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Uber Driver Allegedly Locks Passenger In Car, Gives Himself Five-Star Rating(laist.com)
2 points by yapcguy 13y ago|0 comments
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Congratulations... So what's the $15m going to be used for? Given that Docker is licensed under Apache 2.0 which allows the venture backed Docker Corp. to create a closed proprietary version of the software... will outside contributors
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by yapcguy 13y ago
YC have jumped the shark and landed into an ocean of political correctness. The conference is called "FEMALE" Founders Conference, yet males can apply? Utter lunacy.
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Exactly. Nor any campaigns for unisex sports teams.
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Curious to know what you think of BGC (and others like it)? http://blackgirlscode.org/
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Good timing or pure coincidence? Just yesterday, a discussion about how BackBlaze restores fail. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7093016
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Ceylon: Awesome Tea or a New Language to Learn(openshift.com)
2 points by yapcguy 13y ago|0 comments
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by yapcguy 13y ago
She's not any old model, she's a "supermodel" (gasp!) so of course everything she does is special and newsworthy...
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by yapcguy 13y ago
You are 100% correct. I should have used the /sarcasm tag so zwdr didn't take me so literally.
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by yapcguy 13y ago
> He plots and schemes way to put hundreds of millions of dollars into his pocket off of the works of others. Ok, if you have a problem with share-cropping then you should start with Zuckerburg and all the other social networks, not to
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by yapcguy 13y ago
The video background on the homepage packs quite the punch, really draws you in - for a minute I thought it might be some kind of WebGL.
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by yapcguy 13y ago
> He tried to fit in the german hacker culture, but everyone knew he was a fraud. Meanwhile readers of "HackerNews" and all the self-proclaimed "Hackers" at YC start-ups and all the trendy new "Growth Hackers&q
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by yapcguy 13y ago
> ... a fraud and an asshole. The only things he's good at are marketing and scamming Are you talking about AirBnb and their Craigslist scamming? > He's only interested in money. Meanwhile venture backed start-ups are do
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by yapcguy 13y ago
In my experience they are fine with encrypting PDFs. Adding a password to a ZIP seems to be more of a stretch.
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by yapcguy 13y ago
It was the server which allowed customers to download Google software onto their computers. If your download server was slow and randomly disconnecting transfers for no good reason, resulting in potential customers giving up, wouldn't
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by yapcguy 13y ago
If a simple C++ server is left in such a poor state, it stands to reason, how can there be a culture of C++ excellence? Why wasn't someone assigned to maintain the server? A culture is everybody, not just a few brilliant individuals
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by yapcguy 13y ago
> Should the government subsidize... I don't see why a poorly run bank which has made bad investments in toxic assets should be bailed out with taxpayer's money when it should be allowed to fail, with good banks picking up clie
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by yapcguy 13y ago
> The C++ culture at Google is amazing Yet the C++ code powering downloads was pretty bad and poorly maintained, written, replaced with Go. http://talks.golang.org/2013/oscon-dl.slide#10 For sure there are great C++
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Let's say all these Googlers decided to live in San Diego instead, because the weather's better, the beaches are nicer and it's closer to Tijuana for a party weekend. At what point would Google charter flights? Obviously not
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Devil's advocate: Why don't the people of MountainView and surrounding towns build high-density developments on their own door-step near the employers? Why don't you accuse homeowners there of being 'greedy hogs'?
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Man jailed for refusing to divulge USB password(telegraph.co.uk)
2 points by yapcguy 13y ago|0 comments
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by yapcguy 13y ago
> Considered whip-smart and clever, the former business consultant also made a number of powerful enemies at Google, including top ad product execs Susan Wojcicki and Neal Mohan, among many others. Looks like the same old carpet baggers
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Intense PC2: miniature fanless Haswell PC, 3 hard drives, supports 3x 4k display(fit-pc.com)
2 points by yapcguy 13y ago|0 comments
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Actually, Isaac was definitely part of the drama. Ben rejected a third party pull request, Isaac commited a change related to the pull request, Ben rejected Isaac's commit because Isaac broke the commit rules by not getting sign-off be
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by yapcguy 13y ago
> However, the minute you take institutional investment, hand out shares to employees, take on debt financing, etc., you are now bound by a fiduciary duty to do right by those other parties. You still can focus on other things, but only
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by yapcguy 13y ago
A guy involved in the drama and self-exile of a key Node contributor is now starting his own company to profit from what has long been regarded "community" infrastructure. He wants your money. For some people, past behaviour and
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Why Delaware?
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by yapcguy 13y ago
2 months is old? Key node members fighting amongst themselves is pointless news? Or how about Joyent saying they would sack Ben even though he didn't work for them?
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Everything you need to know about Japan's population crisis(theweek.com)
1 points by yapcguy 13y ago|0 comments
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Correctness. Hmm. See other comments below where co-founder of Typesafe (who has quit) gave a talk explaining why Scala is doing everything wrong. In his video he has a slide with the words "No wonder nothing works" and on the sl

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