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by wizzard 13y ago
I have to agree. I really appreciate the effort to update the site but it seems like there is even less cohesion than before. I think there are at least 20 different combinations of font family/size/weight/color on every docu
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by wizzard 13y ago
I found that most of the time it's prompting you when you're stuck in a traffic jam. It auto-detects that and asks you why you slowed down. Since I was already slowed to a crawl, interacting with it (via voice or tapping a button)
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by wizzard 13y ago
I really don't see Google incorporating all the Waze functionality. Waze is pretty bandwidth-intensive. And I could see some liability issues with presenting crowdsourced data directly on Gmaps. I feel like this was simply a "keep
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by wizzard 13y ago
What I find grating about it is that it's worded like he thinks he's a hot commodity and is expecting Vance to woo him. And telling him what your rent is going to cost... wow.
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by wizzard 13y ago
That's interesting and seems like a good idea, except perhaps it should be paramount that the 20-ton beam NOT fall on the following cars! That is an entirely different meaning of "sacrificial"...
156.
by wizzard 14y ago
He's right, you are unpleasant. This is just ad hominem at this point.
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by wizzard 14y ago
I don't think he's literally saying it would be cheap. He's just saying that the fact that they can get away with not having support means not many people _require_ support, and therefore if support were made available theoretically not man
158.
by wizzard 14y ago
How about putting a giant video file there? Or just embed this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ilMx7k7mso (language)
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by wizzard 14y ago
It must be nice to have a designer in your back pocket willing to drop everything and design a flashy landing page for every tiny (~40 lines of JS) pet project you do. This is snobbery at its finest. This isn't a product you need to sell. I
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by wizzard 14y ago
> The real problem about women being objectified is that women are ready to be objectified - either for money or for some other form of compromise. This is the real problem. As long as such women exist, the product makers and corporatio
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by wizzard 14y ago
Because having groups of random, untrained people squinting at dangling chads is less error-prone? What system, in your opinion, would minimize error?
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by wizzard 14y ago
Gruber is trying to make it out to be this chess game of when to release the new map app, but never addresses the main issue: Was it ready? I guess if you're crowdsourcing map data the only way to start improving it is to get it out there.
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by wizzard 14y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but if I come up with a great idea and have any inkling that it may be patentable, why would I want to post the idea publicly before trying to patent it? Wouldn't that open it up to the possibility of theft? Sur
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by wizzard 14y ago
This is music to my ears. While I wouldn't necessarily go so far as to say that all management is useless, they certainly seem to go out of their way to create barriers and waste time. They tend not to understand the observer effect: Making
165.
by wizzard 14y ago
Well, it seems like fair tactics given the original letter's insulting non-apology: "We regret that our staff’s request that you stop filming in our restaurant offended you."
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by wizzard 14y ago
Exactly. The reason policy changes like this kill morale is because there are only two outcomes. 1) The problem in the email was not caused by me, yet I am being penalized for it, so I am resentful towards management and the policy abusers.
167.
by wizzard 14y ago
> brilliant gorilla marketing tactic Best homophone mistake ever.
168.
by wizzard 14y ago
It all makes sense. Having a higher-resolution monitor increases the resolution of HD video! Somehow! Thanks for the laugh. Wow.
169.
by wizzard 14y ago
It seems like whenever people say this they are only considering wiretapping or similar invasions that don't cause them any personal inconvenience. They're not thinking about the TSA, personal searches, searches of their property, confiscat
170.
by wizzard 14y ago
I agree. This is a legal issue about 1) patent law, 2) Apple store policies. Whether your kid really needs the app or not is pretty irrelevant. I don't mean to sound heartless, but I think the emotional outpouring weakens the case for wha
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by wizzard 14y ago
It's been my experience that the people who share/photocopy textbooks aren't doing it to screw publishers, they do it because they cannot afford to buy the book themselves. It is a lot of extra work to pirate textbooks this way; I doubt any
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by wizzard 14y ago
Agreed. All classes are derailed by jerks like this, not just women-only classes. Everyone rolls their eyes and tunes out, not just females. And a simple "let's save the rest of these questions for after class" to the jerk is often effect
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by wizzard 14y ago
I'm surprised so many people are balking at the "incompetent until proven otherwise" clause, especially with the clarifying reasons you listed. When I read that I thought it was a great policy. I've worked at a few places where we hired peo
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by wizzard 14y ago
I don't think interviews, even with technical components, can tell you even with 75% certainty how a candidate is going to perform at the actual job. There are considerations like work ethic and how well someone can grok the actual issues t
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by wizzard 14y ago
I keep seeing comments about how the tax is a tradeoff for certain rights. Last I checked, legality is determined by laws, not by paying $5. I don't pay a "freedom of speech tax" or a "suffrage tax" when I protest or vote.
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by wizzard 14y ago
Are you thinking that the money would be distributed to the actual artists? What a crazy notion.
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by wizzard 14y ago
Same here. I think the idea of a BSc in Software Development is excellent, and I think some colleges are starting to think along those lines. For instance, the SaaS class from Berkeley on Coursera would have been far more useful to me than
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by wizzard 14y ago
This is awesome. I know of scammy companies that have gone out of their way to use actual live subscriber counts on their sites, yet this idiot uses a fake one.
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by wizzard 14y ago
I was enjoying the slideshow until I got completely distracted by the pool table shot. The arrangement of the pool cues made me irrationally angry.
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by wizzard 14y ago
Exactly. How is reading articles helping you reach your goals? How is just writing down your ideas productive? Maybe the reason you're not excited about doing those things is because you know that doing them does not equal progress. Being p

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