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Re:Cancelling Dropbox Pro is hard on Saturday January 26, 2019 @12:35AM (#19004947)
Ahh, that's why it's $4. I kept waiting for the low price to expire.
Re:Cancelling Dropbox Pro is hard on Saturday January 26, 2019 @12:31AM (#19004937)
I do a search for canceling that business, before I sign up. If I see a bunch of horror stories, then it's time to walk away.
How did the car not even apply the brakes? How could it fail that bad?
Re:Congrats Dropbox on Friday March 23, 2018 @11:09PM (#16664578)
This may be the most civil discussion I've ever seen on the web. Spread out over 11 years! Amazing. I love HN.
Re:Acne Vulgaris: A Disease of Western Civilization (2002) on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @07:52PM (#16227819)
Steve Gibson did some research on this topic.

https://www.grc.com/health/vitamin-d.htm

Expedia? The #1 Dark Patterns? Wow, this should end well.
I think weight limits would be a good start. Do we really need 400 pound linemen?

I also think game play would improve with lighter, faster players.

Not if I have to allow untested 3rd party Javascript / malware onto my system. No thank you.
Re:Snap commits $2B over 5 years for Google Cloud infrastructure on Thursday February 02, 2017 @10:17PM (#13557379)
Will Snap exist in 5 years?
Re:Auto Safety Regulators Seek a Driver Mode to Block Apps on Friday November 25, 2016 @11:53PM (#13041782)
What if you are just a passenger in the car? How will they determine this?
Also, 30 for 30 was another Bill Simmons idea...and he's gone.
30 for 30 is by far the best ESPN original content in the past 10 years.
I don't get it. Why shouldn't Yahoo pay the taxes? They invested in Alibaba, and have made HUGE gains, and if they want to realize those gains, they need to pay the taxes.
Re:Git Cheat Sheet on Saturday December 05, 2015 @08:15PM (#10683977)
Here is my daily git workflow:

1 - Clone the repo (only need do this once)

2 - git checkout branchname

3 - Make some file changes

4 - git add filenames

5 - git commit

6 - git pull (make sure you are up to date BEFORE you push to remote repo)

7 - Build and TEST

8 - git push

That's 90% of what I do.

Merging branches is simple.

1 - git checkout destinationBranch

2 - git pull

3 - git merge sourceBranch

4 - build and test

5 - git push

Cheers!

Re:Nexus 5X Teardown on Saturday October 24, 2015 @07:20PM (#10445269)
I hope they fixed the damn broken power button issue that my 16 month old Nexus 5 died from. Damn that phone broke my heart.
Who will pay the majors the billions of dollars then?
Re:Why Tipping is Wrong on Sunday October 18, 2015 @07:45PM (#10410337)
How do we change this? It's so ingrained in American culture, I'm not sure we can.
Link is down for me.
Re:LogMeIn acquires Lastpass on Friday October 09, 2015 @09:07AM (#10359713)
Confirmed - 39 comments. All negative.
As long as there are never any commercials, I'll be a customer forever.
Re:AWS Re:Invent 2015 – Netflix and AWS (real use case) on Thursday October 08, 2015 @01:48PM (#10354493)
It must be fascinating and challenging to work on the Netflix CORE team.

37% of evening web traffic under your control. Wow.

Re:Pandora acquires TicketFly for $450M on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @01:56PM (#10347670)
Pandora Radio has $450M laying around?
Re:Show HN: Cancel your Comcast in 5 minutes on Saturday October 03, 2015 @09:50AM (#10323875)
The first thing I do before signing up for ANY new service, is search for "How To Cancel".
Re:Why are little kids in Japan so independent? on Friday October 02, 2015 @09:14PM (#10322199)
They removed all the "Yield / Unprotected Left Turn" lights in my town, just for this reason. People simply don't understand. It's a bummer to sit and wait, but it does save lives.
Re:The Evolution of a Software Engineer on Friday October 02, 2015 @02:03PM (#10320174)
LOL!

I can only dream of code that cleanly formatted.

Correct. But none of the most popular sales channels were created by the record industry. (iTunes, Spotify, etc)
15 years later, the RIAA finally realizes this...

How about you build a platform that let's us purchase the music we want?

Exactly this. Minor collisions should move to the side of the road ASAP.

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