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Re:Uber Executive, Linked to an Old Harassment Claim, Resigns on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @08:55AM (#13753734)
> I'd be willing to "take one for the team"

How does sexual harassment further the aims of the team?

Re:Valve – Handbook for New Employees (2012) [pdf] on Monday July 25, 2016 @12:53PM (#12159911)
hn becoming reddit
Isn't the confidence implied in the vote? i.e. isn't "Strongly disagree" really just a vote for "disagree" with great confidence?
Re:Zend Framework 3 Released on Thursday June 30, 2016 @08:02AM (#12007903)
grumble grumble standardized tests
If it increases the attack surface at all, it makes it easier. Being that this site facilitates monetary transactions, I would hope they would be trying to limit their attack surface in any way possible.

I think the real point here is that there are more secure solutions. Saying that it's not all that less secure isn't a great argument.

I've only seen percentages, not figures. I'm not sure you can even say that these searches are being issued by people who turned out to vote.
Unfortunately this only helps protect a twitter account. It doesn't protect against the greater concern, where the password has been cracked and the user has reused the password on other sites.
Re:How a good night's sleep became a status symbol on Thursday June 02, 2016 @09:06AM (#11822094)
Right. It can't possibly have anything to do with discipline.
Re:Pre-sale of Cyborg implant for sensing North on Friday May 27, 2016 @09:50AM (#11785998)
Does anyone else think the device looks extremely large for the application?
Re:List of Dirty, Naughty, Obscene, and Otherwise Bad Words on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @03:15PM (#11441090)
easy.

- a word from the 10 commandments: blumpkin

- a great jazz album from Herbie Hancock: two girls one cup

- a James Bond film: donkey punch

- the surname of a US presidential candidate: yiffy

Re:Dizzying Ride May Be Ending for Startups on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @12:02PM (#10547631)
> Dizzying Ride May Be Ending for Startups

> may tap the breaks

Re:Empire of Code – Space Strategy Game from CheckIO on Friday June 05, 2015 @11:26AM (#9666071)
That's not what they meant. They were referring to the typo: kawargs
Re:Why Are Geospatial Databases So Hard to Build? on Monday March 16, 2015 @09:42AM (#9211335)
You list hyperdimensional hashing as one of the early methods that you tried without success. While only good for point-to-point distance comparison in its simplest application, it seems that geohashes meet the scalar/vector problem that you describe. Do you have any experience with geohashes, and if so, what's your opinion of them?
Re:Hello, World on Friday February 27, 2015 @11:18AM (#9119613)
Yeah, I'm sure farming feels like a part-time job.
Re:The Life of a PHP Developer on Friday February 06, 2015 @11:49AM (#9009843)
How do you figure that web development is blue-collar work? Even for hyperbole, this is quite a stretch. Whatever your intent was, it just comes off as elitist.
Re:Whatsapp Web on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @02:12PM (#8924920)
Heck of a roll-out, guys.

  - only works on one browser
  - requires interop with the mobile app
  - supporting mobile app version on Android only
  - supporting mobile app version not universally available on Android, presumably because of Google Play registry population or something.
Let's not forget the Christmas Lounge!
Re:I got invited to write for the Huffington Post today on Thursday July 10, 2014 @09:10AM (#8014810)
...the assumption being that the editor has an aversion toward political ideology?
Re:I got invited to write for the Huffington Post today on Thursday June 26, 2014 @10:56AM (#7949933)
On what do you base your fair certainty?
Re:Merge Pull Request Considered Harmful on Thursday June 26, 2014 @08:31AM (#7949245)
harmful?
Re:How I started BetaList on Tuesday June 17, 2014 @01:27PM (#7905681)
Ah! I think this gets lost somewhere in the telling of the story.
Re:How I started BetaList on Tuesday June 17, 2014 @11:41AM (#7905043)
I'll probably read that one too
Re:How I started BetaList on Tuesday June 17, 2014 @11:01AM (#7904798)
The title should actually be "How I trick all of you into reading this story". I'm probably not alone in hoping that this story contained some slick hack.
Re:Show HN: Ladder, find a new startup job anonymously on Tuesday June 10, 2014 @03:56PM (#7874916)
Am I missing something? You've essentially started a tech recruitment firm, right? Is there something novel about your business?
Re:Rice Cooker Technology on Wednesday April 30, 2014 @01:51PM (#7674999)
As the complexity/variability of a product's functionality grows, a product team's ability to ensure quality across all functionality diminishes.

As a consumer of many kinds of things, I almost always gravitate toward the offering that is most simple/focused in its purpose.

Re:Gem install lolcat on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @11:33AM (#2868685)
It works best with apache access logs!