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bobbleson The Linguistics of Writing an Email Like a Boss

Or gmail could introduce a 'make me feel powerful!' button that adds in more downward facing terms

bobbleson New York Mayor De Blasio to Require Computer Science in Schools

>The walled gardens of app stores have also grown to the point where simply sharing an executable with someone has become an almost taboo act, with some central authority telling the users who to trust.

This is entirely because of malicious people ruining it for everyone though, not necessarily that the app stores just have the monopoly

bobbleson Things I was unprepared for as a lead developer

The article is definitely describing an actual management role rather than a team lead role so that's not surprising.

bobbleson AWS SDK for C++

>This SDK has been specifically designed with game developers in mind

Can anyone explain to me how game developers would use this with AWS? (just for hosting assets?)

bobbleson Magic PNG Thumbnails

God I hate the trend of putting "Porn" into the title of stuff like this.. stupid

bobbleson Apple Unveils the iPad Pro

Yeah I can't wait for this guy to go buy his macbook air and start doing all his fancy graphic design on its non-touch non-retina screen.

Obviously the same use cases for both products!

bobbleson We Need the Right to Repair Our Gadgets

>Samsung wants people to go to “qualified” technicians. In a statement, a spokesman said, “The technology found in TVs today is more sophisticated than ever before and often requires a level of expertise and technical proficiency to repair most of these high-quality products.”

>I’ve heard this argument echoed elsewhere in the electronics industry. But the view is not unanimous: Dell, for one, makes repair guides and parts widely available on its site. So do H-P and Lenovo. Are we to believe that repairing a TV is so much more complicated than poking at a laptop?

Opening up a laptop and replacing a part available from the Dell online store is an entirely different scenario to fixing a burnt out TV...

Would the author be arguing the same thing if he'd tried to fix something himself and been zapped in the process?

bobbleson Windows 10 Review

These comments are always like this, but the 'aside from XXX its not bad!' is different every time, and writing off a horrible user experience like solitare not being in a freaking window is not a minor thing. Its a huge fucking annoyance

bobbleson Ghost: $411k Annual Revenue with a team of 6

Holy entitlement batman! I'm sure there are plenty of people toiling away at startups making less than this!

bobbleson M, a personal digital assistant inside Facebook Messenger

I guess there could be "Hey M, order my usual from the pizza place" or something like that.

But until it elevates from 'digital assistant' level to just 'assistant' (ie. do all the work and just confirm with me before booking) it may not take off as they expect it to

bobbleson YC Stats

But if they choose to provide stats each year thatll work out over time right? I mean you have to start somewhere

bobbleson A Russian Family Was Isolated for 40 Years, Unaware of WWII (2013)

Top 10 reasons why COMPANY sucks and you should instead come and work for COMPANY!

bobbleson Shotcut – A free, open-source, cross-platform video editor

Is there a simple way to do a picture in picture effect (with unlimited levels of PIP?)

Trying to do this for a recent project with anything else just did my head in with complexity...

(I guess the best i can think of as a comparison is the TED intro? where lost of different clips fly across the screen)

bobbleson The mobile web sucks

I remember distinctly that the Verge was the first website I hated using on my phone. (As in, yes there are awful websites, but whatever, move on. As I was actually trying to read the Verge article.. i grew to hate it much more)

They have that awful floating box that is a constant overlay menu on their articles.. not to mention its completely black! in stark contrast to the rest of the page.

bobbleson Thirteen Months of Working, Eating, and Sleeping at the Googleplex

I'm sure it wont be long until hackerspaces become competitive enough to introduce 'hobby' workshop rooms etc for people to spend more time there...

Hell maybe apartment buildings should accommodate things like this instead of just having a gym/pool included

bobbleson The Web We Have to Save

>That’s the web we have to save.

Literally the next words on the page:

>Log in to Medium and “recommend” this story. >Follow Matter on Twitter | Like us on Facebook

bobbleson Ask HN: What earbuds do you use? I need help

http://solrepublic.com/relays-in-ear-headphone-3-button-vari...

Sol Republic Relays, they're awesome, don't ever fall out, and have full 3 button iPhone controls/mic.

They also have a right angle jack, which may help with your breakingness...

bobbleson Mapping the U.S. By Property Value Instead of Land Area

I'd love to see this for Australia, so much of the population is in like 5 cities it would just look like one of those plastic ball molecule model things

bobbleson Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map

This has become far more annoying now that many descriptions include something like "We have offices in xxx, xxx, xxx, xxx" etc. but are only offering a position in one location.

bobbleson Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of Reddit Admin

People don't give a shit about 'reddit' as a thing, what they care about is the content people submit and the subreddits that foster the communities.

They seem to be going through their own Digg v4 moment here, completely disregarding users because they think they're big enough to survive without them.

bobbleson Lake fire grew after private drone flights disrupted air drops

Soon the US will have better drone control laws than it has gun control laws

bobbleson Atom 1.0

...defaults to install to AppData??

How do I get rid of this crap now?

No entries in the Windows Programs listing. IMO They really need to think if this is a 1.0 ready release for windows...

bobbleson Atom 1.0

Also.. installing on windows, it just says 'installation failed, contact the author'.

No idea where I'm supposed to look to find the installation logs, doesn't tell you where they are...

bobbleson Atom 1.0

Maybe something worth pointing out..

I wanted to download this but after clicking every link I still hadn't seen a way to do it anywhere...

Obviously if I go to the homepage now the first thing I see is a big download link, which is great.

I think a 'download' link on the site though would be good since if anyone links ANYWHERE else it's hard to find.

bobbleson Top-CEO Pay Isn’t Driven By Talent, New Study Says

I'd rather see a system where a CEOs pay could be capped as a multiple of the lowest pay full time worker. ie. CEO payrises must coincide with base pay rates also increasing.

bobbleson The 2015 US Dietary Guidelines: Lifting the Ban on Total Dietary Fat

Current WHO guidelines state 6 teaspoons a day total sugar intake for the highest level of health benefits. Really wish food regulatory organisations like this would start actually taking note of that

bobbleson Three hundred programming interviews in thirty days

I wish experiences like these were put on glassdoor as well, it'd be good to know what their hiring process is like rather than just actually working there.

Maybe enough responses about never getting contact from employers would make them start treating people like human beings

bobbleson SSD Prices in a Free Fall

For me it's like the osbourne effect coming into play.. I would like to switch to full SSD, but I'm not going to do it until the price drops, which if enough people had the same idea, means the demand drops, so the price stays the same... repeat

bobbleson “AppleMusic will pay artist for streaming during customer’s free trial period”

It's great that they turned this around so quickly. I guess they realised that having people talking about the service for the music instead of the payment model would be better for them...

bobbleson Early vs. Beginning Coders

It would be great to add to this to break each 'module' down to a separate student, and then try and use them in sequence to complete the task, with a master sheet telling you when to use each module.