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josephmx··on $12M stolen from 1,400 convenience store ATMs across Japan in 2 hours
Mille is sometimes used (eg, CPM is Clicks Per Mille/Thousand)
josephmx··on How Android gets to 100% market share
That's a big flaw with Android, people make unfair comparisons because the average Android phone is cheap. Using your example:

Motorola G3 (July 2015, £150 currently on Amazon)

iPhone 6s (September 2015, £497 currently on Amazon)

Obviously a device costing more than 3X as much is going to perform better, eg my S6 (£355, also 2015) almost never crashes and is fast.

josephmx··on All 60 startups that launched at Y Combinator Winter 2016 Demo Day 1
And what would your reaction be if a SV start up didn't even have a token woman in their graphics?
josephmx··on Thank you for ad blocking
When websites are paid for by taxes and ads it becomes a good comparison
josephmx··on Uber seeking to buy self-driving cars: source
Which Tesla vehicle is self driving?
josephmx··on London’s startup scene is getting more sophisticated
I wonder if that's because older founders (assuming age = more experienced) are more likely to succeed or last longer than a very young (<25) founder, so they don't go back to normal jobs for longer if at all.
josephmx··on London vs San Francisco – back and forth
And ofcourse job availability should be a factor, there are less dev jobs in (eg) Leeds than there are in London
josephmx··on Minefield: HTML5 Massively Multiplayer Online Minesweeper
Does it convey productivity when full screen on a HDMI display?
josephmx··on Guy spotted wandering London Tube skimming contactless cards with POS device
We stopped using that for lack of security, plus I think signing the receipt (and carbon copy) is time consuming, right?
josephmx··on DigitalOcean lost our server
I had the opposite experience, my CC expired with DO, but I didn't have a new one for about 2 weeks. I didn't have any issues with just waiting to the next billing cycle and paying double then to cover the negative.
josephmx··on Alphabet Becomes the Most Valuable Public Company in the World
Unless ad blockers are used on a massive scale?
josephmx··on Statsbot: Google Analytics Bot for Slack
This would be great if I could share the reports, eg in a private chat saying "@statsbot status" or have the reports post to a group
josephmx··on How Microsoft Plans to Beat Google and Facebook to the Next Tech Breakthrough
You're hiring 20 year olds who don't know what Microsoft Office is?
josephmx··on Also Out at Twitter: Engineering Head Roetter (and More to Come)
Their website puts 44% into "technical" staff, https://about.twitter.com/company
josephmx··on Ask HN: How do you deal with 2000 line functions?
Is swearing on HN banned now?
josephmx··on David Bowie’s Top 100 Books (2013)
These authors aren't particularly famous outside of your Literature 101 class
josephmx··on David Bowie’s Top 100 Books (2013)
Anyone who hasn't read your list of obscure authors that make you feel special is an idiot!
josephmx··on Paul Graham is wrong about inequality
"Yes, startup founders would. Because they can fix poverty with the value their startup generated."

Is there a lack of poverty in SF?

josephmx··on How Do You Punish Your Employees?
Embarrassing. I checked through some other articles too, and the top few seemed serious
josephmx··on How Do You Punish Your Employees?
What a horrible article, I sincerely hope that you're not in a position of power. The majority of these will destroy a company - attempt to bully or strike fear into actually good employees with self confidence and they'll just leave.
josephmx··on Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client
Have you tried the browser based Outlook 365? It's actually very good, I prefer it to desktop Outlook (though never really liked Thunderbird)
josephmx··on Facebook is blocking all mention of Tsu.co on every platform
Their model is to spam other platforms with a referral link, it's reasonable that they're seen as spam by another platform and then blocked.
josephmx··on Ten years ago Wikipedia was widely considered a doomed experiment
2 years ago it was banned in my sixth form still, but the sources at the bottom were allowed. The principle was "anyone can edit it, therefore only trust things with multiple sources". A reasonable policy really.
josephmx··on How Hacker News and FreshDesk led me to quit my job and launch my own startup
DigitalOcean (and probably others) have a pre-prepared web server VM you can spin up
josephmx··on Support for 100MB APKs on Google Play
Am I missing something? Because I play this >531MB game without any issues: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kabam.swat...
josephmx··on How many Ubuntu Phones there are?
But yet that same contributor expects readers to pay him for a few paragraphs of weak guesswork?
josephmx··on How many Ubuntu Phones there are?
This article makes me uncomfortable, it's pretty light on information and then reveals the author is a contributor and expects donations - shouldn't such a contributor have more information or at least more to say than "Canonical want to sell x, but x could be anything, so the results could be anything"?
josephmx··on Bloomberg Runs on 25M lines of Fortran (2006)
This reads a bit like the old "Google will rule the world!" blog posts, doesn't it?
josephmx··on What's the top CEO-to-worker pay gap? 1,951 to 1, study says
>In 2014, Zaslav made $156 million, while median pay was $80,000.

That sounds a lot more reasonable than the headline makes out, it's when CEOs make a lot of money while employees struggle that bothers me.

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Horrible attempt at vote manipulation http://imgur.com/a/1h7c5
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