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Yeah, but you also get paid shit. Ad agencies can't afford anyone worth their salt.
They actually did rewrite the entire story. What they recovered was completely remade (per the answer in the OP)
Re:Alphabet is still figuring out how to be a conglomerate on Friday August 12, 2016 @05:21PM (#12278890)
Disclaimer: I'm an iOS user so I'm no Android fan boy.

The largest suit that has been brought against them for Android has just been settled: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/05/google-wins-trial...

While the product might not even be that good, it has clear dominance of the mobile smartphone market in every country other than the US. In the US it's 43.1% market share (which is very strong).

There's no doubt that Google has managed to win this very important market.

Re:David Chang’s Unified Theory of Deliciousness on Friday July 22, 2016 @08:22PM (#12147718)
I agree with you completely.

I'll add the point that if all you've ever eaten is the best of the best, you don't really appreciate something as much as if you've experienced the middle or lower ends.

Anecdote: I dry age my own steaks, and I've realized that people don't really appreciate them as much as if they're eaten side by side with a "control" steak that's unaged.

Re:Ask HN: Do you spend more time coding or debugging? on Thursday May 19, 2016 @02:17PM (#11732356)
I remember the first time I wrote an entire controller and everything worked exactly like it did in my head. There was a lot of whooping and dancing to be had.

Not that it happens much.

Re:The Secrets of Sherlock’s Mind Palace on Monday January 18, 2016 @06:31PM (#10927783)
My diabetic fiance has a similar experience. If she speaks gibberish in the middle of the night, I use it as a good indicator that she has low blood sugar.
Re:Open Sourcing Our SDKs on Thursday August 13, 2015 @02:26PM (#10056216)
YES! It's so important to be able to look under the hood with these things.

When I was working at MoPub, our open source SDK was one of our major selling points.

Re:Ask HN: Help us with our app plan on Saturday August 08, 2015 @10:33PM (#10029322)
I ran into a similar issue with my app Storyweave (www.getstoryweave.com). There seems to be a wall after your friends and family get tapped out.

The advice I've received is that at this point, you need to build some social features into your app that allow users to share the app with other people automatically. This involves:

- Sharing content to other social media platforms (e.g. post this photo on FB or Twitter) - Inviting friends in the app (e.g. find friends from your Facebook or Twitter followers list, and/or invite your friends using your contacts - Etc. Etc.

Happy to chat with you about this more.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015) on Thursday July 02, 2015 @10:16PM (#9823018)
Is French fluency required?
Re:Dave Goldberg, CEO of SurveyMonkey, has died on Saturday May 02, 2015 @02:33PM (#9478035)
Usually it's a physical combined with a comprehensive blood test. They look for elevated enzymes that could be indicative of various issues.
Re:How I Accessed Employee Settings on Uber on Friday February 27, 2015 @04:59PM (#9121637)
Very cool. With the same approach were you able to manipulate prices or surge/no surge?

Wouldn't be very useful in real life, but if they have a bug bounty program you could report it.

Re:Click on the green scissors above the footer on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @02:17PM (#9102839)
Cute. I like the photoshop style transparent background pattern.
Re:Netherlandish Proverbs (1559) on Monday February 23, 2015 @01:09AM (#9092854)
Came here to post this one as well!
Re:Ellen Pao Suit Against Kleiner Perkins Heads to Trial on Monday February 23, 2015 @01:04AM (#9092833)
Mind you, the article's claim indicates that there is one employee at reddit that disagrees with her.

That's no clear indication of her success/failure at reddit.

Re:The Rising Costs of Scaling a Startup in San Francisco on Monday February 23, 2015 @12:33AM (#9092739)
The former. The article indicates that while costs of office space have increased (doubled in rate really), when compared to the increase in costs from employee salaries, it's minuscule in comparison.

Thus, the vast majority of the increase in costs that it takes to run a startup is in employee salaries, rather than office space.

Re:The Rising Costs of Scaling a Startup in San Francisco on Monday February 23, 2015 @12:29AM (#9092725)
I meant in terms of startup costs. The increase in office space prices are a tiny fraction compared to the salary increases.
Re:The Rising Costs of Scaling a Startup in San Francisco on Saturday February 21, 2015 @04:16AM (#9085128)
Key point to take away from this is: Wages constitute the majority of the increase in startup expenses. Real estate costs add only 5% of per employee costs.

The market has driven up salaries ridiculously high.

Re:What Is Google’s Market Share for Search? on Friday February 20, 2015 @09:18PM (#9084398)
I feel like Pricenomic's traffic numbers would be skewed. Their articles tend to be about pretty high minded topics.

We always forget that there's a large portion of the internet that still uses Yahoo, AOL, and other platforms that we'd consider old hat.

Re:Many McGill Education Students Cannot Calculate an Average on Friday February 20, 2015 @06:52PM (#9083897)
If true, this is horrifying. I went to McGill and the Education students didn't seem this incompetent.
Re:Startup advice, briefly on Friday February 20, 2015 @03:18PM (#9082719)
I feel like this post boils down the hundreds of posts that I've seen on YC into one small digestible reference. It's pretty nice.
Re:How a Blind Person Programs on Thursday January 29, 2015 @10:37PM (#8970344)
No kidding. The speed of that is incredible.
Re:What is good running technique? on Monday December 29, 2014 @02:51AM (#8808886)
I've actually got an alternative magic stretch that can be done standing (so you can do it in the middle of a run). It involves crossing your legs and reaching over to the side.

Image here: http://www.runnersworld.com/sites/default/files/rt/images/20...

Re:Firefox for iOS on GitHub on Thursday December 04, 2014 @11:41PM (#8703039)
Yeah, this pull request fixes all of the actual errors that prevent building:

https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-ios/pull/30/files

Re:Introducing the new ParseUI for iOS on Friday November 07, 2014 @01:33AM (#8571441)
I love these updates. Hopefully they made the sign in screen easier to customize as well.
Re:A chrome extension to copy stylelessly on Friday July 25, 2014 @06:12PM (#8087939)
On a mac, to pase without style simply hit:

Command + Shift + v

Re:Ask HN: MIT, Harvard, or Stanford? on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @07:52PM (#7512622)
If you're really interested in entrepreneurial pursuits, Stanford is the way to go. They've got better infrastructure and guidance around it than anyone else.

Also, Boston is horrible weatherwise. You'll really regret it your first winter out there.

Re:Stick bomb on Wednesday March 05, 2014 @01:54PM (#7348941)
And a cooler name.
Re:AK47 assault rifle inventor Kalashnikov dies at 94 on Saturday December 28, 2013 @12:35AM (#6974096)
Totally aware, but I can't resist when someone brings up this conundrum.

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