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by pstack 15y ago
I was an engineer at Netscape through the period this documentary covers and it's one of my favorite (though bittersweet) documentaries. I wasn't involved in the development side, so my involvement with most of those featured was quite limi
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by pstack 15y ago
Or, instead, think of this as a way to stop being an attention whore and instead of having 19,000 "friends" that you broadcast every thought and event in your life every day, consider it a way to be more discrete and thoughtful. Beginning w
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by pstack 15y ago
Agreed on the social aspect. My response to anything relating to "social music" has always been "I listen to music for me - I don't want social anything. I don't care what you're listening to and I don't care if you think what I'm listening
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by pstack 15y ago
I hate Facebook, so I resisted joining the TurnTable.fm beta. I've had a FB account for years, but I don't use it. Just squatting my name. I certainly refuse to tie my account to anything else. However, I made an exception with this site, t
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by pstack 15y ago
From the site: Where interesting people say: "Ask me anything." You know the author is interesting, because there's a giant photo of them in a dress cut down to their navel, right above the questions about interviewing dozens of attempted
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by pstack 15y ago
Even if privacy weren't a concern, I don't see the point in using either one. People have email. If I really need to talk to or share something with someone, I'll email them. Or occasionally, IM them. Or maybe even call them. Or if they're
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by pstack 15y ago
Since corporations are considered private citizens, it's a shame that they don't take on the same responsibilities as private citizens. You know, lobby for civil liberties and privacy, because it's the right thing for a citizen to do and al
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by pstack 15y ago
Germany sounds delightful, but I enjoy playing video games. Including violent ones. Which, of course, goes to show the whole problem. Simply saying you're taking your ball and going somewhere else doesn't really deal with the problem that e
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by pstack 15y ago
I'd rather enjoy what little life I have left than spend it avoiding all the things that are supposedly going to shave years off my life and spending the entire day standing. I got a nice cushy knowledge-worker career precisely so I wouldn'
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by pstack 15y ago
It's hard for me to have sympathy when people choose to develop for Facebook instead of for the Internet. When you are contributing to the problem, you have to accept a certain level of potential downside and lack of control. There's a mass
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by pstack 15y ago
"The Idea: Every restaurant menu item in the world is searchable by its ingredients." I'd settle for accomplishing the first, most basic, step. As Rick Emerson said on Twitter a week or two ago "Would someone please tell all the god damn r
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by pstack 15y ago
Does it count as an account if the only reason I created it is to keep others from creating one in my name? Mine just says "I don't use FB. Email me, instead." If you can't be bothered to reach me outside of FB, then you don't care enough a
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by pstack 15y ago
I would say approximately 99% of the people on Twitter and Facebook are so self-involved and full of themselves that they'd wet themselves at the proposition of even a virtual "museum" of themselves. I've said it many times - you can't go w
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by pstack 15y ago
No, you guys. You don't get it. Bitcoins are going to take over the world. We're ALL going to be part of an economy of Bitcoins, just like we all universally adopted Swatch Internet Time[1]! [*1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Interne
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by pstack 15y ago
No, in my opinion a system thrives when it is challenged. An immune system, a legal system, an enforcement system, or a security system. The challenges provoke adaptation. Evolution. I'm not a fan of illness, but some degree of exposure is
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by pstack 15y ago
Meh. While I don't support this behavior without some sort of an understandable cause to compel them, I view the overall activities of "oh noes; posted something on your website!" and "oh noes; got yer emailz!" as an important part of boost
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by pstack 15y ago
I'm more shocked that John Markoff still has a career, when he hasn't had anything sensationalistic to tie his opportunistic bylines to since Mitnick.
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by pstack 15y ago
Why is this a problem? How many of you actually stumbled onto Hacker News via a google search? People put way too much emphasis on their listing on Google. If you're selling doodads, then I guess that's important, but otherwise word of mout
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by pstack 15y ago
You probably did. The major failing of Netflix is content churn. I can count on at least 20% of my queue disappearing every month, before I get around to watching it.
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by pstack 15y ago
I have no intention of ever owning a smart phone. When I buy a cell, I look for the phone with the best battery and highest call quality. That's it. I don't need to surf the web, watch videos, listen to music, or send text messages. I'm not
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by pstack 15y ago
In American schools, you have three months off over the summer and a week off over Christmas and a week of for Spring Break. Then you have all the little holidays here and there throughout the year.
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by pstack 15y ago
His comment seems fairly self explanatory, to me. If you have five things to do every day and you do five things every day, you keep up. If you have five things to do every day and you don't do them for ten days, you have 55 things to do on
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by pstack 15y ago
That kind of sounds like a metaphor for more training rather than vacation?
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Thank you. I am my work and I live to work and I'm tired of people treating me like some sort of pariah, because of it. The only thing I will spend more time doing in my life besides working is sleeping and that thing I do and how well
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by pstack 15y ago
I don't necessarily think that lack of vacation makes you more productive (though I am still not convinced that taking ten days away from the office somehow makes you more productive for the other 255). I do, however, think that most employ
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by pstack 15y ago
Of course, that depends entirely on the company/industry. I don't even know that "most" American workplaces start you out with any vacation. In professional fields, they mostly do, I'm sure. My mom has worked at the same place for around
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by pstack 15y ago
I don't think people so much "choose to live in pricy areas" as that's where the jobs are. As a result, that's where the people are. As a result, that's where the most expensive living is. You can find a cheaper place to live, but it's like
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by pstack 15y ago
When I was just starting out, I lived on one side of town and my work was on the other side of town. My home town has extremely well-regarded public transit. Still, it took about 2.5hrs to get to work. Another 2.5 to get back. That turned a
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by pstack 15y ago
Whoa, I've never heard of that before. In my experience, there are company holidays and vacation days and "sick days". All are at the discretion of the employer as to what are observed and given, but I've never heard of them overlapping (ie
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by pstack 15y ago
At the end of that twenty years, you can keep renting for another twenty years. Or you can spend the remaining thirty or forty years of your life in the home you own clear and free without paying rent or mortgage any more. I sure as hell

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