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by yapcguy 13y ago
Summary: >"I was driving for Lyft in November when I picked up two attractive women," said the driver, who declined to give his name because he fears repercussions from the apps. "Like anybody, we started chatting, but th
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Uber, Lyft, Sidecar Put Driver Recruiting In High Gear(sfgate.com)
2 points by yapcguy 13y ago|1 comments
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Android code commit makes ART runtime the default, instead of Dalvik.(android.googlesource.com)
4 points by yapcguy 13y ago|0 comments
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Will they be visually cleaner? Look at all those square brackets in the Bolt examples. [[[[[self findAsync:query]
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by yapcguy 13y ago
What a quote. Ouch! "they [Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers] made quite a point of my not having been involved for some years, and that’s true. And I think as I’ve distanced myself from the firm there’s been a corresponding decl
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VC Tom Perkins: I Regret Comparing Plight Of 1% To Nazi Germany(sfist.com)
4 points by yapcguy 13y ago|3 comments
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by yapcguy 13y ago
AIG failed. A team in London trading CDS broke the company. The only reason why the corpse of AIG was kept alive was because AIG owed Goldman Sachs a lot of money. Taxpayer bail-out funds that went to AIG passed straight through and into
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Like the Node.js community, when they're not busy fighting themselves over gender pronouns.
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Maybe it's because Dustin is a wannabe elitist who thinks he knows better than everyone else. Proof #1 http://dcurt.is/3-point-5-inches Proof #2 "Until now, we’ve been an exclusive platform open only to approved
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Boycotting his investments won't be hard, most of them are rubbish anyway! http://www.khoslaventures.com/information-technology.html
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Yes just skimmed it again. Maybe I missed a reference but I can't see it. I did read the MercuryNews link posted elsewhere, interesting stuff, but my conclusion is still the same: Vinod Khosla is being a real jerk here.
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by yapcguy 13y ago
I remember reading this story a few years ago, maybe two or three. Why hasn't this gone to court already?
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Detroit wants its own high-tech visa(computerworld.com)
1 points by yapcguy 13y ago|0 comments
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Fractional reserve banking guarantees that banks always have a shortfall of cash! ;-)
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by yapcguy 13y ago
The Winklevoss twins say: “We were passive investors in BitInstant and will do everything we can to help law enforcement officials. We fully support any and all governmental efforts to ensure that money laundering requirements are enforced
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Desperate attempts to wash themselves of liability. If a Yellow Cab driver killed someone do you think they would deny, admit and then caveat with 'but he doesnt really work for us because he didnt have a passenger in the car and his l
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Another example is a cafe. Get a bunch of people to repeatedly queue up but when they get to the counter decide they don't want to order anything. Just the sight of a long queue outside the door is going to put off legit customers Clea
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Exactly. Legit customers can't book cars because they're busy and when they do the drivers might bail because they think its yet another fake order. Screw Uber. Theyre not a tech start-up, they're an illegal car service masqu
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HSBC bank won't let customers withdraw cash unless they prove why they need it(bbc.co.uk)
17 points by yapcguy 13y ago|4 comments
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Did you read their statement? They were more worried about being associated with the accident than the accident itself. Lots of weasel words and excuses in trying to claim that the driver didn't work for them, or that the driver wasn&
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by yapcguy 13y ago
I am not a lawyer but if anyone out there is... If the criminal/fraudulent activity which occurred in New York was directed from management based in California, wouldn't the crime become a federal one? What if the e-mail trail re
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Maybe this will be resolved in a court of law. Just in the past few weeks... "Uber Driver Arrested in San Francisco Crash That Killed Girl" http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Uber-Driver-Arrested-in...
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Shitty company employing shitty people. "Uber Driver Allegedly Locks Passenger In Car, Gives Himself Five-Star Rating" http://laist.com/2014/01/21/uber_driver_locks_passenger_in_c...
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Sophia Liu. 6 years old. Killed by Uber driver. At first Uber denied the driver worked for them. Then they admitted the driver was with them but he wasn't "working" because he didn't have a passenger. In constrast, so
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Seems strange that non-profits have to "pitch" to validate themselves. If they have a mission, and believe in it, why do they need a bunch of money from men in suits? Looks like easy PR and Goodwill for YC. Reminds me of all the
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Exactly, but it's worse. There are programmers who love calling themselves "geeks", "nerds", "code monkeys" and promote boot camp style schools as well as myths such as "anybody can code" such th
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Yeah... Anyone know how much YC is contributing and what they get in exchange? Some kind of ownership of the company? Do people taking part in the $482,000 fund raiser get ownership of the company? Why doesn't YC just donate money as
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by yapcguy 13y ago
> every object is a member of the empty interface There are no objects in Go, given that Go is not an object-oriented language... oops! (pun intended)
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by yapcguy 13y ago
App.net to developers: Give me money, so you can use a Twitter like infrastructure. PS. It's not open-source and you have to pay an ongoing subscription. App.net to investors: Give me money, in return I will give you equity ownership o
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Define "software community". Not every software developer is working for a large corporation or venture-backed start-up.

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