stefan_kendall

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by stefan_kendall 13y ago
Awesome. I've been fighting to unsubscribe from things for 3 years. From catchall filters that insta-delete to battling inscrutable unsubscribe pages, I'm pretty close to no spam. I wish I could unsubscribe from everything at once
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by stefan_kendall 13y ago
Don't you just wish every city and place could just stay the same forever? No. "Losing its soul" = Changing in a way I don't agree with, and maybe I'll try and use government to stop the change. I'm more import
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by stefan_kendall 13y ago
"Maybe the jobs are gone forever" - Good analysis, economist. This article is full of bullshit 'maybes' and aggressive 'income inequality' overtones. I don't know how this garbage gets onto HN.
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by stefan_kendall 13y ago
If your position is "may", you're on shaky legal ground at best. Regardless, he would be forced to shutter his side project with a CnD, since I doubt he's willing to go to court.
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by stefan_kendall 13y ago
133 commits? And you have to violate copyright or trademark to learn? Please.
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by stefan_kendall 13y ago
Maybe spend an afternoon learning up on copyright and trademark law. Why would you spend so much time on something that clearly violates the intellectual property of Nintendo?
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by stefan_kendall 13y ago
Another income inequality article. Get off hacker news and stay off.
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by stefan_kendall 13y ago
I've started flagging these stories. It doesn't matter how many men or women work in particular careers. Technology is only singled out because the pay is high. Where are the articles about the lack of women in welding?
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by stefan_kendall 13y ago
You absolutely need to "design down" if you want to support all of android. Go build an app with a reasonable number of users and you'll learn this the hard way.
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by stefan_kendall 13y ago
It's a crap addition that cheap people demand instead of buying phones that can hold more on flash. At least, that's the only argument I've ever heard for SD.
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by stefan_kendall 13y ago
Someone buried the lede. The real story here is that someone posted to Google+.
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by stefan_kendall 13y ago
Clearly you are unfamiliar with the caliber of comments on hacker news for the borderline-tech articles.
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by stefan_kendall 13y ago
Maybe part of the story here is that gzip isn't the be-all-end-all of compression. A lot of the changes were made to appease the compression algorithm; seems like the algorithm could change to handle the input. A specialized compressio
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by stefan_kendall 13y ago
Yet ANOTHER build tool. I've started placing bets on when repositories will flip to NEW-HOTNESS-BUILD-TOOL at the cost of actual product development time. Engineers will constantly run toward shiny baubles at the expense of everything
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by stefan_kendall 13y ago
Not really. Last I checked, stock Ubuntu was choking around 60k concurrent connections for no reason, and Fedora could handle a lot more. This was a couple years back, but I'd demand numbers before assuming the situation has changed.
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by stefan_kendall 13y ago
I'm not sure what you're doing with 20kg.
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by stefan_kendall 13y ago
It takes several hours (something like 4) to fix a cracked screen if you know what you're doing ahead of time. Professionals can fix a screen in well under an hour. It's something like $120 for the screen and replacement, or like
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by stefan_kendall 13y ago
Suppose there's a vaccine that has a 1 in a million chance to kill you. Also suppose you have a 1% chance to catch and die from a disease without the vaccine. You would take the vaccine every time.
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by stefan_kendall 13y ago
The form of evolution I was taught in school was strictly wrong. It's not hard to see why anyone would reject the principle outright.
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by stefan_kendall 13y ago
But my gut feeling tells me that supply and demand have nothing to do with price! It's all greedy landlords and tech elitists trying to evict me out of my home I can't afford.
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by stefan_kendall 13y ago
I fought the same fucking battle. Just keep appealing and cross your fingers you find a reviewer who isn't a dipshit.
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by stefan_kendall 13y ago
Government rarely directly commands action. It's usually "pressure" in the form of mafia protection money. "Maybe you implement this filter, maybe we don't break your fuckin' kneecaps."
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by stefan_kendall 13y ago
Hitbox detection is off, and the physics don't feel nearly as good. There's more to flappy bird than a bird moving through pipes.
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by stefan_kendall 13y ago
He released 1.2 at least 7 days ago, given app review times.
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by stefan_kendall 13y ago
More importantly, building down has geometric levels of cost and linear levels of return.
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by stefan_kendall 13y ago
"You know plenty of women." Great anecdote, bro. I'm sure that represents an accurate percentage representation of the population.
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by stefan_kendall 13y ago
A convenience sample is going to exclude women when you're targeting entrepreneurs, VCs, and engineers in the wild. It could also be that the author was just less intimidated by approaching men than women. I would feel awkward walking
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by stefan_kendall 13y ago
I rib people who wear suits to an interview, but I wouldn't exclude anyone because of it. It's impossible to really know what the dress code of a place is going in. "Business casual" or "Casual" or "Use yo
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by stefan_kendall 13y ago
Remember when fighting back involved marches and riots in the streets? Now it's a hashtag. Waaaay more convenient. Things are definitely going to change.
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by stefan_kendall 13y ago
Yay. Another week to waste rebuilding all the builds and fixing all the continuous integration jobs. Is anyone else thoroughly unexcited about all this playing in the sand? We're building products; why do we spend so much time and mone

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