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poolpool··on New Apple Watch Has Lowest Ratio of Hardware Costs to Retail Price
No.
poolpool··on Netflix Is Betting Its Future on Exclusive Programming
The product is on-demand streaming of movies and tv.
poolpool··on Ellen Pao Loses Silicon Valley Bias Case Against Kleiner Perkins
Finance is the best poster child for "Good ole boys club" outside of politics.
poolpool··on The new MacBook
Most computer users don't understand or give a damn about managing their file system. It seems like many HN users do, yet clicking on the "go" menu to see options and keyboard shortcuts available when they want to go to a folder is too confusing for them.
poolpool··on Ember's Glimmer Engine
Or whether you should even be using a web app.
poolpool··on Marijuana may be even safer than previously thought, researchers say
Racism
poolpool··on Everyone’s stealing jokes online. Why doesn’t anyone care?
Stealing a comedians joke is similar to stealing a developers source. I'm surprised at some of the responses here.
poolpool··on Apple, Your Developer Agreement Tramples on Free Speech and Innovation
This is insulting to everyone who fights for actual free speech rights.

Another clickbait from eff.

poolpool··on Mindfulness Mitigates Biases You May Not Know You Have
That is one example of guided meditation. How is that contamination for a meditation study?
poolpool··on Node-iMessage – Query iMessage from terminal and Node.js
NPM has a very innovative approach to package management
poolpool··on Veteran fraud expert sets his sights on Bitcoin
The argument, which you just agreed with, is that "You can't pay with bitcoin at Newegg" just like you can't pay a US company in euros.
poolpool··on How Facebook Is Changing the Way Its Users Consume Journalism
How about the shadowbanning or comment curation that admins do?
poolpool··on Checkboxes that kill your product
This attitude is extraordinarily hostile towards users, and even if it wasn't including checkboxes in preferences (especially when you have things like about:config) that disable the entire functionality of the app for 99% of use cases is ridiculous.
poolpool··on Data Visualization with JavaScript
d3.js/vegas as a bit of a learning curve but I don't use I could ever go back to any other libraries.
poolpool··on PostgreSQL Outperforms MongoDB in New Round of Tests
This is exactly what SharePoint does on top of boring, battle tested SQL Server.
poolpool··on Palantir Pricelist (page 27) [pdf]
Navigating enterprise sales cycles is a giant pain but man is it profitable compared to the latest social startup du jour.
poolpool··on How Apple Pay works and why it matters for developers
Apple is a hardware company. Google just releases as much software as they can and sees what catches on since any additional user spending additional time being tracked is a win for them. Apple writes software to make their hardware more appealing.

Bad android sales doesn't affect Google. Bad iPhone sales would tank Apple.

poolpool··on Stop and Seize
Are you a cop? You gotta tell me if you are.
poolpool··on 6.0 Northern California earthquake
Comparing the startup scene in silicon valley to fashion is actually very apt. The loss of life and pain would be devastating, but lets not think that a few billion dollars worth of hardware would be anything other than a tax write-off and some middle managers pain to deal with for the next year.

If you want to look at devastating datacenter loss, if anything happened to Northern NJ the markets would go into a tailspin.

poolpool··on DocumentDB
I wonder if this is built on JetDB
poolpool··on Unschooling: The Case for Setting Your Kids Into the Wild
You're missing the fact that modern day schools and the education system are a very recent invention. We've done ok in 5000 years without it.
poolpool··on VimR – Refined Vim Experience for OS X
I love the negativity in many of the responses here. Obviously people like native apps. Macvim is a thing. Emacs has a gui version for os x. Sublime is a thing. This is a polished port of macvim that has a file drawer, which is a feature that many people want baked into macvim. Browsing complex file hierarchies and large projects isn't great inside a terminal, and is a giant hurdle for many new users of vim.

If this isn't for you then fine but don't rush here to proudly proclaim how you don't understand the point of this. I don't know why anyone submits their pet projects here.

poolpool··on Why are some people so much luckier than others?
People, especially with the libertarian thinking so popular on hn, don't like to admit that maybe they had little or nothing to do with their success.

No one lives in a bubble.

poolpool··on “Learning to Read” excerpt from The Autobiography of Malcolm X
You don't politely ask your oppressors to give you the rights they have taken away from you.
poolpool··on “Learning to Read” excerpt from The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Damaged race relations more than centuries of slavery and systematic discrimination by our country's leaders did?
poolpool··on Master Emacs in one year
Like gvim or macvim.
poolpool··on MacBook Air Stickers
Jonny Ive is crying right now that his brushed aluminum is being cover up by vinyl.
poolpool··on The Best Programming Font: M+
One of the best designed and most complete programming fonts is PragmataPro.

http://www.fsd.it/fonts/pragmatapro.htm

poolpool··on The Developer's Dystopian Future
Luckily you don't need any of these fad/new libraries to make good products and websites.
poolpool··on Call me maybe: MongoDB (2013)
Having one small team in a 6 figure sized organization using mongo doesn't mean a single thing, but makes your statement true, which is how most of these flagship customers are able to be advertised.
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