Marvel series. All of them! - G
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by vonseel 8y ago
Someone recently commented elsewhere that they were tired of paying for streaming access to a bunch of shows nobody wants to watch, and they wanted access to the most popular movies/network shows/whatever. I didn't comment th
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by vonseel 8y ago
Point of evidence: the gradual replacement of the term "author" with "content creator". Your point is only one possible logical reason for why he would use the term "content creator" instead of author
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by vonseel 8y ago
I wouldn't go that far. I read the article in full, and it's an interesting description of the world behind the things many of us take for granted (Amazon, etc.) as well as some commentary on the author's own life journey. It
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by vonseel 8y ago
I would like to highlight this comment and HN policy on reposts: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html Particularly, this article received significant attention just in the last few days and should be removed as a dupli

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