kenning

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by kenning 3y ago
the reaction of a pedo or worse lol
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by kenning 7y ago
In 5 days: "whoops nevermind"
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by kenning 8y ago
i do appreciate the comments here from people who actually have firsthand experience with this. i think a lot of people on HN find this story interesting because it's so far from their experience, but feel like commenting anyway. and i
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by kenning 8y ago
Nice read, thank you. Glad you got out of there
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by kenning 8y ago
dota 2 is not as extreme about this as, say, starcraft. in starcraft, most "strategies" are heavily scripted build orders that almost never deviate from a handful of openings (similar to opening moves in chess) and a large amount
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by kenning 8y ago
My impression is that nicotine is "essentially" harmless but caffeine is actually harmless, maybe even good for you (kind of like a glass of red wine a week).
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by kenning 8y ago
One thing that bugs me about ecigarettes is that the flavoring chemicals are totally untested. Vegetable glycerin is essentially harmless and is even used in asthma inhalers, and nicotine is way less harmful as well. However it's alrea
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by kenning 8y ago
> Old version just worked and got out the way. Just when I thought I had heard every opinion on npm, I find someone with the opinion "It always worked fine."
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by kenning 8y ago
Very reminiscient of the intentional devaluation of Crystal Pepsi by Tab Clear (see the second paragraph here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_Clear#Post-discontinuation )
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by kenning 8y ago
For me the classic example of this is photoshop. You cannot buy old photoshop licenses anymore because they realized that people are happy with them.
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by kenning 8y ago
Or you could avoid adtech and misleading clickbait, which everyone hates
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by kenning 8y ago
I agree with your first (non-quoted) paragraph. Please don't blame this on #metoo. it just happened, and I think the first point you made was just as legitimate before #metoo
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by kenning 8y ago
As a stupid and impatient person, I didn't get to the end of the article the first time i looked at it. After I saw you wrote it I went back to check if you mentioned ublock by name. You might want to have something below the header an
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by kenning 8y ago
Every story about facebook now portrays them as satan. I don't even like facebook but this is definitely a trend.
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by kenning 8y ago
more like hackernews_user.md
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by kenning 8y ago
This happens to your wife commonly?
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by kenning 8y ago
I took modafinil for a while because a crypto SV nerd told me it was hip. We both ordered some and tried it. The stimulant effects basically stopped affecting me after a week, and i had the bizarre side effect of crying very regularly. My f
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by kenning 8y ago
Friend works in data law and says that it's ambiguous. One of the problems is that people use personal information in their email. Also, you have no idea if it's actually personal information or just a nickname they've given
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by kenning 8y ago
Oh my god, can we have one article on this topic without this comment? The whole problem is that 99% of websites people visit come with trackers.
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by kenning 8y ago
This is a great idea
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by kenning 8y ago
What's more likely, that the EU wants good PR and hopes that nobody will notice they're not accomplishing anything, or that they're representing their constituents by making widely popular policies and putting the onus on vio
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by kenning 8y ago
> I don't want to be too cynical but it can function as a kind of elaborate PR and recruiting tool, as well as generally support the impression of the company being the Next Big Thing. Whether or not this is intentional, it's w
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by kenning 8y ago
> and that code review is of no value. I don't agree with this at all. Code review is obviously a huge benefit once you have enough money to pay more than one engineer per gigantic slice of the codebase. I'd say code review is
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by kenning 8y ago
I work for a tiny 2-man project and we need to save all the time we can, so we don't code review. We actually have an unofficial policy: all code that is directly user-facing (web design for example) is handled by me and all backend st
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by kenning 8y ago
I know nothing about the housing market but to me it seems like this could be a pretty good move from zillow. They could theoretically use data on their millions of houses to find absurdly good deals and only snap those up.
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by kenning 8y ago
Reminds me of the similar article posted recently, '“Is curing patients a sustainable business model?” Goldman Sachs analysts ask.' Or net neutrality. Regulatory capture is out of control in at least a dozen american industries i
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by kenning 8y ago
I think an interesting thing about turbotax and ifttt is that they both were confronted with the problem of a really hard UX and they both decided that the simplest solution was just to make everything a series of modals with the absolute m
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by kenning 8y ago
> I don't understand why go through the hassle of actually deleting (particularly since it is so onerous). It changes nothing. There's probably still a shadow account of the data you gave them. Deleting the account doesn't
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by kenning 8y ago
I think turbotax has a pretty phenomenal interface if you're in the bracket of people with really simple taxes. Two and three years ago, my taxes took me about an hour. Depending on what you're looking for, you may also be interes
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by kenning 8y ago
I've been using mailchimp for the first time in the last couple weeks and found it to be a similar experience to squarespace: extremely friendly to non-coders, but kind of buggy and somewhat hard to use beyond their given templates. (E

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