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thinkt4nk··on Uber Executive, Linked to an Old Harassment Claim, Resigns
> I'd be willing to "take one for the team"

How does sexual harassment further the aims of the team?

thinkt4nk··on Valve – Handbook for New Employees (2012) [pdf]
hn becoming reddit
thinkt4nk··on Universal Basic Income – Poll Results from IGM Economic Experts Panel
Isn't the confidence implied in the vote? i.e. isn't "Strongly disagree" really just a vote for "disagree" with great confidence?
thinkt4nk··on Zend Framework 3 Released
grumble grumble standardized tests
thinkt4nk··on Ebay posts every character a user types into the password box
If it increases the attack surface at all, it makes it easier. Being that this site facilitates monetary transactions, I would hope they would be trying to limit their attack surface in any way possible.

I think the real point here is that there are more secure solutions. Saying that it's not all that less secure isn't a great argument.

thinkt4nk··on The British are Googling what the E.U. is, hours after voting to leave it
I've only seen percentages, not figures. I'm not sure you can even say that these searches are being issued by people who turned out to vote.
thinkt4nk··on Passwords for 32M Twitter accounts may have been hacked and leaked
Unfortunately this only helps protect a twitter account. It doesn't protect against the greater concern, where the password has been cracked and the user has reused the password on other sites.
thinkt4nk··on How a good night's sleep became a status symbol
Right. It can't possibly have anything to do with discipline.
thinkt4nk··on Pre-sale of Cyborg implant for sensing North
Does anyone else think the device looks extremely large for the application?
thinkt4nk··on List of Dirty, Naughty, Obscene, and Otherwise Bad Words
easy.

- a word from the 10 commandments: blumpkin

- a great jazz album from Herbie Hancock: two girls one cup

- a James Bond film: donkey punch

- the surname of a US presidential candidate: yiffy

thinkt4nk··on Dizzying Ride May Be Ending for Startups
> Dizzying Ride May Be Ending for Startups

> may tap the breaks

thinkt4nk··on Empire of Code – Space Strategy Game from CheckIO
That's not what they meant. They were referring to the typo: kawargs
thinkt4nk··on Why Are Geospatial Databases So Hard to Build?
You list hyperdimensional hashing as one of the early methods that you tried without success. While only good for point-to-point distance comparison in its simplest application, it seems that geohashes meet the scalar/vector problem that you describe. Do you have any experience with geohashes, and if so, what's your opinion of them?
thinkt4nk··on Hello, World
Yeah, I'm sure farming feels like a part-time job.
thinkt4nk··on The Life of a PHP Developer
How do you figure that web development is blue-collar work? Even for hyperbole, this is quite a stretch. Whatever your intent was, it just comes off as elitist.
thinkt4nk··on Whatsapp Web
Heck of a roll-out, guys.

  - only works on one browser
  - requires interop with the mobile app
  - supporting mobile app version on Android only
  - supporting mobile app version not universally available on Android, presumably because of Google Play registry population or something.
thinkt4nk··on You are listening to New York – police radio and ambient music
Let's not forget the Christmas Lounge!
thinkt4nk··on I got invited to write for the Huffington Post today
...the assumption being that the editor has an aversion toward political ideology?
thinkt4nk··on I got invited to write for the Huffington Post today
On what do you base your fair certainty?
thinkt4nk··on Merge Pull Request Considered Harmful
harmful?
thinkt4nk··on How I started BetaList
Ah! I think this gets lost somewhere in the telling of the story.
thinkt4nk··on How I started BetaList
I'll probably read that one too
thinkt4nk··on How I started BetaList
The title should actually be "How I trick all of you into reading this story". I'm probably not alone in hoping that this story contained some slick hack.
thinkt4nk··on Show HN: Ladder, find a new startup job anonymously
Am I missing something? You've essentially started a tech recruitment firm, right? Is there something novel about your business?
thinkt4nk··on Rice Cooker Technology
As the complexity/variability of a product's functionality grows, a product team's ability to ensure quality across all functionality diminishes.

As a consumer of many kinds of things, I almost always gravitate toward the offering that is most simple/focused in its purpose.

thinkt4nk··on Gem install lolcat
It works best with apache access logs!