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by zachlipton 12y ago
Perhaps to crop and compress it for the web?
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by zachlipton 12y ago
Well, why don't we just test it for ourselves instead of wondering? Let's see here: login to a site, open a new private browsing window (Chrome), load the site, am I logged in? Nope. Cookies from your normal browsing are not trans
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by zachlipton 12y ago
Exactly. Square is trying to build up a collection of services to offer local businesses, especially restaurants, of which payments is just one. Google has been playing in the same game, with the main aim of selling ads to local small busin
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by zachlipton 12y ago
Is it reproducible? You (or her) can call 611 for repair service from your phone company.
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by zachlipton 12y ago
Do you honestly think that poorer people are poorer because they sit around watching Breaking Bad all day? Have you perhaps ever met someone who works hard at three jobs at minimum wage and can't make ends meet, especially in an incred
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by zachlipton 12y ago
And we don't necessarily have to take every single view seriously. The vast majority of people don't want a massive polluting factory built next to their single-family home. The fact that a few people disagree doesn't mean th
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It’s time to get into e-sports, and Valve is showing the way(arstechnica.com)
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by zachlipton 12y ago
The Pinball story is explained in Raymond Chen's "The Old New Thing" as mooism2 recalls (well, before he edited with the results of his googling...): http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/
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by zachlipton 12y ago
Publicly traded stocks are subject to a large number of regulations that have the intent to protect investors. The point isn't to make it impossible to lose all your money; the law will gladly let you give it all away if you so choose.
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by zachlipton 12y ago
Because of literally hundreds of years of investment scams that bilk people out of their life savings. Publicly traded companies are subject to various securities regulations that require disclosure of certain pertinent information and prot
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by zachlipton 12y ago
My gosh. There are so many buzzwords and acronyms it is impossible to tell what you actually do, much less determine why I should care.
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by zachlipton 12y ago
There's an EFF fair use test case involving a YouTube takedown of a toddler bouncing around to a 29 second clip of a Prince song playing in the background: Lenz v. Universal. It was filed in 2007 and has yet to be resolved. The fact is
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by zachlipton 12y ago
Yeah the FAA isn't going to buy the use of Flytenow as an intermediary. And surely people are going to be offering flights they weren't going to be taking anyway.
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by zachlipton 12y ago
Because competition in the browser market is vital to keep the web platform progressing and to prevent a single party from controlling web standards. Do you remember the dark ages when IE ruled the web and things like HTML5, canvas, webgl,
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by zachlipton 12y ago
This actually isn't a joke? I got to the point where it asks for a credit card number, seriously expecting (hoping maybe?) for a "Haha!" message, and yet... It's like someone read the New York Magazine Article “Let’s, Li
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by zachlipton 12y ago
Two reasons. The first is that these people often don't look like salesmen. They come in appearing to be providing impartial advice, and all the incentives, commissions, etc... that bias their advice are kept secret. The other problem
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by zachlipton 12y ago
This may be the most baffling thing I've ever seen. Why? Imagine if they put this kind of effort into solving, I don't know, virtually any other problem in the universe.
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by zachlipton 12y ago
I don't see why they wouldn't be willing to talk to the legal department of, say, GM and clarify the exact terms for a license. The blog post is a general statement of intent and the lawyers can discuss specific details as they ap
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by zachlipton 12y ago
Elevators. I mean obviously there are significant structural concerns as well, but elevators are a big part of what makes building super-tall buildings uneconomic and impractical. The Elevator Conundrum, as Wikipedia dubs it ( https:/&
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by zachlipton 12y ago
You can see the What's New in iOS 8 doc for a general overview of, er, what's new: https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/releaseno... More specifically, there's the iOS 7.1 to 8.0
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by zachlipton 12y ago
CNN really screwed up this story (and issued a correction). Amazon Payments isn't remotely new; most of this stuff has been around 6+ years. The only new thing is better support for reoccurring subscription payments. A nice new feature
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by zachlipton 12y ago
In California, yes. In other states, this crap has certainly held up in court. You're also dealing with employees who, like some mentioned in the article, are unlikely to have access to lawyers or money to spare for legal bills.
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by zachlipton 12y ago
That's how a free market for employees works though. If an employee is truly that crucial to your business, you'd better come up with a package that encourages him/her to stick around. If an employer can fire an employee at w
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by zachlipton 12y ago
I remember visiting a walk-through of this house back in the day here in SF. Amazing how so much of it has come to fruition, yet Microsoft has been responsible for so little of it.
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by zachlipton 12y ago
There may be some room to negotiate as an engineer. As a hair stylist or a summer camp counselor, the terms usually tend to be closer to the take it or leave it variety.
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by zachlipton 12y ago
Well I suppose the Android equivalent would be writing raw Dalvik bytecode. Certainly possible, but probably not a lot of fun. It wouldn't be nearly as informative about the underlying architecture in any case.
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by zachlipton 12y ago
As someone recently noted in the discussion of Swift, Objective-C is basically older than the CD-ROM. I'd say the language has had several decades of life, not 15 minutes of fame. (Actually, it appears Objective-C is certainly older th
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by zachlipton 12y ago
Guy makes a bunch of spammy apps that clearly rip off third party trademarks, gets banned from Google Play. While I think this could have been handled better from Google's side (such as a way to let him post a new app in the future, wi
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by zachlipton 12y ago
In a small company, I'm not going to refer anyone I don't already believe to be someone I want to work with. I've also seen referral processes that ask employees to rank the strength of their referral from "just a random
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by zachlipton 12y ago
A project like this takes an awful lot more thought than I see here. Have you looked at efforts like Freebase and Wikibase, where people have been thinking about these problems for many years?

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