griffoa

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by griffoa 6y ago
Wow, that sounds great. You can reach me at email mlr@mm.st
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Ask HN: We screwed up with the Google Maps API and now have a significant bill
18 points by griffoa 6y ago|25 comments
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by griffoa 6y ago
Well, CCP owns both, so...
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by griffoa 6y ago
Yet...
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by griffoa 6y ago
What do they enable? Is what they enable worth $40.000 to the enthusiasts?
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by griffoa 6y ago
Thanks, I will check that.
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by griffoa 6y ago
I tried to get her out and visit her family (in a different country), but she is isolating more and more. I will try to be more persistent.
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by griffoa 6y ago
I probably wouldn't. I am getting more concerned recently only because I got the vibe somehow from her during new year that I was somehow involved in some of that shady stuff, which those conspiracy groups claim is going on under our n
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by griffoa 6y ago
Man, I remember when I lived in China and we would have the wifes of our engineers sitting out in the stairwell crying because the husbands worked so much and were never home. They certainly did work a lot. Some of them I could never beat a
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by griffoa 6y ago
Not sure. She has one of those fiber boxes with branded router provided by the operator. I should try to access it next time I visit her - it might have some sort of parental control.
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by griffoa 6y ago
I was into Bitcoin all the way back in the days, when they were free (I believe I read about it here on HN) and we had faucets and all that up until they were worth around $300. I had great hopes for the technology and was mostly just follo
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by griffoa 6y ago
My Mother is being sucked into this whole QAnon, Covid, 5G conspiracy universe. I dont know what to do about it. She is sounding more and more unhinged every time I talk to her. I am thinking about somehow getting her IP blocked by YouTube,
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by griffoa 6y ago
Of course..
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by griffoa 6y ago
Okay, yes actually never really considered that as someone who never had a single sick day in my life. It might be....
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by griffoa 6y ago
Reminds me of that time when I went to an Apple store to have them check my failing MacBook Pro screen. After waiting an hour for some fat dude to come along with an iPad in which he apparently had some sort of store service app installed,
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by griffoa 6y ago
I dont quite remember the meeting room names in Mathilda 3 over at the Apple on Mathilda Ave, but if the MA03 (in the screenshot) refers to "Mathilda 3", then this story is totally believable. I worked at Apple and it was absolute
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by griffoa 6y ago
Why would ad agencies reject an app?? You are not allowed to advertise Tinder clones??
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by griffoa 6y ago
People have lost trust in the system. Its pretty much the worst thing that can happen to systems that are not supported by laws of nature. Fictional structures implode once trust is gone. Financial systems, ideologies, religions.. Gone..
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by griffoa 6y ago
No law in nature dictate any of the made up structure we submit ourselves to. They only work because people trust them. Trust lost, system down.
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by griffoa 6y ago
Your comment proves his point.
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by griffoa 6y ago
Cultural enrichment at its finest
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by griffoa 6y ago
The social order you speak of is a fictional construct that you choose to subscribe to.
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by griffoa 6y ago
Why pay $10 to have my ass tracked, when I can have my ass tracked for free
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by griffoa 6y ago
Haha... Sure..
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by griffoa 6y ago
I foresee see blitz build up of troops within the next week in eastern Fujian.
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by griffoa 6y ago
Young programmers are only idolized because they are the only ones you can convince to build your sausage app for pennies.
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by griffoa 6y ago
Nothing much has changed: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/10/24/something-rotten-i... Are we witnessing the greatest fraud in history?
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by griffoa 7y ago
Man, Silicon Valley really is the sweat shop of the IT world. Why anyone would strive to go live and work there, is beyond me.
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by griffoa 8y ago
I built Android phones for a living for many years and I could probably root a device very quickly and get it up and running just like in the old days, but I seriously cannot be bothered anymore. Only viable alternative for me right now is
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by griffoa 8y ago
Yeah, I hear those potatoes are the shit over in Palo Alto along with pink BMW's for 16th birthdays.

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