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wapz··on Amazon wins streaming rights for Thursday Night Football
I've always believed each tv channel broadcasting games does the players report themselves (either in-house or contracted). Since the games are usually exclusive to a specific station, I can't imagine there's a big enough market for it to be a service.
wapz··on iPhone App will not stay open - just flashes when trying to launch
You didn't answer the question. Are you affiliated with them?
wapz··on iPhone App will not stay open - just flashes when trying to launch
I agree with you completely. In addition, imagine if this was your home door lock. Let's say it has bluetooth connectivity and it didn't work from 8 feet away (with a 10 foot range advertised), you get pissed, give it a wordy 1 star review, and the next thing you know you are locked out of your house. This is all at whim of someone behind a computer potentially halfway around the globe.
wapz··on iPhone App will not stay open - just flashes when trying to launch
There isn't too much difference between a bricked device and a device that most likely loops trying to connect to the server and fails indefinitely with no other functionality.
wapz··on Amazon Planning a Microsoft Office Killer
> it will jump me to the latest episode that I started rather than the one I was watching when I quit.

When is the last episode you started different than the one you were watching when you quit? Do they auto-play when finishing so if you started episode 2 and watched until episode 6 it would start from episode 2 again?

wapz··on Google claims Levandowski launched competing projects long before Otto
Truthfully he might not even be scared of jail. He probably has the most power in uber right now in terms of negotiation and can probably get immunity for a full confession.
wapz··on Why do developers who could work anywhere flock to the most expensive cities?
Yes but where do you think all the information flows
wapz··on How I legally got scammed for $250 by an upscale apartment complex
>The First place we visited Altis Lakeline managed by Altman Companies was amazing, its a brand new apartment complex with cool amenities, priced at $1400 which is much lower, compare to similar places $1600–$1700, that where I missed first red flag. Plus they had amazing special — 2 months free rent — which under normal circumstances will raise suspicion, I thought it’s a brand new property with construction done a few months ago trying to get to full capacity.

I really had trouble reading through this. I know medium isn't for writers per se but basic proofreading would have helped tremendously.

wapz··on Discussions with Apple regarding license agreement
Yeah, if you think about it companies like Apple have very little reason to pull out from a licensing deal unless they have a very good reason to (aka non-infringing tech on the way). They're not going to pull out and come back and say "We're sorry. Can you give us the same rate you offered before?"
wapz··on The Debugging Mindset
The problem I had at the university was that our code was so simple relative to large codebases that a debugger was generally not necessary for me. We learned how to use it and I found it to be a burden because I could find the bug "much quicker" either with 1-2 print statements or just by reading it. After working with much bigger problems I realized the importance of debuggers and really wished they were stressed even more than they were in my university days.
wapz··on Stress really is killing us
Most definitely. If you have a family it is a lot harder. You need to talk to someone if it gets progressively worse and if you don't have a significant other that will support you quitting you need to get additional help.
wapz··on Why Japan’s Rail Workers Point at Things
I've done some bouldering and although I don't know what the actual best is, you don't want to land directly on your back or front (flat) and you never want to land on your head of course. I learned to try falling with legs slightly bent in a mostly upright position. Someone with more experience can give you better info though.
wapz··on Interview with U. of Toronto professor and counterespionage hacker Ron Deibert
> Deibert’s group discovered an exploit in iPhone software ... before even Apple knew about it.

Yup, I know what you mean about the hollywood part.

wapz··on America Needs Small Apartment Buildings
If you decrease the size per unit, you will have more units per apartment complex of the same size.
wapz··on America Needs Small Apartment Buildings
I've lived in all sorts of tiny apartments in Japan and think they are very useful but only for very specific groups of people (students and single people). The great thing about them is you can rent extremely cheap (I paid $450/month in a guest house where it was only the room and shared bathroom/kitchen/laundry etc). For a tiny 2 bedroom apartment I rented for $600/month but far away from the station. These are great for students and single people because you can meet others, it's very safe (generally), and very affordable. I don't know the new apartments going up in SF but if they made them extremely small units I'm sure they could fit a lot of people and be very reasonably priced (relatively).
wapz··on The House just voted to wipe out the FCC’s landmark Internet privacy protections
Yeah that statement makes it sound like everyone is using their browser in a public park on a 60' projector making it available for the ISP to sell.
wapz··on Ask HN: How do you make money from your side projects?
I'll give some advice too as a casual sudoku player.

I personally think the background was completely fine for it being made 4 years ago. If you were to remake it then possibly a solid color would be a better choice now.

