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Re:Netflix Is Betting Its Future on Exclusive Programming on Monday April 20, 2015 @08:20PM (#9411638)
The product is on-demand streaming of movies and tv.
Finance is the best poster child for "Good ole boys club" outside of politics.
Re:The new MacBook on Tuesday March 10, 2015 @07:32AM (#9177140)
Most computer users don't understand or give a damn about managing their file system. It seems like many HN users do, yet clicking on the "go" menu to see options and keyboard shortcuts available when they want to go to a folder is too confusing for them.
Re:Ember's Glimmer Engine on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @06:54PM (#9141664)
Or whether you should even be using a web app.
Racism
Re:Everyone’s stealing jokes online. Why doesn’t anyone care? on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @07:09AM (#8959344)
Stealing a comedians joke is similar to stealing a developers source. I'm surprised at some of the responses here.
This is insulting to everyone who fights for actual free speech rights.

Another clickbait from eff.

Re:Mindfulness Mitigates Biases You May Not Know You Have on Thursday December 25, 2014 @04:58PM (#8797313)
That is one example of guided meditation. How is that contamination for a meditation study?
Re:Node-iMessage – Query iMessage from terminal and Node.js on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @07:03AM (#8589411)
NPM has a very innovative approach to package management
Re:Veteran fraud expert sets his sights on Bitcoin on Monday October 27, 2014 @05:49AM (#8514607)
The argument, which you just agreed with, is that "You can't pay with bitcoin at Newegg" just like you can't pay a US company in euros.
How about the shadowbanning or comment curation that admins do?
Re:Checkboxes that kill your product on Tuesday October 21, 2014 @10:06AM (#8487370)
This attitude is extraordinarily hostile towards users, and even if it wasn't including checkboxes in preferences (especially when you have things like about:config) that disable the entire functionality of the app for 99% of use cases is ridiculous.
Re:Data Visualization with JavaScript on Sunday October 19, 2014 @06:58PM (#8479933)
d3.js/vegas as a bit of a learning curve but I don't use I could ever go back to any other libraries.
Re:PostgreSQL Outperforms MongoDB in New Round of Tests on Saturday September 27, 2014 @08:48AM (#8376878)
This is exactly what SharePoint does on top of boring, battle tested SQL Server.
Re:Palantir Pricelist (page 27) [pdf] on Tuesday September 16, 2014 @07:48PM (#8327732)
Navigating enterprise sales cycles is a giant pain but man is it profitable compared to the latest social startup du jour.
Re:How Apple Pay works and why it matters for developers on Wednesday September 10, 2014 @07:37AM (#8296048)
Apple is a hardware company. Google just releases as much software as they can and sees what catches on since any additional user spending additional time being tracked is a win for them. Apple writes software to make their hardware more appealing.

Bad android sales doesn't affect Google. Bad iPhone sales would tank Apple.

Re:Stop and Seize on Sunday September 07, 2014 @06:04PM (#8282580)
Are you a cop? You gotta tell me if you are.
Re:6.0 Northern California earthquake on Sunday August 24, 2014 @10:09AM (#8218581)
Comparing the startup scene in silicon valley to fashion is actually very apt. The loss of life and pain would be devastating, but lets not think that a few billion dollars worth of hardware would be anything other than a tax write-off and some middle managers pain to deal with for the next year.

If you want to look at devastating datacenter loss, if anything happened to Northern NJ the markets would go into a tailspin.

Re:DocumentDB on Thursday August 21, 2014 @07:53PM (#8210309)
I wonder if this is built on JetDB
You're missing the fact that modern day schools and the education system are a very recent invention. We've done ok in 5000 years without it.
Re:VimR – Refined Vim Experience for OS X on Saturday August 16, 2014 @12:41PM (#8186703)
I love the negativity in many of the responses here. Obviously people like native apps. Macvim is a thing. Emacs has a gui version for os x. Sublime is a thing. This is a polished port of macvim that has a file drawer, which is a feature that many people want baked into macvim. Browsing complex file hierarchies and large projects isn't great inside a terminal, and is a giant hurdle for many new users of vim.

If this isn't for you then fine but don't rush here to proudly proclaim how you don't understand the point of this. I don't know why anyone submits their pet projects here.

Re:Why are some people so much luckier than others? on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @01:31PM (#8103505)
People, especially with the libertarian thinking so popular on hn, don't like to admit that maybe they had little or nothing to do with their success.

No one lives in a bubble.

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