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> If you mean 'liberal young open-source company' then say that! Because that absolutely isn't what 'Silicon Valley' means.

I didn't say that. I am a different person asking a different question. I recognize that it's a bit silly to call Red Hat a "Silicon Valley company" because they are not in Silicon Valley. Just like Microsoft isn't a Silicon Valley company.

My original question was in regards to this exact quote of yours:

> The Carolinas seem as far as you can get from Silicon Valley, culturally

And my question was:

> Why do you think that?

So far you have offered that "The Carolinas" are politically Republican and California is politically Democratic. However, (a) North Carolina's governor is a Democrat and (b) your original comparison was between Silicon Valley (a small geographic area) and "The Carolinas" (a much larger geographic area) — which does not seem like a fair or meaningful comparison.

Basically, due to the uniform nature of American culture and cities I think you'd be hard-pressed to identify many meaningful cultural differences between e.g. Raleigh, North Carolina and Mountain View, California. So I'm wondering if you have any unique insight to offer there or if you're actually just talking flippantly about something you don't actually know anything about, which is fine too.

> you paid Apple or whoever to make your phone so are you responsible for their conditions?

Yes, absolutely, to some degree — do you think I'm not? Even if you don't think so, do you think Apple isn't to some degree responsible for the working conditions of nearly a million employees within the company that it knowingly contracts out to to produce about 200 million iPhones a year?

Follow up question: Which American political party do you think would be more likely to condone the above practice, Democrats or Republicans?

Basically I'm trying to figure out why you think there's a big cultural difference between Silicon Valley (50 square miles) and "The Carolinas" (85,839 square miles) and why that's meaningful to the wider discussion. Your original comment perplexed me as someone who is familiar with both regions. I agree that they are dissimilar but I definitely don't think they are "as far as you can get ... culturally." Happy to get back to that original subject if you are.

Ah, yes, the people that make Apple's iPhones are very pampered.

I was referring specifically to the "culturally" part. The geographic difference between Silicon Valley and North Carolina is indisputable, but I'm curious about your take on the culture. I see a lot of similarities between Republicans and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, e.g. anti-regulation stances, anti-labor stances, etc.

> The Carolinas seem as far as you can get from Silicon Valley, culturally

Why do you think that?

For those skipping straight to the comments, they basically think it's 1 or more geostationary satellites that happen to be in the path of the observed star, Ross 128.

I remember learning Roman numerals in 1st or 2nd grade and finding them to be a lot easier for basic arithmetic.

I mean, all of the examples we used in school to learn basic arithmetic had things like "(picture of 4 apples) + (picture of 2 apples) = (picture of 6 apples)". Roman numerals are kind of a pictograph in a way.

Why doesn't https://google.google redirect to Google?

I'm looking forward to trying the real-life implementation of "ChickieNobs" from Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake.

I see the difference here now. Thanks!

>Unmotivated? Just try harder

Or my personal favorite, "Work harder."

I haven't done any mobile development, so forgive my ignorance. But the concept of a program not being "allowed" on my device is bizarre to me.

Yes, the "/s" is commonly used on sites like reddit to denote sarcasm.

Link to the lobbying page: https://www.youbetrayedus.org/facebook/

I would like a small, maybe 2-bedroom house, in a cool neighborhood in a cool medium-sized city. That's my dream.

I think if this story were about migrant workers I would feel differently about it because it would be an entirely different story—it would be about people not being paid much and forced to live in a truck versus a story about somebody being paid a lot and living an alternative lifestyle.

I'm perhaps looking at this differently because I am into the financial independence movement[1], and I also quite like tiny houses. I like the idea of saving as much as you can so you don't have to work for the rest of your life, and I also like the idea of reducing your ecological and physical footprint.

So that's how I'm seeing this story. This guy seems like a "mustachian" more than he seems like a guy forced to live in his car. I don't know how much he gets paid, but I'm certain he could afford an apartment—ridiculously expensive though it may be.

