mikegreco

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by mikegreco 2y ago
Thank you so much for breaking this situation down with such clarity. I've had the Gagguino mod on my personal project list for a while, and when I saw that they went closed source I was flabbergasted. Your writeup is the first I'
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by mikegreco 5y ago
One of the best way to prevent cable knots is to use the over-under technique. It helps prevent knots, and lets you unravel a cable extremely fast. I learned it in the audio industry, but it works great for cables of any size. This is a goo
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Airbnb announces collaboration with Jony Ive's LoveFrom(news.airbnb.com)
4 points by mikegreco 6y ago|0 comments
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by mikegreco 11y ago
Yogi was in a league of his own in so many ways. He was the greatest catcher in the history of baseball, but he's remembered for his wit and character. I met Yogi once, when I was a teenager. This man had a thousand accomplishments to
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by mikegreco 12y ago
Intelligent =/= Tolerant
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by mikegreco 12y ago
If you go with this line of reasoning, whoever put him in that position should also be fired, and their boss should be fired for putting someone in charge who made such a poor decision in the first place.
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by mikegreco 12y ago
The author states they felt it was appropriate when they were fired. In what world would it be appropriate to get fired for a single, simple, incredibly easy to make mistake? Doubly insane when there were exactly zero safeguards in place
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by mikegreco 12y ago
There are 2 possibilities: 1. People aren't tipping 2. Cab drivers aren't reporting their tips. Being a native new yorker, legality aside, I'd bet most cash tips go unreported. Reporting a tip makes that tip taxable, so th
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by mikegreco 12y ago
The FAQ states the inside is made of glass
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by mikegreco 12y ago
I can't even replace an o-ring with gloves on, I cannot imagine the frustration of trying to do such a task with a tele-presence robot. I really don't think the technology for something like that is here yet.
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by mikegreco 12y ago
There is no reference or comparison to the fable in the article. This is pure link bait. Absolutely deplorable.
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by mikegreco 12y ago
That actually makes me feel much better about the matter, good to know!
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by mikegreco 12y ago
I agree. The beauty of Tonx is that it's all about the coffee itself. No milk, no sugar, no dilution. Blue Bottle seems more about the coffee drink and less about the coffee
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by mikegreco 12y ago
I'm really conflicted by this. The good: Tonx is awesome. Blue Bottle is great. I can't imagine coffee quality will decline due to a merger. The bad: Tonx has lost a lot of agility. Will great and potentially risky campaigns li
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by mikegreco 13y ago
I love how many comments in this thread imply that they would be able to spot a sniper in real life, due to depth perception or whatever other factor. There's a reason snipers are so feared in warfare. They tend to be very good at wha
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by mikegreco 13y ago
If optimizing 57 seconds of your day makes such a drastic difference, you are doing a vast number of things wrong.
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by mikegreco 13y ago
Wealth, on a scale of being in the single digits percentage-wise, often has a lot to do with skill. Some skills, such as empire building, get you there faster than others. See Bill Gates as an example. First he built a tech empire, then a c
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by mikegreco 13y ago
I very fondly remember ThinkGeek's early days, if you start a new venture, let the HN community know! I'll definitely be in line as a customer and I'm sure many others here would be too.
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by mikegreco 13y ago
The exact verbiage on Amazon's website is "Buy movie in HD 1-Click® $$$.$$". Its easy to lecture to the hackernews crowd on the evils of DRM, but do you really think the average consumer understands what they are getting int
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by mikegreco 13y ago
A swirl of other high-level staffing switch-ups also occurred, including a handful of layoffs. Two of the people let go were the remaining co-founders: Vadnais, who essentially invented ThinkGeek, and Frazier, who coined the ThinkGeek slog
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by mikegreco 13y ago
It isn't available in Santa Clara, so it's certainly not the whole peninsula.
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by mikegreco 13y ago
This doesn't really tell the whole story. Riding bikes is dangerous, but the real danger here is driving a car. When you're driving a car you are in charge of a multi-thousand pound hunk of metal with more momentum than most peop
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by mikegreco 13y ago
I can't speak for Jack, but I can speak to learning both programming skills and business skills. When you self teach programming, you usually don't end up shipping a product that you're not sure will work. Most of the time
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by mikegreco 13y ago
Hold on... you live and work in silicon valley and you claim you can get by on 30k a year expenses? Horseshit. The cheapest rent I've seen around here is 1500 a month, and that's almost 20 grand a year right there. Add standard
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by mikegreco 13y ago
The work of a lifetime is paradoxical like that. It is very rare that someone achieves something truly memorable when they set permanence as their primary goal.
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by mikegreco 13y ago
At this late hour I made a note to comment on this in the morning, when I could make my thoughts more succinct. I then realized the inherent irony in that action. I love this tool.
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Why does the design of iOS 7 look so different?(thenextweb.com)
4 points by mikegreco 13y ago|0 comments
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by mikegreco 13y ago
In that case it's a given that you will continue to shake the thing, intentionally or not, and the ports will continue to be lit.
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by mikegreco 13y ago
> Not really. 90% of Mac users don't care or know what Unix is. This is exactly why it is brilliant. The average user is NOT a unix user, but the average developer is. The reason OS X is doing so well the same reason Facebook Ho
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by mikegreco 13y ago
If you read the article, his data usage wasn't the reason he was cut off. He was caught because of it, but the reason he's being forced to business class is that he's running a server (multiple actually.) Residential has it in their TOS,

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