rpgmaker

> Right. Basically the banks have been playing this game for so long and are quite smart about it so they've learned how to keep things on the down low so the public won't get up in arms about it.

People are just used to it, it's not that they are good at hiding it. They just don't care about hiding it.

This is a very bad attempt at deflecting attention from the the very tight (and troublesome) relationship Google has with USG and this is very well documented by now. That this specific company isn't very transparent doesn't take anything away from this troublesome fact. So no, that's not the most important piece of the article at all.

Yeah, HN users, in general, have a very jingoistic point of view despite whatever progressive leanings they may have.

> That always struck me as lame.

That's bullshit. Wearing the same outfit added some mystic to Steve Jobs. It may not work on the public persona of every CEO but it obviously did for Jobs.

> And while they might be arseholes on the political scene otherwise every time there is a large scale fire they do extend their hand and come in with serious help.

It's difficult to top the US in terms of foreign policy assholery though.

> So it's just a Trudeau-like "diversity" hire or something?

Are you implying that they're all black because they're from South Africa?

Woah, that's just painful to watch. Thanks for the video.

How so? What stops any state in the US from doing similar things? Genuine question. California for example routinely establishes new and stricter (compared to other US states) environmental rules governing emissions and whatnot. Legalizing pot is similarly fairly out of the mainstream and it is being done independently by several states.

I hope the bigwigs at FB don't read your comment. Messenger and whatsapp should never be merged. Part of the reason why I'm glad that Messenger is doing so well (I don't use it myself) it's because I believe that gives them less incentive to mess with whatsapp too much. It's very likely that they will fuck it up eventually but the longer it stays usable the better.

> This is the part I still don't get. Why would I want to constantly spam my friends with trivial photos of my daily life?

That is the decease of our age. People really can't see the narcissism needed to keep all of these social networks going.

> I don't use SnapChat, but once you have children, your parents and siblings are interested in seeing the funny little day to day things your kids do.

No they aren't interested. They are just too nice to tell you to stop spamming them.

> Facebook was good for a while but now your parents and family are in every conversation. How much fun can you have in a nightclub with your parents watching everything you do?

The reports about Facebook's decline are greatly exaggerated imho. I don't use it myself but every time I side glance at someone's phone the FB app seems to be in the foreground. It seems that it's no longer cool to admit using it very often but I think most people do, regardless of what they say to one another.

And yet the Play Store generates way less money than the App Store. It's ridiculous how lopsided the difference is actually. I mean, does that 15% really have more spendable money than the other 85%? Something else has to account for these results.

But is she still the "office lady" or did meeting all of those "amazing people" earned her a better job someplace else?

He stuck it to the man, man!

> I don't know Mr. Thiel and don't know any more about him than what the headlines say. He may be fully justified in taking this action (it is a perfectly legal thing to do) or he may be displaying traits deserving our opprobrium.

Had I not known who Thiel is (or read the subject of this submission), is sentences like this that would give away that the article is about an influential Silicon Valley player. The lawsuit has been throughly reported but if you don't want to comment on it for professional reasons that's fine. No one is questioning the legality of the lawsuit.

Young people and children still watch a lot of "TV" but a big share of it is done via streaming. Also, judging by how many young couples make their kids watch "TV" on a tablet or phone while they are waiting on some appointment (situations where my generation had to actually stay put or find creative ways to pass the time) I think the case can be made that children are actually spending more time in front of the "TV" than our generation did. In any case they are spending more time in front of the now ubiquitous screen and so may very well end up with a bigger waistline too.

How many people actually do this though? I rather wait for them to be online instead of registering my card information someplace else. I can buy stuff from almost any site as long as they accept Paypal but many want to store the card information themselves, understandable from their perspective but not from mine.

And protects your eyesight too. I couldn't live without the 'Negative' Compiz plugin which I use as a workaround for the many applications that don't have a "Night mode".

If those features had a negative impact on their bottom line they would never offer them for free to everyone so yes, they're doing it for themselves and it just so happens that some people find them useful.

> Understanding different tools helps me to understand how co workers may approach a problem or teach me about why they use specific tools.

I agree with this but that's not what he said. He quoted very specific tools needed to achieve this and that was the cause of my disagreement.

Probably the best writeup on the subject of programmers and impostor syndrome I've seen posted here.

> get acquainted with vim or emacs, bash, awk..

Erm, totally irrelevant to this.

Not really, neither Up nor Toy Story 3 did it for me as movies (a very unpopular opinion I know). I choke up watching a movie or TV show from time to time, maybe more than I'd like to admit, but I don't share the popular opinion about those two movies.

It's pretty much the same situation that book publishers find themselves in with Amazon. Valve just hasn't shown its scumbag side yet.

A job interview it's certainly not the place to ask those kind of questions.

The CEO was very offensive and way out of line by asking such racially-tinged questions in a technical interview but I think people in the US go way overboard when it comes to the N word. It's essentially treated like the V word in Harry Potter which it's ridiculous and childish. People can't even refer to it in order to discuss it. College professors can even lose their jobs for talking about it in a classroom. I mean, Obama got some bad rap for talking about it on some interview. It's insane. And it's all cosmetics since the actual roots and possible solutions to the racial divide are rarely ever talked about or dealt with.

HN is filled with people that immediately side with scumbag VCs.

If the news is about some asshole VC you know people here will find acceptable the most abhorrent shit. It's not ok for billionaires to sue to death the publications they don't like.

Essentially what Apple is going for with iOS. I honestly doubt they will allow them to do that for long. There's going to be a rematch eventually.