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by wilfra 14y ago
Not sure where you got 66, right now there are 195 total votes for under 10 or over 90. That is a bit over 3% (195/6410). I stand corrected, that is not 'nearly 10%'. Pedantry aside, my point stands. Common sense dictates people are trollin
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by wilfra 14y ago
Look at the old polls. Low single digit %'s of people were under 15 or over 60 and now nearly 10% of people are under 10 or over 90? Riiiight. I realize it's possible demographics changed in that time. Maybe HN is all the rage in nursing ho
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by wilfra 14y ago
Too many options. All I can really discern from a quick glance is that ~71 people trolled the poll (under 10+over 90) and most HN'ers appear to be 21-30.
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by wilfra 14y ago
You really don't think such a list could be created finding at least one subjective flaw in everything Microsoft has ever created? I'd do it myself if it wouldn't be such an absurd waste of time. I'm not saying Microsoft products suck, just
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by wilfra 14y ago
ya that real names thing is starting to piss me off. i get prompted for that way too often and it's way too hard to make that prompt go away. it seems designed to make you end up misclicking at some point trying to close it. and once you do
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by wilfra 14y ago
tl;dr 'i'm mad and can name at least one thing i don't like about every Google product' one could make a similar list about every popular product - online or offline. nothing pleases everybody all the time at scale.
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by wilfra 14y ago
Are you referring to reviews on Amazon? Are those really that big of a part of their business? I rarely read them, personally. I just assume they are gamed.
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by wilfra 14y ago
Probably a conscious decision on his part, especially considering he named his company after Nikola Tesla: http://i.imgur.com/c51LLjM.png
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by wilfra 14y ago
And going from 300,000+ to 100,000 is orders of magnitude easier than going from 10,000 to 5,000. #1 on this list went from 2xx,xxx to 2xx,xxx - that could seriously be just noise in the Alexa ranking methodology. That sites traffic could h
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by wilfra 14y ago
These are great and I look forward to you iterating on this - but I fear your over-reliance on Alexa is producing semi-worthless results. I can go into all of the reasons why Alexa data is unreliable but I assume you already know (the big o
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by wilfra 14y ago
Step 1 is to be really fucking good at your job, whatever that job is. Ideally that job would be in a unit that is directly responsible for driving revenue growth. That will probably lead to you becoming an executive at some point, but that
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by wilfra 14y ago
*Become indispensable in a role where you are directly responsible for driving billions of dollars in revenue.
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by wilfra 14y ago
"Glass, Kinect, AWS and iOS are pretty interesting, and they all occurred inside of a large company." If you are lucky enough to be working on those sorts of projects when they are still small, secret teams - you'd be an exception. 99% of p
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by wilfra 14y ago
Somebody, somewhere in France should go on strike.
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by wilfra 14y ago
As I said, there are exceptions. Humans do this, not algorithms. It's thus understandable how you found a two point submission that nobody ever saw which was overlooked.
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by wilfra 14y ago
*it has happened in the past with all sorts of submissions (both positive and negative) about all sorts of companies because it is part of the rules of HN. Is the rule applied 100% of the time so that nobody will be able to find any excepti
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by wilfra 14y ago
They have an option to do that - but if they take no action, they wont receive a refund. And that only applies to the 71 users effected by the bug. The people who got the email but took no action evidently can't even claim a refund. Can you
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by wilfra 14y ago
Instacart Express != Delivery Fees.
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by wilfra 14y ago
Read the post again. They did not reverse the charges. They gave 71 people the opportunity to claim a refund. What they should have done was automatically issued a refund to everybody they charged - not just the 71 who didn't receive the em
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by wilfra 14y ago
They admitted (claimed?) they had a bug and apologized for the bug. They didn't acknowledge the real mistake: converting people from free to paid without their explicit approval (not just emailing them altered terms). That needed to be opt-
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by wilfra 14y ago
That's really helpful actually. Sounds like fun too, I have a few ideas already. Thanks!
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by wilfra 14y ago
I guess HN doesn't allow '>' in the title so I had to choose a different one.
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by wilfra 14y ago
>>my extensive software engineering background Obviously that trumps everything. When I said I was looking to break in, I meant I have limited experience and skills.
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by wilfra 14y ago
As a 32 year-old trying to break into Silicon Valley and feeling the strong effects of subtle (and no so sutble!) age discrimination, I found the headline and the hypothesis encouraging and really wish I could get behind it. However the evi
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by wilfra 14y ago
Same! I was getting 50+ spambots a day registering to my vbulletin forum, even with a really hard captcha. I changed it to a question any eight year old could answer and I instantly went to less than one spambot per week getting through. Ea
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by wilfra 14y ago
haha that's taking things a bit far. Yes, 99% of parents would love for their children to go to Stanford. I haven't even had kids yet and I would very much like for mine to go there. The Cal State Fullerton's of the World may well be obsole
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by wilfra 14y ago
You're assuming all of the applicants are American. That's a very incorrect assumption. I would guess nearly all of the increase is international with China accounting for > 50% by itself.
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by wilfra 14y ago
Article calls it both a 'donation' and an 'investment' - which is it?
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by wilfra 14y ago
When I read the story I also thought it was most likely BS. They claim that the SWAT team just gave up and went back to their police station and then denied they ever went there. If a SWAT team were executing a search warrant or seeking to
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by wilfra 14y ago
domainsbot has a great API for this - it's what all the big registrars use

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