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by wes-exp 13y ago
It's github's TOS that seems flawed to me, not Atlassian's. Maybe some jerk-off will sue Github because it's making "copies" of copyrighted coded without a license. I am more worried about that outcome than Atl
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by wes-exp 13y ago
Indeed. The thought behind all the spying is that it creates security... but this forgets that privacy often enhances security. The upshot is we get one arm of the government opposing encryption, and another arm trying to mandate it (HIPA
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by wes-exp 13y ago
Indeed. Author is clearly pathologizing non-pathological behavior. Real addiction is defined by severe life consequences: jail, death, destroyed relationships. Describing an employee who struggles to do boring tasks and focuses on fun ones
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by wes-exp 13y ago
Theoretically, secure boot could help prevent bootkits (e.g. the "evil maid" attack). Although I have no idea whether this works in practice.
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by wes-exp 13y ago
In teams of ordinary laborers, managers usually are smarter than the employees. But in teams "rocket scientists", it can easily be a misallocation of resources to employ another rocket scientist as the rocket scientists' manager. The manage
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by wes-exp 13y ago
Mobile app developers, in general, seem to prefer to target iOS before Android, in spite of iOS being "closed". I think the main reason for this is pretty simple: money, and it is pretty clear that iOS pays out more on the whole. Hard to sa
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by wes-exp 13y ago
For most people the Apple App Store could function basically the same with or without the DMCA You don't think the Apple App Store has more and better software available due to reduced copyright infringement on that platform?
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by wes-exp 13y ago
I also received calls for help when she got a new cable TV receiver that would not work with her 720p TV because of HDCP This is lamentable, for sure. But, at least products exist, ready to go and on the shelf, that would work and are int
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by wes-exp 13y ago
They had no understanding of individual computer users writing their own programs Individual computer users creating their own programs is a very specific group of people. Consider for a moment that devices aren't really made for nerd pro
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by wes-exp 13y ago
I am a little bit perplexed by the recent pushback against the DMCA as embodied by this article and http://fixthedmca.org/ . Don't get me wrong, I think software patents need to be abolished. But on the copyright side, explain to me why ga
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by wes-exp 13y ago
FYI to developers: Apple tried to fix the obtrusiveness of these popups with "smart app banners" in iOS 6: http://www.macgasm.net/2012/09/19/ios-6-smart-app-banners/ Please use them!
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by wes-exp 13y ago
A lot of immigrants to the US manage to immigrate specifically because they are high achievers. As such, it makes sense that immigrants as a statistical group would not really be representative of their home country.
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by wes-exp 13y ago
If you want to find cheap housing, you can. Citation, please. Cheap housing in the Bay Area is like $500/mo to share a 7x5 laundry room. http://www.sfgate.com/realestate/article/Startup-dreams-meet...
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by wes-exp 13y ago
Agree and understand that the bigger issue is property costs (especially politically created costs, from what it sounds like) rather than construction costs. But seeing as this is Hacker News, I feel that it's worthwhile to discuss the tech
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by wes-exp 13y ago
Sorry, by "buildings" I wasn't specifically referring to steel towers. Obviously these aren't merely made of wood. Whether we're talking about one and two story constructions, or tall towers, I still feel that there must be room for "more,
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by wes-exp 13y ago
What about solving this on the technology side? We have fantastic technology in many aspects of life, but housing seems practically unchanged. I mean, buildings are constructed by teams of men placing pieces of wood by hand. Is that really
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by wes-exp 13y ago
If Apple's problem is that it can't upload my data to Google as efficiently, then I will consider that a feature, not a bug.
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by wes-exp 13y ago
Furthermore, you can't point to a group consisting entirely of young people and just write off their behavior as "generational". A lot of youth behavior is simply driven by... youth. Youths are known to take greater risks even when fully
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Young appmakers can't count on a job for life(guardian.co.uk)
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by wes-exp 14y ago
Here's a VOC sensor for $229: http://www.co2meter.com/collections/co2-sensors/products/iaq...
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by wes-exp 14y ago
Excellent point. I suppose I'm just frustrated that the current entrepreneurial hype seems to be overweighted towards time-wasting tools vs. stuff that could really advance society.
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by wes-exp 14y ago
That would be awesome. Plenty of people already have their own weather stations... why not detect pollutants too?
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by wes-exp 14y ago
In that case maybe VCs should stop investing in the next Facebook and instead look at earthquake-proof building technology. Clearly there's a market for it.
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by wes-exp 14y ago
What I want to know is why can't rent be cheaper in the Bay Area for simple apartments? There's plenty of vertical space to build more housing. But instead everything is small one or two story homes that cost a million bucks at minimum. Par
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by wes-exp 14y ago
Regardless of how US government departments and agencies may currently behave with respect to foreign soil, the fact is that the Constitution does apply to foreign soil and doesn't magically disappear. This was made clear in a 1957 Supreme
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by wes-exp 14y ago
For the second time you treat me like an idiot and assume that I'm missing the obvious and excluding the income aspect. I'm not. Let me come out and state it triple explicitly so it's clear to you: I see the income aspect. I realize that a
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by wes-exp 14y ago
I've struggled sometimes too. Try increasing your font size. My vision is excellent, but I think staring at tiny fonts increases strain on your eye muscles or something. Also, as monitors have gone up in resolution over the years, pixel den
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by wes-exp 14y ago
Coming from a site that has an atrocious mobile web interface, not even worth the read. People come back to love their abusive spouses too. Doesn't make it right :)
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by wes-exp 14y ago
Absolutely. I don't use much more than iTerm2, a web browser, emacs + various developer stuff, and Homebrew. The base OS is rock f-ing solid. All my unix stuff works flawlessly. Time spent f'ing around with drivers and random upgrade issues
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by wes-exp 14y ago
Speaking of date/time stuff, is there anything that would convert to the current time zone? e.g. echo "03/Mar/2013 01:16:52 +0000" | mytz => 02/Mar/2013 17:16:52 -0800

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