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Sigh. I make an HN account yet again because I see a topic I actually, for real, know about and have something useful to contribute. Then keep commenting with it, pile up karma wit…

> You still haven't stated anything other than your opinion. That's all either of us have been doing. [EDIT] and an opinion can be a reason ! They're not mutually exclusive. Do you…

> Because not everyone agrees with you and web apps have many advantages over native. But I don't care about those advantages (to the extent that they exist for users they're secon…

To make things a bit more fair I'd definitely allow that plenty of business-types do get it, but I think enough don't that treating them all like they do before you know them fairl…

You explicitly claimed it wouldn't be worse. Consider applying your own standards to that claim. Consider also that it's possible to assert something without perfect knowledge of i…

Yeah, I get that and name narrower ranges in a business context (trying to keep the upper bound from getting too much lower) because most biz-school types don't get that, and tend …

Ah, right, I've always taken that effect in software estimation to be a result of business people hating how wide an actual "90% accurate" estimate is. Not many managers will accep…

> Perhaps that's because you want the wrong thing for some reason. I can't really parse this but from the best sense of it I can get, I reckon the most correct response is, "no, u"…

What's supposed to be the take-away from this? Is it to prove that knowing one or two bits of trivia and maybe a formula, by rote, can make your (unaided) estimation of related thi…

I don't know whether it accounts for the entire "housing's more expensive everywhere" perception, but it sure seems like the only houses that exist near good schools and are cheap …

1) I don't want to see the prompts to allow push notifications from a webapp, nor to have to go disable them. I just never want them. 2) Generally I'd rather none of the software I…

You can put the .git directory outside the working directory. Might be helpful. Sync the working dir with a sync service, but the .git dir with... git.

Indeed, there must be some reason no such thing has materialized from the market, despite ongoing problems caused by its absence. I'd guess it's one of those things where network e…

I believe that individual teams believe that, and I believe that some decision-makers are interested in doing enough to keep from losing those users too fast. Looking at the home p…

I think where that's a losing proposition for them is that other ecosystems are more tightly integrated and generally a better deal, if that's what people want. Apple user with mor…

> Herein lies the problem, of course, as Dropbox is having trouble justifying their value-add when storage is becoming a commodity, and is obviously searching for a new angle. From…

You're not alone. Overwhelmingly the most common reaction when the topic of modern Dropbox comes up, among people who pay attention to it at all, is best summarized as "ugh". I thi…

Exactly. It's a terrible tool for that job and wasn't designed for it, but there's such a great need for something like that, that businesses and governments have grabbed onto it a…

I suspect some significant percentage of applicants may not have a disability, exactly, or always totally flub an interview in this way, but may do so often enough that it looks li…

I think any expensive, unnecessarily-rugged-for-what-you-actually-do outdoor clothing counts, but yes, that name comes up a lot. I think it should be regarded as a mid-prestige bra…

It's a class-segregated sport in the US (not sure about elsewhere). This is called out in the tongue-in-cheek-but-mostly-accurate Official Preppy Handbook. For some reason it is "h…

Mark my words: if that even looks like that might happen, the advertising behemoths (chiefly Google and Facebook) will spend every last dollar trying to get some kind of human Inte…

The right jeans and sneakers (and hoodie, and "tech pants", et c., et c.) can even help. There's definitely a techie look, and it's not the same as poor-people/low-class clothes (w…

> They seem to think they will be working class for the rest of their lives and there's noticeable hate/resent for the rich. Told to me by an Irish person: You know the difference …

Exactly, I think it's a problem only if it leads to lower "engagement" by humans. I kinda doubt it will. Most reading and writing that occurs on the Web, by a large margin, is alre…