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rlabrecque··on Patent trolls are shaking us down for selling “rubies” in our game
Doesn't the article say this patent has been successfully used in the past and thus there's likely precedence? :/
rlabrecque··on The top 1% of the US makes $480k or more in adjusted gross income
They didn't say that, they said that there are people that make that much that claim they are middle class there.
rlabrecque··on Don’t Use Markdown for Documentation (2016)
What we ended up doing was just reusing our existing bbcode support. Markdown wasn't giving us anything over it really and it was easier to reason with, especially for non-technical folks and translators. We were able to extend it for our use cases much easier.

All of this after the initial plan was to use Markdown.

rlabrecque··on Nuklear: A single-header ANSI C GUI library
Errr, I actually have to spend 5 minutes googling how to install make on Windows, then getting mingw and hating myself. So no, no it's really not that simple in general.
rlabrecque··on Lyft says nearly 250K of its passengers ditched a personal car in 2017
I'm in my 20s and have no desire to have a car, I need one where I live right now, but I'm about to make a move to one of the biggest cities in NA, and going carless. I wouldn't even want to live in a city where a car is a requirement.
rlabrecque··on Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57M People
When I deactivated my account it was a huge pain, I had to reply to 2 emails, and in the end it took 5 days to complete. That alone annoyed me enough to never go back.
rlabrecque··on I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
I'm in this boat as well. I think I have enough experience to get through something like a TN under the Scientific Technician label, might be something that you want to look under too. The biggest problem is just finding someone that would be willing to sponsor that and jump through those hoops.

Also see this answer about H1B: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15099615

rlabrecque··on A Petition for Etsy to Recommit to Its Values
If you're buying a lot of stuff then just turn around and get it off taobao for 30 cents.
rlabrecque··on Ask HN: I don't want to be a founder anymore
I'm in the middle of the road between those, but I love a good CRUD app. If it helps other people be more productive and remove stress from their day it's amazing.
rlabrecque··on The Gender Pay Gap Is Largely Because of Motherhood
I'm a guy and I do, my gf doesn't really want any of that. I'm not sure what you're getting at.
rlabrecque··on The Gender Pay Gap Is Largely Because of Motherhood
I would like to see this... Because why the fuck not? If I have kids with my SO one day it would be fucking amazing to be able to spend just as much time with my kid as my wife would. We should both be getting the same amount of months off, and be able to choose how we apply them. (I.E. I'd probably like the first month off, she could probably take the first 6 months off, and then I'd take my final 5 months off after that.)
rlabrecque··on The FCC plan to undo its net neutrality rules
Sure, if you're investing in $CMCSA then this would be pretty good news for you. Otherwise...
rlabrecque··on Brain in a Jar
Does it matter?
rlabrecque··on In response to “Electron is flash for the desktop”
I mean we already have VSCode and Atom both running on Electron.
rlabrecque··on ReactXP – A library for building cross-platform apps
Isn't this basically like mobx with it's observables?

https://mobx.js.org/getting-started.html

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