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by pswilson14 9y ago
Not OP, but UC San Diego taught both Vim and Emacs when I was there 5 years ago
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by pswilson14 9y ago
Apple doesn't have much incentive to build new Mac minis and new Mac Pros.
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by pswilson14 9y ago
Significant cultural difference makes for really interesting design differences in apps and websites! Americans (maybe Westerners more broadly) tend to prefer simple designs with plenty of white space, where Chinese users find a simple desi
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by pswilson14 10y ago
I'd agree it's common knowledge, but I love reading detailed accounts of that kind of thing. Cheers anyway!
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by pswilson14 10y ago
The idea of factions in Microsoft fighting for control is interesting to me from a historical perspective - do you have any books or sources I can read to get the full story?
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by pswilson14 10y ago
You aren't including the time it takes to find your phone, pull it out, maybe unlock it, and THEN do the steps you describe. That's friction, and that's where these frictionless interfaces step in.
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by pswilson14 10y ago
He did, but the audience doesn't. Every show and movie that deals with this kind of stuff does it.
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by pswilson14 10y ago
I see that Acre (a home construction company) is on there. Kind of odd for a gift giving site. "Merry Christmas! I bought you a house!"
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by pswilson14 10y ago
Most people only use 4-6 apps a day, or less. Users are spending more and more time in fewer apps. I reckon a good bit of that is the friction of installing new apps.
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by pswilson14 10y ago
As a pale person who burns easily, I can assure you that the sun is much more dangerous than my cell phone.
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by pswilson14 10y ago
Not OP, and I don't have an opinion on Go, but I think that's why he used the words "threatens to".
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by pswilson14 11y ago
You can actually turn off retweets for individual users if you want to. I do that a lot.
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by pswilson14 11y ago
"Massive" JS frameworks aren't the issue, not by themselves. AngularJS, for instance, is only 39.5kb. Bloat sneaks into web applications in other ways, but merely bringing in a framework isn't enough to add a noticeable
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by pswilson14 11y ago
I hold the door open for everybody, and I've never been accused of sexism. I usually just get smiles from everyone. If a woman were to call me a sexist for holding the door open for her, I'd shrug it off. I'm not so fragile t
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by pswilson14 11y ago
Part of professional life is understanding how to communicate with others and how to know before you say something how it will be taken. Some people aren't good at this, and those people should work on it until they get better at it. I
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by pswilson14 11y ago
"...not navigating the PC minefield" I see variations on this phrase all over the place, and I don't understand it. It really isn't that hard to avoid saying offensive and distasteful things to women (or anyone else, act
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by pswilson14 11y ago
I guess I was looking at some very out-of-date or possibly incorrect figures. My mistake. Updated my comment accordingly.
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by pswilson14 11y ago
95% of YC-backed startups fail. A few go on to have decent success, and maybe 2 or 3 YC ventures actually went on to billion-dollar valuations (Dropbox and Airbnb). And that's considered a really good success rate. Since we're tal
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by pswilson14 11y ago
I think you may be missing the point here.
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by pswilson14 12y ago
> And let's not get into the whole privacy thing. A 1 TB drive is, what, fifty bucks today -- and people would rather store their files in a datacenter across the ocean? Yep. Fact is, HNers are much more concerned with privacy than
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by pswilson14 12y ago
Well, of course they do. But they also have extremely strict rules about when you can access what user data and why. Employees can and do get fired for minor infractions of those rules. Clickbait article?
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by pswilson14 12y ago
Right, because no talented engineer has ever spoken anything less than perfect english.
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by pswilson14 12y ago
My company's solution - small teams of 4 to 6 people, each cluster separated from everyone else by 5 foot walls with whiteboards on them. Our development style is pretty collaborative, so we benefit from having teammates nearby to boun
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by pswilson14 12y ago
JavaScript is only unpredictable if written by a poor developer. It's just a language, and it is as powerful as you are. Weakly typed languages are not hacky - merely different.
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by pswilson14 12y ago
Angular and jQuery ARE JavaScript.
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by pswilson14 12y ago
For anyone interested, this strategy is called the [1]Martingale betting system. It works great if a gambler has infinite money, but no gamblers do. It can deplete your bankroll very quickly, due to the exponential nature of the betting sys
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by pswilson14 12y ago
I'm not certain about the exact color scheme, but my terminal looks pretty similar. I use a ZSH shell, and I use Oh My ZSH to manage my configuration. The ZSH theme I use is called "amuse", and it looks pretty similar to this
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by pswilson14 12y ago
For fans of This American Life, there was a really good show on a similar topic a couple weeks ago called Tarred and Feathered ( http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/522/t... ). As a brief sum
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by pswilson14 12y ago
The company he works at is supposed to be a satire of Google, I believe.
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by pswilson14 13y ago
Surely, you see a difference between a data company collecting data from users who willingly hand it to them, and a government that forces those companies to hand over private data against their will?

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