romey

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by romey 6y ago
I wonder if the incentive actually is to "produce as good a product for their customers as possible," or if it's to find the optimal place on the "price to produce" vs. sale price*popularity curve. I would also posi
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by romey 7y ago
Would you happen to have some suggestions on where to start further reading of radical economics? I'm halfway through "Doughnut Economics" right now, but it's a bit simple -- I was looking for something more challenging.
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by romey 12y ago
"page-break-inside: avoid" and "page-break-after" seem to work fairly reliably, as long as you aren't doing too much weird stuff with positioning, floats, etc. Three major problems I've had with printing from H
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by romey 12y ago
Ah, at the title I thought this was going to be about WebRTC, something I'm pretty excited about, even though it has a quite a ways to mature yet ( http://caniuse.com/rtcpeerconnection ). Interesting that they left out w
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by romey 13y ago
I don't think it's absurd at all. As other commenters have mentioned, seeing the coupon code box and not having a coupon gives me (personally) a feeling of remorse before I've even bought what I was shopping for. This should
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by romey 13y ago
How about Links => "follow" [Nested] Menus => "navigate to" Buttons => "press" Other => "select"
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by romey 14y ago
Maybe you could make it detect when the device is turned upside down, and display a 180º rotated interface in the conversation partner's language? So the interaction would be input phrase->turn phone upside down->partner enters phra
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by romey 14y ago
I'm not so sure about the argument that most people would forgo the $4 cup of Starbucks, given a free alternative. Every office that I've ever worked in provided free coffee, and half of the office would still regularly pick up coffee from
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by romey 14y ago
I've always wondered, what happens to the actual programmer[s] responsible for a bug like this? Assuming they find the exact issue, and then go back through the version control logs to the exact commit, how responsible, if at all, is the in
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by romey 14y ago
But, given that many of the larger ISPs (at least those available to residential customers in my area -- Comcast and Verizon) are owned by companies that also provide cable (and telephone) services, what's to stop them from simply bundling
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by romey 14y ago
How do you strike a fair balance between ridiculous interview questions (such as the example here, write code interfacing with some library from memory) and actually finding out a candidate's chops (assuming they don't have an open source h
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by romey 15y ago
I disagree. I think the confusion is caused by users not intuitively understanding the context of the android "back". In a web browser, if you click a link to a sub-page on a different domain, you don't expect the back button to take you to
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by romey 15y ago
Two things: First, I don't think that huge kinetic weapons would be the ideal choice for this kind of combat. If I'm attacking an asteroid with a huge ass gun on it, I'd first like to have some type of EMP type weapon developed to simply sh
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by romey 15y ago
The only bit that was surprising to me was the history of computers that you've logged in from, and the history of other users that have logged in on that computer. While I can see the value of identifying public computer, it is rather unne
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by romey 15y ago
Does Amazon make no money from AWS and their other ventures, like the Kindle? It seems hard to believe that possible tax reformations could kill such a huge company.
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by romey 15y ago
The name "sieve" gave it away for me before I'd even looked at the code, but I decided to make sure I was right. Then i looked at it and my mind was kind of blown but how neat and concise it was. This definitely makes me want to take a look
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by romey 15y ago
This is really strange. At the career fair at my school, the USPTO was there recruiting engineers and CS students. Assuming one single person with even a modicum of programming knowledge looked at this application, I can't see any way that
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by romey 15y ago
you could also try using the session manager add-on. I find it pretty handy for when FF crashes with 20+ tabs open in the HN tree, another 10 or so in whatever google search tree I have open, and some other miscellaneous tabs.
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by romey 15y ago
This seems like making a site like whohatesshoes.me, advocating for banning restaurants requiring shoes. If you disagree with the requirements of a service, you shouldn't use it (assuming the requirements are legal). That said, the design o
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by romey 15y ago
Can't you use a JSONP request?
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by romey 15y ago
I could say the same things (in general) about guys who are deeply interested in science and tech: Toddler/Preschool: Gifts of balls, sports cards, action figures, etc. School/Teenager: Come on bro, get off the computer and play some sports
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by romey 15y ago
Actually, it isn't. Airbnb job isn't to guarantee the sanity of its renters to homeowners. They merely provide the interface for that interaction. I've been burned on ebay deals before (none of this magnitude, of course), but I don't place
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by romey 15y ago
I suppose it's mostly layout/look&feel. I actually didn't realize how powerful the built in Chrome developer tools were. Little things, like showing the color or image when you mouse over the hex or link are what make Firebug nicer to u
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by romey 15y ago
Have you tried using tree tabs in Chrome? It isn't quite as slick as the Firefox tree tabs, but still nicer than the little nubs that are the default. That's interesting though, I always do dev stuff in Firefox because of how anemic firebug
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by romey 15y ago
Agreed. Twitter-like apps seem to be the go to first project for learning a new language for web development.
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by romey 15y ago
I'm wondering why they don't offer users the option of using two-factor security, like Google recently made available to Gmail/Google App users. Being able to tie my gmail login to a secure passcode generated on my phone makes me feel a goo
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by romey 15y ago
I'd be interested to know if having an open phone line while speaking to the police could be defended in court. Consider an app that didn't actually _record_ locally, only streamed to a remote server (in a state where the recording was lega
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by romey 15y ago
I wonder if this data will change anything about the argument for net neutrality? The big telecom companies were already complaining about companies like netflix, skype, google etc. making huge piles of money by driving lots traffic and pul
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by romey 15y ago
perhaps, but being paid _something_ if significantly better than getting nothing at all -- let us not forget that in their heyday, CD prices went up to $15-$18 apiece, and people paid because there was simply no other option.I seriously dou
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by romey 15y ago
Wow, I could definitely see these adding another level of depth to Alternate Reality Games / Puzzles (not to mention computer art). Beautiful design, as well.

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