electrichead

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Ask HN: Why are so many companies changing their privacy policy suddenly?
8 points by electrichead 7y ago|2 comments
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by electrichead 7y ago
Malcolm Gladwell also talked about it in the book "Talking to Strangers." It revolved around a breakdown on communication between the two and assumptions that they each had for the other.
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by electrichead 7y ago
Aren't the other members the ones that Netflix is disrupting in the first place? What can it hope to gain from this? (Honest question)
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by electrichead 7y ago
Did this one come with a DVD drive? You can swap out that for a secondary SSD
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by electrichead 7y ago
I did exactly this a year ago but one caveat to note is that if you're using an external monitor, the video card in this one doesn't support a good resolution. I'm stuck with 1080p.
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by electrichead 7y ago
Are there examples of products made today that have this ethos of lasting for a lifetime? As a side note on cars, what are some cars that would last a long time and are made of parts that are serviceable?
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by electrichead 7y ago
Serious question, is this a bug in Chrome that affects all cookies or is it something specific to that reddit.com cookie? It might be the case that Reddit or another vendor just adds that cookie from other sites (like within a share button
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by electrichead 8y ago
Facebook :)
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by electrichead 8y ago
You don't use GitHub or LinkedIn or Skype either? You might also rely on sites that are built with Microsoft technologies (Stack overflow for example) or find that your workplace gets by with Excel. It's hard to say you don't
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by electrichead 8y ago
That's not quite the same thing. He went there to find people who would be the type that go to events like this. If you want to compare apples-to-apples, your friend would have been invited to Burning Man as part of the process of inve
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by electrichead 8y ago
At the end of the article
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by electrichead 8y ago
There is also the option of Patreon
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by electrichead 8y ago
I just wanted to say that this article displayed quite nicely on my phone and was nice to read through. On the topic, I do believe that there are worthy stories in video games that can be translated to the screen not just for those who don&
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by electrichead 8y ago
If you're in Toronto, the Fifth grill has one too. It is such a long ride for such a short distance but pretty cool. The elevator is about a hundred years old
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by electrichead 8y ago
They would have had a long lived token though
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by electrichead 9y ago
I wonder how many people would have no idea how big a VHS tape is.
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by electrichead 9y ago
I don't know if that needs any evidence of the person was simply around back then. Basically this is saying that 2001 hardware wouldn't be able to run the new software in 2007, which at least to my recollection, is absolutely true
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by electrichead 9y ago
The problem with that though is that it becomes a precedent (not in legal sense) and it might be tempting to just use images without paying the copyright owner, since you just need to settle for market value or a little more at the time tha
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by electrichead 9y ago
I think that sometimes depends on the work culture rather than a person's personality. I've worked at places where managers do monitor your every move, look at how long you take at lunch, etc. Also co-workers sometimes think unfav
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by electrichead 9y ago
Linear Digressions is a great podcast to add to your list. It is not as regular as some of the others but the subjects are great. The hosts are also good.
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by electrichead 9y ago
I guess so. Every flight I've been on has made it uncomfortable for me if the person in front is reclining. The angle makes my laptop have to open less than 90 degrees (15"). The incline also has to begin below the knee (ie. at th
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by electrichead 10y ago
This is a common misconception - "Arabic" isn't distinguishable like this since a lot of Arabs are fair-skinned.
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by electrichead 10y ago
As a programmer: trying to learn to program in a functional programming language after years of writing imperative code changed the way I wrote code and the way I thought about problems. As a developer: working at startups helped me learn a
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by electrichead 10y ago
I know that a lot of people don't frequent the boards so they might not see value in them, but I have a few experiences over the years that endeared this community to me. One was right after watching the second movie in the Matrix tril
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by electrichead 10y ago
Although a startup might only marginally benefit because a single one would be a significant portion of their employees, right? So it would be over 15% right off the bat if they have fewer than 7 people
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by electrichead 10y ago
That specific MBP has an issue with the logic board that they will replace for free. I used to have glitches as well and took it in and got a replacement. It's only until the end of the year so I would go and get them to have a look be
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by electrichead 10y ago
There's another one by Google maps where you can't choose to avoid tolls very easily. You also can't tell it to remember that you never want to use toll roads, so it is very easy for you to suddenly find yourself on a toll ro
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by electrichead 11y ago
All the demos items are the same height. A big problem I have seen in the past has been with items with varying height. This makes it difficult to swap in new content because you don't know the height ahead of time. It might make for a
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by electrichead 12y ago
It is such a huge relief for me. I read HN mainly on my phone and it has always been a painful experience to manually zoom in for each page. I can't wait for a truly optimized stylesheet but this is great in the meantime.
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by electrichead 12y ago
From my experience, coffeescript won't teach you anything new and won't give you any performance improvents. In fact, it will make you scratch your head a lot and will make you do a mental js-coffee conversion each time. You might

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