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kincardine
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Comment #13278428
I'm sorry your comment has gotten the response it has. The looming dark cloud of stable vs. nightly only looks like a dark cloud to those outside the Rust community. The article th…
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Comment #13252905
There is so much promise here. Unfortunately, the author is horribly undermined by her own ignorance, and also, somewhat ironically, by trying to attribute larger aspects of intern…
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Comment #13252260
He makes no mention of how much money he saved by buying last year's model. I am seriously on the edge of buying a 2016 15" MBP, but with many reservations. I would definitely cons…
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Comment #12332468
Contractors milking their customers is an inefficiency introduced by privatization, because without privatization it doesn't happen... How state employees behave or the competency …
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Comment #12332065
> The contractors knew it and would milk it as long as they could That would be one of those inefficiencies introduced by part-privatization... So it's hard to believe it's approac…
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Comment #12332012
It's interesting that you note the amount of waste in terms of money that you experienced (which is extremely anecdotal, obviously) and yet the publicly run healthcare systems are …
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Comment #11260806
Wow, this is such an awesome idea! I'd never heard of Reddit.tv.
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Comment #11212755
You're pitching it to potential customers entirely the wrong way. Most consumers of web content (>99%) don't care about this in any way. I mean, to be perfectly honest, I'm only mi…
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Comment #11092809
Extremely misleading headline. The poor are better off when there isn't a housing shortage, because (surprise, surprise) the rich aren't the ones who are going to be forced out.
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Ask HN: What's the best documentation you've ever read (or written)?
I've been thinking a lot about documentation and how to get a user up to speed on a code base as quickly and effortlessly (on the part of the user) as possible. I know "best" can b…
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Comment #11036289
Yes, but the amount of difference you make at a company isn't directly proportional to the career value of making that difference. If you make a difference at a company with over 5…
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Comment #10990268
It's also less of a simulator and more of a total brain takeover. When I first started playing all I could think about (as I was trying to get work done) were trans-munar injection…
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Comment #10564622
> Data from League of Legends reveals links between real-world and online personality. Surprising?
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Comment #10263150
I think it would also be hard to say that France lost the Second World War. The French government signed an armistice, but France was also part of the victorious Allies (with Frenc…
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Comment #9772163
Consent even over consensus.
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Comment #9758509
Not to mention, they're also much more heavily involved in the actual content creation for applications (Xcode, Swift/Objective-C, OS X, etc).
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Comment #9758466
I think it's more unlikely that a change in business model would happen so quickly. Given public presence and the way they are steering Apple Music, the personal response - regardl…
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Comment #9758334
Oh, absolutely. This is freebie PR for everyone involved. What I meant to imply is that the PR is only valuable because it is a musician with the brand value (and public presence) …
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Comment #9758217
That's what I meant to imply.
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Comment #9758176
It's not that musicians can complain when they want a bigger cut and get it fixed the next day, it's that unicorn musicians can - like Taylor Swift.
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