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by zaidf 10y ago
For me, Telegram's small user base is actually what got me on it. My whatsapp is full of way too many groups that I can't leave without negative social consequences. So the one group that I cared about the most (a group with my si
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by zaidf 10y ago
The copy on this page is super unclear. I just realized(after signing up) that the subscription is to get the special $2/ride pricing, not the actual ride. Put another way: after you have the $30/month subscription, you can get
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by zaidf 10y ago
I think the idea of having a powerful scripting language based on JS is a godsend in many ways. But like you, I also feel that async is a bad default for a language that has such widespread use. I love being able to use one syntax to write
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by zaidf 10y ago
So working for uber is just like obesity? Got it! Ironically, OP is the one arguing as if he is 100% aware of job of driving an uber and his awareness leads him to argue that it is categorically bad. More realistically, it is good for some,
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by zaidf 10y ago
Isn't that just kicking the can down the road? Wouldn't the government be better served revising the plan to take new innovation into account than instituting a tax purely to slow down innovation?
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by zaidf 10y ago
Citation needed. If you were right, you wouldn't have employed baristas etc. quitting their jobs to drive uber. To make your claim without acknowledging well-established upside of not being employed by Uber is disingenuous at best. Man
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by zaidf 10y ago
A lot more poor people have a computer today than ever before. Nothing illustrates this better than seeing the homeless on their iPhones using the Starbucks wifi to access the Internet.
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by zaidf 10y ago
If true, then what is a competing JS DOM renderer with same or nearly same DOM rendering speed? Closest I've found is Vue but it was still 20-30% slower than React, according to the DOM speed test on a benchmarking site.
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by zaidf 10y ago
Password is the ultimate form of security through obscurity.
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by zaidf 10y ago
Is misleading speech for commercial gain protected speech? If it is, then I can sell you a fake Rolex while stating that it is a real Rolex. Because my speech is protected, I can mislead and profit without consequences.
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by zaidf 10y ago
Also, someone like Bret is very unlikely to be attracted by purely monetary gain like a $20/mil year salary(or even $50/mil year.) He probably cares as much, if not more, in being able to achieve some larger goal--which requires b
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by zaidf 10y ago
This is an acquisition to get Bret Taylor. I'd expect Salesforce to put him in charge of slowly improving the core salesforce tech stack.
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by zaidf 10y ago
I assumed GP meant Alphabet since public entity is Alphabet, not Google.
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by zaidf 10y ago
How do you reach the conclusion that it is not R&D that will benefit Alphabet? They make it pretty clear it is a high risk high reward R&D, meaning if they hit pay dirt, it can be massively profitable for Alphabet.
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by zaidf 10y ago
"Moonshot" is the Google term for R&D. Google's R&D budget in 2014 wasn't even in the top 5: http://www.neowin.net/images/uploaded/2014/12/screen_shot_20... Problem for Google
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by zaidf 10y ago
The open forums would be blocked. The choice for companies like fb is either censor or get banned completely. Both shitty choices.
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by zaidf 10y ago
...giving it breathing room more than the previous three One of the previous CEOs was the founder Jerry Yang. He made one of the most epic corporate investments when he fought for Yahoo to invest in Alibaba. No one, no one could have sav
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by zaidf 10y ago
Your post is a little confusing because: a) you complain of the brogrammers b) you complain of the google intern that switched from dance to CS even though one might argue we need many of more of them to respond to (a) c) you complain of ha
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by zaidf 10y ago
ovh.com
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by zaidf 10y ago
It may not be the simplest feature to implement but I do think we have enough tech now to build a pretty solid feature around this. Also, I wouldn't call it merely a slight convenience when multiple times a day you see the pattern repe
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by zaidf 10y ago
Boggles my mind that gotomeeting doesn't have a feature to auto unmute when your name is mentioned.
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by zaidf 10y ago
As a consumer affected by this bug, sure, you may find it inexcusable. But the basic truth about any mature software product used by tens of millions is that there will be a laundry list of bugs competing for limited resources. So there w
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by zaidf 10y ago
I feel like this is one of those bugs that would have taken less time to fix than it took to document. After many years, I still have to slap myself when I catch myself thinking this way. Unless you know the architecture of the software,
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by zaidf 10y ago
JS is far more predictable than CSS.
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by zaidf 10y ago
History is going to look back at CSS in disbelief when it calculates the amount of engineering time was spent trying to position elements correctly. This isn't hating on CSS as much as how broken layout creation is with no end in sight
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by zaidf 10y ago
You did better than my domain finder( http://DomainKush.com ) side project :) Btw, multiple names suggested by namebird could also be drug names(pharmas pay a lot of money in settling on the right name.)
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by zaidf 10y ago
A former felon with tons of press about his innocence is psychologically much less risky of a hire than a former felon without a ton of positive press(about perseverance, forgiveness, positive attitude etc.)
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by zaidf 10y ago
Why do you feel you are the lone voice on the side of respecting his dignity and personal choice? That is only true if a) he has the same priorities/perspective as you b) his priorities/perspectives are violated by the OP(there is
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by zaidf 10y ago
You succeeded in getting a lawyer to take on this case(okay, he was your father, but still.) Now try doing the same with getting a top notch PR person with experience getting television exposure. 1) Reach out to top PR consultants 2) Explai
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by zaidf 10y ago
You can apply your logic to basically any entity in history to belittle them. Everything can be positioned as a "massive case of blah " if that is your goal.

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