krstck

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by krstck 10y ago
I wish phone numbers could work this way. When my personal data gets leaked or sold, just revoke access to that particular token.
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by krstck 10y ago
Ah yes, because who doesn't want to return to the days of AOL's "channels". I think you're completely right, btw. After AOL, it only took a few years for websites to become rapidly Flash-based. It looks like we&#x27
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by krstck 10y ago
Their nonprofit accounts are designed for "nonacademic" orgs. If there's an account type that's applicable to university research (not just students) then I'd be thrilled.
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by krstck 10y ago
> At Bay Area prices isn't that about 5 minutes of developer pay per month? I work for an academic nonprofit. Asking to spend any money is like pulling teeth, and any purchase I make has to go through many layers of bureaucracy who
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by krstck 10y ago
My understanding is that transportation is actually a small factor in total food emissions. It seems that promoting "local food" without paying attention to whether that food can be optimally produced locally, might be more enviro
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by krstck 10y ago
Denver has so many wonderful things, but this undercurrent of "I hate all the new people" is so gross. I've encountered it in situations where I'm literally handing money over to someone who is bitching about people movi
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by krstck 10y ago
This brouhaha about gender identity requires some 'fixed points' about gender that I thought we progressives had all already agreed were nonexistent! But I don't think the point about the author's personal experience of
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by krstck 10y ago
Full disclosure: I'm a working female software developer, blah blah blah... > I want to be that girl who no one thought she could, who had all the odds against her, that everyone thought was dumb, and yet she becomes incredibly succ
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by krstck 11y ago
Has YC ever considered having a control group by randomly pre-accepting certain applicants into the program automatically? I'd be curious to see the stats on how successful that group would be versus the group that's actually pick
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by krstck 11y ago
Mint is logging in on your behalf, unless you have a different service than I do.
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by krstck 11y ago
I've been dreaming of a standardized banking API for as long as I've been using online banking. It crushes my soul every time Mint makes me send them my actual log in credentials just to scrape transaction data. Really hope this c
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by krstck 11y ago
As I've entered the more intermediate stage as a Rails developer, I've noticed that the "magicalness" that allowed me to do so much so quickly as a beginner, is often actually getting in my way. Perhaps when I reach the
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by krstck 11y ago
I'm particularly sad about the evolution of the word "troll" to mean "anything someone else doesn't like". The idea of "flamebait" has also completely disappeared, and we've lost the ability to r
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by krstck 11y ago
The "Most Recent" sort is not at all obvious, at least on my Facebook, and it also quietly turns itself off. It's quite user-hostile.
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by krstck 11y ago
Agreed. Facebook's great sin isn't that they have an algorithm to serve the content they believe is the best, it's that they don't respect my decision to turn that off .
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by krstck 11y ago
His experience might be a lot different from mine, but I've found TDD enormously helpful when tackling legacy systems. Maybe that's not "test-driven development" and more like "test-driven refactoring", but wor
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by krstck 11y ago
> They're basically arguing that you're better off going to a school in the middle of nowhere because "hey, for being in such a crappy location, you did pretty well!". Well, no, not exactly. It's a subtle distinc
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by krstck 11y ago
Adding sugar reduces the water activity, which inhibits microbial growth.
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by krstck 11y ago
PewDiePie - just one Youtube channel - has almost 40 million subscribers . Even if a very small percentage pays the $10/mo subscription fee, the numbers here are still huge.
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by krstck 11y ago
> And as for "exclusive YouTube content" it makes zero sense to have the same monthly fee as Netflix and somehow think that PewDiePie is going to compete with Orange is the New Black or House of Cards. The (mostly teenage) audi
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by krstck 11y ago
Here you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_anymore
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by krstck 11y ago
What (or who) are you currently reading?
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by krstck 11y ago
I basically agree with you, except I don't think there are many cases where the usage of "literally" makes the meaning ambiguous. It should be clear whether someone's head literally exploded (are we having a conversati
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by krstck 11y ago
Cost of living.
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by krstck 11y ago
Yeah, I'm sure they aren't directly comparable. I'm just trying to describe my general feeling of "life as we know it" will somehow always manage to make itself more and more expensive, no matter how many productivi
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by krstck 11y ago
This seems to be the case as long as consumption continues to scale. I think you can come close to approximating a circa 1950's standard of living on very little income.
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by krstck 11y ago
A (non-tech) company I used to work for hired temp workers as a way for HR to hit some kind of "low headcount" performance bonus. It was terrible for everyone else, including the temps themselves.
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by krstck 11y ago
Is that number including all of the contractors in their warehouses? I believe they make heavy use of temp services.
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by krstck 11y ago
There are articles on how horrible the warehouse conditions are. (For example, http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/mac-mcclelland-f... ). Note that I'm not trying to condone that perception, just
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by krstck 11y ago
One interesting thing is that Amazon is almost approaching Walmart's bad reputation in terribleness for employees. (Maybe not software devs, but perhaps warehouse contractors.) Is this kind of ruthlessness essential for such a huge com

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