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Drbble··on My Doctor's Office Asked Me To Lie
From your description it seems that nothing important came of reading the contract, it was boilerplate except for some minor points.
Drbble··on On Diaspora's Social Network, You Own Your Data
NYT has been doing this for years. It is their way of making their audience feel smart without thinking deeply.
Drbble··on On Diaspora's Social Network, You Own Your Data
It captures the awkward expensive less functional nature of the product.
Drbble··on On Diaspora's Social Network, You Own Your Data
How is Facebook different?
Drbble··on Ask HN: I was fired from a startup I helped found, I'm fucked
Why is profanity in a title on the front page?
Drbble··on It's OK for Apple to block Firefox, but wrong when Microsoft does it
It is open source free software. Anyone could send it to Cydia as iceweasel.
Drbble··on It's OK for Apple to block Firefox, but wrong when Microsoft does it
And now we have google ads on every page instead.
Drbble··on Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 11 Notes Essay
But it's not the same plant if it is built cutting corners on the design. Or even if it is the same plant, of waste is disposed unsafely or workers are abused, the plant doesn't cost less, the costs are pushed onto unconsenting parties.
Drbble··on Why should I have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++
What about, say, a function that puts ten elements into a list that needs to get sent a receiver that only expects nine ? Or a network call that returns an unparseable reply?
Drbble··on Dell Announces A Linux Laptop Designed For Developers
Lenovo's good laptops were IBM. IBM sold out the Thinkpad brand and it died.
Drbble··on Dell Announces A Linux Laptop Designed For Developers
I love my my 2007 MacBook Pro with fingertip-complementary shaped keys. Typng on a chiclet hurts. Sadly battery number two is end of life and it seems silly to buy another one. It is nice at home though.
Drbble··on Gmvault: gmail backup. Liberate your emails
Bizarre that you can download aggs of docsr and phoos-- and photos don't compress! But not a few hunded megs of zipped mail. www.google.com/takeout
Drbble··on Gmvault: gmail backup. Liberate your emails
Why would a techie need this product? We know how to turn on POP3 in a mail program.
Drbble··on [dead]
Where did this meme originate?
Drbble··on Intent Tag Has Landed In Webkit
Well Google itself ships two browsers-- Browser and Chrome, and Chrome is default almost nowhere, so it is an issue for almost every Google target user.
Drbble··on Rich Hickey: Reducers - A Library And Model For Collection Processing
This can't really be true because there has never been anything "clear" about enumerators and iteratees. Maybe a dozen people understand what's going on there.

Also, most of what's special about enumerators is the gymnastics needed for Haskell's type system, which isn't relevant to Clojure at all...

Drbble··on Rich Hickey: Reducers - A Library And Model For Collection Processing
Everywhere you wrote "monad" you should have "functor". A monad is a functor with extra structure relating to how elements are inserted into the "collection" in the first place. Functors only discuss how functions are applied to elements already collected.
Drbble··on ABC takes 5% equity or 2% royalty from all companies that appear on Shark Tank
That's exactly what parent said, from the other end of the tunnel.
Drbble··on Show HN: my Mac app just got fireballed
Search for [clipboard shelf] apps. There are loads of these.
Drbble··on Show HN: my Mac app just got fireballed
It's a clipboard shelf app?

http://qsapp.com/wiki/Shelf_Module

Drbble··on My brain can't handle OOP anymore
After author graduates and writes some production code, please post a followup that shares the experience and says more than "college is harder than high school"
Drbble··on My brain can't handle OOP anymore
Read "Tackling the Awkward Squad" paper by Peyton-Jones et al.
Drbble··on Apple's inspirational note to new hires
> As much a I love my work, I won't love it more than my wife, or my future children.

Steve Jobs clearly did, and wanted people with that level of commitment. Can't fault him for trying to find people willing to give him their lives.

Drbble··on Apple's inspirational note to new hires
Did good?
Drbble··on Ask HN: My wife needs something to do from home to make money...
Phone sex is about the same as telemarketng-- more ethical, even. Don't degrade the people who do it by insinuating that it is bad work.
Drbble··on Ask HN: My wife needs something to do from home to make money...
Undermine kids education while taking their money and cheating their peers. Nice.
Drbble··on Split Testing May Cause Google to Accidentally Think You’ve Been Compromised
If your site looks different to Google than to other users" even for a legitimate reason, why should Google index York step based on what it saw? And it can't index your site based on whatvit didn't see, so what's left? Either make your site look the same to Google and the public, or get your link juice in a way that doesn't depend on site content.
Drbble··on I am a statistician and I buy lottery tickets
If you bet on sports with your friends, you get the same entertainment for lower cost.
Drbble··on Zynga's Going Down.
The quants at Zynga beg to differ about game design being a science. It literally is a scientific endeavour : experiment, collect data, iterate.
Drbble··on Zynga's Going Down.
You are not distinguishing between "socializing" social like board games or TF2 and "spammy addictive manipulative" social like Zynga's wallspamming virtual onion selling . The $$$ and most of the press is about the latter.
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