I am also turned off by the timer. I'm not sure how many players prefer timers, but maybe putting it hidden away on the top right or somewhere that isn't blinking at you every second would help users like me.

Everything else seemed good to me. If there were ads I probably wouldn't play personally (sorry adblock is on) because as the last person commented I already have a paid sudoku app on the phone that is ad-free.

I think it's hard to get users to go from their phone to browsers for sudoku (if you were only targetting web-only users then it's okay) because of how good the interface is on touch panels. If you were trying to get users to move from the phone I think you need some gimmick that utilizes more of the screen space or something that the web provides that mobile can't.

wapz··on Netflix expected to spend over $6B on original and acquired programming in 2017
Thank you, I looked it up and you are correct. I must be remembering the "price" hike where the price was actually the same but we lost the dvd option (so we would have to pay extra for it). I'm guessing when Starz got dropped is when we cancelled and not the price hike then. I haven't used Amazon recently so I wasn't aware of their Starz plan.
wapz··on A lawsuit over Costco golf balls
My personal belief is that since they are made more fragile (I believe it's intentional), you risk the contact tearing while in your eye or not keeping the shape which could maybe cause a deformation to your cornea/eye(?) if used for a prolong time. I only think this because I always swam with my 2 week disposables in and my eye doctor got 'angry' when he saw my contacts were a little deformed from water exposure.
wapz··on A lawsuit over Costco golf balls
Yup they are so much more comfortable. If you are running low and only wear them around 12 hours, you can even clean them and wear them another day (definitely not recommended by the manufacturer or eye doctor).
wapz··on Netflix expected to spend over $6B on original and acquired programming in 2017
Are all the starz movies now gone instead of an additional fee? I subscribed to netflix long ago when it was included for free along with mailed dvds. Then they started charging for starz and I found myself not watching much and cancelled my subscription.
wapz··on Deep Photo Style Transfer
Unfortunately I don't think this will work with snow. It changes the colors of the objects and the snow too will be changed. That being said, being able to change the sky color and building colors looks so amazing.
wapz··on Dishwasher has directory traversal bug
When you follow the directions to set it up.. I'm not sure if that was a serious question or not.
wapz··on Dishwasher has directory traversal bug
This is a medical dishwasher that keeps logs of all the washes (required by hospitals somewhere). I do hope they are only used on private networks but I don't know web security at all so I don't even know if that would protect them.
wapz··on StarCraft Remastered
I played SC, SC2, and WC3 fairly competitively (top 100 or so in each of those games). I tried WC2 multiplayer once and I swear grunts were in my base within ~60 seconds of the game starting. I'm sure I would have figured it out if I continued but it felt faster than a 4 pool.
wapz··on StarCraft Remastered
I never saw an HTML5 version of SC. I stopped playing long ago though by the time WoW came out.
wapz··on Who Killed Ötzi the Iceman? Clues Emerge
I'm not going to argue that you're wrong, but I don't know if your evidence is very conclusive. Do we know back then the furs were that valuable? I can imagine a lot of hunting going on and lots of fur to be crafted. It's still labor intensive but is the fur worth more than the meat?

I don't know what him crafting a bow means either. It surely means he didn't have one at the time and was making a new one. He could have broke the last one, traded it, lost it, had it stolen, etc.

wapz··on Ask HN: Hiring programmer to help teach a particular project?
I don't know where you live but Pivotal Labs did exactly this several years ago (I think they still do but I'm not sure).

They're very expensive and I don't know if they'd take on a single person's project but there are surely other people or companies that will do this.

If you are in an area with a lot of meetups, you should check them out. There are a lot of programmers that are happy to help others.

wapz··on Ask HN: Whiteboard interviews don't work, what's your ideal technical interview?
If you've hired a lot what do you recommend for someone like me that solves with paper and pen always. I always have my tiny notebook and I'm very good at solving problems writing things down but on the whiteboard I just can't see everything. Not only that, but while I'm writing I tend to lose my train of thought. I'm fairly certain it's not from being nervous but just being so different than normal.

Would you throw someone out if they told you they are very comfortable solving with a pen and paper in front of you instead of a whiteboard?

wapz··on Ask HN: Whiteboard interviews don't work, what's your ideal technical interview?
If they show you a mid-sized project it would be very hard to look at it and have a better understanding than someone who intentionally ripped it off and read up on it themselves. That being said, I'm sure if you really grilled them on specifics you might be able to catch them off guard. The problem though is that is showing that you don't trust them from the start as opposed to showing them that you are interested to see what kind of coder they are. I would leave an interview if the interviewer seemed to only be asking questions to throw me off intentionally (I've done it once before).
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