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by engendered 11y ago
Most people simply don't need this kind of storage anymore. But this is exactly the sort of storage the linked article is talking about . So your point is that I attacked a "strawman" because I didn't accept the linke
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by engendered 11y ago
Is it irony that you're presenting an absurd strawman to demonstrate my purported strawman? I "attacked" (aka disagreed with) any broadly-targeted, generalist claims of the linked article (which is in stark contrast with, for
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by engendered 11y ago
" Hi there, I'm very open to constructive criticism on my project but I feel that your comment is more of a strawman than particularly useful in any way. I had a look back through your comments on other posts on HN and they seemed
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by engendered 11y ago
if you’ve got lots of money and you don’t care about how you spend it or translating those savings onto your customers This is a baseless, prejudiced claim, contrasting buying with some idealized scenario where your in-house crew can only
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by engendered 11y ago
but it's wrong to generalize it as a solution for everyone This is the fundamental flaw in virtually all quick-fix lifehack kind of pieces -- they project personal habits and failings generally, and then make broad claims about how t
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by engendered 11y ago
Note that this story isn't really about vomitoxin, or about the permissible amounts of unpleasant stuff, at least not directly. While that was the lead in, the actual story was about Kraft leveraging the markets, including products the
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by engendered 11y ago
My reading of it is that the app on the phone is used to configure the button, and the button from then on operates independently (which would be good in that it would allows others to use it when the original person isn't around). It&
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by engendered 11y ago
They tell you specifically how much RAM you get, and there is no confusion. They also tell you exactly how much storage you get. In this case they very specifically tell you disk read throughput. So there are a lot of metrics that are not a
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by engendered 11y ago
The overwhelming majority of those "winners" fail. These funds aren't anointing the king, but rather are just trying to make a bet, and it's a bet they usually lose. As you said, their funding gives the entrant a leg up
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by engendered 11y ago
Everything is relative. When someone is defensive and self-conscious, it's incredibly hard to give feedback of any sort without them feeling "like an idiot".
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by engendered 11y ago
Sure, it's not literally "apple is doomed" right in the title, but exactly the same kind of FUD BUT IT ISN'T FUD AT ALL. To make it even more comical, several of those posts are from serious Apple boosters (Philip Elme
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by engendered 11y ago
People who participate in this site can discuss whatever they want . Especially when the entire conversation is being roughly, and absurdly, directed. The fact that you would even consider such an absurd response really sets the bar for HN
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by engendered 11y ago
Indeed, that is one boorish tactic of making a banal, sycophantic comment. The use of a garbage strawman really put it into a higher echelon. However I stick by my observation. The brain trust behind HN moderation, having moved on from thei
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by engendered 11y ago
This just dropped by -4 in a ten second span (edit: moments after another -4), essentially confirming the suspicion. Do the moderators of HN have any comprehension of how completely incompetent they are at what they're doing? HN toda
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by engendered 11y ago
I have had this happen numerous times, and the rapidity of the downvotes really makes me think it's an automated system -- that now that slowbans and hellbans are pretty widely known and rightly reviled, the mods just flag you and peri
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by engendered 11y ago
"it doesn't take long at all to find some examples of recent poor Apple reporting" That has absolutely nothing to do with what I asked. Apple is an enormous company. They have enormous influence, and their products are used
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by engendered 11y ago
They are afraid that their criticisms will be magnified and distorted by the press and used as the basis of hit-pieces Hardly. Many Apple fans still operate as if it is some tiny, vulnerable niche company, and they're a member of th
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by engendered 12y ago
Whereas every company is falling over themselves to hire the 10x programmer. Is this true? I've been involved in a number of hires over the years where we quite specifically did not want a "10x programmer". We knew the po
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by engendered 12y ago
I'm surprised the John Gruber "little birdie" thing is treated as a legitimate source, especially in this case where it's outright absurd. John has retrenched to now Apple "basically" inventing it because wires
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by engendered 12y ago
Is this legitimately a bug, though? It could be tagged as a performance defect, but there is code like this through projects across the land. I think the reason this rubs some people the wrong way is that implementations like this can be th
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by engendered 12y ago
FWIW, virtually every small project post discussed on HN has a variety of people arguing that the name conflicts with some other small project. Maybe projects should be named using UUIDs or something.
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by engendered 12y ago
Despite your absurd lead in and desperate moderation, I'll repeat that you are simply wrong , and seem to be trying really, really hard to justify something. Something fairly obvious. Firstly, to repeat , in most cases in this indu
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by engendered 12y ago
Everyone who is "laid off" is terminated. http://www.businessinsider.com/microsofts-employee-review-sy... Laid off. Done en masse. I could do this for every company and it is exactly the same . No, they don'
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by engendered 12y ago
Most organizational "lay offs" start by identifying the most expendable, the least valuable, the people with the worst performance reviews, etc. This is especially true in the technology industry. I'm not saying this as an
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by engendered 12y ago
Aside from the fact that many people use the term interchangeably, getting "laid off" often means "you got fired at a company that doesn't actively fire individually, but rather fires en masse". Being "laid off
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by engendered 12y ago
Given that it's an intentional, purposeful design element of Android Wear, why in the world would they "hide" it?
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by engendered 12y ago
No, they haven't . That this site is increasingly veering into Reddit land (with the same sort of absurd dogpile moderation -- countless of my completely benign comments have been downvoted by imbeciles who need to "punish"
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by engendered 12y ago
Add that the performance per dollar lead is only if your workload is atypically multi-threaded. Intel has really taken a bite out of AMD's already tenuous market with the "Pentium" variants.
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by engendered 12y ago
Currently when there is a data breach, the source company is usually on the hook for nothing more than signing victims up for credit reporting for a year, a scheme that I would not be surprised is actually money making (e.g. providing thous
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by engendered 12y ago
So actual reality is "drumming a rhetoric of fear" now? Reality reported on by a fairly left news organization? Fascinating.

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