I absolutely agree with you that the housing situation in the Bay area is bonkers, though.

[1] See Mr. Money Mustache http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/

>Equity and saving for the future are things you do after you've established a home.

He has established a home, it's just not a traditional one. It's a really-not-up-to-code tiny house on wheels.

If he were living in a Winnebago or a trailer would you feel differently?

>Certain companies have succeeded despite a sceptical specialized audience. Why is that? The first and most obvious reason is because there is simply not enough diversity in the audience for the wisdom of the crowd theory to hold true.

Right, this almost seems like common sense. I see the Hacker News community as mostly entrepreneurially minded devs who are very invested in the Silicon Valley startup ideal. Obviously there's nothing wrong with that, and there are a lot of really smart people here. But geniuses in a particular field are often inept in others. Hacker News readers don't represent the average consumer, for instance, so I wouldn't put too much stock in their opinions about a primarily average-consumer-facing product like Airbnb. I would, however, put a lot of stock in their opinion about my new dev-facing app like Heroku.

The author of the original article references Flo Control and uses it in his implementation.

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Gotta increase those ad impressions.

Perhaps explains why I was having trouble with Feedly today. Past tweets from them[1] indicate that they use CloudFlare.

[1] https://twitter.com/feedly/status/480809578368487425

Partially privatized. According to a 2012 source [1], there are 1.6 million prisoners in the US and roughly 8% of them are in privately-owned prisons. That number, however, unfortunately keeps growing.

[1] http://www.propublica.org/article/by-the-numbers-the-u.s.s-g...

That does seem like an entertaining read; thanks for the recommendation.

I think what this author is getting at is similar to the concept of flow.

It's interesting, the article is based on "boredom" but I'm not sure that's the right word. Boredom is a state of "I want to do something but there's nothing to do," and I think what the author is really arguing for is finding time for quiet contemplation, letting your mind wander, personal reflection or, if you will, meditation.

A lot of those books on creativity espouse the benefit of quiet time without distracting yourself with Facebook (or Hacker News). So it's a similar idea here. Allow yourself free self-reflective time in order to be happier and more creative.

"The Uber of desks in an office building" might be a more apt description, but it doesn't have quite the already-very-cliché ring to it.

"The super-efficient LED panels, made by Philips specifically for the Edge, require such a trickle of electricity they can be powered using the same cables that carry data for the Internet."

Power-over-ethernet, for anyone trying to figure out what kind of cables they were talking about.

Thanks. :) It's a pretty simple solution, I just took a fairly common IDE setup and configured my snap tool to let me easily put my windows where I need them.

I have a 13" Retina MacBook Pro (2014) and a MacBook Air (2015), having previously worked on 14", 15", and 17" Linux and Windows laptops. My computers get smaller as the years go on, and I like that.

My MBP is the best computer I've ever worked on (and am typing this on). I've used my girlfriend's 15" MBP and I vastly prefer my 13".

I use BetterSnapTool[1] for window management: browser on the left half, SublimeText in the upper right 2/3 of the screen, and Terminal in the lower right 1/3 of the screen. It works great for me, and I can't imagine that another 2 inches would make much of a difference.

At work, I dock to a 24" Dell monitor of some sorts, and that's more than enough extra real estate for me.

[1]https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bettersnaptool/id417375580?m...

Typically in the news process the copyeditor chooses or edits the title of the piece for brevity and "punch."

By saying "WWII-era," the title very succinctly sums up the idea that "hey, there's this interesting airplane that's been in the works alongside the very expensive F-35, but it's actually much cheaper and much less technologically advanced, but actually much better suited for the war in Afghanistan--and it resembles the types of fighter planes that you've seen in 'Pearl Harbor' and 'Saving Private Ryan'."

The title is meant to convey as much information to the audience (a general, non-technical audience) in as few words as possible, and it mostly does its job.

If you read the article, it's clear that the authors understand the difference.