troncheadle

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by troncheadle 9y ago
Because it's subject to market forces and not the government?
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by troncheadle 9y ago
> And yes, I still miss my 1/8" jack on my iphone. Every single day. I'm very curious -- anything thoughts on what will be your next phone? Iphone again, or branching out to new 1/8" jack pastures?
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by troncheadle 9y ago
Given what I know about the aviation industry, it's extremely unlikely that this was the first and second time he has done this task. We might be looking at the millionth time and million-and-one time. Memory is probably not a factor.
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by troncheadle 9y ago
A couple more things regarding the trivialization of the engineers work: 1: Just because work is done does not mean it is important 2: It is possible to say that the product is not special or unique and yet the hard work that is done to kee
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by troncheadle 9y ago
I can definitely do that. I only collect payments up front, so fork it over and I will have it for you tomorrow, likely even tonight. I think what I said ("I don't understand what firebase does that is so killer or unique") i
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by troncheadle 9y ago
I have to say... I don't understand what about Firebase's offering is SO killer or unique. I feel like it would be very easy to roll one's own custom 'Firebase.' I'm unsure as to why anyone would ever choose to
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by troncheadle 9y ago
Thank you!
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by troncheadle 9y ago
Forbes is unequivocally the worst website I have the displeasure of being linked to on a regular basis. Readability is quickly approaching 0. This page kept hijacking my scroll thru the article to keep an ad at the top of my window. Horribl
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by troncheadle 9y ago
This is a great illustration of how we grapple with the abstraction of scales and key over time. First, you have tabs, which describe the physical position of the notes on the instrument. Then, we have root / chord type notation, in wh
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by troncheadle 9y ago
> The reason why I bought a bluetooth toothbrush was for a ranking system We are truly living in a modern fall of rome. We will choke on our bluetooth enabled toothbrushes, 700 dollar juicer machines, our fucking fitbits. We've rava
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by troncheadle 9y ago
That is crazy. I use Facebook on a 5 year old MBP with no problems. I have Ad Block Pro and U-Block, but even without them, my computer can handle Facebook just fine.
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by troncheadle 9y ago
And I would love if my 2001 Honda Accord was compatible with Tesla's autopilot, but I understand it is not a realistic expectation. I'm not sure why you'd expect the web to be a. Mostly text and b. able to render easily on ob
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by troncheadle 10y ago
So what is the move if you are caught with your pants down, and a LEO is requesting access to your actual phone? Does a factory restore wipe all data, or is in necessary to wipe, fill up with bunk data, wipe again? I don't know about e
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by troncheadle 10y ago
Just... so much wrong here. First and foremost, you are still characterizing an entire movement by it's worst actors, so the point of the poster above you stands. Second -- 'Ferguson' was a community reacting to a state spons
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by troncheadle 10y ago
There are things that, in the interest of global freedom, need to be taken out of the hands of corporations and government, permanently, forever. The transfer of value is definitely one of them.
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by troncheadle 10y ago
> but who knows if the voice data or even the query itself is still stored after deletion, just not visible to us end users. Almost definitely yes. I've never known a tech company that truly deletes anything
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by troncheadle 10y ago
> I explained to her the difference between an app and a web site (we're making a web site) What did you say here? I've been thinking a lot about this lately -- In my opinion, a websites are a part of an 'app': the cl
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by troncheadle 10y ago
I'm with you for that reason. It can be a real wakeup call. I thought I had just grown more irritable and less social -- turns out I was just seriously addicted to nicotine.
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by troncheadle 10y ago
It is the broken incentivization killing media companies everywhere.
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by troncheadle 10y ago
I've moved twice in the past four years and I have gone to yelp for food recommendations a few times -- totally useless, sadly. Always wants me to go to Papa Johns or some other chain. The days of interesting food discovery via yelp ar
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by troncheadle 10y ago
See if you can find sales numbers for your elitist 5 button vertical mouse vs. the trackpad.... Then we'll talk about who the 'rare bird' is. Grow up.
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by troncheadle 10y ago
Yup. I've been bringing my 3DS instead of my Ipad on flights for a couple years now, and it's just a better experience. If I need to get real work done wherever I am flying to, I'll have my laptop with me.
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by troncheadle 10y ago
That is what the press release says.
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by troncheadle 10y ago
Every company that you listed produces a product other than Ad Space / eyeballs. Even Facebook has diversified to sell something other than ads -- I still probably wouldn't invest, as their continued success relies on such an ephe
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by troncheadle 10y ago
Related question -- How do I choose a mutual fund / 401k / pension / etc that is guaranteed never to take part in these insane silicon valley IPOs?
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by troncheadle 10y ago
Bluetooth headphones outsold standard audio jack headphones in the US last month for the first time. This is perfectly timed.
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by troncheadle 10y ago
> I think you've got me pegged wrong. You're right, I definitely did. Sorry about the assumptions and thanks for furthering the discussion despite that. I also seem to be misunderstood -- I don't think that your success is
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by troncheadle 10y ago
'First class citizen', while not really used outside of programming, was likely meant in contrast to a 'second class citizen.' "A second-class citizen is a person who is systematically discriminated against within a
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by troncheadle 10y ago
Ok, I'm replying to you down the chain a bit because this is a great example of you just not getting it at all. Do you have a college education? Did you go to a good high school? Do you have motivated peers? Growing up, did you have en
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by troncheadle 10y ago
That's just willfully ignorant. For majority of people, differences in opportunity are SO much more influential in their lives than differences in skill or intelligence. Consider three kids -- one is rich, suburban white, IQ is 170. Th

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