mbca

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by mbca 11y ago
Public mudslinging between big names ... does that make Medium the new Twitter?
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by mbca 11y ago
> I’m fascinated how simple the __NSDictionaryI turned out to be. There may be other cases where one gets something entirely different than the __NSDictionaryI class, depending on how the dictionary was created or how much / what ki
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by mbca 11y ago
Years of their skills and labor that could have been spent working at another company (including competitors).
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by mbca 11y ago
The quality of Uber drivers in San Francisco has dropped all the way to the point where I simply will not try to use Uber anywhere near downtown. They will accept the ride and the app will show they are "1 minute" away, however it
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by mbca 11y ago
This is what happens when you have an "app store" with no approval or review process. Google should be cracking down on this, just like those ads they were displaying[1] which would serve up malware-infected versions of Firefox wh
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by mbca 11y ago
Indeed. The essay mentions "predictability" as a problem with solar, but that becomes moot with good enough storage & transmission.
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by mbca 11y ago
They will find a way to opt-out instead. One set of rules for them, and another set of rules for everyone else.
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Google I/O badges will have photos on them
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by mbca 12y ago
> there was regular black market where one could buy contract for cheaper rent A precursor to AirBnB!
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by mbca 12y ago
While this isn't nearly as bad as companies like Valve which go around claiming not even to have any managers , let alone any policies, it still means you're going to run into this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by mbca 12y ago
Yet another chance to call out the highly relevant essay "The Tyranny of Structurelessness": http://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm It should be required reading for anyone pushing the "we don'
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by mbca 12y ago
For those who've watched the show Black Adder: http://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/?p=8712
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by mbca 12y ago
> [I]t's only going to become easier and easier for competitors to enter the same space. Not going to happen. Those "regulators" they decry so loudly? I'm sure they have plans to buy a few once they get big enough and
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by mbca 12y ago
Android is only a "success" insofar as being the only game in town for an open-source iOS competitor. I'm frankly amazed it ever gained any traction at all, but when your competition is non-free garbage like Symbian, Blackber
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by mbca 12y ago
Were these sodas sweetened with cane sugar or high-fructose corn syrup? (I did look at the abstract of the actual paper, but it doesn't seem to specify. The full paper might say, but it's paywalled.)
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by mbca 12y ago
The middle paragraphs are just further proof that talking to a blowhard like Cory Doctorow is a complete waste of time. The "all photos are fake at some level" slippery slope argument is beyond tiresome. The fact that something li
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by mbca 12y ago
Ever since the days of the original Firewire-only iPod, they've done 3D renders for extreme closeups like that. They are usually very accurate but still, it seems like it would be just a bit more honest to use a photo.
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by mbca 12y ago
Great comment, pretty much agreed on all points. One minor correction -- it's "toeing the line", not "towing": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toe_the_line
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by mbca 12y ago
And yet if you post about AirBnB's history of spamming Craigslist users, you'll get downvoted into oblivion. Playing dirty is considered okay on HN so long as you're a YC company.
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by mbca 12y ago
So it's yet another toy project with grandiose, overblown claims ("git for databases"? seriously?!) An honest update to the README would be to take the whole thing down several notches, if nothing else then to avoid the kind
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by mbca 12y ago
> My wife and I sleep on the floor, with a few blankets, and have slept with our daughter between us since day one And when your daughter is old enough to talk, she'll tell everyone she sleeps on the floor, and CPS will come take he